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| Dance Company | Location | Contact | Website | Notes |
Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., SF/ Montgomery 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 |
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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Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley |
Zellerbach Playhouse & Durham Studio Theater on the UCB campus |
Jennifer Reil |
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 |
Zellerbach, and tours |
Wayne Vitale |
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, and tours |
Mary Jane Eisenberg |
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 |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., SF/ Montgomery BART, and tours | 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 |
Intermediate and advanced level classes in modern dance are taught by Ben Levy, a UC Berkeley alumnus, at Studio Gracia. |
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Lily Cai Chinese Dance |
Home season at 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. Also MJ Dance Lab, 301 8th St, 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/ 16th St Mission BART |
KT Nelson |
Modern dance company, founded in 1971, also runs ODC theater. Performances, outreach programs developed for youth. |
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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 |
Various Bay Area (especially festivals), and tours, including one SF home season per year |
Jon Finck |
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 |
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) |
Jo Jewell |
Modern dance to jazz music, usually played live, by choreographer Reginald Ray-Savage. |
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Theatre Flamenco |
Various Bay Area |
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.