An adjunct of UC Berkeley, Cal Performances offers a smattering of everything: dance, music and drama. In the former category, it regularly presents companies from around the...

This unique company fuses modern dance with original prop designs and interactive media to produce science-themed performances, with subjects ranging from the origin of the...

In 2005, 848 Community Space, the tiny but prolific breeding ground for improvisational and cutting-edge dance and performance throughout most of the 1990s, moved to this newly...

Dancer and choreographer Erika Shuch's ESP Project is, along with artists like Deborah Slater and Jess Curtis, at the forefront of a strong dance-theatre movement in the Bay...

Not far from the established modern dance centre at ODC is this eclectic mix of emerging and seasoned dancers and choreographers operating under the Footloose banner. The...

The JGPG has pushed modern dance to new theatrical heights, pursuing with gusto its founder's mission to explore contemporary issues, from gender to AIDS. The company also...

Founded in 1971, the Oberlin Dance Collective has garnered an international reputation for its physically and intellectually vigorous modern dance. It has its own school,...

Founded in 1933, the San Francisco Ballet is the longest-running professional ballet company in the US. In 1939, it presented the first full-length US production of Coppélia,...

The sudden death of dancer and choreographer Michael Smuin in 2007 left many wondering if the company he founded in 1994 would carry on, but carry on it did, to the continuing...