UPCOMING
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Gary Sexton of Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
Legions and Legacies
Reimagining the architecture of honor through diverse bodies, stories, and movement
Commission Celebrating the Legion of Honor's 100 Year Anniversary
Performances
Sat, August 30th, 12:30pm + 2:30pm
Sat, September 6th, 12:30pm + 2:30pm
Open Rehearsals
Saturdays July 19th - August 23rd, 12:00pm – 3:30pm
Legion of Honor Museum
100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
In celebration of the Legion of Honor’s centennial, Legions and Legacies explores how history, identity, and space intersect. Set within the museum’s iconic architecture, this site-specific dance honors the past while envisioning an expansive future—one shaped by diverse voices and lived experience. Through embodied storytelling, the piece invites us to consider how legacies are carried, transformed, and redefined through motion, memory, and presence. With a cast of diverse, dynamic performers—艾音 “Ài Yīn” Adelski, Johan Casal, AJ "Dopey Fresh" Gardner, Anna Greenberg Gold, Megan Lowe, and Frances Teves Sedayao, with music William Cenoté—the work breathes new life into the halls of history, imagining a future where honor is expansive, embodied, and shared.
Photo by: Jessica Swanson of Rose Huey
Megan Lowe + Rose Huey
JINSHAN: Seams of Gold
a Site-Specific Vertical Dance Film
as part of Asian American Dance Festival (AADF) 2025
August 25, 2025
Monday, 5:00pm-8:00pm
Mingei International Museum Theater
Balboa Park, Plaza de Panama, 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101
Set against a majestic outdoor rock wall, "JINSHAN: Seams of Gold" is a vertical dance film by Megan Lowe, Rose Huey, and Nino Fernandez that reimagines gravity as a partner in storytelling. Using rock climbing technology, dancers soar, tumble, and traverse stone surfaces—transforming sheer rock into a canvas for memory and transformation. Inspired by the courage and resilience of ancestors and elders, "JINSHAN" honors the strength it takes to rise—literally and metaphorically. As bodies cling, release, and return, the film evokes wonder and reflection, expanding our sense of what’s possible when we move together. This is a dance of flight, legacy, and connection across generations.
This film was officially selected by Asian American Dance Festival: Becoming Asian American, which highlights AAPI dance artists' stories of heritage, family, immigration, colonization, and assimilation.
RECENTLY PAST
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Ron Kunkle of Megan Lowe
Yay Area Love Cats
Earth Gala Masquerade
A Fashionable Benefit for the Heart of the Amazon
August 1st, 2025
Friday, 5:00pm-11:59pm
(Megan performs at the 7:00pm Eco Fashion Show + Live Music by Erth Angel)
Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA 94110
A scintillating, inspirational, and dreamy Bay Area artist-led Masquerade: Walk the fashion runway while artfully saving the planet!
The 7:00pm Eco Fashion Show + Live Music by Erth Angel includes Eco Gilded Embellished Pieces by Mariya Milovidova, Bespoke Treasures by Dark Garden Corsetry, Dreams of an illuminated future by Lumii Couture, and Eco Couture by Miss Velvet Cream all to the original live music of Containher Erth Angel and The Order of the Golden Ear amidst musings on community, the power of artists, and the preciousness of life. Interwoven in the set are offerings by stunning movement artists Ash Rex and Megan Lowe.
Photo by: Jessica Swanson of Megan Lowe and Rose Huey
Megan Lowe + Rose Huey
present SF Bay Area AAPI Dance Film Festival
and the premiere of JINSHAN: Seams of Gold
as part of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center's
28th Annual United States of Asian America Festival
May 24th, 2025
Saturday at 7:30pm
BANDALOOP Studio
3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan Lowe and Rose Huey present SF Bay Area AAPI Dance Film Night on May 24th at BANDALOOP Studios in Oakland, California, as part of the 28th Annual United States of Asian America Festival. This will be a very sweet and casual dance film screening gathering. Come dressed in your comfy clothes and bring a blanket or pillow if you want. We will have some chairs and soft places to rest, popcorn, and other light snacks. This free/by donation event will include dance films by AAPI filmmakers, and culminates in the preview screening of JINSHAN: Seams of Gold, an outdoor site-specific vertical dance film by Megan Lowe, Rose Huey, and Nino Fernandez.
