FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL interpretation provided.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour beings at 4 pm, performance begins at 5 pm.

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

FROLIC! with the Queering Dance Festival at our annual celebration of new dance works by Queer and Trans Bay Area choreographers, Thurs-Sat April 2-4 at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco. ASL Interpretation & Audio Description available, Masks required.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $0 - $40

Event information.

Every body carries patterns of movement, habit, culture, identity, and history. These patterns shape how we navigate the world—they repeat, evolve, and at times constrain us. Through a series of live dance performances and a short film from AXIS Dance Company and acclaimed choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee, Patterns explores how individuality are expressions of the infinite ways we move and connect. Witness this celebration of humanity in motion, and experience the new possibilities that emerge.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $20 - $44

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ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 5-8, 2026. An exhilarating program of adventuresome works invites audiences into the visceral, uplifting and provocative power of dance as the next chapter for ODC unfolds. Thrill to the world premiere of After the Deluge from Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Theories of Time by Co-Artistic Director Mia J. Chong, and Caught in the Act, a world premiere from guest choreographer Gypsy Snider, Co-Founder of The 7 Fingers and Dear San Francisco.

On Friday, March 6, enjoy a special one-night-only Gala Night program featuring the world premiere of After the Deluge as well as the celebrated return of Investigating Grace by Brenda Way, named an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011.

"The dancing is always excellent: full-bodied and expansive." – THE NEW YORKER

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $30-$125

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/dance-downtown

Based on Dan Brown’s bestselling international phenomenon, Professor Robert Langdon is called to the Louvre in the dead of night, where he unwittingly becomes the center of a murder investigation. Soon he is in a race against time to clear Robert’s name and decipher a labyrinthine code before a shocking historical secret is lost forever. Don’t miss the chance to experience The Da Vinci Code like never before in its Bay Area Regional Premiere!

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $20-63

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Audiences are in for a dazzling treat as award-winning magician Xavier Mortimer, the most followed magician on social media with more than 15 billion video views, brings his acclaimed production Master of Magic to
San Francisco.

Known for blending humour, storytelling and breathtaking illusions, Mortimer has captivated global audiences, starred in Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson One and made history as the first Cirque performer to headline his own Las Vegas residency. Directed by Alex Goude and Michael Goudeau, the show features stunning visuals, physical comedy and intricate illusions and has earned top international honours including First Place at the Albano International Congress, a Gold Star at the L’Eau d’Olle Magic Festival and back-to-back wins for Best Magic Show in Las Vegas from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $59.99- $199.99

Michael Smuin’s wonderfully adaptable toast to the holidays features new works this year by Julia Adam Dance director Julia Adam, Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, and San Francisco Ballet Soloist Myles Thatcher. In addition to beloved Michael Smuin classics, look for favorite numbers by Val Caniparoli, Nicole Haskins, Ben Needham-Wood, and Rex Wheeler. And, of course, Santa Baby will be there too, sauntering across the stage and inviting you to join her—and us—in celebrating everything magical about the season.

Run time is approximately 2 hours, including 1 intermission.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpreted performance

Ticket price(s): $25-$105

Event Information Link: http://www.smuinballet.org/audio-described-performances-2/

Box Office telephone: 510 647-2949 Tue–Sun, noon–7 pm

Inspired by French painter Georges Seurat and his iconic 1884 masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, this groundbreaking musical brings the artist’s world to life, as the figures of Seurat’s park step out of the canvas and into the theater, moving, singing, and breathing in color and light. In Act I, George revolutionizes painting with an avant-garde technique. In Act II, his great-grandson attempts to push his art into the age of technology. Across a century, both wrestle with creation, connection, and what we leave behind when everything else changes. Epic in scale, daring, and abstract, this Stephen Sondheim classic is an unflinching and deeply human look at the art of making art.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL provided by Velvet hands

Ticket price(s): $25-$90

Event Information Link: http://www.shotgunplayers.org/show/sunday/
Box Office number: 628-207-2006

