Summer Dance Festival

FACT/SF SUMMER DANCE Festival overview

August 22-24, 2025 - ODC Theater, San Francisco

The FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival is part of FACT/SF Fieldwork, a set of programs that nourish the contemporary dance ecology by providing opportunities, support, and material resources to fellow artists.

The Festival brings together an array of contemporary dance works by choreographers from the Bay Area and beyond. The purpose of the Festival is to juxtapose a variety of works to spur dialogue, support artists and artistic growth, and present to audiences a range of perspectives. In its inaugural year, the Festival was described as “a very strong debut and a great addition to the SF dance festival circuit.” - Heather Desaulniers, DanceTabs

Donofrio Dance Co presents BETTY at the 2023 FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival. Photo by Robbie Sweeny

present work with us in 2025

As of September 19th at 2:45pm Pacific, FACT/SF has received 50 applications. We are no longer accepting applications for this round of Fieldwork. The information below is provided for reference only.

The 2025 FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival will take place at ODC Theater from August 22-24, 2025. FACT/SF will curate local & visiting choreographers to share work on a mixed-bill with FACT/SF. Each choreographer will present 8-12 minutes of finished work. We aim to curate a festival that includes artists from diverse geographical regions, so choreographers do not need to be Bay Area-based. Applications for the 2025 Summer Dance Festival are included in our Fieldwork Application process, now open through September 30, 2024 (or until 50 applications are reached).

Selected choreographers will each receive:

$1,500 presentation fee
$750 travel stipend for artists from outside the Bay Area
Full production support
6 complimentary tickets
Photo and video documentation
Limited marketing support
Inclusion in the FACT/SF season calendar

Our curatorial priorities are to:

Engage BIPOC artists and LGBTQ+ artists
Engage artists with a track record of making high-quality work
Juxtapose works of local and non-local artists
Support artists and works that are viable relative to artist’s capacity, artist’s history, and the scale of the Festival

application process

Fieldwork 2025 applications are now open through September 30, 2024, or until we have reached capacity at 50 applications.

Click here for application information.

Applications for curation into the Summer Dance Festival will be considered as part of the 2025 Fieldwork Open Call for Proposals. We have streamlined the application process for all of our Fieldwork programs, so artists may now apply for up to three of the 2025 opportunities to get involved during one process. All Fieldwork applicants who complete the application process will receive a $30 honorarium to recognize the time and labor involved in preparing their application. For more information, please see the Fieldwork page.

In addition to completing the application, applicants must:

Identify as a maker of contemporary dances
Engage in two-way and open communication between our respective teams to facilitate and deepen our relationships as fellow artists
Adhere to a policy which prohibits and prevents discrimination against people on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical disability, veteran's status, national origin, ancestry, or socio-economic status

2024 Festival Artists

program one

Jenna Riegel
Jenna Riegel, originally from Fairfield, Iowa, is a dance artist and movement educator. Jenna holds an M.F.A. in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Maharishi International University. During her eleven-year performing career in New York City, Jenna toured and performed nationally and internationally as a company member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, Alexandra Beller/ Dances and Bill Young/ Colleen Thomas & Company. She also danced with Daara Dance (choreographer Michel Kouakou), Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Shaneeka Harrell, Tania Isaac Dance and johannes weiland. She has been on faculty in the dance departments of Barnard College, The Juilliard School and Virginia Commonwealth University and at the American Dance Festival and the Bates Dance Festival. Jenna is currently an Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College.

program two

Erin Yen
Erin Yen is a mixed-race professional dancer and choreographer currently residing in San Mateo, CA. Erin is the founder of Dragons Dance 501c3. Erin’s choreography, which utilizes her experiences with contemporary, release, improvisation, Gaga, physical theater and floorwork techniques, has been featured regularly throughout the Bay Area since Dragons Dance’s inception in 2020. Erin is fluent in Laban Movement Analysis, and she holds a BFA in Dance from the Ohio State University. Most recently, Erin has begun to teach contemporary dance and other movement workshops for adults in the Bay Area.

Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a Turkish-American poet, dance artist, and filmmaker engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She has or will serve as a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Stapleton School for the Performing Arts, Center at Eagle Hill (MA), Surel’s Place (ID), and Tofte Lake Center (MN). She has been commissioned by Sadler's Wells (UK) for her dance writing and by World Stage Design (Canada) and 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York) for her choreography. Maxine received a B.F.A. in Dance (magna cum laude) from NYU Tisch and an M.A. in Dance Philosophy (with distinction) from University of Roehampton London as a US-UK Fulbright Finalist. She currently dances with MovingGround and pateldanceworks, teaches as a poet in the schools for CalPoets and Gallery Route One, and directs youth dance company, Body Language at Roco Dance.

Sophie Minouche Allen
Sophie Minouche Allen is a dance artist who imbues playfulness and nuance in all her endeavors. She enjoys honing her sense of musicality and humor to connect with deeper subtexts… and loves to make people smile. Sophie performs, choreographs, and teaches throughout Chicago and nationally. Notably, she performs with Fever Dream Dance Collective; was selected as a Midwest RAD Fest 2024 Alternative Spaces Choreographer/Performer, DanceWorks Chicago/Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances 2024 Choreographer, and FACT/SF 2024 Summer Dance Festival Artist; teaches at The Joffrey Academy of Dance, The Rooted Space and co-facilitates the Chicago Countertechnique® Community class-series. Her work is shaped by cycles of care between her Oma, Mom and herself, grounding her artistry in shades of love, womanhood and vulnerability. Sophie holds a B.F.A. in Dance and B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Michigan, and is a certified Countertechnique® Teacher.

Summation Dance / LA. Photo by John Suhar.

Summation Dance / LA (directed by Taryn Vander Hoop)
Taryn Vander Hoop (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, educator and producer. She received a B.S. in Dance with additional majors in English Literature and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography. She is the co-founder of Summation Dance, an NYC/LA based modern dance company, called “full of energy and creativity” by The New York Times. Summation has performed at Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Judson Memorial Church, Jacob’s Pillow, and more, and received commissions from numerous venues and universities across the country. Taryn is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and mother of two.

Zoe Huey
Zoe Huey is a multidisciplinary artist and a dance educator born, raised, and currently residing on unceded Ohlone land aka Oakland. They explore ways that visual practice (drawing & painting), dance improvisation, and performance inform one another - in process and final form. Their approach to making is deeply influenced by their work with kids. Zoe is mixed-race Chinese American, currently living in-between genders, dog-mom to Sesame, and hopefully an oak or redwood in another life.