| Upcoming Performance Which Way Do You Face When You Mourn for the Dead?
May 11, 2024 | Saturday at 1PM
Ferry Building Plaza | San Francisco
A Mother’s Day Intervention and Performance by Flyaway Productions
With MegaMouth Rebels for Peace & Justice in Palestine
Featuring guest artists Becca Dean, Clairy Evangelo, Liz Ozol, Meche Perez, Carol Lloyd, Ai Yin Adelski, Helen Wicks, and more…
This is a Free Event open to all; no tickets or reservations required |
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SF Aerial Arts Festival Jane Can You?
Open Rehearsals: June 17-28 | Mon-Fri, 4:30-8PM
Performances: August 17-18 | Sat + Sun, times TBD
Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA |
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Flyaway will be in residence with open rehearsals at one of Fort Mason’s outdoor fire escapes. Flyaway has been commission to create a site-specific dance for the biennial San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival presented by ZACCHO Dance Theatre.
Featuring Dancers: Laura Ellis, Jhia Jackson and natalia shoaf
Music by: Xoa Asa
Tickets and Festival Information coming soon at ZACCHO Dance Theatre |
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| There are a few spots left for GIRLS and GNC youth age 14-19 in this paid summer job Apply to GIRLFLY 2024!
In 2024, GIRLFLY will return to the Tenderloin and CounterPulse in San Francisco, where we’ll explore the intersections between gender justice and living unhoused. The curriculum will combine aerial dance making via suspended steel beds and performance with an activist curriculum that explores current solutions to housing shortages. For this year’s program we will create aerial dances in a professional studio theater. We will also create a cooperative writing project—a recipe book for housing solutions. No prior arts experience is required. Plus, Earn $500!
Program Dates: July 1-25, 2024 Mondays - Thurs, 10:00AM -3:00PM2 Performances: July 24 and 25, 2024 Shows are at 7PM Location: CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA
GIRLFLY welcomes interns Ai Yin Adelski and Ella Banchiere to the 2024 program! |
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Jo Kreiter in IN DANCE My Father’s Swimming Pool
"People describe swimming and tennis as lifelong sports. I think of contact improvisation this way as well. Maybe not so much the sports part, as CI lives in my body as an artistic practice. But its physicality will, I hope, ease me down the elders’ road in my next few decades." |
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| San Francisco International Arts Festival
May 1-12 Multiple Dates/Times and Locations SFIAF presents the work of innovative artists from the Bay Area and around the world; many of the international artists make their US debut at the Festival. From 2003-23, SFIAF and more than 100 presenting partners have coordinated, presented and/or produced performances by over 600 arts ensembles from United States and 60 other countries, and presented hundreds of educational and community engagement activities with diverse communities.
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| Zaccho Dance Theatre The People’s Palace
May 9, 10, & 12 Thu/Fri/Sun | 8-10:30PM (30min cylcles)
San Francisco City Hall 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco Aerialists and performers will interact with the architecture and large scale projections, transforming Beaux-Arts Roman and Greek iconographyinto new, more inclusive narratives that more accurately reflect San Francisco’s diverse and dynamic cultures and community. Through performance, music, storytelling, and immersive technologies, The People’s Palace invites the audience to actively engage these new narratives, to see themselves within the broader context of the city, and to appreciate the richness of diverse perspectives. |
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| Megan Lowe Dances Just a Shadow
May 31 - June 9 Fri/Sat/Sun at 7:30pm
Joe Goode Annex 401 Alabama Street, San Francisco A performance journey in service to artists who have lost loved ones prematurely. This project aspires to nourish the soul, support healing, acknowledge resilience, celebrate life, and honor the memories of loved ones. Through dance performance, MLD aims to provide a platform for catharsis, empathy, and collective understanding, fostering connections that transcend individual stories and unite us in a shared journey toward solace and healing.
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