Dance & Cirque

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 9, 5:30 PM; Sun May 10, 6:00 PM
• Duration: 50 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

AURA is an immersive multimedia work exploring the cycles of the natural and human worlds. Across four 12-minute movements—jungle, desert, mountain, and ocean—the piece synthesizes seasons, lunar phases, time of day, four elements, and the arc of human life.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sun May 3, 2:30pm
• Duration: 60 minutes (w/out intermission)
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Sliding Scale $10 - $30 (Suggested $25)

[Re]member is a film project that looks back to the histories of the African resistance against slavery, with a particular focus on the history of maroons leader Nganga Nzumbi.
The solo performance, 300 Million Moving Targets pays homage to the thousands of migrants who lost lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in makeshift boats from the coasts of Africa to the coasts of Europe.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Wed April 29 - Fri May 1, 7:00 PM
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Venue: Cesar Chavez Elementary School Playground
• Location: 2616 Folsom St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Cirque Kikasse presents a high-flying acrobatics show performed atop their extraordinary food truck. Watch in awe as the troupe turns restaurant prep into gravity-defying feats of fun, building towers in the sky and creating comic chaos. A playful, virtuosic circus performance to captivate all ages.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 2:30 PM; Sat May 2, 5:30 PM
• Duration: 100 minutes
• Venue: Ruth's Table
• Location: 3160 21st St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Sliding Scale: $0 - $36

The Wandering Ensemble (Dandelion Dancetheater and CSU East Bay) is collaborating with artists, community members, academics, students, and un-categorizable beings from diverse disciplines to use visionary imagination, dance, music, theatre, and community ritual to explore what life in the Bay Area could be like in 30 years.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 5:00 PM
• Duration: 35 minutes
• Venue: Z Space
• Location:450 Florida St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information:Sliding Scale $15 - 30$

Degenerate Art Ensemble presents an excerpt from their newest work, Anima Mundi, at SFAIF. This immersive piece, which premiered fully in Seattle in February 2026, explores humanity's lost and found connection with the natural world. The group will perform the chapter "Amnesia," featuring live music, dance, and cinematic video.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu April 30  - Sat May 2, 8:00 PM; Sun May 3, 3:00 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Venue: Z Space
• Location: 450 Florida St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

A transcendent multidisciplinary work that breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays Hazy Shade of Winter.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sat May 2, 7:30 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes (with intermission)
• Venue: Masonic Lodge Friendship Hall
• Location: 169 Bartlett St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

Paying homage to the alluring atmosphere of the famous Andalusian "cafes cantantes," Flamenco Cabaret, an evening of music and dance with Melissa Cruz, brings the dynamism of flamenco to the historic Mission Masonic Center.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 7:30 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes (with intermission)
• Venue: Abanico's Coffee Roasters
• Location: 2121 Mission St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Advance: $35, Door: $40

A “tablao” describes the stage for the impromptu alchemy between performers to create a unique show, never to be repeated. At Abanico, an intimate venue, audience members will experience the full expression of the artists in close proximity. Collectively they feel the tension and dynamism of Flamenco, the Andalusian art form granted Cultural Heritage status by UNESCO.

• Date(s) & Time(s): 
• Duration: 60 minutes (no intermission)
• Venue: Dance Mission Theater
• Location: 3316 24th St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information:

Unfortunately, the west coast premiere of Impasse by Mufutau Yusuf has had to be postponed and will not feature as part of the 2026 Festival. Ticket folders for performances of Impasse, please contact [email protected]
For information on the postponement, click on the "learn more" button below. Thank you.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu April 30, 7:30 PM; Sat May 2, 2:00 PM
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Shared Bill with: Pooja Ganesh and Eve Salonen
• Total Duration of Program: 75 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

A Bharatanatyam that weaves together original choreography and deeply personal repertoire taught to Nikitha during her journey in natyam into a dynamic, evolving body of work. The performance treats dance as both memory and moment—an archive that is not static, but lived, felt, and continually reinterpreted.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 1, 8:00 PM - Sat May 2, 8:30 PM
• Duration: 75 minutes
• Venue: Dance Mission Theater
• Location: 3316 24th St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $30, Advance: $42, Door: $50

Based on the life and work of French sculptor Camille Claudel, Unfinished Work is an impressionist portrait of this brilliant and troubled artist told through People’s Circus Theatre’s signature blend of circus, dance, and physical theater.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Thu April 30, 7:30 PM; Sat May 2, 2:00 PM
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Shared Bill with: Nikitha Sreekant and Kalakshetra Reshma Rajeev
• Total Duration of Program: 75 minutes
• Venue: Theatre of Yugen
• Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30

An electrifying cross-cultural performance blending India’s Kathak and Spain’s Flamenco, highlighting intricate rhythms, expressive storytelling, and percussive footwork of these dance forms, presented by Pooja Ganesh and Eve Salonen.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 7:30 PM; Sun May 10, 6:00 PM
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Venue:The Marsh Studio
• Location: 1062 Valencia St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $20, Gen Adm: $25, Door: $30

Pick a Side, Babe digs into the walls we build to feel safe - and the ways they keep us small.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Fri May 8, 7:00 PM
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Venue: Masonic Lodge Friendship Hall
• Location: 169 Bartlett St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Sliding Scale $0 - 35$

BESPOKE is the latest work from STEAMROLLER Dance Company, an immersive musical that envelopes the viewer in an auditory, visceral experience with dancers guiding the audience in a pastiche of musical genres where the audience is able to participate in a playful tribute to the American musical.

• Date(s) & Time(s): Sun May 3, 6:00 PM
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Venue: Dance Mission Theater
• Location: 3316 24th St, SF, CA 94110
• Ticket Information: Early Bird: $30, Advance: $35, Door: $40
• NOTE: Tickets on Sale February 10

Six dance styles. A plethora of emotions induced by the advent of Spring. A variety of movements. But one message: Oneness! Beyond differences and beyond boundaries! This production is a powerful dance-theater collaboration with a stunning ensemble of six Indian classical dance forms: Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, and Odissi.