Dance

SF Carnaval isn’t going anywhere

Powered by 400 volunteers, beloved festival and parade (since 1979!) sets its sights this year on honoring rhythms of the African diaspora.

Culture Caitlin Donohue - May 22, 2025

AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan on the high-tech art of ‘choreorobotics’

Will it take a dancer to improve our relationship with machines?

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - May 14, 2025

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

Agency's new 'priorities' include supporting communities of color, despite defunding BIPOC-led organizations.

Arts + Culture Caitlin Donohue - May 7, 2025

A Smuin season shaped by DJ playlists, sexy sculpture, drag queen fame

The SF company returns, enlisting the talents of Auguste Rodin, the Partridge Family, Queen, and Lady Camden.

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - April 19, 2025

Stage Review

After a shattering loss, Alvin Ailey danced to revelatory heights at Zellerbach

Lou Fancher - April 18, 2025

The company's 57th annual Berkeley run was dedicated to legendary dancer-director Judith Jamison, and polished off some true gems.

Dance

It’s a maze, it’s a Minotaur, it’s a metaphor, it’s… ‘boycow’

Marke B. - April 15, 2025

At Counterpulse, two dancers charge a labyrinthian trope—each in their own way, simultaneously (milk buckets included)

Dance

Sean Dorsey Dance’s divine work turns 20

Joshua Rotter - April 6, 2025

Retrospective program celebrates trans choreography at a time when its "beautiful and juicy" healing is more needed than ever.

Art

Queer American Songbook to Ukrainian trans theater, SF International Arts Festival won’t play it straight

Caitlin Donohue - March 30, 2025

Venerable fest doubles down at unlikely, if urgent moment for convening global LGBTQ+ creatives.

Dance

‘A Bridge to Now’ evokes generational complexities of Peruvian Chinese communities

Aimée Ts'ao - March 25, 2025

Choreography unfurls against tapestry of modern-day oral testimonies, visual projections—and 400 pounds of rice.

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Dance

Resurrecting ‘Frankenstein,’ after its creator’s tragic death

Aimée Ts'ao - March 20, 2025

Liam Scarlett's intricate gothic epic returns to SF Ballet, with principals determined to preserve its 'warmth and heart.'

Dance

Pas de deux: Two Black choreography giants talk decades of Bay Area dance

Mary Carbonara - March 5, 2025

Robert Moses and Ramón Ramos Alayo's companies are approaching major anniversaries in an era of artistic urgency.

Dance

60 years in, Twyla Tharp’s legendary company still shone like a diamond

Lou Fancher - February 26, 2025

'I can still push': 84-year-old choreographer's Cal Performances jubilee program glittered with Glass and Beethoven.

Dance

Miguel Gutierrez choreographs for the end of the world

Aimée Ts'ao - February 25, 2025

'What will happen to us?' asks unfiltered artist with deep San Francisco roots in latest work, 'Super Nothing.'

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Time can work against us all

Charles Lewis III - February 19, 2025

'Back to the Future: The Musical,' 'The Heart Sellers' at Aurora, SF Ballet's 'Cool Britannia,' and 'Froggy' at Center Rep, reviewed.

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Art

Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

Charles Lewis III - February 6, 2025

Art exhibit 'The Only Door I Can Open' and Flyaway Productions' 'I Give You My Sorrows' speak out for prisoners' rights.

ODC School dance classes are for everybody!

48 Hills - February 6, 2025

Choose from an electrifying range of classes from the Best of the Bay winner—your first class is only $12!

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Two nights at the Ballet, one hot and one cold

Charles Lewis III - January 29, 2025

Weathering scoffs and tiffs at SF Ballet's Opening Night extravaganza, soaking in the provocative joys of 'Manon'

Dance

At 50, Dance Brigade invokes ‘A Woman’s Song for Peace’

Mary Carbonara - January 7, 2025

'This tour was born from the glory days of women's art, when we were confident we could make a difference,' says founder Krissy Keefer.

Dance

Pilobolus brings 50+ years of light, heat, and the joy of connection to Berkeley

Lou Fancher - November 26, 2024

'We work more like a lantern than a laser beam,' says artistic director Matt Kent of the welcoming company.

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Dance

SF Carnaval isn’t going anywhere

AXIS Dance Company and Dr. Catie Cuan on the high-tech art of ‘choreorobotics’

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

A Smuin season shaped by DJ playlists, sexy sculpture, drag queen fame

After a shattering loss, Alvin Ailey danced to revelatory heights at Zellerbach

It’s a maze, it’s a Minotaur, it’s a metaphor, it’s… ‘boycow’

Sean Dorsey Dance’s divine work turns 20

Queer American Songbook to Ukrainian trans theater, SF International Arts Festival won’t play it straight

‘A Bridge to Now’ evokes generational complexities of Peruvian Chinese communities

Resurrecting ‘Frankenstein,’ after its creator’s tragic death

Pas de deux: Two Black choreography giants talk decades of Bay Area dance

60 years in, Twyla Tharp’s legendary company still shone like a diamond

Miguel Gutierrez choreographs for the end of the world

Drama Masks: Time can work against us all

Drama Masks: Voices of incarcerated women take center stage at YBCA

ODC School dance classes are for everybody!

Drama Masks: Two nights at the Ballet, one hot and one cold

At 50, Dance Brigade invokes ‘A Woman’s Song for Peace’

Pilobolus brings 50+ years of light, heat, and the joy of connection to Berkeley

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