RAWdance

An award-winning bi-coastal contemporary dance company known for transforming theaters and public spaces through performance, curation, and collaboration.

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🗳️ If you enjoy what RAWdance contributes to the Bay Area art community, consider voting for us as Best Dance Company in the @sfbg Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll, hosted by @48hills! We've held the title since 2019 & it's all because of your support. https://t.co/TsKaS2lhCr

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💃🎶📖 Step/Song/Story starts this Sunday, Sept 25 at 12pm & 2pm! Join us at Salesforce Park for these FREE, glorious, collaborative performances of dance, poetry & music. All are welcome, ASL interpretation is provided, no rsvp required. https://t.co/jUWYx8oi5V

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Final days to help us meet our spring Match! We have just $475 left to reach $18k for 18 years of RAWdance by May 31. We're deeply grateful for your support through the ups and downs of this continued pandemic. https://t.co/E8gyr121ju.

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Our 3rd/final CONCEPT series poster montage showcases the most recent iterations. In 2016, we made our way to the Green Room, as did our imagery! These feature photos by Margo Moritz & Hillary Goidell.

🔔Stay tuned for an announcement about our upcoming CONCEPT series plans!

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The CONCEPT series poster montage continues! Take a look back at the posters from the CONCEPT series: 11-17…perhaps the teenage phase? 🙃 Each featuring photos by RJ Muna, these represent 2012-2015 during which time the CONCEPT series was at 66 Sanchez & the Joe Goode Annex.

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Continuing our celebration of the CONCEPT series’ 15th anniversary, this week we’re looking back at the posters throughout the years! Check out these posters from the first ten CONCEPT series featuring the photography of RJ Muna.

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Our final CONCEPT #throwback: "Backbone" by Katerina Wong! Crafted in collaboration with artist Sawyer Rose, "Backbone" appeared at the CONCEPT series: 26 in 2019, mere days before the finishing touches were applied for its full premiere! Learn more: https://t.co/JaoDfOfR2N

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Another CONCEPT #throwback! This time featuring Katerina Wong's "14" at the CONCEPT series: 24 in 2018, 1 year before the finished work's premiere. "14" marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution’s #14thamendment. Learn more: https://t.co/fmvq7k0fnA

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✨📽️“Art Is Guarantee of Sanity” at the CONCEPT series: 19! While this work was eventually premiered by St. Louis’ @Madcodance in 2017, choreographers Wendy Rein & Ryan T. Smith 1st tested ideas for it on dancers Katerina Wong & Carly Johnson at the CONCEPT series one year prior.

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Wendy Rein & Ryan T. Smith’s ambitious "Double Exposure" project appeared as excerpts-in-progress at a couple of CONCEPT series, the 1st of which was the CONCEPT series: 17 in 2015. Enjoy this look back at them dancing choreo by Kate Wallich with music by Johnny Goss at CS17!

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The CONCEPT series encourages choreographers to share work at any stage of the creation process, including testing a work-in-progress. Many RAWdance works have begun here — let’s reflect on some!

First up: “Mine”, previewed at the CONCEPT series: 14 & premiered shortly after.

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2022 marks the 15th anniversary of the CONCEPT series! Since its launch in 2007, our informal and intimate salon series has included 82 performances at 4 locations (including online!) and showcased the work of a whopping 134 guest artists.

Photos by RJ Muna and Margo Mortiz

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🍿Happy #NationalPopcornDay! Throughout the CONCEPT series' 15-year history, popcorn has played a central role as we’ve always believed that great art can be even better with food!

Pictured: Kelly Del Rosario, by Margo Moritz Photography

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@JenniferNorris2 @sfwarmemorial Thanks for the tip!

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Give us a boost! You can support us in just a couple of clicks with your @Target Circle account:

🎯 Log into your Target Circle account, make sure your “set store” is a Bay Area location
🎯 Go to https://t.co/AFf54xwaue
🎯 Cast your vote for RAWdance!

Photo by Hillary Goidell

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Ready for a major #throwbackthursday? Check out our 2012 "year in review" montage featuring snippets of "Double Exposure", "Burn In", "Two by 24: Love on Loop", and more!

Travel back a decade with us: https://t.co/7pgqOdogh0

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We’re participating in the Target Circle program! You can VOTE for us and help direct @Target's giving to benefit our nonprofit. To vote, you'll need to login to a Target account & have a Bay Area location as your “set store”. For full program details: https://t.co/qC3bfzVn24

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“I am excited to develop a new project where I seek to understand and break down the reasons I choose a male drag persona and how it intersects or doesn’t with my own female identity.”

- RAWdance Radiate Fellow Saharla Vetsch on what she's looking forward to in 2022

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“Resuming my co-production with @JoeGoodeGroup Annex! I’ll be working on creating 3 short dance films and a live dance piece”
- RAWdance Radiate Fellow Jocelyn Reyes (holding camera) on what she's looking forward to in 2022. Keep an eye out for her work in September!

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“Starting the process on my next dance theatre work, Mother(LAND), and researching the Vietnam pre-colonial matriarchal herstories along with gathering my mother's oral histories”
- Radiate Fellow Johnny Huy Nguyen on what he looks forward to in 2022

Photo by Willis Lai