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Photo by: Maurice Ramirez of Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
Chinatown Connections
As part of the Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival
March 1st, 2026
Sunday, 3:00pm-4:30pm
ASL Interpretation Provided
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3:15pm: Dance-and-Sing-Along with MLD
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4:00pm: Site-Responsive Performance by MLD
(Entire Festival is 3:00pm-8:00pm)
Pacific Renaissance Plaza
388 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Oakland Chinatown's Lantern Festival will feature a night market with food booths, Asian and black artist vendors, a performance stage, a community altar honoring immigrant rights, family-friendly activities, and a community acupuncture/ healing space.
Megan Lowe Dances invites you to participate in a dance-and-sing-along gathering, open to the public, and afterwards witness a performance, featuring dance artists Ai Yin Adelski, Brenton Cheng, Megan Lowe, and Frances Teves Sedayao, oral histories curated by Roy Chan featuring the voices of Norman Fong and Flo Oy Wong, and music by Megan.
RECENTLY PAST
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez of Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
Chinatown Connections
As part of the Art Zone at the 2026 Flower Market Fair:
Make Your Own Luck
February 15th, 2026
Sunday, 12:00pm-2:00pm, Pop-Up Performances and Movement Facilitation
(Entire Festival is 9am-6pm, February 14th-15th)
Chinese Cultural Center
667 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108
The Art Zone at the Chinatown Flower Market Fair is a unique collaboration between the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and CCC, launched in 2025 to introduce dynamic artistic programming into one of Chinatown’s most enduring traditions.
Megan Lowe Dances will be facilitating pop-up dance performances and participatory movement moments with dance artists Ai Yin Adelski, Brenton Cheng, Megan Lowe, and Frances Teves Sedayao, featuring music by Megan integrating oral histories curated by Roy Chan.
Graphic by: Dance Mission Theater featuring photo by Kyle Adler of Megan Lowe, Sarah Bush, KJ Dahlaw, Dominique Hargrove, Fredrika Keefer, Bianca Mendoza-Prado, Frances Teves Sedayao, Sierra TiaTia, Deb'e Taylor, and Kimberly Valmore.
Dance Brigade
Match Girrl
January 16th - February 1st, 2026
Friday-Saturday at 7:30pm + Sunday at 5:00pm.
- Sat. January 24th Show has ASL Interpretation
- Sun. February 1st Show is at 2:00pm
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, Johanna Gormley, Dominique Hargrove, Fredrika Keefer, Frances Teves Sedayao, Sierra TiaTia, Deb'e Taylor, and Kimberly Valmore.
Photos by [from top-bottom, to left-right]: a) Jessica Swanson of Megan Lowe & Roel Seeber in CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES at BANDALOOP Studios; b) BIPOC Acro Collective Care Ecosystem cohort: Raymond Diamond, Theresa Edge, Landyn Endo, Jordan Garcia, Rosemary Le, Eric McKeethen, Serena Tang, Marissa Wong, with Director Veronica Blair, Choreographer Megan Lowe, Artist Doula Colby Calhoun, and Program Coordinators Ariel Mihic and Azrael M.E. in Take Power, Make Power: TRIGGERED at ODC Theater; c) Vita Hewitt of Sonsherée Giles, Marica Petrey, Frances Teves Sedayao, Shira Yaziv, Roel Seeber, AJ "Dopey Fresh" Gardner, & Megan Lowe, in Just a Shadow at ODC Theater; d) Jessica Swanson of Megan Lowe & Rose Huey in JINSHAN: Seams of Gold in San Francisco; e) Gary Sexton of Frances Teves Sedayao, AJ "Dopey Fresh" Garner, Ai Yin Adelski, Megan Lowe, Anna Greenberg Gold, and Johan Casal in Legions and Legacies at the Legion of Honor Museum; f) Claire Burke of Megan Lowe with the band Coraza in APAture at SOMArts; g) Emilie Watten of Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv in A New Arts Destination at The Orchard - Galleries on 25; h) Jan Watten of Shira Yaziv & Megan Lowe in A Momentous Occasion at Gray Loft Gallery
Photo by: Jessica Swanson of Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe + Rose Huey
JINSHAN: Seams of Gold
a Site-Specific Vertical Dance Film
as part of Luna's Family Dance Film Festival
December 13th, 2025
Saturday at 1:00pm
Luna Dance & Creativity
931 Ashby Ave, Berkeley (entrance on Potter Street)
After winning Critic's Choice Award at ADF2025 Dance Film Screening, our outdoor site-specific vertical dance film JINSHAN: Seams of Gold will be shared at Luna’s Family Dance Film Festival, "a day-long celebration spotlighting the cinematic and choreographic inventions of dance legends, animators, dance documentarians, aerialists, and more. Our event features more than twenty classic and contemporary films merging the disciplines of choreography and cinema, uniquely curated for children and families into four different showings. Audience members will be welcome to participate in creative dance breaks facilitated by Luna teaching artists during intermissions and between sessions."
