Dance entertainment in San Francisco
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Lusty Lady
It’s owned by women, the strippers are unionized, and it operates like an old-fashioned peep show. Drop quarters into a slot in a private booth, and a nekkid woman dances behind glass till your quarters run out.
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Savage Jazz
A bit like the Smuin Ballet, Savage Jazz performs ballet to nontraditional music. Like jazz itself, the dancing is often explosively athletic, energetic, almost, well, savage. All the traditional jazz greats are given their due using a combination of classical vocabulary, modern dance, jazz dance and improvisation, reflecting the rich and varied textures and moods that are the hallmarks of jazz music.
There are two regular home seasons in Oakland and San Francisco when the company is not touring.
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Herbst Theater
The UN Charter was signed here in 1945, and the luminaries keep on coming with music and dance performances, and the city's stellar City Arts & Lectures series. Aimee Mann, Philip Glass and other guests have to really put on a show to not be upstaged by the splendid beaux arts murals. The theater hosts jazz and classical voice and instrumental soloists, duos and quartets in its Piano Series, Guitar Series and Virtuosi Series.
Family matinees are popular on Saturday afternoons.
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Liss Fain Dance
This is one of the most innovative modern-dance troupes in San Fran. The dancers have solid classical training, yet they look for ways to crack, if not actually break, the mold. Their movement is precise, but imbued with an athletic physicality not only very American, but very western American. Performances combine movement and music with strong visual design. Check the website for details of performances held in venues throughout the Bay Area.
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Theater Artaud
Trooping across this stage are local, national and international theater, music and dance troupes. Acts have ranged from a world premiere noir thriller to a multimedia celebration of Iranian literary arts. Behind the scenes, the Artaud is a live-work space that started up in 1972, way before the concept became common. Although a highly successful operation, it's one of the city's most adventurous houses. (They really like gettin' naked here.)
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Sundance Saloon
Pull on your cowboy boots at Sundance Saloon and two-step Texas-style to country music with moustached daddies and their cowpoke admirers. Show up early for lessons. The happy, loyal crowd thins by 10pm: daddies need their rest. It’s in the middle of nowhere, but the bus stops a few blocks away and runs till midnight, long after the party ends.
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Zaccho Dance Theater
Dance Mission always has something going on, from contact improv to dance jams and classes. There's a lot of ‘extreme dance' in the Bay Area, experimental forms combining aerial performance, site-specific work, circus arts and dance. For these we particularly like Kunst Stoff and Zaccho Dance Theater .
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Kunst Stoff
Dance Mission always has something going on, from contact improv to dance jams and classes. There's a lot of ‘extreme dance' in the Bay Area, experimental forms combining aerial performance, site-specific work, circus arts and dance. For these we particularly like Kunst Stoff and Zaccho Dance Theater .
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San Francisco Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet is the USA’s oldest ballet company, and the first to premier the Nutcracker, which it performs annually. In San Francisco, its home is the War Memorial Opera House, but it also appears at other venues now and then; check the website.
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