SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA DANCE NEWS COVERAGE - PAGE 4

This winter, from December 8–27, San Francisco Ballet will return to the stage with thirty-three performances of Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker, a Bay Area tradition of the past eighteen years....

SEAN DORSEY DANCE celebrates its 18th season with the world premiere of “The Lost Art of Dreaming” – presented November 18-20 (four performances only) at Z Space (450 Florida Street, San Francisco) – directed and choreographed by acclaimed transgender artist and activist, Sean Dorsey....

San Francisco Ballet has announced an update to the 2023 Opening Night Gala, which is now scheduled for Thursday, January 19, 2023, a change from the previously announced date of January 18. The 2023 Opening Night Gala will take place at the War Memorial Opera House and San Francisco City Hall and...

Peninsula Ballet Theatre (PBT) will launch the company’s 55th anniversary season Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25 with the premiere of Artistic Director Gregory Amato’s fully staged production of Carl Orff’s epic cantata, Carmina Burana....

RAWdance has announced Step/Song/Story: A Sunday Series at TJPA's Salesforce Rooftop Park. Conceived, curated, and choreographed by RAWdance Co-Artistic Director Katerina Wong, Step/Song/Story is a live, collaborative storytelling event bringing together Bay Area dancers, musicians, and text-based/l...

Alonzo King LINES Ballet, the internationally celebrated contemporary ballet company, has announced the program for its 40th Fall Season, October 12-16, 2022. This Fall LINES Ballet will celebrate Alonzo King’s 25-year collaboration with tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. ...

Smuin’s joyful holiday tradition will return to spread yuletide cheer with its signature showcase of classical and contemporary dances set to delightfully festive tunes. ...

San Francisco Ballet today announced an updated roster of choreographers for the next@90 festival, which opens SF Ballet's 90th Repertory Season with nine world premiere commissions in January 2023. ...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet will kick off its 29th season with Dance Series 1 featuring a long-awaited World Premiere by brilliant Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado, whose work Bay Area audiences will experience for the first time in The Turntable....

Artistic Director Lauren Jonas has announced Diablo Ballet's 2022 - 2023 performance season featuring the Company premiere of Confetti by Gerald Arpino, which will be presented as part of his Centennial Celebration to honor what would have been his 100th birthday....

AXIS Dance Company presents Adelante, its first home season under its new Artistic Director Nadia Adame. ...

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REYES Dance will present the world premiere of LASOS, a work of film and live performance exploring the links between childhood trauma and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture and traditions. Performances take place at Joe Goode Annex, September 29 – October 1, Thursday to Sat...

Diablo Ballet has announced that its Dance for Parkinson’s Power of Dance class will be offered free of charge for the 2022-23 year for patients and caregivers. Taught by Danielle Troyano a certified Dance for Parkinson’s instructor, Company dancer and Diablo Ballet School instructor, the class ...

Lake Tahoe Dance Collective (LTDC) presents the tenth annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, which will take place this summer from July 27-29, 2022 at venues in Tahoe City and Truckee, CA for in-person audiences. Tickets start at $25 and are available online at laketahoedancecollective.org. Portions...

California Wine Country's award-winning Transcendence Theatre Company returned once again to the incomparable Jack London State Historic Park to celebrate its 11th season. And what better way to celebrate than through dance. Directed by acclaimed international director and choreographer Luis Salgado...

SFDanceworks has announced the program for its fifth season featuring world and regional premieres by Edward Clug, Babatunji Johnson, Laura O’Malley, Dani Rowe and Yin Yue, as well as a revival of Martha Graham’s classic work, Deep Song. ...

BroadwayWorld takes a look at San Francisco Ballet School's 2022 Spring Festival that featured the impressive talents of its many young dancers....

Founded in 2022 by Diablo Ballet dancer Felipe Leon, Dance Laboratory is a residency program that has offered four local Bay Area choreographers to have an unconstrained space to dream, develop and express an innovative new work featuring Diablo Ballet dancers.  ...

