Embodiment Project serves to uplift the ancestral and primordial power of dance as an act of resistance, collective healing and social transformation.

GET FREE FESTIVAL 2025

With Black social dances and house dance culture at its core, the Get Free Festival is back for its sixth year! Co-presented by Embodiment Project, Be Movement Collective and Dance Mission Theater, festival events include a film screening, panels, an experimental battle, the Rebearth House Dance Party and a live performance showcase

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Embodiment Project envisions a world where dance is integrated as a critical dimension of social and cultural revolution.

Productions & Programs

Belly of The Whale
Get Free
Residencies
Seeds Youth Dance Company
Soledad Arts Project
Rebearth Open House Session

Current Classes

ODC and Embodiment Project are partnering together to relaunch SEEDS for the 2025-2026 academic school year. Learn more here.
Every Monday | 6:45-8pm PST
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
This class is rooted in dance as a healing practice in celebration of community and reverence for the raw energy of house dance, music, and culture. The class begins with house grooves and foundational footwork, isolations, and Hatha Yoga Āsanas. Dancers are then offered inventive concepts to expand their capacity for storytelling, theatrical expression, and self-discovery, through movement improvisation. Klaymoon’s dynamic choreography draws from various dance lineages including house, modern/release technique, freestyle hip hop, and waacking. All levels welcome; shoes optional.
Every Monday 8-10:30 PM PST | $5
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Rebearth is a weekly, donation-based open house dance session held every Monday at Dance Mission Theater. Rooted in the liberatory spirit of house dance, Rebearth brings together intergenerational dancers and community members to honor the form’s African diasporic and LGBTQIA+ cultural roots. This joyful gathering is part movement cypher, part healing ritual—a space for sweat, release, and collective resilience.
Every Friday | 4:45-6:00pm | Fee: $15
Lake Merritt Pergola
599 El Embarcadero, Oakland, CA 94610
House Dance is a style of dance that originated in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s from underground clubs in Chicago and New York. It is a melting pot of many styles, such as Tap Dance, African dance, Latin dance, Capoeira and Hip Hop, as well as other street dance forms.
In this class, Rama explores groove, technique, footwork, body control, spins, feeling, connecting to the music, connecting with each other, and more. Rama teaches foundation and concepts, as well as phrases to put the ideas together, and space at the end to explore everything the student has learned.
This class is outdoors, in front of the beautiful Lake Merritt.
Every Friday | 6-9:30pm
Lake Merritt Pergola, 599 El Embarcadero, Oakland, CA 94610
Directly after Rama’s class this free weekly community party has an incredible vibe featuring a different Bay Area DJ every week.
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