SEPT
9: WOMEN’S WORK SERIES
This week the bi-monthly showcase presents the HeartRhythms
Drum Choir with Congolese dancers.
Sept. 9, 8pm, Venue 9, 252 Ninth St., San Francisco,
(415) 289-2000, www.venue9.com.
SEPT 12-13: FAT CHANCE BELLY DANCE
”Musette Arabe,” American Tribal Style belly dance set
to traditional Middle Eastern song and contemporary
world fusion music, performed live by Helm and percussionist
Tobias Roberson.
Sept. 12-13, 8pm, Sept. 13, 2:30pm, Magic Theater, Fort
Mason Bldg. D, Buchanan and Marina Streets, San Francisco,
(415) 431-4322, www.fcbd.com.
SEPT 12-13: HUCKABAY MCALLISTER DANCE
Emma Lou Huckabay and Jenny McAllister make a quirky
choreographic pair. ”Tending to Mortal Needs,” an eclectic
program of sensual, quirky, and humorous modern dances
presents four premieres and three repertory works.
Sept. 12-13, 8pm, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center,
Marina and Buchanan St., San Francisco, (415) 345-7575,
www.hmdance.org.
SEPT 12-14: ELVEL AND AL-CHUREK
Folk dancers, musicians and shaman elders of Central
Asia perform centuries-old rituals in “Ancestors of
Siberia,” part of the SF World Music Festival.
Sept. 12, 8pm, Sept. 14, 3pm, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts Theater, 700 Howard St., San Francisco, (415)
978-2782, www.sfworldmusicfestival.org.
SEPT 12-14: FACING EAST DANCE AND MUSIC
Premiering Sue Li-Jue’s “Held So Close,” a multi-media
dance work exploring the Angel Island detention of Chinese
Americans.
Sept. 12-13, and 20, 8pm, Sept. 14 and 21, 2pm, McKenna
Theater, SFSU, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, (415)
338-2467, www.fedm.org.
SEPT 12-14: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
A world premiere set to Bartok; Morris’s recently premiered
solo to music by Lou Harrison; “Going Away Party,” set
to Bob Willis and his Texas Playboys;” and “Grand Duo.”
Sept. 12-13, 8pm, Sept. 14, 3pm, Zellerbach Hall, Bancroft
Way at Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, (510) 642-9988, www.calperfs.berkeley.edu.
SEPT 12-14: MARY CARBONARA DANCES
This very promising young company, led by a veteran
performer of the SF scene, presents a second annual
season, “Children’s Stories,” with live music by Carbonara’s
longtime collaborator Peter V. Swendsen. Margaret Jenkins
Dance Company member Heidi Schweiker contributes a work.
Sept. 12-13, 8pm, Sept. 14, 7pm, Dance Mission, 3316
24th St. (at Mission), San Francisco, (415) 273-4633.
SEPT 12-14: OAKLAND BALLET
Oakland Ballet has begun a profound transformation in
recent years, which makes every program a cliffhanger.
Artistic director Karen Brown opens her third season
at the helm with the world premiere of Michael Lowe’s
“Double Happiness,” featuring the same live musicians,
Melody of China, that helped make his “Bamboo” such
a success. Also on the program: the company premiere
of Robert Garland’s “Joplin Dances,” and works by Balanchine
and Francesca Harper.
Sept. 12-13, 8pm, Sept. 14, 2pm, Paramount Theater,
2025 Broadway, Oakland, (510) 625-8497, www.oaklandballet.org.
SEPT 13: WILL POWER
The Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival, the San Francisco
International Arts Festival, and AfroSolo come together
to premiere “Flow,” a tale of seven storytellers surviving
a world of urban pitfalls. Robert Moses choreographs,
Danny Hoch, and DJ Reborn provides the music.
Sept. 13, 8pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission St., San Francisco, (415) 978-2787, www.yerbabuenaarts.org.
SEPT 14: HIP HOP THEATER JUNCTION
The Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival presents “Rhyme-Deferred,”
a modern day spin on the story of Cain and Abel directed
by Kamilah Forbes.
Sept. 14, 8pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,
701 Mission St., San Francisco, (415) 978-2787, www.yerbabuenaarts.org.
—Rachel
Howard
Calendar
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