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Krissy Keefer’s Dance Brigade presents
A Woman’s Song for Peace Holly Near, Ferron & Dance Brigade with Christelle Durandy and Jan Martinelli, Tammy Lynne Hall, Michaelle Goerlitz, Shelley Jennings
January 9-19, 2025
West Coast Tour OR: Eugene (Jan 9), Portland (Jan 10), Medford (Jan 12) CA: Ukiah (Jan 15), Santa Rosa (Jan 17), Aptos (Jan 18), SF (Jan 19)
Dance Brigade kicks off its 50th Anniversary Celebration Season with a new dance theater work featuring original live music and performances by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade’s fierce, nuanced choreography.
Dance Mission Theater presents Arenas Dance Company and Duniya Dance and Drum Company in Raíces et Résistance Oct 11-20, 2024 at Dance Mission
Raíces et Résistanceexplores the vibrant, layered, and largely unknown social-political relationship between Guinea, West Africa and Cuba, forged by the transatlantic slave trade as well as the post-colonial cultural exchange that began in the 60s. Bringing together their cultural expertises, their passion, their senses of joy and justice, Pedroso and Sidibe have created a unique performance built on storytelling and cultural collaboration. “Raices et Résistance” embodies the past as well as the present, a story of Black people defining themselves through dance and music, during and after the traumas of slavery and colonization.
Dance Mission Theater presents Adia Tamar Whitaker’s Following the Road to Ose Tura
Aug 15-18, 2024
A ritual dance theater performance experience featuring the work of Adia Tamar Whitaker, Àṣẹ Dance Theater, and Efeya Sampson at varios locations throughout San Francisco.
Join Dance Brigade for a a fractured fairytale about class struggle. Match Girrl is a deep, heartening, and even humorous reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Little Match Girl. Set in a contemporary urban setting, director Krissy Keefer uses dance, theater, and original writings to explore the “doom loop” of our beloved San Francisco.
D.I.R.T. Festival – Dance In Revolt(ing) Times 2023: Citizen SUPREME
April 15-23, 2023
The D.I.R.T. Festival, or Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, is a social political dance festival presenting artists whose work explicitly addresses local/global challenges through their creative process. Citizen SUPREME is an urgent response to the recent supreme court decisions that have seemingly stripped away freedoms and pushed progress back decades, including but not limited to those surrounding ROE and reproductive justice, gun control, and the attack on the Environmental Protection Agency.
Liberation Academy A free series of round table discussions, music & dance workshops, and films for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) dedicated to freedom (presented in a virtual and hybrid format). Jan-June 2022 PRESS RELEASE Director bios Director photos (for press)
Butterfly Effect Dance Brigade’s latest site-specific work on climate crisis At Dance Mission Theater January 24 – February 9, 2020 PRESS RELEASE –Word Doc
Match Girrl (Jan 2026) Black Choreograpbers Festival (Feb 2026) Soul Stories (March 2026) Lenora Lee Dance (April 2026) Sean Dorsey Dance (April 2026) Pulp Dance Company (May 2026)
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Executive Director Krissy Keefer and Program Director Stella Adelman are honored at the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards
Guaranteed Income Program (a project of YBCA with Dance Mission, SF BATCO, Galeria de la Raza, Chinese Cultural Center, Transgender District, Black Freighter Press) featured in KQED 60 More San Francisco Artists Receive Guaranteed Income Payments Nastia Voynovskaya, June 28, 2022
Dance Mission’s Managing Director, Stella Adelman, featured in the SF Examiner SF Lives: A dancer on a mission By Denise Sullivan, SF Examiner: October 27, 2019 _
Krissy Keefer and Stella Adelman Talk About the Intersection of Art and Politics The Beat of 24th and Mission By Christine Joy Ferrer, Race, Poverty & the Environment : August, 2015 _
