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DANCE COMMUNITY EVENTS

The following is a partial listing of Bay Area dance community events.
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Diamano Coura West African Dance Company present "Mwangaza - Illumination" The 15th Annual Collage des Cultures Africaines Festival

Thursday through Sunday, March 11-14, 4-DAY CONFERENCE

Saturday, March 13, GALA PERFORMANCE
Doors open @ 6 pm for the African Marketplace with crafts and food
Dance performance @ 8pm

Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland, CA, 94612


Diamano Coura West African Dance Company hosts its 15th annual “Collage des Cultures Africaines” Festival, one night of mesmerizing performances with 20 international guest dance and drum artists from Sengal, Congo, Liberia, Zimbabwe, America, Haiti, Guinea, with six nationally and locally acclaimed dance companies, 20 dance and drum workshops with international artists. The 4-day conference includes a gala performance with international guest dance and drum artists, acclaimed dance companies, 20 dance and drum workshops with international artists, and other community activities at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts.

Tickets: $30 reserved, $20 advanced general seating, $25 at the door
Discounts available for groups of 10 or more.  For group rates call 510.290.5011
Tickets at www.BrownPaperTickets.com, or Marcus Bookstore, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, and Africa by the Bay, 3840 MacArthur Blvd in Oakland.
For more info call 510.326.1968 or email diamanoc@aol.com or visit www.DiamanoCoura.org

Pezhham Akhavass & Miriam Peretz present:
Peace & Love for the Universe, An Evening of Mystical World Music & Dance
Friday, March 12 @ 8pm
Mayer Theater
Santa Clara University 
 

An Evening of Mystical World Music and Dance will feature performers: Faraz Minooei, Behfar Bahadoran, Jesse Sheehan, Pezhham Akhavass, Farima Berenji, Hannah Romanowski, Leila Sadeghi and Miriam Peretz. The Mayer Theater is located at 500 El Camino Real and tickets are $40 each.

 
To purchase advance tickets visit: www.brownpapertickets.com
To reserve tickets call 408-364-6013

Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti presents: From Rubble to Resurrection
Tuesday, March 16 @ 7:30pm
Bankhead Theater

2400 1st Street, Livermore, CA 94550

The Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti, an artistic expression of the boys of St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port au Prince, is the culmination of overcoming incredible odds and finding the courage and strength to become what God has gifted them to be. Ambassadors for the country of Haiti, the Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti blends its unique style of Haitian dance with earlier influences of Afro-Caribbean movement and gesture. The result is an amalgamation of style and essence that defies category. Their performance ranges from dance that can only be called “introspective” to “elemental” to “rooted in the underside of Haitian history as seen from the slave’s perspective.”


For information please visit www.htflive.org
For tickets call the Bankhead Theater at 925.373.6800 or visit www.livermoreperformingarts.org


Cafe Flamenco
Saturday, March 20 @ 8 pm and 9:30 pm
The Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street at 18th & Potrero,
San Francisco, CA 94110

Experience Cafe Flamenco at the Verdi Club in San Francisco with a full bar lounge, Mediterranean tapas by Mimi Martinez Catering, and great flamenco!

Tickets $18 advance and $22 door
Tickets online http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/ 94627 or (800) 838-3006
More info http://www.caminosflamencos.com or http://www.verdiclub.net

Reservations (510) 531-9986.
Bar, tapas, and tickets at the door are cash only

More info call (510) 531-9986


Chitresh Das Dance Company & Chaandam School present:
30th Anniversary Performance and Gala

Saturday, March 20 @ 6 pm
Palace of Fine Arts Theater
San Francisco

The Chandam School of Kathak and the Chitresh Das Dance Company will kick-off its 30th Anniversary season with a performance and gala! The evening will feature a performance of Pandit Chitresh Das & tap sensation, Jason Samuels Smith in their award-winning, international sensation India Jazz Suites. The performance will be followed by an elegant sit-down dinner and celebration.

For more info visit: www.kathak.org
To reserve tickets call 415-333-9000

Spring Dance Inspiration 2010: Benefit the UCSF Brain Tumor Center
presented by TK Fundraising Productions

Saturday, March 20 @8pm
Sunday, March 21 @3pm
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, SF

Our fourth annual brain tumor benefit event is back!  Two days of passionate dance performed by internationally renowned artists as well as San Francisco Bay Area performers who will be contributing their time and talents to help raise awareness of brain tumors and funds for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Research and Patient Care Services at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center.  The event has helped raise over $110,000 to the Brain Tumor Community.

Advanced Tickets: $22-$42/ Call for tickets (415) 345-7575
Buy online at www.fortmason.org
For more info visit: www.tkfproductions.org


Destiny Arts Center presents: ASYLUM
Fri, March 19 @ 7:30pm
Sat, March 20 @ 7:30pm
Sun, March 21 @ 2pm
Fri, March 26 @ 7:30pm
Sat, March 27 @ 2 and 7:30pm

Laney College Theater
900 Fallon St., Oakland

The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC) is a multicultural group of teens that create original performance art pieces, in collaboration with professional artists, that combine hip-hop, modern, and aerial dance, theater, martial arts, song and rap.  The productions are a dynamic, creative forum for the young people to express their fears, hopes and strategies for confronting challenging personal and social issues. The company has performed locally and nationally since 1993 for over 20,000 audience members annually. 

Tickets: Adults $13-$25/ Youth(18 and under) $6/ Group rates available
For more info visit: www.destinyarts.org or call 510-597-1619


Mahealani Uchiyama and Halau KaUaTuahine in concert
Sunday, March 28 @8pm
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley


Join us for an evening of World Music and Dance featuring Mahealani and KaUaTuahine Polynesian Dance Company.