In JINSHAN: Seams of Gold, Megan Lowe and Rose Huey use rock climbing technology to transform a rock wall into a place for dance, human connection, story sharing, and reflection. Inspired by the courage, resiliency, and creativity of our ancestors and elders, this dance film evokes hope and wonder, expanding viewers imagination to what is achievable when we come together.
Fabulous Featured Films:
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Demons by Girl Swallows Nightingale
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JINSHAN: Seams of Gold by Megan Lowe, Rose Huey, and Nino Fernandez
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SCROLL by Johnny Huy Nguyễn and Wilfred Galila
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Shubhaarambh by Ishami Dance Company
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SONDER by EIGHT/MOVES
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Unbecoming by Iu-Hui Chua
Photo by: RJ Muna of Frances Teves Sedayao and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
Just a Shadow at ODC Theater
April 4th-6th, 2025
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 3:30pm
Saturday, April 5th show has ASL Interpretation Provided by Pilar Marsh
ODC Theater
3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Just a Shadow is a performance journey that celebrates life, and honors memories of lost loved ones. The project brings together 7 powerful artists — AJ Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Megan Lowe, Marica Petrey (brand new duet), Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, and Shira Yaziv — to share 6 distinct duets that highlight the unique strengths of each collaborator, including contemporary dance, site-specific dance, turf dance, contact improvisation, vertical dance, and live music. Through dance performance, MLD provides a platform for catharsis, empathy, and collective understanding, fostering connections that transcend individual stories and unite us in a shared journey toward solace and healing.
Photo by: Hamilton of Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv
Megan Lowe Dances
Contact Improv Salon
Presented by Sense Object
February 9, 2025
Sunday at 7PM
Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St
Berkeley, CA 94702
A special Contact Improvisation Edition of the Salon, featuring works by Kriss Rulifson + Dylan Cowie-Haskell, Shira Yaziv, Megan Lowe, and more, plus discussion, tea, and community dancing. No tickets needed in advance. Just show up, donate at the door, and join the fun!
Photo by: Brooke Anderson for Flyaway Productions
Flyaway Productions
If I Give You My Sorrows
Presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
January 31 – February 2, 2025
Friday and Saturday at 8PM
Sunday at 2PM
YBCA Galleries and Forum Building
701 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is presenting Flyaway Productions and Empowerment Avenue as we bring performance and visual art back to the public. These two events will run simultaneously in the Forum and in the Galley Space at YBCA. The works feature the voice, experience, and wisdom of incarcerated women.
The project features original music composed by Carla Kihlstedt, Kalyn Harewood, and Pamela Z, and performance by Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Natalya Shoaf, and Razelle Swimmer.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny of Megan Lowe and Lena Gatchalian for Dance Brigade
Dance Brigade
A Woman’s Song for Peace
50th Anniversary Celebration Tour
January 9-19, 2025
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Jan. 09 Eugene: Soreng Theater @ Hult Center (Eugene, OR), 7:30pm
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Jan. 10 Portland: Newmark Theatre @ Portland’5 Centers for the Performing Arts (Portland, OR), 7:30pm
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Jan. 11: WOW Hall Fundraiser (Eugene, OR), 6:00pm
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Jan. 12 Medford (Ashland): Craterian Theater @ Collier Center (Medford, OR), 5:00pm
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Jan. 15 Ukiah: Center Theater @ Mendocino College (Ukiah, CA), 7:30pm
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Jan. 17 Santa Rosa: Ruth Finley Person Theater @ Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (Santa Rosa, CA), 7:30; ASL Interpretation
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Jan. 18 Aptos (Santa Cruz): Crocker Theater @ Cabrillo College VAPA Complex (Aptos, CA), 7:30pm
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Jan 19. SF: Herbst Theatre @ San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center with guest artist Woody Simmons (SF, CA), 6:00pm
The highlight of Dance Brigade’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Season will be the creation, performance, and touring of A Woman’s Song for Peace – a new dance theater work featuring original, live music by iconic musician and activist Holly Near, seminal queer feminist singer-songwriter Ferron, and groundbreaking Afro-Caribbean jazz artist Christelle Durandy, intertwined with Dance Brigade’s fierce, nuanced choreography and signature melding of styles with Hip Hop, Modern, Salsa, and Taiko – utilizing these storytelling components to convey a larger narrative about social justice and liberation.
