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Thu Jan 29 - Sat Jan 31
at YBCA (8pm)
Electronica and noise, satire and ingenuity, beauty and humour-discover a new generation of Japanese choreographers. The highly stylized Baby Q, formed by Yoko Higashino in 2000, is known for collaborating with dancers, actors, visual artists and robot designers. For this special engagement, Yoko performs a solo with video and live music...
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Fri Jan 30 - Sun Mar 15
at Post Street Theatre (see listing for times)
Years before "Dancing with the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance" turned Ballroom dancing into must-see TV, one sizzling show was setting stages ablaze around the globe. The electrifying Burn The Floor will make its Bay Area premiere in a limited six-week engagement...
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Fri Jan 30
at Jancar Jones Gallery (6pm - 9pm)
The selection of exhibited paintings reflect a trend in Yamaguchi's work toward minimal yet elegantly abstracted landscapes and seascapes. Whereas in her earlier, heavily patterned "fancy" work the figurative was at the fore, Yamaguchi's newest body of work distills her focus on pattern and decoration into simplified yet finely rendered geometries. Her large, sharply focused canvases convey a pastoral sublimity on the verge of the psychedelic...
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Fri Jan 30
at Space Gallery (8pm - 2am)
From the chilly winds of winter, the fourth in this series of art exhibitions and live performances will be presented by Japanese local talents known as "Surreality in Reality". As an epilogue to the cyclical Four Seasons, they bring you "Colorless Spectrum" -- seemingly paradoxical, reminiscent of the ancient Japanese philosophy revealing that behind everything lies the primordial nothingness...
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Fri Jan 30
at 111 Minna Gallery (9pm - 2am)
A boundary pushing curation of emerging art, fashion, and music. Special Guest DJs: Commodore 69 (Computer Rock), Jacob Fury (Glamour). Artists: Laureano Faedi, Xavier Gomez & Brendan Lott, Kent Hall. Fashion Designers: Ginne...
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Sat Jan 31
at Rare Device (7pm - 9pm)
Douer currently makes her home in Buenos Aires. She is known mostly for her vibrantly colored, geometrically influenced line drawings and paintings of women. Her work -- which ranges from sweet and innocent to gory and frightening -- is always thought provoking. "I'm interested in representing every aspect that influences my life: interests, feelings, situations, thoughts or whatever is causing any kind of effect on me in a particular moment."
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Sat Jan 31
at YBCA (9pm - midnight)
Free Admission and Free Pizza! Musical worlds collide as two of San Francisco's top crews come together for a mash down of styles featuring Surya Dub Live and Non Stop Bhangra and the Dholrhythms Dancers!
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