Admission only $10!
Tickets available at www.ashkenaz.com


Abhinaya Dance Company presents: Dancing Divinites
Sunday, April 4
CET Sobrato Center
701 Vine Street, San Jose

Abhinaya will begin the season with a spring concert and student recital entitled  “Dancing Divinities - The eternal dance of the gods.” The performances will be presented with a live orchestra in front of honored guest Guru Indira Rajan from Chennai, India.  The orchestra is comprised of Malavika Kumar - nattuvangam, Asha Ramesh - vocals and carnatic music composition, N. Narayan - Mridangam and Kanjira, Shanthi Narayan - violin, and Ragavan Manian – flute. 


The concert will feature:

* More than 50 Abhinaya Students presenting Dances of Krishna at 3pm

* Stories of Apsaras in the heavenly court of Indra at 5pm

* Rasika Kumar, Principal Dancer, describing Nataraja, the dancer par excellence

* Mythili Kumar (Artistic Director) presenting the dance of Bhu-devi – the earth-goddess


Free for "Friends of Abhinaya" members. Donor: $25; General:  $15; Students/Seniors: $10; Family of four: $45 (2 Gen & 2 Stu/Sr.)

Tickets on the Web: https://www.sulekha.com/ticketsv3/buytickets.aspx?cid=588539

Or call Abhinaya Dance Company at (408) 871 5959. 

Or contact: abdanceco@gmail.com Website:www.abhinaya.org


Chinyakare Ensemble in concert
Saturday, April 17 @8pm
Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance
729 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley

Julia Tsitsi Chigamba, Artistic Director of the Chinyakare Ensemble and master dancer, singer and instrumentalist from Zimbabwe, grew up in the rich cultural traditions of Shona music and dance.  Daughter of the highly respected gwenyambira Tute Chigamba, she is a longtime member of Mhembero, the internationally known Chigamba family dance and mbira ensemble. Since 1999, Julia has performed and taught widely in the US while making Oakland, California her home away from home.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Julia connected with local professional musicians versed in Shona traditional music and dance and with them, formed the Chinyakare Ensemble.  Some of the ensemble members were longtime students of Shona music and friends of her family in Zimbabwe, while others were professional musicians of other African traditions who came to Zimbabwean music and dance more recently.

Tickets: $15

Gamelan Sekar Jaya (GSJ) performs at School of the Arts in San Francisco
Saturday, April 24, 7pm

School of the Arts

555 Portola Drive,
San Francisco, CA
94131

The shimmering bronze Angklung group will accompany esteemed guest dancer Ni Ketut Arini, one of Bali’s most well-known performers and an expert on classical Balinese female-style dance; She is widely regarded as a living national treasure of IndonesiaTickets $10-$20. This event is a co-benefit for Sekar Jaya's Jegog Tour to Bali & Academy of World Music. 

 

To purchase tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com

For more information visit http://gsj.org/calendar



JUEVES FLAMENCOS!
Every Thursday night @ 8:30 pm & 9:30 pm
Peña Pamamama
1630 Powell Street, San Francisco 94111
Tickets $12

Join Theatre Flamenco Company and guest artists for an evening of Traditional Flamenco Tablao style performance. Voted best flamenco show by SF Weekly!

For more info visit: www.pachamamacenter.org
or 415.646.0018


CLASSES


Afro-Peruvian Dance Classes
Thursdays 7:30 – 9pm
Instruction by Carmen Roman and live drumming by Braulio Barrera

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

2868 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110

$12/class or (4 classes for $44) or (8 classes for $80)

http://www.missionculturalcenter.org


2010 Argentine Tango Classes

Argentine Tango Classes, Thursday 7:45 to 8:45pm – mixed level class

4Ever Dance Studio $12 per class

6635 Dublin Blvd, Ste D, Dublin CA

Registration info: (510) 577-3462
For info about all Tango & More events, visit  www.tangoandmore.org


Chaandam School of Kathak

Beginning classes for children, teen, adults at all Chaandam locations.
For more info visit Chaandam school page or call 415-333-9013


Congolese Dance & Drum Classes


Malonga Casquelourd Center, Oakland
Saturdays, Drum: Noon -1 pm, Dance: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Mondays, Dance: 7:30-9 pm
Tuesdays, Dance & Song: 7 pm-8:30 pm
Thursdays, Dance, Drum & Song: 5 pm -9 pm

 

Moss Beach, Drum and Dance on Sundays
Drum: 9:30-11 am
Dance: Noon-1:30 pm,


Palo Alto, Dance
3:30-5 pm

More info: www.congolesecamp.org


Haitian Folkloric Dance & Drum Classes

Saturdays, Dance: 1:30 - 3pm with Portsha Jefferson
$12 per class

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
 

Sundays, Drum 4 Daniel: 1 - 2pm led by students of Daniel Brevil
$15 per class

Dance: 2 - 3pm with Portsha Jefferson, $12 per class

Malonga Casquelourd Center, Oakland


Flamenco Classes at La Solea

Wednesdays, March 10th - April 28th (8-week workshop)
6 pm-7 pm Beginning Class:Technique & Choreography (Fandangos)
7 pm-8 pm Intermediate Class: Technique

8 pm -9 pm Intermediate Class: Choreography -
Caña

Fridays, March 12th - April 30th
4:45 pm -5:45 pm Children's Flamenco age 7-10
6 pm-7 pm Intermediate/Advanced Class: Choreography - Martinete

Saturdays, March 13th - May 1st (8-week workshop)
12 pm - 1:30 pm Beginning: 
Technique & Choreography - Bulerias


All classes at La Solea Dance Studio