Join us to see how dance can be inspired by architecture. Megan Lowe Dances will begin a two-season dance residency at the Legion of Honor. Every Saturday starting July 19, open rehearsals will offer an inside look at choreographing. From August 30, come enjoy performances of the newly created site-responsive works exploring the museum’s architecture and celebrating its hundred-year history. Megan Lowe Dances aims to create stimulating perspective-shifting performances in spaces outside of the traditional stage theater.

Schedule

Open Rehearsals

• Sat, July 19, noon – 3:30 pm
• Sat, July 26, noon – 3:30 pm
• Sat, August 2, noon – 3:30 pm
• Sat, August 9, noon – 3:30 pm
• Sat, August 16, noon –3:30 pm
• Sat, August 23, noon – 3:30 pm

Performances

• Sat, August 30, 12:30 pm + 2:30 pm
• Sat, September 6, 12:30 pm + 2:30 pm

About the performers

艾音 “Ài Yīn” Adelski (she/her) is a biracial artist of Chinese and European descent. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Shanghai and Taipei, she moved to San Francisco for college where she majored in Dance and Social Justice and double minored in philosophy and Chinese Studies. She is currently a freelance dancer and pilates instructor based in San Francisco. At the moment, she is focused on learning vertical dance. She has worked with For You Productions, Detour Dance, PUSH Dance Company, pateldanceworks, Kinetech Arts, and Flyaway Productions.

AJ “Dopey Fresh” Gardner (he/him) is a Turf dancer and teacher, born and raised in San Francisco. He’s worked with Mikey Disco from Knuckle Neck Tribe, Sony, Men’s Wearhouse, Trademark Inc, Souls of Mischief, E-40, Kanye West, Schoolboy Q, YG, and H.E.R. He has taught adult classes at City Dance Studio and at an all-Black, Oakland after-school program for four years under the Ujimaa Foundation. You can find him today throwing dance battles as CEO of UNKNOWN CHAMBERS and with his dance group UNKNOWN.

Anna Greenberg Gold (she/her) is a performing artist and personal chef. She trained at Pasadena Dance Theater, the Ailey School, the Cunningham School, and SF Conservatory of Dance. She earned her BA in Dance and Children's Book Illustration from Hampshire College. She has performed with the San Francisco Ballet, Lenora Lee Dance, Liss Fain Dance, and Nancy Karp + Dancers. She is a current company member with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Kristin Damrow & Company, Paufve Dance, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater.

Frances Teves Sedayao (sya/she/they) is a multidisciplinary performer and artist with over 25 years of experience across the US and abroad. A Jefferson Award recipient and Serpent Source Grantee, she’s been a featured artist with APAture (San Francisco) and Art OMI International (New York). Her original work has appeared at San Francisco Queer Arts Festival and Bindlestiff Studios. Frances currently collaborates with Sarah Bush Dance Project, SanSan Kwan, and Moon Rope.

Johan Casal (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working in film, music, theater, and dance. He performed as a lead dancer in Netflix’s production of the Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience and directed and produced an original feature film, Manalo: The Movie Musical, highlighting the shared struggles of Filipinx-Americans and the diverse cultures of the Philippines.

Megan Lowe (she/they) is a Chinese and Irish American dance maker, performer, teacher, aerialist, singer-songwriter, and Program Associate at University of California, Berkeley’s Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her company, Megan Lowe Dances, creates bold, physical works exploring identity and possibility. She’s a two-time Izzie Award winner, with recent work presented at ODC, de Young, Fort Mason, and KQED Live. Megan has performed with dozens of dance luminaries, including Flyaway Productions, Lenora Lee Dance, and Dance Brigade.

About Megan Lowe Dances

Megan Lowe Dances (MLD) creates powerful multidisciplinary dance works rooted in bold physicality and deep relational connections of care. They transform both unconventional and everyday spaces with dynamic place-making, playful partner-work, and daring aerial/vertical dance, paying particular attention to stories from AAPI, BIPOC, and mixed-race communities. MLD also offers invigorating workshops that empower movers to take risks, embrace strengths, and support one another. Through collaboration, creative exploration, and collective learning, their public programming builds supportive communities and reimagines what dance can be and where it can happen. 

Admission info

Free program. Every Saturday, we offer free general admission to all residents of the nine Bay Area counties; additional fees may apply for special exhibitions.

Contact info

Public Programs
publicprograms@famsf.org
415.750.7694