Following the listed address for the Woodside Performing Arts Center, my GPS sends me to a gated mansion, but with persistence I find it...

The social safety net is being torn asunder.  The courts, the schools, the labs, the libraries, and the centers for art are being...

The Queering Dance Festival returns to Counterpulse March 27 -29 with eight Bay Area LBGTQ+ artists across two programs as part of...

One of the most revered international performance groups, the Batsheva Dance Company, is making its long-awaited Cal Performances debut...

“Ten world premieres, by our dancers, on our dancers!” Amy Seiwert, Artistic Director of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, enthused in her...

“Quintessentially Tharpian” is what I would have titled the Twyla Tharp Dance program, presented February 9 - 11 in Berkeley by CAL...

On the eve of Inauguration Day 2025, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre is full to the brim with 900-plus patrons, a vast majority of us are...

When Dorrance Dance comes to town, a tappin’ good time is bound to unfold. And such was the case for the Bay Area premiere of The...

Circus Bella’s lighted marquee beckons circus goers approaching from the Embarcadero or Salesforce Pak. Carnaval carts with popcorn,...

Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s  The Christmas Ballet  is the ideal way to ring in the holidays. A bountiful selection of dances performed to...

As we enter the season of gratitude, the presence of SFDanceworks in the Bay Area is at the top of my list.  Their Season 7 tryptic,...

Invited to join the fun, we stomp, clap and shout ‘alright,’ in a call and response ritual that harks across oceans and time. Faces...

RAWdance, known for crafting thought-provoking contemporary works, is a mainstay of the Bay Area dance scene.  Co-Artistic Directors...

Pushing the boundaries of contemporary with theatrical flair, Smuin Contemporary Ballet is a treasure of the Bay Area cultural scene....

The secrecies and vagaries of love collide, with a missing person case in Sharp & Fine’s latest “play for dance” A Detective Story at Z...

On this balmy October night, the dynamic beats of West African drumming emanate from the second story windows of the Dance Mission...

In their latest Split Second production Game Time,  playing at the ODC Theater October 4 & 5, 2024, sisters Aviva and Molly Rose-Williams...

Friday, September 27, CAL Performances opened their 2024-25 Season with the United States Premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi  in a...

Emerging from a dark tunnel, a ghostly Victorian house of floating windows and scrim walls awaits us in the center of Z Space’s vast Lisa...

First generation Mexican-Salvadoran artist Jocelyn Reyes crafts powerful and visceral dance performances using broad theatricality and...