Z Space

SFDanceworks Season 9

November 4 -7
on Z Space’s Steindler Stage

SFDanceworks returns to Z Space for its 9th season with a boldly curated program that brings together seminal modern-dance lineage, distinctly contemporary voices, and the collaborative energy of artists working at the edge of the form. Season 9 highlights artistic collaborators who have made an impact on the organization while bringing in new voices.

Ramping up for their 10th anniversary season, the program features a Merce Cunningham solo performed by San Francisco Ballet Principal dancer, Joseph Walsh, connecting the program to one of the most influential movement legacies of the twentieth century. Alongside it, two world premieres, Jermaine Maurice Spivey presents a group work for five dancers, and longtime SFDanceworks artistic collaborator Brett Conway contributes a work for three performers.

SFDanceworks will remount Yin’s A Measurable Existence, a duet originally created for two men. This season it will be performed on two casts. The dancers include Sarah Chou and Lani Yamanaka, Isaac Bates-Vinueza and Nat Wilson. 

Together, the works create a program shaped by lineage, risk, intimacy, and exchange—an expression of SFDanceworks’ continuing role as an incubator for contemporary dance and a springboard toward the company’s tenth anniversary season. Join us for four evenings of contemporary dance at Z Space, where established voices and emerging perspectives meet to shape the future of the form.

Image Credits: Robbie Sweeny
Poster image and two blue tone images:

Sarah Chou and Emily Hansel in JA Collective’s Everything Happens Later, SFDanceworks Season 8

Nat Wilson and Ja’Moon Jones in Yue Yin’s A Measurable Existence, SFDanceworks Season 8 and Season 9