Classes & Workshops
“An embodied body cannot be be silenced” -Nicole Klaymoon
Play-Pulse-Release
w/ Nicole Klaymoon
Every Monday, 6:45-8pm | $15 Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
This class expands students’ capacity for theatrical emotionality and expressive range through dynamic choreography. Klaymoon’s 17+ years of study, training, and teaching in house dance inform a hybrid choreographic language that integrates groove, rhythm, floorwork, and articulate footwork. Students are guided through practices of subtle body awareness and a distinct sense of embodiment using inventive scores and improvisational concepts. The class seeks to invigorate the indestructible creative flame within each participant, inviting unfettered play, stretching dancers of all levels in performance quality, and fostering liberation through the body in a loving community.
Rebearth Open House Session
Every Monday, 8-10 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.
All Levels House Dance w/ Rama Mahesh Hall
Every Friday, 4:45-6:00pm | $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.
Days Like This: Community Party
Every Friday, 6:00-9:30pm | $5
Directly after Rama’s class this free weekly community party has an incredible vibe featuring a different Bay Area DJ every week.