Joe Goode Performance Group

Promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater

Heidi Carlsen presents The Empty Pocket, a dance/theater work

The Empty Pocket, created and performed by Heidi Carlsen, is a surreal voyage of a woman and a heirloom peacoat. Through movement, imagery and confronting poetry, a heightened tale is told. By shifting perspectives, crossing the line, and going against the odds, can the silence that binds us be broken?

Margaret Jenkins Dance Company 53rd Season: Foolish Fires

Foolish Fires takes its title from the will-o’-the-wisp—those mysterious lights said to lure travelers from familiar paths into the unknown.

SF Adavu presents TaKaDhiMi 2026

SF Adavu’s first annual flagship event, bringing together dancers, artists and the wider Bay Area community for an evening of Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and more

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I never understood why the dancer should be mute—a dumb rule in my book. I also do not view dance as separate from theater. I am interested in the performative moment as a moment of revelation, of intimacy. whatever can bring me there is fair game.

- Joe Goode