Photo by: Vita Hewitt of Roel Seeber and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe and Roel Seeber
CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES and COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES
As part of ESTUARY: Vertical Dance Artistic Research Cohort
December 5th-6th, 2025
Friday and Saturday at 7pm
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 a collection of dynamic, tender, and evocative works in progress. ESTUARY features work and performances from Ciarra D'Onofrio, Faith Elder, Suzanne Gallo, Megan Lowe, Rachel Maxwell, Kriss Rulifson, Olivia Sander, Roel Seeber, and Jessica Swanson.
Megan and Roel will be bring back their "Mind blowing" low-flying duet, COLLIDING TOPOGRAPHIES, and will continue "Pushing the form" in the next chapter, CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES.
Graphic by Take Power, Make Power, featuring image by Maurice Ramirez of Megan Lowe
BIPOC Acro Collective Care Ecosystem
Take Power, Make Power: TRIGGERED
October 25th-26th, 2025
Saturday, 6pm + 8pm
Sunday, 12pm (BIPOC Community Only - Free)
ODC Theater
3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan is assisting with choreography for TRIGGERED, an acrobatic, theatrical exploration of the root of anger. Through partner acrobatics, dance, and physical theater, the performers embody anger’s many faces: its heat, volatility, protective nature, destructive potential, and alchemizing ability. Beginning in the quiet rumblings of irritation, building through the explosive release of fury, and arriving at the possibility of redirection and transformation, TRIGGRED invites audiences to reflect on their own relationship to anger: where it lives in the body, how it moves through communities, and what might be possible if we allow ourselves to sit with its heat long enough to listen.
Photo by: Jan Watten of Shira Yaziv and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
A New Art Destination
Presented by Gray Loft Uptown
November 13th, 2025
Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm
MLD performs at 3:00pm
Gray Loft Uptown at The Orchard - Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
After a well received intimate performance in October at Gray Loft Gallery as part of Oakland Art Murmur / Oakland Style Week, MLD has been invited to perform at the Grand Opening of Gray Loft Uptown: A New Art Destination in the Heart of Oakland's Art Murmur.
Photo by: Justin Bench of Shira Yaziv and Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances
A Momentous Conversation
Presented by Oakland Art Murmur in partnership with Oakland Style, Oakland Art Museum, and Visit Oakland
as part of Arts Alive: Bus Art Tour with Live Performances
October 11th, 2025
Saturday, 11:00am-2:00pm
MLD performs at 11:45am
Various Oakland Locations
MLD will be performing at Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford St third floor, Oakland, CA 94601
Oakland Art Murmur invites you to celebrate the bold, brilliant, and diverse creativity of Oakland during Oakland Style Week. This specially curated Oakland Style Bus Art Tour will bring you inside the city’s most vibrant art spaces—each showcasing incredible work by local artists. From contemporary galleries to artist collectives, every stop will feature a live performance or interactive experience, including dance performances, opera and music performances, hands-on encaustic art making and tons of artwork by local artists. Enjoy light bites, a wine reception, and the rare chance to meet the artists and creative minds shaping Oakland’s cultural landscape.
Megan Lowe Dances will be sharing A Momentous Conversation, a dynamic contact improvisation duet full of flying, catching, and rolling, with two dancers in constant dialogue with gravity, momentum, and each other. MLD brings this spirited performance to life with performers Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv. Their playful partnership transforms risk into joy, making the invisible forces of weight and trust visible.
Photo by: Gary Sexton of Megan Lowe
Megan Lowe Dances with Coraza
A New Color
Presented by Kearny Street Workshop
as the Featured Artists of APAture 2025 Festival Kickoff: Performing Arts Showcase & Art Fair: Unbecoming
October 18th, 2025
Saturday, 2:00pm-6:00pm
MLD performs at 4:30pm
SOMArts
934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th)
San Francisco, CA 94103
This year APAture kicks off with their Performing Arts Showcase and Art Fair with headliners Megan Lowe Dances' (featuring Megan and Frances Teves Sedayao) and the band Coraza, alongside an amazing line-up of emerging dancers and musicians performing throughout the day. The Art Fair will feature local artisans, artists, and makers, all tabling in SOMArts’ main gallery.
The theme for this year is (UN)BECOMING. Being human is to be part of a great transformational journey. By shedding outdated identities and practices that no longer serve us, we create space for personal and collective growth, allowing new ideas to emerge. Through reinvention, we reshape how we use art as a tool to heal, connect, and foster positive change.
Photo by: RJ Muna of Megan Lowe
Flyaway Productions
Down on the Corner
October 3rd-4th and 9th-11th, 2025
Shows run at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM
Tenderloin, San Francisco
Meet on the South East Corner of Turk and Taylor Streets
Flyaway Productions is proud to announce the world premiere of DOWN ON THE CORNER presented near the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. Directed by Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter in partnership with the TurkxTaylor Initiative (TxT), Down on the Corner features a cast of queer, transgender, and female performers, commissioned music by singer and songwriter Melanie DeMore, and a film by Leila Weefur. Down on the Corner includes live performances by dancers Ai Yin Adelski, Gabriele Christian, Becca “B” Dean, Quinn Dior, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, and Saharla Vetsch.
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.
Photo by: John Keonaona 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.