“ ...a trip down memory lane that children of all ages will find hard to resist.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Voted San Francisco Magazine's Best Dance Experience, ODC/Dance returns to the stage with the 39th anniversary of the beloved Bay Area holiday tradition, The Velveteen Rabbit, choreographed by KT Nelson and featuring students from ODC’s Youth & Teen Program. Based on the beloved classic children’s book by Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit brims with wit, festive costumes, madcap characters, and the perfect amount of holiday cheer! Featuring captivating narration, a delightful musical score by Benjamin Britten, and larger-than-life storybook characters portrayed by the world-class dancers of ODC/Dance.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $30 - $150

Event Information Link: https://odc.dance/velveteenrabbit

Come see ANNIE, the musical all about optimism and joy in the face of hardships! An American Sign Language interpreter will be located near the stage at House Left for patrons who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. Seats marked with an “i” symbol provide the best sight lines to follow the interpretation and the action on stage. This performance is supported by Silicon Valley Creates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Provided
Relaxed Performance

Ticket price(s): $20-63

Event Information Link: http://paplayers.org/event/annie/

NAKA Dance Theater’s Fugitivity is an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the theme of fugitivity: Who has lost the ability to move freely? Who is forced to flee? How can we respond creatively to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations? What underground networks are keeping people safe?

This venue is ADA accessible

Audio Description Provided
Haptic tour begins at 4 pm, Live Audio Described performance begins at 4:30 pm

Ticket price(s): $25-$35

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/26 has ASL Interpreters.

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/25 performance has AD and ASL interpreters

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

NAKA Dance Theater’s Fugitivity is an interdisciplinary performance project exploring the theme of fugitivity: Who has lost the ability to move freely? Who is forced to flee? How can we respond creatively to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations? What underground networks are keeping people safe?

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation Provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$35

Mx. Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company invite you to our home season October 24 - 26, 2025 with three amazing programs at CounterPulse!
Program A – Friday, October. 24th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Followed by Post-Show Panel
Program B – Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm
The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Program C – Sunday, October 26th, 3:00pm
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible only

“The Power of Shuffling Through Deaf Education” full-length work addresses the ongoing lack of access to education for Deaf, BIPOC, and disabled children. The piece is inspired by true stories shared by parents, educators, lawyers, and others who have fought for equity in schools. There will be a post-show panel discussion on Friday October 24th moderated by Julie Rems-Smario that includes parents of Deaf child(ren) and Deaf community leaders who have lived these experiences firsthand.
Urban Jazz Dance Company is collaborating with Guerilla Opera to present the San Francisco premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible on Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th. This chamber opera, composed by Elisabet Curbelo, is a groundbreaking work that blends experimental music, contemporary dance, and American Sign Language. The leading star is the spectacular Zahna Simon, and Artists with UJDC’s dancers!

This venue is ADA accessible

10/24 performance has Live Captions, ASL interpreters and Spanish interpretation

Ticket price(s): $15-$35

Event Information Link: https://www.realurbanjazzdance.com/2025-home-season-show.html

LIVE ARTS IN RESISTANCE (LAIR) is a dynamic series of performance showcases, artist residencies, and community town halls that address racial inequity and white supremacy in popular culture. Diana Lara, Audrey Johnson, and Kim Ip w/ABG will be showcasing their pieces in this dynamic series of performances.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): Free, registration required

For more tickets and more info, click here.

Extremely Close by Alejandro Cerrudo - Company Premiere
Partita by Justin Peck - Company Premiere
A Long Night by Amy Seiwert - Company Premiere
A trio of Smuin premieres by three award-winning choreographers featuring the music of Caroline Shaw, Phillip Glass, a Tom Waits cover, and more.
September 26 – October 5, San Francisco.

This venue is ADA accessible

ASL provided

Ticket price(s): $25+

*Snap snap* Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.

