October 2024

Check with theaters for performance, dates and times.

Oct. 4, 8:00 pm	SF Dance Film Festival CLOSER THAN YESTERDAY World Premiere screening directed by Bay Area Filmmaker Lisa Le Lievre. Documentary feature film joined by the film’s stars former SF Ballet Principal Dancer Tiit Helimets, SF Ballet dancers Carmela Mayo and Alexis Francisco Valdes, with Q+A moderated by Katja Björner. This screening is a fundraiser for the launch of the SF Dance Film Festival.	LucasArts Premiere Theater, Letterman Digital Arts Center San Francisco
Oct. 4-6	Slack Dance Flowery Language Dance works of existential ennui, moribund malaise, histrionic hors-d'oeuvres, and bourgeois babes. It is a baker's dozen (minus one) of delicious dancing divas engaged in ferocious limb tossing and pathological pathways.	Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 4-12	Flyaway Productions ODE TO JANE (World premiere) Inspired by the covert abortion network named “Jane” that operated in the years before abortion was legalized in 1973. Direction: Jo Kreiter. Choreography: Jo Kreiter in collaboration with the dancers	Cadillac Hotel, 380 Eddy Street, San Francisco
Oct. 4- 20	San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2024 16 programs comprised of feature documentaries, short docs, live performance captures and curated shorts. Filmmaker forums, Q&A with special guests and live performances round out the 15th annual festival. 94 films from 30 countries, including 22 Bay Area films.	Venues: Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, SF Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, SF Delancey Street Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero St, SF LucasFilm Premier Theater, 1 Letterman Drive, SF Streaming on Marquee TV, October 21 – November 4, 2024
Oct. 10, 10:00 pm - Oct 27, 5:59 am	Regard - Live Capture Finalist - Online Share Feature-length presentation of live capture finalist Regard directed by Alyssa Eve Mitchel.	This event is online.
Oct. 10-13	Joe Goode Performance Group The third bi-annual GUSH Festival Premieres of new works by Joe Goode Performance Group in collaboration with Melecio Estrella, along with featuring new works by Molly Katzman, Damara Vita Ganley, and by WITH (Óscar Trujillo, Patricia West, Aja Randall, Frances Sedayao & Damara Vita Ganley).	The Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco
Oct. 11-12, 8:00 pm.	sjDANCEco and San José Chamber Orchestra ELEVATE Choreography by Bay Area and international choreographers: Nhan Ho, Natasha Adorlee, Hsiang Hsiu Lin, Fred Mathews, and Maria Basile	The California Theatre, San Jose
Oct. 11-13	Ecos: AXIS Dance Company 2024 Home Season Features a lineup of three world premieres from award-winning Spanish choreographer Jorge Crecis, celebrated Bay Area artist Dazaun Soleyn, and AXIS Artistic Director Nadia Adame.	ODC Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 11-20	Smuin Contemporary Ballet Dance Series 1 Featuring a World Premiere by Jennifer Archibald, the company premiere of Matthew Neenan's The Last Glass, and the Return of Amy Seiwert's Renaissance.	Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco
Oct 11-20	Dance Mission Theater Raices et Resistance ("Roots and Resistance" World Premiere) Duniya Dance Company, Arenas Dance Company, and Dance Mission Theater's Liberation Academy, co-directed by Cuban choreographer Susana Arenas Pedroso and Guinean musician Bongo Sidibe, explores the relationship between Guinea, West Africa and Cuba.	Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Oct. 11, 7:00 p.m. (pre-show reception at 6:00 p.m.)	ODC/Dance UNPLUGGED With guest choreographer Sidra Bell, an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look into her newest work commissioned for premiere during Dance Downtown, April 10 - 13, 2025.	Studio B at ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco
Oct. 12, 6:00 pm	Dimensions Dance Theatre Premiere of Healing to Joy A new evening-length work by Haitian-American choreographer Laurie Fleurentin and Dimensions Founder Deborah Vaughan October 12 with composer/performer Jeff Pierre and guest spoken-word artist and poet devorah major.	Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland
Oct. 18, 9:00 pm	LINES Ballet on PBS TV LINES Ballet will be featured on PBS's NEXT at The Kennedy Center. The episode weaves together LINES' performance of Alonzo King's Deep River live at the Kennedy Center with intimate off-stage moments.	KQED TV 9
Oct. 18 - 20	Sharp & Fine A Detective Story Featuring five performers and original music live, contemporary dance turns the classic formula of the detective genre inside out, with each character focusing the inspector’s spotlight on themselves.	Z Space, San Francisco
Oct. 19, 6:30 p.m.	Epiphany Dance Theater DANCING WITH MUNI A feature-length film about San Francisco Trolley Dances bookended by live performances and a party, marking the end of Epiphany Dance Theater’s production of the 20-year-old annual event.	The Forum at YBCA, San Francisco
Oct. 21-Nov. 3	San Francisco Dance Film Festival Encore Online Festival Streams select 2024 Festival programs	on Marquee TV
Oct. 27, 2:30 PM	Stanford Live Carnival of the Animals Wendy Whelan, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Francesca Harper. An evening length concert experience with dance, poetry and music, an intentional response to the January 6 insurrection.	Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University