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| Dance Company | Location | Contact | Website | Notes |
Alonzo King's Lines Ballet |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, SF/ Powell BART, and tours |
Selby Schwartz |
Contemporary ballet company with cross-cultural projects, founded in 1982. Outreach programs, post-show artist talks by Alonzo King, study guides on cross-cultural collaborations, youth programs through SF Dance Center |
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AXIS |
1428 Alice Street, Suite 200 · Oakland, CA 94612. Oakland-based, greater Bay Area; tours |
Judith Smith, | Contemporary repertory company. Physically integrated dance for dancers with and without disabilities. Extensive education outreach programs: 1.5 hour video presentations; lecture/demonstrations; masterclasses; teacher trainings; residencies; tailored performances; adult and youth programs; teacher's guide. |
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Dance Brigade's Dance Mission Theater |
3316 - 24th Street |
Stella Adelman | Dance performances, adult and youth classes.
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Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley |
Zellerbach Playhouse & Durham Studio Theater and 101 Dwinelle Annex on the UCB campus |
Josh Hesslein |
Student and group discounts, free lectures, workshops, and artist talks, |
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Fresh Meat Productions |
Office: Fresh Meat Productions PO Box 460670 San Francisco, CA 94146-0670 |
Sean
Dorsey, Artistic Director |
Creates, presents and tours award-winning transgender and queer contemporary dance & multidisciplinary performance programs. Extensive local & national education / outreach programs: On-campus Residencies, performances, teaching and lectures. Student discounts to Fresh Meat’s SF events – including Sean Dorsey Dance’s spring season and the annual June Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance. |
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Gamelan Sekar Jaya |
3023 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94705 ,Zellerbach Hall, and tours |
Sara Gambin |
Balinese Gamelan. |
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inkBoat |
351 Shotwell San Francisco, CA 94110-1324 | Shin Iova-Koga |
Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga in 1998, inkBoat is a performance collective built by and with the collaborative efforts of choreographers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, directors and actors. Presenting in environments ranging from traditional proscenium to site specific, inkBoat’s performances evoke both the traditional and the experimental. 1960’s avant-gardists from Japan and Europe are the most notable trailblazers in our un-named lineage. The company has also created a studio (inkGround) on the Lost Coast of California for the investigation of dance in the natural environment. |
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Joe Goode Performance Group |
Joe Goode Annex, 499 Alabama St., #150 / Mission & 16th BART |
Dave Archuletta: Executive Director |
Humorous, emotional dance theater company, founded in 1979. Joe Goode, choreographer, is also a faculty member at UC Berkeley, and works with Dance students on campus. |
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Kunst-Stoff |
1 Grove Street SF, CA 94102/ Civic Center BART | Yannis Adoniou |
Experimental dance-theater performances. Yannis Adoniou also teaches at the SF Dance Center; contact for possible outreach programs. |
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LEVYstudio |
Home studio: |
Benjamin Levy |
International touring dance company offering intermediate and advanced level classes in modern dance are taught by Benjamin Levy, a UC Berkeley alumnus, and LEVYdance Company Artists at LEVYstudio. Additional classes offered Tango, Salsa, Blues, 5Rhythms, Samba, Hip Hop, Zumba, and more. Affordable studio rentals for rehearsals, showings, parties, and meetings. |
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Lily Cai Chinese Dance |
Studio: 301 8th St., #235, San Francisco |
415-474-4829 |
Classical Chinese dance blended with modern dance. Well-established educational programs for schools, including dance & Chinese culture. |
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Margaret Jenkins and Company |
Various Bay Area, including outdoors. MJ Dance Lab, 301 8th St, & 149 9th St # 400, SF /Civic Center BART |
Todd Eckert |
Collaborative, often site-specific dance, developed from 1960's experimental dance. Performances, classes at the Lab. Todd is a UCB alumnus. |
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ODC |
ODC Theater, 3153 17th St & 351 Shotwell Street/ 16th St Mission BART |
KT Nelson |
ODC is a contemporary arts institution with longstanding roots in the San Francisco community. ODC, founded by Brenda Way in 1971 at Oberlin College in Ohio, started as a collective. Today, ODC¹s creative campus on 17th and Shotwell Streets in San Francisco, encompasses ODC/Dance, a world-class dance company; the ODC Dance Commons, home to the ODC Youth & Teen Program and ODC School and Rhythm & Motion Dance Program, offering 250 classes a week for adults of all levels; ODC Theater, a nationally regarded presenting theater; and The Healthy Dancers¹ Clinic. |
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Purple Moon Dance Project |
Various Bay Area, main office: 465 - 10th Street, #302 |
Jill Togawa |
Provides workshops and classes for the lesbian and women's multi-cultural communities it serves, as well as benefit performances. |
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Robert Moses' Kin |
870 Market St # 567, SF/ Powell ST BART. Various Bay Area (especially festivals), and tours, including one SF home season per year |
415-252-8384 |
Modern dance and dance theater treating issues of race, gender, class, culture. Robert Moses is on the Stanford faculty. |
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San Francisco Ballet |
301 Van Ness Avenue, War Memorial Opera House, SF/ Civic Center BART |
Dina D. Toy |
Ballet. |
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Savage Jazz Dance Company |
Various Bay Area (Oakland-based company) |
Agustin Luna 510-967-4775 |
The Savage Jazz Dance Company is a cohesive organization of disciplined dancers and instructors committed to the exploration of jazz music’s range of expression. The spirit of jazz is the foundation for the company’s existence, and the sustenance that keeps SJDC alive. By staying committed to its vision, SJDC has created a singular technique, quality, and philosophy that define the Company’s movement style. Driven by the vision of Mr. Savage, and realized by the commitment of the company’s exceptional dancers, SJDC’s movement is defined by three primary beliefs: the importance of disciplined, technical dance training, rooted in classical ballet and modern techniques; the willingness to give into the rich artistic expression of music, in all forms; and energy. |
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Theatre Flamenco |
150 McAllister St. SF/Civic Center BART. Various Bay Area venues. |
Miguel Santos |
Flamenco company, founded in 1966. Well-established 45-min lec/dem in
schools, with guitarist, teaching rhythms and dance. |
Photo credits: Photos by Marty Sohl, of dancers (Maurya Kerr alone, and Laurel Keen and Brett Conway together) from Alonzo King's Lines Ballet.