FACT/SF WINTER Dance Lab - 2025
Information for participants
Photo of Rosanna Tavarez by Chani Bockwinkel
DAILY SCHEDULE & DETAILS
CLICK HERE FOR WEEKEND 1 SCHEDULE
January 31 - 2, 2025
12pm-5pm Daily
CLICK HERE FOR WEEKEND 2 SCHEDULE
February 7, 10AM-3PM
February 8, 12PM-5PM
February 9, 12PM-5PM
The Joe Goode Annex will be open a half hour before class begins each day for those who would like to arrive early.
LOCATION
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Please arrive at the Joe Goode Annex between 15 and 30 minutes prior to the start of the day. You will enter through a gate at 401 Alabama Street, then through the main lobby doors just inside the gate on the right, and then through the lobby to the stage.
Public Transit
FACT/SF strongly recommends that dancers use public transit to get to the Joe Goode Annex. The Annex is a 12-minute walk from the 16th Street BART station, and is additionally accessible via numerous MUNI lines.
All BART trains running through San Francisco stop at the 16th Street BART Station.
Participants flying into SFO or OAK can take BART from the airport to San Francisco's Mission neighborhood.
Parking
Public transit is the best mode of transportation and parking near the Joe Goode Annex is often very difficult. Street parking is sometimes available in the area, but limited during weekday business hours. FACT/SF anticipates that there will NOT be sufficient time during the Dance Lab to move vehicles parked in 1 or 2-hour spaces. Participants are encouraged to use public transit if they can.
helpful suggestions
What to Bring
Comfortable dance clothes (including long-sleeved shirts and socks)
Many clothing layers for outside as the weather this time of year can shift quickly
Water bottle
Lunch/Snack (there are limited food options near the Annex)
Pen & Paper
Local Food Suggestions
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions or would like more information, please email River Bermudez Sanders at rbermudzsanders@factsf.org. For day-of questions or concerns, text or call Charlie Slender-White at 415.407.9393.
ABOUT COUNTERTECHNIQUE
ABOUT THE TEACHERS
Rosanna Tavarez. Photo by Kim Doeleman.
ROSANNA TAVAREZ
Rosanna received an MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University as a University Fellow and a Teaching Fellow and a BFA in Choreography from University of Michigan. She has a diverse background as a performer/entertainer and has had the honor of working with Marina Ambramovic, Ryan Heffington, Travis Payne, Tony Michaels and Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide. She also toured with N’SYNC and Jessica Simpson as one-fifth of the girl group Eden’s Crush and covered the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars in addition to hosting her own shows as a television personality for FOX, E!, TVGuide Network, and Telemundo/NBC.
Tavarez has been studying Countertechnique since 2011 and in 2016 she was selected to attend the Countertechnique Teacher Training program. She is now one of eleven certified American Countertechnique teachers. In 2023, after co-leading her first One Body One Career Intensive with Founder Anouk Van Dijk at Gibney in New York City, she became a Senior Teacher. Tavarez has had the pleasure of teaching Countertechnique nationally and internationally.
Tavarez’s work has been presented at The Broad Museum, ODC Theater, REDCAT, Dance Camera West, The Odyssey, Breaking Ground Dance Festival, LA Department of Cultural Affairs' LA Dance Platform, Sarasota Contemporary Dance and Highways Performance Space, and has been supported by CalState LA’s Research, Scholarship and Creativity Awards, CalArts, ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, UCLA Hothouse Residency and Show Box LA.
As a dance educator, Tavarez has taught as faculty and guest artist at numerous institutions including USC Kaufman School of Dance, University of Michigan, Loyola Marymount University, Scripps College, CalState Long Beach, Studio School, University of Southern Mississippi, Texas State University and Cal State LA. Currently she serves as the BFA Program Director at CalArts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance.
Charles Slender-White. Photo by Alina Fejzo
CHARLIE SLENDER-WHITE
Charlie has been a Countertechnique practitioner for 19 years, and became a Certified Teacher in 2012; there are 52 Teachers worldwide. Charlie has taught Countertechnique at the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA), University of Calgary, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), University of San Francisco, CSU East Bay, L’Artere (Quebec City), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Love-In (Toronto), and at numerous dance centers throughout the SF Bay Area. He began his dance career in 2006 with Tatiana Baganova’s Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg, Russia. In 2008, he returned to his native California to start FACT/SF in order to make his own contributions to innovation and excellence in contemporary dance. FACT/SF is the world’s only Countertechnique-trained dance company. Over the past 16 years, Charlie has created 30+ works, with commissions by the US Department of State, ODC Theater, CounterPulse, Acid Rain (Chelyabinsk), Dialogue Dance (Kostroma), the Yekaterinburg University of the Humanities (Yekaterinburg), and others. Described as ‘utterly absorbing’ and ‘mesmerizing’ (SF Bay Guardian), Charlie’s work with FACT/SF has been performed throughout California, in Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, and in 7 cities across Russia, working with the US Department of State to share contemporary American culture with local Russian communities as part of their ‘American Seasons’ Program. Throughout 2012, Charlie was a mentee of Elizabeth Streb as part of CHIME Across Borders at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab. Charlie’s graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, with degrees in Dance & Performance Studies and English Literature.