Risa Jaroslow’s lush choreography and stunning visual landscapes are alive with compassion and humor. Jaroslow examines the questions at the core of human experience, threading the answers through choreography that is at once earthy and soaring, transcendent and rooted in the everyday. Communities emerge and dissolve and a simple gesture blooms into a magnificent metaphor. […]
SambaFunk! is a collective of dancers, musicians, artists and community members, bringing to life the essence of Carnaval in our work. Through African Diaspora infused artistic techniques, they provide opportunities for dancers to grow, become in touch with themselves and learn the core elements of Brazilian dance.
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) engages artists and audiences through live theatre productions, creative development and community service initiatives that resonate with San Francisco Bay Area perspectives. The organization provides a platform for People of the Global Majority and inspires both new audiences and theatre innovators.
San Francisco Recovery Theatre meets people where they are, providing a medium of communication and delivering a message of hope, consequence and solutions.
Shakespeare-San Francisco believes that Shakespeare experienced in a communal setting–whether it be outdoors, in a classroom or in a theater–elates the soul, inspires the mind and unifies those who sit beside each other. For the majority of their audiences, they are the first point of contact with Shakespeare and the performing arts. Their programming represents […]
Sharp & Fine creates devised dance theater performances that use storytelling to provoke empathy and instigate transformation. Their work combines exuberant choreography, physical rigor, original text, live music and surreal imagery that ignites the imagination and frees the audience to discover their own meaning.
Shipyard Trust for the Arts’ mission revolves around the large and diverse community of visual artists, musicians and writers who have been working in studios at the historic Hunters Point Shipyard for more than 30 years. Keeping the studios affordable, facilitating arts education and exhibitions that involve people from their surrounding Bayview Hunters Point community […]
Shruti Abhishek is an Indian dancer, choreographer and teacher practicing Bharatanatyam. Through her continued practice and study, Shruti continues learning the multiple layers that inhabit Bharatanatyam. A dance form from the south of India, Bharatanatyam is an appropriated art form that was traditionally practiced by the courtesan/hereditary community.
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous and people of the global majority, and queer, trans and nonbinary disabled people.
Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit performance artist of Tzotzil of Simojovel, Yaqui of Sonora, and of Raramuri of Chihuahua heritage. In her career she’s a professional dancer, drag performer/event host, entrepreneur and filmmaker. She produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social and cultural activism.
