Dance

Aerial Arts Fest flies high on a shoestring and a dream

Losing NEA funding and artists' reluctance to visit the US can't keep Zaccho's vertical dance celebration down.

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - August 3, 2026

Moving through a nine-year dream in Iris Company’s ‘The Still Point’

Choreographer Sophia Stoller inventively immersed watchers in liminal moods and dramatic gestures at SOMArts.

Stage Review Skylar Wolff - July 29, 2026

ODC Summer Sampler’s ‘Notes of Disquiet’ fueled by invisible burdens, Armenian poetry

Mia J. Chong's latest work explores 'that feeling of having to hold in your response to someone else's insensitivity.'

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - July 28, 2026

Live Shots: Farm-to-table, just add ballet, at Petaluma’s panoramic ‘LUNAE’

Nestled between golden hills and gathering dusk, gourmet dining pairs with sublime movement.

Dance Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - July 23, 2026

Dance

Nodding to tech conformity, ‘Escapement’ charted how relationships transform us

Lucia Verzola - July 14, 2026

Tether Dance Project's time-bending, high-energy, first full-length work showed promise of what's to come.

Dance

Dance feeds the soul—and body—in Julia Adam’s gourmet ‘Lunae’

Aimée Ts'ao - July 12, 2026

For two weekends in Petaluma, dance mavens can taste an al fresco connection between farmed land and celestial bodies.

Onstage

Fresh Meat Fest serves queer Chinese dance, Puerto Rican disability drag flair

Joshua Rotter - June 15, 2026

25th anniversary of queer arts showcase features sterling lineup of talent from all corners of the LGBTQ universe.

Dance

‘Memento Forest’ trembles with communal healing after deep loss

Aimée Ts'ao - June 2, 2026

Choreographer Marina Fukushima brings ritual, talismans that bore her up after father's death to Theatre of Yugen.

Dance

Behind ‘Angel Island Project,’ a powerhouse ensemble and dark history

Aimée Ts'ao - May 4, 2026

Oakland Ballet Company enlists seven choreographers, 'Monkey King' composer to relate tales of Asian immigrant imprisonment.

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Dance

Beyond Butoh: inkBoat’s ‘Clouds from a Crumbling Giant’ reaches past genres

Aimée Ts'ao - April 28, 2026

At SF International Arts Fest, storied local dance company takes collaborative approach to crossing borders of life.

Onstage

The world is large! 8 must-sees at SF International Arts Fest

Lou Fancher - April 27, 2026

Korean tango, Canadian food prep cirque, improv hip-hop, deconstructed drag, a 'Lesbitarian Church,' more from border-erasing event.

Stage Review

Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

Lou Fancher - April 25, 2026

Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.

Dance

Alleluia Panis traces a notoriously racist miscarriage of justice through dance

Marke B. - April 22, 2026

In 1975, two Pilipina nurses were wrongly jailed for murder; choreographer's immersive 'Burden of Proof' imagines their story.

Stage Review

Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

Charles Lewis III - April 22, 2026

Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated.

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Dance

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

Joshua Rotter - April 21, 2026

His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'

Dance

Bay Area Dance Week celebrates leaps and bounds of local scene

Mary Carbonara - April 20, 2026

'Let’s just have fun and enjoy being in our bodies in a joyful space,' says co-director Dudley Flores, whose 'One Dance' kicks things off.

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

Charles Lewis III - April 15, 2026

SF Ballet's 'La Sylphyde' goads us to run to the woods; NCTC's 'how to make an American son' picks at the myth of meritocracy

Dance

Alvin Ailey’s annual Berkeley run brought further ‘Revelations’

Lou Fancher - April 14, 2026

Revered African American dance company set sail for 'Jazz Island,' tackled a table-top 'Embrace,' and renewed a stone classic.

Dance

With New Works Festival, Lenora Lee Dance opens doors to radical voices

Aimée Ts'ao - April 7, 2026

Seven diverse dance-makers premiere pieces exploring nuanced empowerment, quiet observation, immersive healing, more

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Dance

Aerial Arts Fest flies high on a shoestring and a dream

Moving through a nine-year dream in Iris Company’s ‘The Still Point’

ODC Summer Sampler’s ‘Notes of Disquiet’ fueled by invisible burdens, Armenian poetry

Live Shots: Farm-to-table, just add ballet, at Petaluma’s panoramic ‘LUNAE’

Nodding to tech conformity, ‘Escapement’ charted how relationships transform us

Dance feeds the soul—and body—in Julia Adam’s gourmet ‘Lunae’

Fresh Meat Fest serves queer Chinese dance, Puerto Rican disability drag flair

‘Memento Forest’ trembles with communal healing after deep loss

Behind ‘Angel Island Project,’ a powerhouse ensemble and dark history

Beyond Butoh: inkBoat’s ‘Clouds from a Crumbling Giant’ reaches past genres

The world is large! 8 must-sees at SF International Arts Fest

Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

Alleluia Panis traces a notoriously racist miscarriage of justice through dance

Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

Bay Area Dance Week celebrates leaps and bounds of local scene

Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

Alvin Ailey’s annual Berkeley run brought further ‘Revelations’

With New Works Festival, Lenora Lee Dance opens doors to radical voices

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