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Free. Outdoors. Fresh. | Yerba Buena Gardens FestivalA two-weekend festival of site-specific work, the Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest showcases the extravagant creativity, diversity and vibrancy of the Bay Area dance scene. After a thrilling 2023 season, YBG ChoreoFest returns with PUSH Dance Company’s Artistic Director Raissa Simpson and Associate Artistic Director Ashley Gayle serving as co-curators with David Herrera Performance Company’s David Herrera. Designed to offer rising Bay Area artists opportunities to shine on a larger platform, YBG ChoreoFest also seeks to present artists of color from outside of the contemporary/modern dance world, particularly hip-hop and global dance traditions. Herrera, a recipient of the National Latino Arts & Culture Leadership Fellowship and many other grants, commissions and residencies, founded his company in 2007 in response to the lack of Latinx visibility and representation on the U.S. modern dance scene. A highly sought after educator, scholar, interdisciplinary artist and award-winning choreographer hailing from African-descended sharecroppers and an immigrant from the Philippines, Raissa Simpson founded PUSH to examine the body as a site for racial discourse. Together, these curators turn the seventh annual YBG ChoreoFest into a glorious profusion of performances amidst the Gardens’ lawns and architecture.
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES:
- David Herrera Performance Company
- Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
- OYSTERKNIFE
- pateldanceworks
- PUSH Dance Company
- Rogelio Lopez
- Surabhi Bharadwaj
- TURFFEINZ
YBG ChoreoFest 2024 Dates:
Day One: July 13, 2024
Day Two: July 20, 2024
Supported in part by:
National Endowment for the Arts
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Part of Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's Weekend Sessions series. For the full program schedule, visit www.ybgfestival.org
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, 781 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103-3132, United States,San Francisco, California
