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  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: Catch the Final Weekend of Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod

    The Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing Preview Series is an opportunity to engage with choreographers and performers alike, offering a window into the process towards a new production. Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod tackles the theme of animals and extinction. Haft deeply explores instinct, adaptation, and finding balance within our world. We can learn so much by tuning…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: Opening Weekend for Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod

    The Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing Preview Series is an opportunity to engage with choreographers and performers alike, offering a window into the process towards a new production. Nina Haft & Company’s Precarious Pod tackles the theme of animals and extinction. Haft deeply explores instinct, adaptation, and finding balance within our world. We can learn so much by tuning…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 3 Days until BIG SALT with The Anata Project

    For the next few days, we are excited to share several previews leading up to opening night for BIG SALT with The Anata Project. Performances run May 30 and 31 and June 1, 7, and 8 at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco (401 Alabama Street).  Purchase your tickets here, and also check out…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: Four Days until BIG SALT with The Anata Project

    For the next few days, we are excited to share several previews leading up to opening night for BIG SALT with The Anata Project. Performances run May 30 and 31 and June 1, 7, and 8 at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco (401 Alabama Street).  Purchase your tickets here, and also check out…

  • Dance as Event: An Interview with Lauren Simpson about DANCE EXHIBIT

    Photo: Robbie Sweeny Dance as Event: An Interview with Lauren Simpson about DANCE EXHIBIT By Jill Randall Last week I got to sit down with choreographer Lauren Simpson about her 5-night run of DANCE EXHIBIT at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco from May 9-18, 2019. Read Lauren’s full artist profile on Life as…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 3 Days until Let Slip the Witches with Bellwether Dance Project

    This week we are sharing several previews before the premiere of Let Slip the Witches, with Bellwether Dance Project, at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, April 4-6, 2019. We will hear from choreographer Amy Foley as well from her collaborators.   Please join us! Purchase your tickets here. Kaitlyn Ebert. Photo by Stephen Texeira.…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: One Day until fey/done/a/weigh with the Wax Poet(s)

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: I recently got to catch up with artists Garth Grimball and Heather Stockton of the Wax Poet(s) as they prepared for the premiere of fey/done/a/weigh at the ODC Theater in San Francisco March 15 and 16, 2019. Today they share about the theater space, dream of the audience, endurance/exhaustion, and…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: Two Days until fey/done/a/weigh with the Wax Poet(s)

    From Blog Director Jill Randall: I recently got to catch up with artists Garth Grimball and Heather Stockton of the Wax Poet(s) as they prepared for the premiere of fey/done/a/weigh at the ODC Theater in San Francisco March 15 and 16, 2019. Today they offer a peak into the work and working together. fey/done/a/weigh tackles fitting…

  • Dancing Around Race Public Gathering

    Reflection: Dancing Around Race Public Gathering  By Bhumi B. Patel On February 28, 2019, dozens gathered at a gallery space in San Francisco’s Mission District to participate in the final of three public gatherings for the Dancing Around Race Residency. Lead Artist Gerald Casel was joined by scholar Thomas DeFrantz and the cohort of co-interrogators…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 2 Weeks until Impact, with Kristin Damrow & Company

      From Blog Director Jill Randall: Please join us for several posts with choreographer Kristin Damrow throughout the 3 weeks leading up to the premiere of Impact at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum in San Francisco, January 31-February 2, 2019. Purchase your tickets here. For the second post, I asked Kristin about…