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Photos by [from top-bottom, to left-right]: a) Brooke Anderson of Megan Lowe & Roel Seeber in COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES at BANDALOOP Studios, b) Steve Disenhof of University of San Francisco's Performing Arts & Social Justice Program in A Place To Return To at Presentation Theatre, c) Vita Hewitt of AJ Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Josh Icban, Megan Lowe, Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, & Shira Yaziv in Just a Shadow at Joe Goode Annex, d) Jorge Luis Garcia of Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles in Flourish at Flora & Ferment, e) Participants of Flying High & Low(e) Workshop at at Irish Aerial Creation Centre, f) Austin Forbord of Megan Lowe & Roel Seeber in From the Clouds to the Earth at Fort Mason as part of SF Aerial Arts Festival, g) Megan Lowe, Lawrence Tome, & Johnny Huy Nguyen after Celestial as part of Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival, h) Shira Yaziv & Megan Lowe in Us for Athletic Playground's 16th Anniversary Show
Photo by: Vita Hewitt of Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber
Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber
COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES
As part of EMERGENCE: Vertical Dance Arising from the BANDALOOP Ecosystem
December 14th, 2024
Saturday at 8pm
BANDALOOP Studios
1601 18th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Join us for an evening of vertical dance featuring established and emerging Bay Area artists. Stemming from the estuary of artistic research come six dynamic, tender, and evocative works in progress. EMERGENCE features work and performances from Faith Elder, Rose Huey, Suzanne Gallo, Megan Lowe, Rachel Maxwell, Annalise Ritter, Olivia Sander, and Roel Seeber.
Photo by: Jorge Luis Garcia of Megan Lowe and Sonsherée Giles
Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles
Flourish
December 12th-13th, 2024
Thursday and Friday at 7pm
Flora and Ferment
1122 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
After some sweet shows in February, we are bringing back Flourish.
To "flourish" is to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment. In this site-specific dance performance, Sonsherée and Megan will joyfully activate the benches, tables, walls, stairs, and lofts of this beloved East Bay place of gathering. Come drink some delicious cider, and enjoy invigorating dance!
Note: Must be 21 years of age or older to enter the space as required by the venue
Photos provided by: Becca Dean, Austin Forbord of Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber; Melecio Estrella
Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber
COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES
As part of SWAY: Vertical Performance Incubation
Presented by BANDALOOP
November 23rd, 2024
Saturday at 5pm
BANDALOOP Studios
1601 18th St, Oakland, CA 94607
SWAY is a vertical art crawl through BANDALOOP Studios, exploring themes of climate, queerness, and connection. Part of BANDALOOP’s Vertical Performance Incubator, SWAY brings together 50 years of collective experience in vertical dance, presenting works-in-progress by Becca Dean, Melecio Estrella, Megan Lowe, and Roel Seeber.
Becca Dean presents TRANSMARSH: a sculptural meditation on trans resilience amid ecological collapse. Featuring sound design by Lawrence Tome and costume design by House of Perception.
In Melecio Estrella’s DISPOSED, we are thinking of landfills in the body and in relationships, the body as a site of emotional accumulation and deferred waste disposal. Plastics as a geological layer that will be found millennia from now.
COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES, by Roel Seeber and Megan Lowe, is a playful, dynamic work referencing human relationships, the impact they have on us, and the way we navigate them.
