Works

Escape dives into the culturally-rooted, vacation enclaves of the past, founded in response to the exclusion of immigrants, Black people, Jews, and queer folx from established resorts. Inspired […]

Social Circle is a relentless, movement-driven quartet that draws inspiration and physicality from the constantly evolving rules of Victorian-era ballroom etiquette that were meant to govern women’s bodies. Set […]

In fall of 2023, RAWdance was in residence at Jackson Square’s 836M Gallery for the creation and performance of Loving Still, a new evening-length dance work by Co-Artistic Directors Ryan T. […]

Shadow (part 1), choreographed by Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein, brings a quartet of dancers from San Francisco and New York for the first chapter premiere of […]

A free, public, site-specific live performance, Portal transformed the elevated garden of Salesforce Park into a multimedia ecosystem animated by evocative movement and physical storytelling.

The Healer mines the ancient history, systems, and beliefs of Traditional Chinese Medicine and holistic practices, to shed light on our innate ability to overcome physical and emotional suffering.

Presented by Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest, Circuit took a septet of dancers up, down, around, and over the newly built Carousel Plaza stairs.

Using the Roaring 20s to illuminate issues in our own time, Roar peels away the veneer glitz and glam of the Jazz Age to expose the era’s shifting gender power dynamics and burgeoning feminist movement.

With an eye to recurring cycles in history – reverence for intellectual prowess followed by a blinding fear of intellectual thought – the work asks “what does it mean to be an informed and engaged citizen?”

On the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th amendment, 14 investigates the crucial equal protection and birthright citizenship clauses to magnify its problematic history and current significance.

Performed in its entirety by RAWdance’s Smith and Rein, Double Exposure is comprised of 13 duets created by some of today’s most intriguing dance artists making work along the West Coast.

Performed one year after the shooting at Pulse in Orlando, Requiem was an offering to the 49 beautiful dancing humans whose lives were cut short by hatred and ignorance.

RAWdance joined forces with Bay Area-based sculpture, installation, and social practice artist, Sawyer Rose, for her most recent exhibit, Counting the Hours.

With City Hall as its backdrop, Two by 24: Love on Loop is an 8-hour outdoor contemporary dance installation about the freedom to love.

Mine was born during a residency in Ucross, Wyoming, where the expansive hills, never-ending barbed wire fences, and hints of the Old West highlighted the contrast between vastness and claimed territory.

Inspired by the life and groundbreaking contributions of Britain’s greatest code-breaker, Turing’s Apple was created in collaboration with acclaimed composer Richard Einhorn.

After 5:00 is a haunting yet hopeful plunge into co-dependency, alcoholism, trust, and love. Rooted in daring partnering, it is one of the company’s most narrative works.

Drawing imagery from Rorschach ink blots and the stark, half-lit world of film noir, Burn In offers a study in contrasts, both visual and emotional.

Taking its title from a reality-bending Edgar Allen Poe poem, Through my fingers to the deep led audiences throughout the numerous pathways and nooks of Yerba Buena Gardens.

A retrofuturist mashup of analog and digital worlds seen through a 1980’s lens, Hiding in the Spaces Between featured a landscape of projection, 3-D video, and human pong.