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6pm - 9pm every Monday from Nov. 11 - Dec. 2, 2024
Free

Experimental approaches to choreography and performance making. Let’s liberate our imaginations and bodies by expanding what’s possible? How does improvisation talk to choreography? How do our politics impact our aesthetics impact the process of making the dance? How are care and repair integrated into rehearsal, production, and choreography? How do traditional, folk, diasporic dances flow with “contemporary” and “experimental” practices?

Instigated by Keith Hennessy in 2001, Circo Zero makes live performances responding to political crises, while centering queer bodies and ideas. Producing in unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory/San Francisco, the broader Bay Area, and on tour since 1982, our performances are interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist and decolonial practices.

Our work is born in the cities, in the repurposed warehouses and factories, in the queer communities where cultural traditions are complicated, reimagined, and renewed, in the independent art spaces where present day experimentation meets the ancestors in unpredictable ways. And here, in these ruins and utopias, we dance.

Circo Zero is one of the more prolific and widely touring of West Coast dance-performance companies. Since 2001, we have presented work in more than 75 cities and 23 countries producing more than 15 full-length performances and countless shorter works in spaces ranging from punk anarchist squats to European state theaters to San Francisco beaches. In San Francisco, we have produced performances at YBCA, Dance Mission, CounterPulse, Joe Goode Annex. Circo Zero’s performances have been awarded the Guggenheim, USA Fellowship, Bessie, multiple Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, a Bay Area Goldie, and a San Francisco Award for Performing Arts.