Photo by: Brooke Anderson of Megan Lowe for Dance Brigade
Dance Brigade
Voluspa
As part D.I.R.T. Festival
October 24th-25th, 2024
Friday and Saturday at 8pm
November 4th-5th, 2024
Monday and Tuesday at 8pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan will be singing for Dance Brigade in The 2024 D.I.R.T. Festival – or Dance In Revolt(ing) Times. This festival gathers a cross-section of the Bay Area arts community to set an intention of peace and justice for the upcoming election. It is a gathering of diverse and multi-generational artists using the mediums of dance, theater, and music to light a spark for a healthy future for all. The 13 day activation includes outdoor and indoor performances, with multiple offerings at the 24th Street BART Station, Osage Alley, and inside Dance Mission Theater. Join us as we set a spell for tomorrow.
Photo by: Winter Ramos of Megan Lowe for Flyaway Productions
Flyaway Productions
Ode to Jane
October 4-12, 2024
Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7:30pm and 8:30pm
Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:30pm
Friday, Oct. 11 at 7:30pm and 8:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 12 at 7:30pm and 8:30pm
The Cadillac Hotel (above the Tenderloin Museum)
398 Eddy Street, San Francisco
In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, activists in Chicago, calling themselves ‘Jane,’ built an underground network for women with unwanted pregnancies and provided illegal abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. Flyaway Productions’ new site work, ODE TO JANE, appreciates this history of resistance and brings a contemporary lens to what resistance looks like in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenderloin, right now. We will incorporate oral histories, suspended rocking chairs, and aerial dance on fire escapes and walls. We will evoke an expanded idea of what resistance is amidst racial reckoning, the addiction crisis, the city’s housing catastrophe, threats to women’s bodies, and the complex intersection of these realities.
Dance Performance by: Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Ai Yin Adelski, and Saharla Vetsch
This is a Free Event open to all; no tickets or reservations required.
Photo by: Philip Pavliger of Roel Seeber and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber
From the Clouds to the Earth
As part of the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival
August 17th-18th, 2024
Saturday and Sunday, 3:00pm-4:15pm
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Gateway Pavilion - Pier 2
2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94123
A site-specific vertical dance created by Roel Seeber and Megan Lowe–that explores the life cycle of the intensely complex creatures that we are. From wide-eyed simplicity to the sometimes overwhelming complexity of life, we seek to bridge the extremes of our bewilderingly enigmatic humanity by way of a creative journey through the beautiful architecture of the historic Gateway pavilion.
Photo by: Vita Hewitt of Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv
Megan Lowe Dances
Us
at miniWCCI
August 9th, 2024
Friday, 8:00pm
The Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
A duet excerpt from Just a Shadow, with Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv, shared at miniWCCI performance night.
A Note from Shira: When we started our rehearsals, we had plenty of wild ideas we wanted to explore. As we continued, we found that what truly fascinates us is sharing the unfiltered, spontaneous moments of the present. This is who we are, right here, right now. Using masks enhances our listening and deepens our trust, encouraging risk-taking without knowing the outcome. Despite what we have lost or may lose in the future, how do we continue to move? We are finding joy in "failing," and we are embracing giggles as a potent medicine.
Photo by: RJ Muna of AJ Gardner and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
Just a Shadow
May 31st - June 9th, 2024
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 7:30pm
The Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110
Just a Shadow, by Megan Lowe Dances, is a performance journey in service to artists who have lost loved ones prematurely. With a title inspired by a poem Artistic Director Megan Lowe’s mother wrote shortly before she died, the project stems from Megan’s desire to process the loss of her mother and sister through art, and co-create a space of mutual support with collaborators who are also dealing with recent loss. Just a Shadow brings together 7 powerful artists—AJ Gardner, Sonsherée Giles, Josh Icban, Megan Lowe, Frances Teves Sedayao, Roel Seeber, and Shira Yaziv—to make 6 distinct duets that highlight the unique strengths and creative modalities of each collaborator, including contemporary dance, site-specific dance, vertical dance, turf dance, contact improvisation, and live music.
