Performance
Heidi Carlsen presents The Empty Pocket, a dance/theater work
Heidi Carlsen presents The Empty Pocket, a dance/theater work
Show Dates + Times:
Friday, 10/2/26 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 10/3/26 @ 7:30pm
** Sunday, 10/4/26 @ 3pm**
Run Time: 60 mintures | No Intermission | Concessions will be serve
*** Advanced Pre purchased tickets, $20. Pre purchased ticket sales end 2 hours prior to top of show ***
The Empty Pocket, created and performed by Heidi Carlsen, tells in movement, heightened imagery and violent poetry, a young girl’s story…a fearsome journey into deep darkness and back. Workshopped in San Francisco, LaMama Theater in New York City, and recently performed at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago for my MFA. Lighting Design by Joyce Liao (NYC). Directorial and Dramaturgical Support from Mary Armentrout, Belinda He, Greta Turken, and SAIC Faculty.
Created & Performed by Heidi Carlsen
Directorial & Dramaturgical Support: Mary Armentrout, Belinda He and Greta Turken
Lighting Designer: Joyce Liao
Dancer Name & Photo Credit: Heidi Carlsen, Photo: Anonymous SAIC Student
Image Description: A person in a black dress with blond hair is holding onto a long horizontal twine above and taking a tentative step. There is a ladder upstage on their right. The light is dark and blue as if the person is undewater.
A Goode Ol’ Hootenanny to Kickoff JGPG’s 40th Anniversary Year
A Goode Ol’ Hootenanny to Kickoff JGPG’s 40th Anniversary Year
Event Date & Time:
Saturday | September 19, 2026
Time: 4pm -6pm
Tickets on sale to the public August 10, 2026
Pull on your boots and gather in the JGPG Annex for a cowboy-themed reception celebrating the Joe Goode Performance Group’s first decade (1986–1996). Together, let’s pay tribute to the years that shaped the company and gave rise to landmark works including 29 Effeminate Gestures, Doris in a Dust Bowl (Disaster Series), and Maverick Strain. Whether you were there from the beginning or are discovering this chapter of JGPG’s history for the first time, join us for an evening of stories, reflection, celebration, and community as we honor the beginnings of JGPG and the legacy of its first decade.
The evening will include hors d’oeuvres, a bar, some songs from Joe and Damara, and a short reading from Joe’s forthcoming book.
** Festive western attire is encouraged **
*** This event kicks-off a year of celebratory activities ***
Host Committee:
Taj Ait-Laoussine, Lynne Blair, Cass Calder Smith, Katie Christ, Christine Elbel, Emily Keeler, Kerry King and John Goodman, David Landis and Sean Dowdall, Kate Mattson and Dan Sweeney, MaryAnn McDonald, Chris Murchison, Ted Russell, Judith Smith, and Basil Twist
Invisible Womb Dance Project LLC presents Invisible Womb: Rebirth
Invisible Womb Dance Project LLC presents Invisible Womb: Rebirth
Show Dates + Times:
10/24/26 | Saturday | 7:30pm
10/25/26 | Sunday | 3:00pm
Run Time: 60 minutes | * Post performance on Sunday only
You may not have the words for it. Your body does.
Invisible Womb: Rebirth is a solo dance-theater performance conceived, choreographed, and performed by Jetaun DeArman — licensed therapist, somatic artist, and dancer with over two decades of performance experience rooted in African diasporic movement traditions including Katherine Dunham technique, West African movement, Contemporary and Liturgical dance.
This performance holds space for what women carry across a lifetime in their bodies: stories that begin before our first period and deepen through every season of our womanhood — through diagnosis, loss, joy, grief, and transformation — into and throughout menopause. Stories that have too often been politicized, medicalized, and weaponized, while the deeper, lived experience beneath them remains invisible. Even to us.
Invisible Womb: Rebirth is an invitation into slow awakening. An unfolding. A turning toward the parts of yourself that have never been given the space or choice to be seen, heard, or gently held.
Within these 60 minutes we do not gaslight our experience. We turn toward ourselves — with acknowledgment, with compassion, and with the tenderness our stories have always deserved.
Sunday’s performance is followed by a facilitated post-show reflection and community dialogue.
*** For more information, go to www.invisiblewomb.com ***
Dancer: Jetaun DeArman, Photographer: Josh Egel
Image Description: Dancer, Jetaun DeArman, is balancing on one foot while extending the other in a high, powerful kick. They wear a flowing nude skirt and are draped in a vibrant red silk sash that sweeps overhead in a dramatic, fluid arc. Warm side-lighting highlights the dancer’s strength and captures a vivid sense of flight and motion.
SF Adavu presents TaKaDhiMi 2026
SF Adavu presents TaKaDhiMi 2026
Show Time + Date:
10/17/26 | Saturday
Time: 6pm
Run Time: 180 mintues | 10 minute intermission | concessions will be served
SF Adavu is a women and BIPOC-led collective bringing Bharatanatyam, the ancient classical dance form of South India, to the Bay Area.
This fall, SF Adavu is proud to premiere TaKaDhiMi, an evening celebrating the richness and diversity of Indian classical and semi-classical dance. The program features a vibrant range of performances spanning Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and semi-classical dance, brought to life by our very own SF Adavu members and other Bay Area artists.
Join us for an evening of rhythm, expression, storytelling, and community as we celebrate these beautiful dance traditions and the local artists who carry them forward.