Everything will change for the entire family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Inspired by the popular TV and film series, The Addams Family musical is a spooky good time for all ages and a hilarious send-up of family quirks, being true to oneself, and celebrating love in all its forms.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation Provided

The Box Office will open at 1pm.
Concessions will be available before the show starting at 1:30pm
Run time is about 2 hours and 45 minutes (including one 15-minute intermission)

Ticket price(s): Tickets: $25.00 (plus $3.95 handling fee)

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Join RUPTURE for the premiere of DIASPORADICA, a sprawling and immersive theatrical takeover of Fort Mason’s Pier 3 Festival Pavilion. An experimental performance collective founded by Bay Area/NYC artists José E. Abad, Stephanie Hewett, Clarissa “Lars” Rivera-Dyas, Gabriele Christian, and Styles Alexander, RUPTURE brings together the multidisciplinary visions of these powerhouses within San Francisco’s arts and culture scene. Via DIASPORADICA, audiences join an interactive odyssey of mutiny and belonging. RUPTURE creates a world of shipwrecks, sirens, techno, and Spades, engulfing us in layered encounters only possible when artists assemble, converse, build something together.

Structured in three acts, Diasporadica charts a journey through Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion that is both ethereal and explosive. The work blends contemporary dance, immersive installation, ritual, and community engagement to blur the lines between Black kinship, spectatorship, and artistic embodiment. The experience begins with a Kickback — an invitation to leisure and gameplay — before shifting the energetics of the space in Performance, a collective choreography and improvisation drawn from diasporic storytelling. The work culminates in a Function, transforming the stage into a club space we can join and so experience dance as a communal, spiritual technology.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided on Saturday, August 30th. Deaf or Hard of Hearing guests should RSVP by August 28th. Please email ruptureisnow@gmail.com to pre-register.

Ticket price(s): $24.87

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The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description, Live Captions, and ASL Interpretation provided.

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

Leila Awadallah’s duet with a unique, self-playing musical instrument confronts and distorts the tropes of the Arab, feminine body often perceived as a seductive other or used as a threat against the State. The music continuously builds into a drone-like soundscape that drives Awadallah’s experimental Baladi movement. While she moves, she speaks Palestinian stories and reflections on the work’s themes.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Damn, I think this piece is about adoration... and devotion. But also, disobedience. omg and obsession.
This piece is about TRUST ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing.
To Trust your Wild ness
*this piece is the first solo of my project MuSeD. for more visit: gizzeh.com

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.

Beatrice L. Thomas, also known as Black Benatar, is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and storyteller blending drag, puppetry, and stage illusion. Through humor, magic, and heartfelt narratives, their work explores themes of identity, community, and queer motherhood. As the creator of Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret, Thomas uses performance as a transformative tool to foster connection and joy. Their playful, thought-provoking artistry invites audiences into whimsical worlds where imagination and social commentary intersect.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Deepe Darknesse (pronounced dee-pee dark-ness-ay) is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers/theater makers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, the performers push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt to become something “better” (a bird?) backfires: the shows’ three worlds tangle into a gordian knot and their climactic moment is overshadowed by the glamourous entrance of underrated 1960s Italian songstress Cocki Mazzetti.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

komainu duet illustrates displacement and belonging through the lens of sisterhood. It follows the journey of an only child seeking direction, guided solely by the presence of a distant sisterly figure. As symbols of sacred ancestry, ‘komainu’ are lion-dog statues found protecting Japanese temples. Though found in pairs, the two are not the same. Unique expressions distinguish them from one another, mirroring the individual experiences of the sisters as they navigate their dual identities as both Japanese and American. This duet abstractly contemplates the responsibilities of daughters, the consequences of fetishization in the West, and the inherent loneliness of womanhood.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. Wanjiru Kamuyu wishes to reflect upon her personal journey as “(im)migrant” while non-linearly interweaving the rich and diverse stories of fellow “(im)migrants” in examining the politics surrounding the notion of privilege within a new societal, political and cultural landscape. Her dance, a migratory map of encounters, and having lived on three different continents – Africa, North America and Europe – has provided Kamuyu the privileged space and time to absorb diverse cultures, aesthetics and worldviews. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of the “(im)migrant” within a new society and cultural constitution; which are influenced by dominant norms, stereotypes and prejudices.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Inspired by the reality of families torn apart by seas, structures, and policies, this new work researches themes of displacement, captivity, separation, and detachment. Titled after the former national bird of the Philippines, Maya investigates the impossibility of physical togetherness, exploring the anguish, longing for community, and instinct for self-preservation that arise in response to this harsh reality.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80