The Joe Goode Performance Group promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater, as interpreted by the artistic vision and work of Joe Goode.

In 1979, Goode began synthesizing a genre of dance theater that combined text, gestures, and humor with his own deeply physical, high velocity dancing. In 1986, Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) incorporated as a non-profit organization with the mission of providing a support structure for the artistic work of Joe Goode. Over the past twenty years the company has performed annually in the San Francisco Bay Area and has toured extensively throughout the U.S. JGPG has appeared in Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa, including the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater, September 1999.

GRANTS AWARDED

In 2010, the Foundation supported The Rambler, a new collaboration of dance theater with world-renowned designer and puppeteer Basil Twist about a restless, peripatetic soul who can’t stay put.