Join us for the kickoff on Fri, Apr 24 from 12pm-1pm at Jessie Square in San Francisco.
Register on our website: /calendar/bay-area-dance-week-event/
Explore the Bay Area Dance Week website to find more free classes, performances, and more happening all around the Bay Area.
Bay Area Dance Week is from April 24 - May 3, 2026. Join us at the festival kick-off with One Dance led by Rhythm & Motion at 12 pm on Friday, April 24 at Jesse Square supported by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
What is Bay Area Dance Week?
A 10-day celebration of bodies in motion, when our dynamic and diverse dance community opens their doors to the public to experience classes, performances and so much more, for free.
Learn more on our website: dancersgroup.org/badw
Video and edits by @raptproductions
#badw #bayareadanceweek #bayareadanceweek2026
REYES Dance presents 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐨. 𝐀𝐓𝐄 on May 21st - 23rd, 2026 at ODC Theater. Thursday performance is a ticketed preview. Friday is opening night.
Set to Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, String Quartet No. ATE explores food, pleasure and health. Initially inspired by my Type 2 diabetes journey, this piece is slowly becoming a metaphor for all kinds of consuming obsessions.
𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦
Dance Quartet: @_giuliasaa@mayamohsinn@gsnsilvaa & Madison Lindgren
String Quartet: @onefoundsound
Secret dance quartet: mystery dancers
Lighting Design: @_thomasbowersox
Special shoutouts: @hickswithham and @b.terry
Buy your tickets here: /ticket#/events/a0SVM000002x4Uf2AI
📸 : @maxtphoto
This project is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission Arts Impact Endowment and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation NEW Program.
Coming up on Saturday, May 23, Halcyon Dance Project and BlackBox Studios will be presenting Smithereens Dance Salon.
Smithereens Dance Salon is a mixed bill of contemporary dance featuring works by Oakland based choreographers Janice Garrett, ArVejon Jones, and Ryan Rouland Smith. Smithereens Dance Salon produces works by established and emerging choreographers with the goal of uplifting the presentation of contemporary dance in Oakland. May 23rd performances are at 3:00pm and 6:30pm. Doors open 30 minutes prior to each scheduled performance time and will close 5 minutes after scheduled start time.
Tickets are $30, and please visit Eventbrite to purchase: /e/smithereens-dance-salon-tickets-1984945942748?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
Photo by Robbie Sweeney
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
presents Air Between Us
by Megan Lowe Dances @mlowedancekitty
A landmark vertical dance experience
May 15th-17th, 2026
Fri. 5/15 at 7pm
Sat. 5/16 at 2pm (with Audio Description + Haptic Access Tour at 1pm)
Sat. 5/16 at 7pm (with ASL Interpretation)
Sun. 5/17 at 2pm
YBCA Galleries and Forum Building
701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Explore the connection between the art of weaving fabric and body movement in Diana Lara's new article "Yelkaram: Weaving the Ancestral Body." MURILPAZ members dive into the practice of weaving and learn from the masters of the art to inform their movements in the dance piece "Yelkaram."
The article is now available to read on our website or on Substack.
Dancers' Group: /2026/05/yelkaram-weaving-the-ancestral-body/
Substack: /p/yelkaram-weaving-the-ancestral-body
Photo by Gabriel Vallecillo.
"Choreographers do so much more than make people move".
InDance author Delphine Lai writes, "Every choreographer balances artistic work and arts administration work to support their dancemaking." The Choreography of Arts Administration offers insights from Nadhi Thekkek, Lenora Lee, and Antoine Hunter.
Read or our InDance article: /2026/05/the-choreography-of-arts-administration/
And listen or read on Substack: /home/post/p-196395419
Article by Delphine Lai
Photo by Robbie Sweeny, Hien Huynh, Mark Kitaoka
"MEISA promotes the body as the site and source for subjective exploration acknowledging that the body’s wisdom will reveal itself through intentional focus and attentive presence."
Melissa Rolnick explores the movemnet practice of MEISA and describes their experiences in their new article "Embodied Knowing: a counter cultural practice." Now available to read on our website or on Substack.
Dancers' Group: /2026/05/embodied-knowing-a-counter-cultural-practice/
Substack: /p/embodied-knowing-a-counter-cultural?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6837898&post_id=196262074&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=7unwyy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"Sitting meditation has narrowed the dance of “weight flowing down/energy rising up” to the study of my living structure in an upright sitting posture in Earth’s gravitational field."
Mercy Sidbury outlines their experience with sitting meditation in their new article "There is Always Movement." The article is now available to read on our website or Substack.
Dancers' Group: /2026/04/there-is-always-movement/
Substack: /inbox/post/195256157
Photo by Anna Ransome
In the new article "Clouds Change," Shinichi Iova Koga jumps into the theory behind inkBoat's creative process.
inkBoat is presenting “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days" from April 30-May 3 at Z Space in San Francisco. Check out tickets and information at inkboat.com
Iova-Koga's article is now available to read on our website or Substack!
Dancers' Group: /2026/04/clouds-change/
Substack: /home/post/p-193190826?source=queue
Photo by Shinichi Iova-Koga
From our friends @dancersgroupsf
Bay Area Dance Week continues through May 3rd with FREE activities. See the full calendar and search for your favorite moves on their website: /badw/
Bay Area Dance Week starts TOMORROW💃🌉
From live performances to open classes and workshops, it’s the perfect time to tap into SF’s local dance scene and see what’s happening across the city. Some SF spots to check out:
✨ @pushdance
✨ @bravatheater
✨ @linesballet
✨ Cowell Theater @fortmasoncenter
Whether you’re watching or stepping in yourself, there’s a lot to explore. Learn more at @dancersgroupsf and see all the festivities happening around the Bay Area.
Find dance events and more at sflive.art 🎟️
#thingstodoinsf #sflive #sfdance #sfartist #bayareadance
