This year, RAWdance celebrates 20 years of dancing, performances, and pushing boundaries! We’ll be celebrating 20’s style, with a 1920s speakeasy theme (and a 2020s edge) for our 20th Anniversary Benefit & Celebration. Glam it up for a night two decades in the making, featuring live performance by the company, flowing drinks and hors d’oeuvres, prizes, a dance party, and new surprises. The benefit takes place in the picturesque Green Room in the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. All are invited to join us in commemorating this truly special occasion and help usher RAWdance into our next decade. Proceeds directly support RAWdance’s artists and programming.

She Kills Monsters is a play about a grieving young woman who embarks on a journey into the unknown world of Dungeons and Dragons to understand the little sister she never truly knew. This production will be part of San Francisco State School of Theatre & Dance’s Spring 2024 season. Here at the School of Theatre & Dance we not only offer education, but a sense of belonging, community, and friendship -- qualities which we think this play also has to offer the world. At the heart of She Kills Monsters is a story about family, identity, and finding escape from the harsh realities of the real world. Our hope is to highlight these themes by focusing on the elements and possibilities that the Dungeons & Dragons world provides. There will be puppetry and epic battles, humor and joy, alongside the thrilling and darker elements that the play has to offer.

Witness Capoeira’s spellbinding ritual unfold as Mestra Cigarra shares her pathbreaking ascent through the art’s male-dominated ranks, and the stories of those who’ve inherited her legacy, through dance, film, and martial arts. See guest artists from Brazil, and the ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco Performance Company embody her lineage through Capoeira and the traditional music and dances of maculelê, jongo, and samba de roda.

She Kills Monsters is a play about a grieving young woman who embarks on a journey into the unknown world of Dungeons and Dragons to understand the little sister she never truly knew. This production will be part of San Francisco State School of Theatre & Dance’s Spring 2024 season. Here at the School of Theatre & Dance we not only offer education, but a sense of belonging, community, and friendship -- qualities which we think this play also has to offer the world. At the heart of She Kills Monsters is a story about family, identity, and finding escape from the harsh realities of the real world. Our hope is to highlight these themes by focusing on the elements and possibilities that the Dungeons & Dragons world provides. There will be puppetry and epic battles, humor and joy, alongside the thrilling and darker elements that the play has to offer.

Smuin’s season finale will be headlined by the World Premiere of Tupelo Tornado from international superstar Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. This extraordinary new ballet inspired by the life and music of Elvis is her first creation for Smuin. Also on the bill is Smuin Associate Artistic Director Amy Seiwert’s Broken Open, set to a lush score from renowned cellist and composer Julia Kent.Kent, who creates music using looped cello, found sounds, and electronics, will perform live at opening weekend performances of “Dance Series 2” in San Francisco. Closing the bill is Smuin dancer Brennan Wall’s vivid and complex Untwine for four couples, set to Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” reinterpreted by Max Richter; and Michael Smuin’s dreamy Starshadows, an evocative adagio for three couples exploring the mystery and beauty of intimate relationships.

Lustig LIVE! is set to ignite the stage with a thrilling fusion of classical elegance and rock 'n' roll energy! Led by the visionary direction of OBC artistic director, Graham Lustig, this dynamic performance promises an unforgettable journey through a kaleidoscope of musical brilliance. From the graceful elegance of Bach to the rebellious spirit of Elvis, Lustig LIVE! presents an electrifying spectacle, seamlessly blending live music and dance. So don't miss your chance to be part of this exhilarating musical journey!