As 2023 comes to a close, we’re so proud to announce FACT/SF’s 16th anniversary season! Our 2024 calendar is full of workshops & educational opportunities, performances of our new work, QAF (Queer Athletic Futurity), and premieres by eight incredible Fieldwork artists. We are so excited to share all of this work with you!
Charlie Slender-White teaching Countertechnique
Photo: Kegan Marling
January 2024
January 8
Class at ODC
San Francisco, CA
January 26-28
FACT/SF Winter Dance Lab (Weekend 1)
Joe Goode Annex
San Francisco, CA
February 2024
February 2-4
FACT/SF Winter Dance Lab (Weekend 2)
Joe Goode Annex
San Francisco, CA
February 9
California Dance Education Association - State Conference
Panel with Slender-White, Mary Carbonara, Neela Reed, and Amanda Whitehead
CSU East Bay
Hayward, CA
Maria Silk
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
March 2024
March 7-9
Maria Silk
Viewing Pleasure
CounterPulse, SF
(FACT/SF Production Support Grant)
Charlie teaching Countertechnique, summer 2022
Photo: Alina Fejzo
March 8
Open Audition/Rehearsal
San Francisco, CA
March 18-22
Countertechnique Workshop
Vancouver, BC, Canada
LizAnne Roman Roberts at the 2023 Spring Gala
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
April 2024
April 26
FACT/SF Spring Gala
Green Room, Veteran’s Building
San Francisco, CA
Melissa Lewis Wong + Joy Chenyu Lewis
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
may 2024
May 18-26
Melissa Lewis Wong + Joy Chenyu Lewis
花和霧 flowers and fog
Portsmouth Square & The Gateway Theater Chinatown, SF
(FACT/SF Production Support Grant)
Keanu Brady in fluid forms
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
JULY 2024
July 27
Half Time, Full Outside Premiere
Site-specific performances around San Francisco at historic LGBTQ+ landmarks
Part of Queer Athletic Futurity
Slender-White teaching Countertechnique
Photo: Alina Fejzo
August 2023
August 15-24
FACT/SF Summer Dance Lab
ODC Theater, SF
9 days of hands-on instruction on Countertechnique and other forms in a non-competitive, collaborative workshop environment
Keanu Brady in the Summer Dance Festival, 2023
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
August 16-18
Half Time, Full Out Premiere
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival, Week 1
ODC Theater, SF
Part of Queer Athletic Futurity
Taylor Donofrio’s BETTY in the 2023 Summer Dance Festival
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
August 23-25
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival, Week 2
ODC Theater, SF
A mixed bill of 6 groups, curated through our open Fieldwork Self-Nomination process. The 2024 festival will feature works by the Bay Area’s FACT/SF, Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, Zoe Huey, & Erin Yen, and visiting artists Summation Dance / LA (Los Angeles, CA) & Sophie Allen (Chicago, IL).
REYES Dance
Photo: Robbie Sweeny
September 2023
September 6-8
REYES Dance
¡Ay Dios Mio!
ODC Theater, SF
(FACT/SF Production Support Grant)
September/October 2023
September 11 - October 16
Working Better Workshop
FACT/SF’s new 6-week online workshop, offering guidance from experts in the field about administrative skills for artists.
Shaun Keylock Company (Portland)
Photo: Jazzy Photo
October 2024
PORT: QAF in Portland, OR
FACT/SF will tour to Portland, as the second half of our PORT exchange with Shaun Keylock Company, which began when they toured to present in our Summer Dance Festival in August of 2023.