Dance & Cirque

Artists are listed in alphabetical order

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose 

USA - Unbound (2017)

Date and Time: Sun May 11, 2:00pm
Duration: 40 mins Shared Bill with InSyncKathak total duration 95 mins
Shared Bill:InSyncKathak total duration 95 mins
Location: 3316 24th St.
Venue: Dance Mission Theater

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Rasika Kumar’s solo Bharatanatyam production takes you on an intimate journey, revealing how we, as women navigating our lives, endure a thousand subtle cuts that diminish us, forcing us to shrink and occupy less space in the world. What if we expanded to live a bold and unapologetic life?

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Agathe and Adrien 

Canada - N.Ormes (2023, West Coast Premiere)

Date and Time: Thu May 8, 8:30pm; Sat May 10, 8:00pm
Duration: 60 mins w/out intermission.
Location: 3316 24th St
Venue: Dance Mission Theater

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

N.Ormes is a circus show where the duo Agathe and Adrien push the limits and expectations of their own bodies and gender norms. Provocative, dysfunctional and tender, the piece brings the viewer to question their own assumptions about understanding equity.

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Alive & Well Productions 

USA - The Four Seasons of Hamadan (2025, San Francisco Premiere)

Date and Time: Fri May 2, 8:00pm, Sun May 4, 3:30pm
Duration: 23 minutes
Shared Bill:Helen Wicks Works
Location: 2840 Mariposa St.
Venue: Theatre of Yugen's NOH Space

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

The Four Seasons of Hamadan is a duet for violinist and dancer that interweaves Persian and Jewish music and dance traditions to express intercultural harmony. This project blends folkloric forms from the artists’ respective heritages and reimagines that material through a contemporary lens.

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Helen Wicks Works 

USA - Radio Vision (2025, World Premiere)

Date and Time: Fri May 2, 8:00pm; Sun May 4, 3:30pm
Duration: 20 mins
Shared Bill:Alive & Well Productions
Location: 2840 Mariposa St.
Venue: Theatre of Yugen's NOH Space

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Radio Vision, a solo choreographed and performed by Helen Wicks, is an ode to music composition teacher Nadia Boulanger and the origins of broadcast television 100 years ago. Radio Vision synthesizes Wicks’ conversation with legendary composer Quincy Jones and research on her great-grandfather, Universal’s Music Supervisor Joe Gershenson.

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InSyncKathak Dancers 

USA - Prakriti (2020)

Date and Time: Sun May 11, 2:00pm
Duration: 45 mins
Shared Bill:Abhinaya total duration 95 mins
Location: 3316 24th St.
Venue: Dance Mission Theater

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Prakriti is an ode to Mother Nature. Creation, coexistence, change, and resilience are threads woven into the beautiful tapestry of life. Drawing upon myriad personal experiences like wildfires, earthquakes, and droughts in California, this relentless human spirit and its tryst with Mother Nature is presented through Indian classical Kathak dance.

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Melissa Cruz Flamenco 

USA - Tablao Flamenco

Date and Time: Sat May 3, 7:30pm
Duration: 60 minutes with intermission
Location: 2121 Mission St
Venue: Abanico Coffee Roaster

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

The vibrance and allure of flamenco come alive in this tribute to the flamenco “tablao,” an improvised collaboration allowing for the expression of the full spectrum of human emotion. Deep cante jondo juxtaposed with light-hearted cante chico, the pulse of palmas and the stirring poly-rhythms of heel work weave and unravel to create tension and release so emblematic of flamenco.

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PULP 

USA - Pulp and it's completely different but also still pulp (2025, World Premiere)

Date and Time: Fri May 9, 7:30pm; Sat May 10, 7:00pm; Sun May 11, 2:30pm
Duration: 60 min w/out intermission
Location: 3315 20th St
Venue: Folk Yoga Studio

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Pulp and it's completely different but also still pulp is a dance show full of personality, attitude, vulnerability and juicy oranges. Pulp uses dance and theater to ask questions, have conversations and hopefully make you laugh about our relationships with ourselves, the world and its outrageous constructs. Pulp shares their perspectives on what consumes most of their 30-something-year-old lives: autonomy, identity, injustice, pleasure, communication, betrayal and love.

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Samudra Dance Creations

Fearless Women - A Celebration of Women's Literature (work-in-progress)

Date and Time: Sat May 3, 2:30pm, Sun May 4, 7:00pm
Duration: 35 mins
Shared Bill:Sweta Ravisankar. Total duration 65 mins
Location:  2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen’s NOH Space

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Innumerable women poets and writers of South Asian origin remain relatively unknown. In this dance work, soloist Jyotsna Vaideeswaran explores the stories of India’s early women writers and their works. Words that interrogate injustice, with searing questions of gender and faith, raising their voices.

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Suichu-megane∞ 

Japan - my choice, my body (2021) and Anchor (2023) (U.S. Premieres)

Date and Time: Fri May 9, 8:30pm; Sat May 10, 4:00pm
Duration: 50 mins with intermission
Location: 3316 24th St
Venue: Dance Mission Theater

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Suichu 'Megane∞, led by Ayane Nakagawa, explores “freedom” through powerful movement and visual vocabulary influenced by Nihon Buyo (Japanese classical dance) and contemporary dance theaters . Their signature works “my choice, my body” and “Anchor” confront societal norms, celebrating autonomy, destiny, and the struggles tied to gender and sexuality with an unflinching, evocative edge.

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Sweta Ravisankar 

USA - Imagining Pain: The Menster Saga, (2024, Bay Area Premiere)

Date and Time: Sat May 3, 2:30pm, Sun May 4, 7:00pm
Duration: 25 mins
Shared Bill:Samudra Dance. Total duration 65 mins
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen’s NOH Space

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

In this piece, a woman's lifelong suffering, beginning in her teens, is depicted as she confronts disbelief and self-doubt amidst undiagnosed pain, embodied by the menstrual monster. Through Bharatanatyam and yoga-inspired movements, this dance drama illuminates the unseen struggles of women.

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Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco

Tríptico

Date and Time: Sun May 11, 7:00pm
Duration: 50 mins with intermission
Location: 3316 24th St
Venue: Dance Mission Theater

Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20: Advance: $25; Door: $28

Tríptico is a captivating flamenco performance that blends the passion and tradition of flamenco with the innovative spirit of contemporary dance. Artistic Director and flamenco dancer Carola Zertuche leads this dynamic collaboration, where three dancers—Sertuche, contemporary artist Nol Simonse, and flamenco dancer Nevarez Encinias—explore the intersections of movement, gender, and expression.

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