Run time: Approximately 2 hours
Please visit our website https://sfadavu.com/ for details or contact SF Adavu at [email protected] / @sfadavu on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sfadavu/)
Image Description: 9 dancers, 3 on left, right and centre each, holding a final pose at the end of a performance
Dancer Name & Photo Credit: SF Adavu members, taken by Shrey Butle for All American Awaaz National Championship 2026
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company 53rd Season: Foolish Fires
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
53rd Season: Foolish Fires
Show Times & Dates:
Thursday, 10/8/26 @ 7:30pm
Friday, 10/9/26 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 10/10/26 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 10/11/26 @ 3pm
Thursday, 10/15/26 @ 7:30pm
Friday, 10/16/26 @ 7:30pm
Run Time: 60 minutes w/intermission | No concessions
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC) launches its 53rd season with the world premiere of Foolish Fires, a new work created by Margaret Jenkins in collaboration with the dancers, poet Michael Palmer, visual designer Alexander V. Nichols, and costume designer Mary Domenico.
Foolish Fires takes its title from the will-o’-the-wisp—those mysterious lights said to lure travelers from familiar paths into the unknown. The evening comprises two new works that explore opposing forces: shadow and light, certainty and ambiguity, attraction and resistance. Emerging from a shared conceptual thread, each work inhabits a distinct relationship to the same mystery.
Neither benevolent nor malevolent, the phenomenon depends upon the traveler. Foolish Fires invites audiences into an unfolding landscape where movement, light, language, and sound ignite briefly like sparks before disappearing again at the edge of perception.
Presented in the intimate setting of the Joe Goode Annex, audiences will experience the work in close proximity to the performers, immersed within a visual environment created specifically for the space.
“Ms. Jenkins’ movement is fresh, unduplicated and unimaginable on other bodies… you won’t see them on any other dancers, anywhere else. Such individuality. The through-line among the dancers is a flawless center of gravity and nuanced control.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Collaborators: (bios available at mjdc.org)
Choreographic Direction: Margaret Jenkins
Choreographic & Rehearsal Assistant: Kelly Del Rosario
MJDC Dancer/Collaborators: Allegra Bautista, Raven Bautista, Carro Czechowska, Kelly Del Rosario, Claire Fisher-Mendez, Anna Greenberg, Jonathan Kim, Lainie Pennington, Lu Price
Poet: Michael Palmer
Visual Design: Alexander V. Nichols
Costume Design: Mary Domenico
Image Description: Dancer Kelly Del Rosario leans backwards while holding onto an arm that extends off the edge of the frame, as though someone is holding them up. They are looking behind them and down, at a large expanse of vibrant red.
Bear Graham presents: DANCE LOVERS 14
Bear Graham presents: DANCE LOVERS 14
This performance is sold out. Waitlist begins in person 1/2hr pre-show.
Show Dates:
Thursday, 2/12/26
Friday, 2/13/26
Saturday, 2/14/26
@ 7:30pm nightly
Run Time:
1 hour, 30 minutes | 10 minute intermission | Concessions will be served
DANCE LOVERS 14. Duets by:
Megan & Shannon Kurashige
Teo & Fosse Lin-Bianco
Ryan Rouland Smith & Theresa Knudson
Kira Fargas & Hadassah Perry
Miles Millikan & Bear Graham
DANCE LOVERS is an annual performance event held in San Francisco around Valentine’s Day. Bear Graham produces and curates DANCE LOVERS…duets by couples, crushes, and comrades.
We invite artists with diverse pairings (friends, lovers, family members) to present duets in their unique styles/genres. The event began in 2011 at what was then called Kunst-Stoff Arts, and has been at its current home the Joe Goode Annex since 2014.
Pivot Point Dance Studio presents a showcase TEN//Shift
Pivot Point Dance Company
presents
TEN//SHIFT
Celebrating 10 Years of Dance & Community
@ Joe Goode Annex Theatre | San Francisco
When: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Run Time: ~80 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission
Concessions available | Informal reception to follow
Cozy, informal, and full of heart—TEN//SHIFT invites you to witness the talent, growth, and joy of our Pivot Point dance community as we celebrate 10 years in motion.
With original choreography by Mariia Sotnikova, this showcase features contemporary dance works performed by students of all levels from our Menlo Park, Cupertino, and Pleasanton locations. Whether just starting out or well into their dance journey, each dancer brings their story to the stage.
We invite you to settle in, cheer loud, and enjoy this cozy and informal evening together. Whether you’re a long-time supporter or joining us for the first time, thank you for being a part of our story.
Let’s celebrate the shift. Let’s celebrate the ten.
Design: Olena Kovtash | Photography: Yulia Malyshkina | Model/Dancer: Anna Sotnikova
IG: @pivotpointdc
The Gathering Room Performance Series hosted by JGPG
The Gathering Room Performance Series hosted by Joe Goode Performance Group
@ the Joe Goode Annex
When: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Show Time: 8:00pm
Run Time: 65 minutes | Concessions will be served | Post Performance Q & A to follow
come ready to lounge in your flyest comfy fits and relax into the evening
The Gathering Room Performance Series invites you to witness the talents of artists in an intimate setting. Come support performers who have danced alongside Joe over the past ten years.
Seven artists, each with their unique voice, will share pieces that speak to “their present moment.”
Works By:
Alexandra Mannings
Becca Dean
Brooke Terry
Damara Vita Ganley + Melecio Estrella + Ben Juodvalkis
Jessica Swanson
Pangaea Colter
Patricia West
Wailana Simcock
Sign up for Kitchen Sink: Performance Skills for the End of the World workshop, then stick around for a low-key, high brow show with libations, and learn more about the dancers you have loved over the years.
Photo Description : Dancer, Aja Randall (Africian American), sits with her back to the viewer, arms wide and thrusted back as she gazes up toward the ceiling in a white button up shirt.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeney