Events & Performances

Upcoming Events

Student Showcases

  • July 5 and 6, 2013 (Sessions 1 & 2)

    70 talented young dancers ages 14-23, selected by audition from around the U.S. to attend the Conservatory’s summer intensive program will perform a variety of set repertory and original works, including original choreography by Alessio Silvestrin, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, and Malinda LaVelle, as well as repertory of Robert Moses (staged by Tristan Ching).

  • August 2 and 3, 2013 (Session 3)

    100 talented young dancers ages 14-23, selected by audition from around the U.S. to attend the Conservatory’s summer intensive program, will perform a variety works, including set pieces from the repertory of Ohad Naharin (staged by Bobbi Smith) and Robert Moses (staged by Tristan Ching), as well as original choreography by Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, and Malinda LaVelle.



Recent Past Events


SFCD Student Showcases at SFCD

15 advanced students gave an informal performance of their work from the fall semester.



Gaga Master Classes

A series of three master classes were taught by former Batsheva dancer Danielle Agami (currently artistic director of the dance company Ate9) during October, 2012.



Student Showcases at Z Space (formerly Theater Artaud)

  • July 6 and 7, 2012 (Sessions 1 & 2)

    70 talented young dancers ages 14-23, selected by audition from around the U.S. to attend the Conservatory’s summer intensive program performed a variety of set repertory and original works, including original choreography by Alessio Silvestrin, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, and Malinda LaVelle, as well as repertory of Robert Moses (staged by Tristan Ching).

  • August 3 and 4, 2012 (Session 3)

    100 talented young dancers ages 14-23, selected by audition from around the U.S. to attend the Conservatory’s summer intensive program, performed a variety works, including set pieces from the repertory of Ohad Naharin (staged by Bobbi Smith) and Robert Moses (staged by Tristan Ching), as well as original choreography by Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, and Malinda LaVelle.



SFCD 2012 Summer Dance Series

SFCD presented the following dance companies/dancers at Z Space (formerly Theater Artaud):

  • Sharp & Fine, July 2
  • burns-work and Joy Prendergast, July 3
  • Sharp & Fine and Joy Prendergast, July 30
  • Project Thrust, July 31
  • The Foundry and Bobbi Jene Smith, August 1



Gaga Classes

As the official West Coast Home of Gaga, SFCD hosted the following:

  • 6 master classes conducted by Batsheva dancer Bobbi Jene Smith during July, 2012
  • 10 master classes conducted by former Batsheva dancer Tom Weinberger during March, 2012
  • 7 Gaga classes, 1 Batsheva Repertory class and two open Q&A Sessions on both Gaga and Batsheva Dance Company conducted by company members Bobbi Jean Smith, Doug Letheren, and Rachel Osborne during the company's February 2012 performance run at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts



SFIAF/SFCD Workshops, May 1-21, 2012

In association with the San Francisco International Arts Festival, SFCD hosted workshops conducted by the following dance companies:

  • Liquid Theater (Moscow, Russia)
  • AXIS Dance Company (Oakland, California, USA)
  • Mansaku-no Kai (Japan)
  • inkBoat (San Francisco, California, USA)
  • Post:Ballet (San Francisco, California, USA)
  • Cid Pearlman Performance Project (Santa Cruz, California, USA & Estonia)
  • Cie 7273 (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Susanna Leinonen Company (Helsinki, Finland)
  • Dance Elixir (Oakland, California, USA)



Innovative International Dance Films, April 2012

In celebration of Bay Area Dance Week, the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance presented a program of provocative dance films curated by Charlotte Shoemaker. Showcasing some of the best dance created both for and from the camera, this varied program included films from New Zealand, Denmark, Italy, France, the Netherlands, UK, and US.

The program—which included the films listed below—featured a rich kaleidoscope of human behavior,
expressed through the combination of compelling dance and the skillful use of camera, editing, and sound to
create unique works of cinematic art.

île 2 [Island 2] (Italy/France, 5 min. directed by Simona da Pozzo) is a subtle, hypnotic duet of two men, each constrained in their own circumscribed space, but nevertheless playing off each other.

Break (New Zealand, 14 min. directed and choreographed by Shona McCullagh) A woman makes the painful decision to leave her son and partner. The camera intensifies their dance and articulates their separation.

Little Lieutenant (USA, 7 min. directed by Henry Hills and choreographed by Sally Silvers) is made from the viewpoint of an experimental filmmaker. This unique cabaret of dance, archival footage, and cartoons moves to the music of Kurt Weill and John Zorn.

Exit (UK, 9 min. directed by Clara van Gool and choreographed by Jamie Watton) takes place in a pedestrian tunnel under the Thames where people sheltered during the WWII bombing raids. Time becomes fluid, whirling the performers through the tunnel and across the boundary between then and now.

Mänsklist Mönster [Human Patterns] (Denmark, 11 min. choreographed and directed by Klara Elenius) is a fraught visit between two young women, their idiosyncratic natures reverberating with the power lines outside and revealing the eccentricities and fears that we usually hide from ourselves and others.

Reservaat [a preserved wild space] (Netherlands, 9 min. directed by Clara van Gool) Embedded in a brooding woodland, two women dance a tango in which they become an intense and mysterious four legged furry being.

Höhenluft [Mountain Air] (Netherlands, 25 min. directed by Annick Vroom and choreographed and danced by the Hans Hof Ensemble) Waltzing, coughing, flirting, joking, and breathing fresh air in a Swiss tuberculosis sanitarium of the 1920's. This colorful and sober short has the lush production values of a feature film.


For more information contact Megan Kurashige,
Email: Megan@SFconservatoryofDance.org
Telephone: 415-640-7009