DANCE

Dance. Music. Los Muñequitos de Matanzas are amongst the highest regarded percussionists in the world and masters of Afro-Cuban ritual and rumba music and dance.

Dance. Theatre. Barak Marshall and company makes their Bay Area debut with a physical-theater work for 10 dancers. The score for MONGER combines elements of Gypsy, Balkan with classical and rock music.

Dance. DANCING EARTH’s Indigenous Dance Creations spins, stomps and spirals into life on the world’ s dancing grounds as a collective of intertribal Indigenous dance artists, under the leadership of internationally respected choreographer Rulan Tangen.

Dance. Developed in residence at the Montalvo Arts Center, Plainsong features original text by Mohr and a set design of red thread and photographic images by Katrina Rodabaugh.

Dance. Theatre. The Consumption Series is a four-part investigation and performance project conceived by Artistic Director, Charles Slender, which challenges the relationships between individuals, the things they consume, and the things they are consumed by.

Dance. A Walk in the Parkour begins with a dazzling display of gymnastic interactions with apparatuses and walls, but eventually yields to the deeper desires of the heart.
(May 27 - 29 Shared bill with Khambatta Dance Company).

Dance. Khambatta contrasts rigorous partnering and athletic movement with authentic human content to create an emotionally moving dance, which is both visually beautiful and physically demanding. (Shared bill with Scott Wells & Dancers).

Dance. Iraqi Bodies will make their US debut as part of SFIAF with Crying of My Mother, a metaphor for the religious conflict in Iraq.

Dance. Elements of contemporary and Middle Eastern folkloric dance forms in a provocative performance about what it means to occupy place.

Dance. THIEVES paints a raw, alternatively grotesque and tender picture of a shadowy humanity, it asks: "How does one prepare to die?"