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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
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 _