This project aspires to nourish the soul, support healing, acknowledge resilience, celebrate life, and honor the memories of loved ones. It welcomes diverse perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds, recognizing that the narratives surrounding death and processing grief are multifaceted and deeply personal. Through dance performance, MLD aims to provide a platform for catharsis, empathy, and collective understanding, fostering connections that transcend individual stories and unite us in a shared journey toward solace and healing.
Photo by: Steve Disenhof of USF Dance
Megan Lowe Dances
A Place to Return to
As part of PASJ Presents: USF DANCE ENSEMBLE Returns to Presentation Theater! SPRING 2024
April 26-27, 2024
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
USF Presentation Theater
2350 Turk Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94118
The Performing Arts and Social Justice Program presents the Dance Ensemble’s Spring Concert, featuring original works by choreographers’ Amber Julian, Megan Lowe, Eli Nelson, Jennifer Polyocan and guest artist Evie Ladin of MoToR/Dance!
The University of San Francisco’s Dance Program provides rigorous, multi-faceted courses in performance, choreography, and teaching, offering unique tools for combining students’ passion for dance with making a positive impact in the community.
Photo by: Henrik Kam of Megan Lowe and Johnny Huy Nguyen
Megan Lowe & Johnny Huy Nguyen
Celestial
February 25th, 2024
Sunday at 7pm
Pacific Renaissance Plaza
388 9th St, Oakland, CA
In Celestial, Johnny and Megan send their energies into to the sky and call in inspiration from the cosmos. This site-specific dance performance is a part of Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival, co-hosted by AAPI Healers for Liberation, Oakland Bloom, and Sticky Rice Club. On Sat. 2/24 and Sun. 25, 3pm-8pm, experience performances, arts, crafts, and a night market, celebrating the Year of the Dragon.
Photos provided by: Irish Culture Bay Area
Irish Culture Bay Area
The Look of the Irish: Celebrating Diversity in Irish Arts
Co-Presented with Presidio Theatre
March 22nd, 2024
Friday, 7:30pm
Presidio Theatre
99 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA
An evening of art, dance, music, and conversation exploring the work – and experiences – of Black and mixed-race artists and performers from Ireland and the Bay Area. The show celebrates racially diverse Irish artists and writers, including: Leon Diop, co-author of “Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and Everyday Heroes” (Dublin, Ireland); Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, poet (Galway, Ireland); Maïa Nunes, performance artist (Dublin); Dr. Phil Mullen, Professor Black Studies, TCD; Megan Lowe, Chinese Irish dancer/choreographer (Bay Area), and Manas Itene drummer vocalist (Isoko tribe, Nigeria).
Photo by: Jorge Luis Garcia of Megan Lowe and Sonsherée Giles
Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles
Flourish
February 22nd-23rd, 2024
Thursday and Friday at 7pm
Flora and Ferment
1122 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
To "flourish" is to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment. In this site-specific dance performance, Sonsherée and Megan will joyfully activate the benches, tables, walls, stairs, and lofts of this beloved East Bay place of gathering. Come drink some delicious cider, and enjoy invigorating dance!
Note: Must be 21 years of age or older to enter the space as required by the venue
Photo by: Bruce Ghent of Bianca Mendoza, Fredrika Keefer, Frances Teves Sedayao, Sierra TiaTia, and Megan Lowe for Dance Brigade's Match Girrl
Dance Brigade
Match Girrl
January 19th-28th, 2024
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Sundays at 3:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
A fractured fairytale about class struggle. Join Dance Brigade for this deep, heartening, and yes, even humorous reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale classic, The Little Match Girl. Set in a contemporary urban setting, director Krissy Keefer uses dance, theater, and original writings to explore the “doom loop” of our beloved San Francisco.
Megan will be singing in this performance, with dancers Sarah Bush, KJ Dahlaw, Dominique Hargrove, Fredrika Keefer, Bianca Mendoza, Frances Teves Sedayao, Sierra TiaTia, Deb'e Taylor, and Kimberly Valmore.
