Artists are listed in alphabetical order.
Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
US - Shakti - female divinity
Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday October 25, 2:00 PM , Sunday October 25, 2:15 PM
Duration: 20 minutes without intermission
Location: Parade Ground (main stage)
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
Abhinaya Dance Company presents Bharatanatyam, a classical dances nurtured in the temples of South India. Through intricate rhythm, and a unique language of gestures, the dance presents vivid stories from Hindu mythology. Two young dancers from our Junior dance Company will present pieces worshipping the Goddess and seeking her grace.
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United States - Lieder for Two
Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday October 25, 3:00 PM
Duration: 7 minutes without intermission
Location: Eucalyptus Grove Circle
Ticket Prices: $15 - $20
"Lieder for Two" is a site-specific work created for The San Francisco International Arts Festival. As movement and dance spaces have been put on hold, the dancers in the Eucalyptus Grove have a surrealist awakening; Performing for an audience after much absence and, in turn, seeing another dancer in their space. Like birds in a mating dance discovering their own mirrored similarities and differences in another body, the boundary between performance and connection breaks apart. What is instead present is a deep need to communicate more primal needs and be understood by another creature.
Dog + Pony
- Dog + Pony
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 5:50 PM
Duration: 30 minutes without intermission
Location: Bus Stop (MacArthur Avenue)
Ticket Prices: $10 - $20
Dog + Pony returns to the stage with a new site-specific work that explores the impact of sheltering-in-place and social distancing. This new work will integrate dance, theatre and performance to create an improv score that is constantly evolving and shifting.
Jessica Fudim & The Dance Animals
- As the Crow Flies
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 3:00 PM
Duration: 30 minutes without intermission
Location: Eucalyptus Grove Circle
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
Constructed long-distance while interrupted by natural disasters, The Dance Animals’ As the Crow Flies catalogues the performers’ enduring friendship as they shelter-in-place. Paying homage to ancient trees, healing bodies and Black Lives Matter, this short and sweet dance-theater duet is at once devotional, playful and desperate for a revolution.
Marika Brussel & Dancers
USA - House of Names (excerpts)
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 2:00 PM
Duration: 30 minutes without intermission
Location: Parade Ground (main stage)
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
House of Names is a contemporary ballet that looks at mythology and women though a modern lens.
pateldanceworks
- the long shadow
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 5:00 PM
Duration: 30 minutes without intermission
Location: Black Battery Point
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
Peninsula Ballet Theatre
USA - All Rise
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 2:00 PM
Duration: 10 minutes without intermission
Location: Parade Ground (main stage)
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
All Rise is a contemporary ballet, choreographed by Marika Brussel, that looks at how one person can change the tide. The ballet was inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and all she did to change the country and to better the position of women.
Samudra Dance Creations
- The Caged Bird Sings & Earth Speaks (excerpts)
Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday October 25, 2:15 PM
Duration: 20 minutes without intermission
Location: Parade Ground (main stage)
Ticket Prices: $0 - $0
STEAMROLLER Dance Company
United States - Desire Is A Strange Engine
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday October 24, 6:30 PM , Saturday October 24, 6:15 AM
Duration: 25 minutes without intermission
Location: Bus Stop (MacArthur Avenue)
Ticket Prices: $20 - $25
Desire Is A Strange Engine is a new site-specific work by STEAMROLLER Dance Company that looks at the ritual of gay cruising and creates a space of queer radical potential where the categories that we organize our lives, race, gender and sexuality like race and class, get scrambled by desire.
Theatre flamenco of San Francisco
Spain - 2020 Flamenco
Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday October 25, 3:45 PM
Duration: 45 minutes without intermission
Location: Parade Ground (main stage)
Ticket Prices: $25 - $40