San Francisco Ballet today announced its 90th Season, which will celebrate the trailblazing company’s nine decades of pushing ballet forward through offering innovative new works and adaptations, highlighting the world’s leading and emerging choreographers and dancers, and performing beloved c...

sjDANCEco presents Encores and Celebration A Program of World Premieres…LIVE, June 17 and 18 In San Jose's Hammer Theatre. ...

In honor of Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson’s retirement after 37 years, SF Ballet, in collaboration with Words on Dance, will host a special New York celebration in his honor on Monday, May 23 at 6pm at Chelsea Factory....

BroadwayWorld takes a look back at the highlights of San Francisco Ballet's glorious 2022 season, which concluded last week and also marks the end of retiring Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson's 37 years at the helm....

Smuin Contemporary Ballet has announced its first-ever Early Bird Summer Intensive for pre-professional dancers. This four-day program, open to dancers aged 14-22, allows students to dive deeper into their artistry, learning directly from Smuin’s company artists....

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's glorious production of Helgi Tomasson's 'Swan Lake' running through May 8th. It also marks the end of Tomasson's wildly successful 37-year run as SFB Artistic Director....

'La Boutique Fantasque '' or 'The Enchanted Toyshop' was originally a ballet choreographed by Leonide Massine in 1919 for the Ballet Russes. In a completely re-imagined production choreographed by Dalia Rawson, New Ballet's dancers will introduce you to a toyshop in Paris where dolls are brought to ...

836M Gallery presents the finale to Ensemble for Nonlinear Time@836M, the multidisciplinary residency project led by choreographer Hope Mohr and visual artist Ranu Mukherjee. Within the three-month residency the cast of professional dancers and immigrant women artists collaborated to build a perfo...

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's stunningly varied Program 6. This final mixed rep program of SFB's 2022 season includes 2 world premieres that show off the incredible range of this world-class company....

Oakland Ballet Company's 2021-22 Season draws to a celebratory conclusion this month with a wide-ranging program that is both retrospective and forward-looking....

San Francisco Ballet will close Helgi Tomasson's 37th and final season as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer with Swan Lake, opening Friday, April 29 and running for 10 performances through May 8 at the War Memorial Opera House. ...

The San Francisco International Arts Festival is proud to present the World Premiere of Religion Kitendi: Dress Code by Chanel 'Byb' Bibene, artistic director of Kiandanda Dance Theater with an original live score composed and performed live by Manolo Davila. The piece is inspired by Congolese Sap...

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's dazzling new Program 5 running through April 16th, which includes a world premiere by Helgi Tomasson and a reprise of Yuri Possokhov's popular 'Magrittomania.'...

The Lesher Center Presents Headliners series will bring the world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem to Walnut Creek for two performances only....

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's richly-rewarding Program 4, which runs lives onstage at the War Memorial Opera House through Sunday, March 20th. The dazzling program pairs the Bournonville Romantic-era classic 'La Sylphide' with Alexei Ratmansky's 'The Seasons,' a rambunctious, contempo...

Fast Forward provides the opportunity for award-winning and cutting-edge choreographers, both local and from around the country, to experiment. Choreographers Amy Seiwert, Duncan Cooper, Marika Brussel, Mariana Sobral and Dalia Rawson are creating brand new works that push the boundaries of classica...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet wraps up its 28th season with the vibrant program, Dance Series 2: P.S. Forever Smuin, featuring four diverse ballets from established dancemakers and rising choreographic voices, with performances in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Carmel. ...

This April, San Francisco Ballet will present three world premieres: Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson's Harmony, Christopher Wheeldon's Finale Finale, and Dwight Rhoden's The Promised Land. Emerging from the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the racial reckoning in the U.S., ...

Peninsula Ballet Theatre will conclude the company's 54th season March 11 and 12 with one of the most charming and captivating fairy tales in the classical ballet repertoire, Cinderella. ...

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's fizzy production of the classic 'Don Quixote' running live onstage at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House through March 6th. The whole thing feels like a big ol' party....

Oakland Ballet Company’s 2021-22 Season continues next month with its first-ever celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander choreographers, the DANCING MOONS FESTIVAL. ...