Joan Jeanrenaud

ODC Dance presents three world premieres by Brenda Way, Kimi Okada, and Sonya Delwaide at the YBCA. Learn more details here!

Kathryn Keats is turning a harrowing experience into a positive message of hope with her new, solo stage musical, 'The Hummingbird,' premiering on Thursday, October 8 on ZOOM as part of the MarshStream International Solo Fest in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 4pm PT, the Stenberg|Cahill Duo is presented by Old First Concerts in a livestream concert.

While the Covid-19 pandemic has shuttered many performing arts organizations around the world, Long Beach Opera (LBO) has been industriously devising live innovative performance opportunities for both its artists and audiences. 

Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) announces the launch of a new website for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, the San Franciscoa?"based nonprofit's ongoing multi-year commissioning, performance, education and legacy initiative. Designed and developed by the San Francisco design and storytelling company First Person, the site provides a gateway to discover, explore and learn contemporary string quartets composed by 25 women and 25 men from around the world. The free digital learning library currently contains 30 scores and parts, recordings and supplemental learning materials. When completed, this collection will feature 50 new pieces. Launched in 2015 with Lead Partner Carnegie Hall, the initial scores have been downloaded more than 14,000 times in 88 countries and territories worldwide.

Following a successful 4-city tour of Florida that included a well-received appearance at the Forward Motion Physically Integrated Dance Festival in Miami, the company brings its vaunted skill set back to the Bay Area with select performances that include a newly reconceived staging of Robert Dekkers' Flutter, along with AXIS Artistic Director Marc Brew's Quartet No.1 to the Berkeley Ballet Theater, that will then be followed by a collaboration with Crowded Fire Theater, Star Finch, and Ensemble Mik Nawooj at the Bay View Opera House in San Francisco entitled Death Become Life: Banish Darkness, all before segueing to its 2019-20 season that will include a special Oakland-based educational event for Dance Access Day in February, as well as the world premiere of Alice in Oakland-their ambitious and much anticipated collaboration with Arthur Pita-coming to and co-presented by Z Space in San Francisco, November 2019

Bringing together some of today's most remarkable ballet talents, Daniel Ulbricht's Stars of American Ballet returns to Jacob's Pillow, appearing in the Ted Shawn Theatre August 22-26. A principal dancer with New York City Ballet since 2007, Ulbricht is lauded as "one of the best male ballet dancers in New York" (Dance Magazine). As Artistic Director, curator, and performer, Ulbricht brings a unique vision and perspective to performance. With a cast highlighting 14 powerhouse dancers of New York City Ballet, this collective celebrates the legacy of choreographic legend Jerome Robbins with a program of his masterpieces on the occasion of his centennial, augmented by two Robbins-related PillowTalks.

The Marsh Berkeley announces Dan Hoyle's hit solo show Each and Every Thing has been extended due to popular demand. Focusing on finding true connection and community in the digital age, Each and Every Thing made its East Bay premiere with newly-added post-election material last month, and was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike. Developed with Charlie Varon and Maureen Towey, and directed by Charlie Varon, Each and Every Thing performs now through September 29, with performances, 8:00pm select Thursdays, 8:00pm Fridays, 8:30pm Saturdays, at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. For tickets ($25-$35 sliding scale, $55-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 between 1-4pm, Monday through Friday.

This fall, Cid Pearlman Performance will present the ALL JOAN SHOW, a retrospective of dances made in collaboration with renowned San Francisco-based cellist and composer, Joan Jeanrenaud. The All Joan Show runs September 21 to 22 at the Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco before moving to Santa Cruz for a three-evening engagement at Motion Pacific, October 19 to 21.

ODC/Dance, San Francisco's world class contemporary dance company, presents its annual summer event, Summer Sampler, July 20-21 and July 27-28.   

With a focus on how the media and the digital experience resonates in the Trump presidency, Dan Hoyle's wildly popular solo show Each and Every Thing comes to The Marsh Berkeley for its East Bay premiere with newly-added post-election material. Receiving the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Hoyle's acclaimed production was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike. Developed with Charlie Varon and Maureen Towey, and directed by Charlie Varon, Each and Every Thing plays from July 13 - August 25, 2018, with performances 8:00pm Fridays, 8:30pm Saturdays at The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. For tickets ($25-$35 sliding scale, $55-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 between 1-4pm, Monday through Friday.

With a focus on how the media and the digital experience resonates in the Trump presidency, Dan Hoyle's wildly popular solo show Each and Every Thing comes to The Marsh Berkeley for its East Bay premiere with newly-added post-election material.Receiving the 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Hoyle's acclaimed production was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike.

The City of Oakland represents in San Francisco when AXIS Dance Company, the country's leading physically integrated dance company crosses the bridge and comes to Z Space in the Mission District as part of its 30th anniversary celebration, and its first season under new Artistic Director, Marc Brew. The program will feature Radical Impact, a new work produced in collaboration with composer JooWan Kim, Artistic Director of Oakland-based Hip Hop Orchestra, Ensemble Mik Nawooj. The original score for the piece will be performed live by string quartet. 

Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the six composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company's sixth annual, critically-acclaimed new works series, Frontiers - funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Held during the final week of the 2018 FWOpera Festival, these selected pieces will be presented in two separate showcases of three works each on Wednesday, May 2 from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, and Thursday, May 3 from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, on the stage of Bass Performance Hall. Featuring 20-minute excerpts of each selected piece, these brand-new operas will be sung by artists from the 2018 FWOpera Festival with piano accompaniment.

AXIS Dance Company greets 2018 with the appointment of Robin Anderson as new Executive Director. The appointment comes on the heels of a year that saw the company celebrate its 30th anniversary and the appointment of Marc Brew as new Artistic Director, with the company's first home season under his direction deemed both a popular and a critical success.

I've never cooked in a kitchen this loud. Huge burners breathe and hiss. Exhaust fans roar. Despacito is playing on the radio, but can't really compete with the industrial noises. I'm making borscht hot Russian borscht with beets, cabbage, tomatoes, onion and dill for the 20 people who have bought tickets to the first brunch of my new show, Charlie Varon's STORYBORSCHT at The Marsh Caf through October 29.

The Marsh San Francisco presents Charlie Varon's Storyborscht, a new pop-up experience featuring storytelling and cooking by award-winning performer Charlie Varon.

Returning with newly-added post-election material, The Marsh San Francisco presents Dan Hoyle's wildly popular The Real Americans.

AXIS Dance Company, Dancers' Group and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival are pleased to present Occupy - A site-specific journey through an urban garden, July 1-2, 2017. Occupy is inspired by the history, design and architecture of Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco and the unique movement capabilities of AXIS Dance Company and their broader community of performers. All performances are free.

ODC/Dance, San Francisco's internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company, announces programming for its 46th annual home season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. This season includes one world premiere by Brenda Way, one world premiere by KT Nelson, the return of Kate Weare's critically acclaimed work, Giant, and Way's enthralling 2016 work, Walk Back the Cat.