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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 |
Often at ODC Theater, 3153 17th St/ 16th St Mission BART, Transgender events |
Sean
Dorsey |
Transgender/queer dance and performance, headed by choreographer Sean Dorsey. Helps present/ curate community events. |
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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 |
Tours | Butoh, the Japanese post-war "dance of utter darkness." |
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Joe Goode Performance Group |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., SF/ Montgomery BART & & 499 Alabama Street #150/16th & Mission BART and tours |
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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LEVYdance |
Home studio: |
Ben Levy |
International touring dance company offering intermediate and advanced level classes in modern dance are taught by Ben Levy, a UC Berkeley alumnus, at Studio Gracia. Additional classes offered Tango, Salsa, Blues, 5Rhythms and Samba. |
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Lily Cai Chinese Dance |
Home season: Nouvellus Theatre Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., SF/ Montgomery BART, and tours |
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) |
510.496.6068 |
Modern dance to jazz music, usually played live, by choreographer Reginald Ray-Savage. |
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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.