Joe Goode Performance Group

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

Joe Goode Performance Group presents: Gush Festival 2026

As we celebrate our 40th year, JGPG is proud to announce the GUSH Dance Festival 2026.

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When
04/23/2026 – 04/26/2026
8:00 PM
Where
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA, United States

GUSH Dance Festival 2026
 @ the Joe Goode Annex

Dates and Times:

Thursday, April 23 | 8pm

Friday, April 24 | 8pm

Saturday, April 25 | 8pm

Sunday, April 26 | 3pm

Run Time: 

1 hour, 30 minutes | 10 minute intermission | Concessions will be served

 

As we celebrate our 40th year, JGPG is proud to announce the GUSH Dance Festival 2026. For this fourth iteration of the festival, Joe Goode gathers long-time artistic collaborators whose creative relationships span more than three decades.

The festival features a reimagining of Joe Goode and Liz Burritt in Doris in a Dust Bowl (1987), along with works by long-time company members Marit Brook-Kothlow, Melecio Estrella, Damara Vita Ganley, Mo Katzman, Wailana Simcock, Jessica Swanson, and Patricia West. GUSH 2026 asks: What endures? What is carried forward? And how might these relationships support the future of dance in the Bay Area?

 

Image Description: A black-and-white promotional image for GUSH Dance Festival 2026 by the Joe Goode Performance Group. Against a dark background with splashing water textures, five vertical portrait panels show dancers in expressive, intimate poses—stretching, wrapped in sheer fabric, arching backward, gesturing mid-thought, and curled inward.

 

I want dancing to be about more than just how beautiful and flexible the body is. I want it to serve a more complex vision of our humanity, that we are flailing and absurd and in the process of decay.

- Joe Goode