What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives. [ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

What does belonging mean in a family line? [ ] is a corporeal-sonic exploration into the untold histories of our femme ancestors co-created by choreographer Adrienne Westwood and composer Angélica Negrón, along with an interdisciplinary group of performers and creatives. [ ] is a dual experience of intimate performance and participatory installation. The work is anchored by an interactive musical sculpture from which “memories”– a collection of simple yet evocative objects – are suspended. [ ] calls in and holds experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “What is long ago but still right now?”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio description provided by Gravity Access Services
Haptic tour begins at 6:50 PM
Audio described performance begins at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $0 - $80

Singh's Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink merges dance, poetry, and live music to chronicle the Bay Area's Ghadar Party, a revolutionary force in India's fight for independence from British rule. Rooted in Bhangra and Giddha, traditional Punjabi dances embodying both celebration and resistance, Singh intertwines her diverse dance vocabulary to describe the enduring legacy of anti-colonial struggles. Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink serves as a bridge connecting generations through the rhythm of struggle and the enduring quest for liberation, revealing the living connections that bind our history to the present.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpreation

Tickets: Free, registration required

Box Office: EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF, 11-5pm at 510-533-6629

HotHouse is a commentary on confinement and an exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the greater systemic failures of America. In this evening-length duet, props and clothing are suspended inside of a plastic arena. The enclosed environment serves as an adaptable canvas, transforming into a medical isolation unit, a slaughterhouse, a prison cell, a church. As the narrative unfolds, audiences are witness to the trauma of isolation and the myth of White Jesus.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.”

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80

Towards Opulence, the Opera is part of an ongoing act of creative resistance and imaginative reclamation. Skywatchers believe that Tenderloin residents, and other marginalized people, are the truth tellers of our society, akin to the mythical Cassandras. By breathing life into often overlooked or discredited truths, we remember our interdependence and expose the roots of power and oppression. Towards Opulence invites us to conjure and claim our most audacious and glorious selves and step into a future where we truly belong to each other.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation offered on Saturday, Feb 8 only.

Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tours by Gravity Access Services for visually-impaired audience members on Sunday, Feb 9 only. Haptic tour begins at 2 pm.

Haptic Tour and audio description headset reservations: To reserve a headset for audio description, please select RSVP w/ Audio Description Headset Reservation on Eventbrite. Or call the EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF 11-5 pm - 510-533-6629.

Tickets: Free. Registration required.

Dang, dating sure is hard these days. But don’t worry, this show will flirt its way into your heart and hit like a one night stand! A hot and loaded experience brings the new age of dating to life onstage. Opposites who attract, David and Jenny answer the NY Times “36 Questions That Lead to Love.” From the writer who is adapting 'Crazy Rich Asians' into a musical, comes this exploration of technology and intimacy in our modern world.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $40 ($15 Community Tickets with code 'COMMUNITY'; ASL BoGo Tickets, contact Box Office)

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

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ODC/Dance returns to the stage with the 38th 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 is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $30-$125
Get 10% off orders of 6+ tickets with code ODC10 at checkout.

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

Click here for more information.

In the wake of Jess Curtis transition, we present Beyond Gravity, new live works developed by artists Jess chose to fiscally sponsor and mentor over the last few years of his life. Beyond Gravity features two programs: Program A, with Aiano Nakagawa and Gabriele Christian and Program B, Abby Crain and Rachael Dichter, all evaluating the fragile terms of our relationships with lovers, family members, and intimate friends through stage. 

Program A: Aiano Nakagawa + Gabriele Christian
Program B: Rachael Dichter + Abby Crain

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Stephanie Hewett of Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour begins at 7:30 PM
ASL Interpretation provided by Debby Kajiyama.

Tickets: $20 - $40 NOFLOF

To learn more click here.

In the wake of Jess Curtis transition, we present Beyond Gravity, new live works developed by artists Jess chose to fiscally sponsor and mentor over the last few years of his life. Beyond Gravity features two programs: Program A, with Aiano Nakagawa and Gabriele Christian and Program B, Abby Crain and Rachael Dichter, all evaluating the fragile terms of our relationships with lovers, family members, and intimate friends through stage. 

Program A: Aiano Nakagawa + Gabriele Christian
Program B: Rachael Dichter + Abby Crain

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Stephanie Hewett of Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour begins at 7:30 PM
ASL Interpretation provided by Debby Kajiyama.

Tickets: $20 - $40 NOFLOF

To learn more click here.

The first series of SMUIN's 24/25 Season – Never Standing Still – Dance Series 1 includes 3 ballets: one World Premiere, one Company premiere, and one revival.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation (Contact Annika Presley apresley@smuinballet.org for questions)

Tickets: $25-$89, Use Code SMUIN25 to get 25% off

Call Smuin’s Box Office at 415-912-1899, email boxoffice@smuinballet.org, or visit Smuin Ballet’s event page.

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Nominated for four Tony-Awards including Best Play, and winner of two including best vocal arrangements, 'Choir Boy' is a coming-of-age story with compelling music, traditional African American spirituals set to step choreography.
This is not a coming-out story. It's a story about the power of self-love.

“In his stirring and stylishly told drama, Tarell Alvin McCraney cannily explores race and sexuality and the graces and gravity of history.” - NY Daily News

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $30 - $32;
Community Tickets available for $15 with code "Community"

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The enigmatic Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his fabled factory…but only to a lucky few. Impoverished young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s off-kilter world that includes chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels, and of course Wonka’s crew of mischievous Oompa-Loompas.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Relaxed performance

Tickets: $35 - $60

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Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the influences of the individual choreographers have all left traces on her movement.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

nefesh brings the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by anti-semitism and Zionism to imagine Jewish futures. nefesh invites audiences to inhabit the very fleshy experience of being, and at times the breath and vitality of being itself, as ahuvia corporealizes Ashkenazi chant and wordless melodies, and considers the power of each utterance to create material reality.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

This performance is an exploration of transcendental love and nurturing; a physical landscape of sensations which exceed time, understanding, and material reality, but are nevertheless real—inexplicably felt, palpably moving, and ever enduring. This dance work studies intimacy as an ethereal entity—an intangible, binding force between two bodies coaxing softness, tenderness, and flexibility. While hardness and strength are often championed, this work suggests pliancy and weakness as expressions of the freshness of being.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

Interdisciplinary Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña has a long-standing history of collaborating with dancers and choreographers including La Ribot (Spain), Marecela Levi (Brazil), Sara Shelton Mann (San Francisco), and Michelle Ceballos (Colombia). These experimental collaborations explore the interactions and tensions between contemporary dance and performance art; young and aging bodies. Spoken Choreographies is a collaboration between Gómez-Peña and Mexican choreographer and dancer Pita Zapot to continue to explore this realm.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

For A Moment/No Longer (working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. breaking open and re-assembling. about turning towards each other, the necessity of heartbreak, and trusting the pulse as a rhythm to follow home. For A Moment/No Longer studies the physicality of moving from the heartbeat as resist/persist-ence practice through the act of breaking open.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

Bryan Arias’ The Broken Glass premiered during SFDanceworks’ 6th season (2023). Delving into themes of resilience, fragility, and redemption, The Broken Glass offers audiences a profound exploration of the human condition. Through contemporary dance styles and abstract narratives, personal stories of family and roots are intricately woven. From the vibrant rhythms of Arias’ Puerto Rican heritage to the poignant journey of overcoming illness, each narrative thread adds depth and richness to the tapestry of the work.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

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Chimera explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior, relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language that combines care, wildness, intimacy, and enthusiasm, and centers on a duet between two men. The use of video design describes the often unseen implications of how relationships reveal hidden aspects of one’s own identity.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

A Story of Tides is an improvised duet between Brenton Cheng and Mihyun Lee about the forces around us, the choices we make, and the responsibilities we carry. Two people meet in a broken land. Their trajectories are deflected by what’s around them, by each other, gravity, sound, and their own impulses. Each movement determines the next. In the cycles of coming and going, appearing and disappearing, what stays the same? What cannot be undone?

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

Allí 0 Allá (There 0 There)– is an archival pursuit and reclamatory study of diasporic bodies, the inquiry into how to define “home” and “motherland.” Through the poetic language of movement, evocative soundscapes, and immersive theatrics, Natalya Shoaf, Chinchin Hsu, Bria Monet Barfield, and Brianna Elyse Torres narrate a journey rooted in culture, community and heart.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience the newly premiered and critically acclaimed A Brief History of Up and Down by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, ODC/Dance Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada’s intimate and provocative Two if by Sea, as well as 10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making by guest choreographer Catherine Galasso.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Live ASL interpretation.

Tickets: $29 - $104
Group Sales: 10% off orders of 6+ tickets with code ODC10 at checkout.
For groups of 12+ please contact the box office for discounted tickets.

For tickets, box office, and more information click here.

Set against the backdrop of a 1960s America i, a progressive young priest’s conduct comes under question by the school principal whose beliefs are deeply rooted in tradition. As the actions and motivations of each are scrutinized and suspicion mounts, the two are drawn into a battle of wills that threatens irrevocable consequences for all involved.

This venue is not ADA accessible but has accommodated all types of mobility assists and service animals. There are a dozen accessible seats reserved. Please contact Kari (310-420-1826) to reserve an accessible seat and/or to communicate any access needs. More information is also available on the website.

Live Audio Description and Haptic Access by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic access tour begins at 1 PM, performance at 2 PM.

Tickets: Adult $35, Seniors $33, Students with ID $15

For tickets, box office, and more information click here.