UPCOMING
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Megan Lowe Dances
Maw Jaw
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival
Sunday, May 30th, 2021
Portsmouth Square - Chinatown
Clay Street and Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Saturday, June 5th, 2021
Kapwa Gardens - SoMa
976 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Megan Lowe Dances and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center team up to present Maw Jaw, a free outdoor dance event at Portsmouth Square, featuring a site-specific dance film journey and live excerpts from MLD’s Tangram project. Maw Jaw rehearsals will occur outside in public spaces around San Francisco’s Chinatown—activating benches, railings, poles, stairs, and play structures—inviting passersby to witness the creative process, enhancing community engagement, sparking conversations, and inspiring interest in dance as a tool to engage with the environment/people around us. This project is in solidarity with the API community.
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Portland, Oregon)
Presented by Boom Arts in Act Out Festival
June 25th-27th, 2021
Friday - Sunday at 5:00pm
Zidell Yards
3121 SW Moody Ave, Portland, Oregon
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe.
Photo by: Austin Forbod
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Algiers Point, New Orleans)
Presented by the Contemporary Arts Center
September 24th-26th, 2021
Friday - Sunday at 7:30pm
+ Saturday matinee at 3:00pm
Algier's Point, New Orleans
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe.
Photo by: Austin Forbod
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy
October 14th-17th, 2021
Thursday - Sunday at 7:00pm and 8:30pm (two shows a night)
+ Saturday matinee at 5:00pm
CounterPulse
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Flyaway Productions premieres MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY, the second in a trilogy of outdoor public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration. Meet Us Quickly is presented in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora, Bend The Arc Jewish Action, Prison Renaissance, and through CounterPulse’s curated co-production program. It will take place on the exterior facades of CounterPulse and the Dahlia Hotel next door. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Maddy Lawder, Megan Lowe, Sandia Sexton, and Helen Wicks.
Megan Lowe Dances
Dancing at a Distance
March 15th, 2020 - Present
Ongoing and Available Online
Home and Near Home
Marina Bay, Richmond, CA
Check out a series of dance/art videos Megan is making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most are in response to creative prompts given by Lenora Lee Dance for And the Community Will Rise. Megan will continue to add artistic investigation videos on her website until the physical distancing order is no longer in place. Stay tuned for more!
Screenshot by: Paul Dier
Postponed
PERFORMANCES
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
And the Community Will Rise
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
September 9th-27th, 2020
Thursday - Sunday
Ping Yuen Center
838 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
"And the Community Will Rise” includes a series of 12 site-specific, multimedia, immersive performances, transforming selected common spaces, courtyards and apartments in Ping Yuen into performance sites with live contemporary dance, media design, recorded original music, and voiceover from interviews with former and current residents, advocates and historians.
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, & Johnny Nguyen
Through Fire & Water - Dedication to Jory Horn
Produced by Lenora Lee Dance
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
June 13th, 2020
Saturday at 7:30pm (Program B + Reception)
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
“Through Fire & Water” is a series of performance events in dedication to Jory Horn (April 21, 1991 – November 19, 2019). Hien Huynh, Megan Lowe, and Johnny Nguyen team up to create work inspired by this profound dance artist and choreographer.
Logo by: The Izzies
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards
The 34th Annual Izzies Awards Ceremony
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
March 23rd, 2020
Monday at 6pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Megan Lowe Dances is honored to have been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (2018-2019 Performance Season) for:
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble: Action Potential, Megan Lowe with Sonsherée Giles and Shira Yaziv, choreography by Megan Lowe in collaboration with the performers, at Athletic Playground, Emeryville
This year the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee will celebrate 34 years of honoring local dance artists by acknowledging their outstanding achievements in dance. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony this event, and will be free and open to the public.
Photo by: Mogli Maureal
Girl Swallows Nightingale
Shapeshifter - Album Release Party
POSTPONED due to COVID-19! Stay Tuned for New Date/Time!
March 21st, 2020
Saturday at 8:00pm
Starline Social Club
645 West Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
UnderCover is proud to present an immersive night of Bay Area arts at its finest! Enter a transformative world of ghostly tales, memory fireflies, all imbued with gauzy soundscapes. A multi-disciplinary experience involving local live music, projections, theater, interactive sculpture, fine art, and memory reaping. Yes. Memory reaping. Megan will play the part of a dancing demon in the pre-show, and join GSN for a little singing.
RECENTLY PAST
PERFORMANCES
Flyaway Productions
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy – Virtual Open Rehearsal
December 5th, 2020
Saturdays at 6:30pm (PST)
Available Online
RSVP to jo@flyawayproductions.com for Watch Party link!
Join Flyaway for our upcoming watch party, and get a behind the scenes glimpse of Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy. Chat with the dancers about the making of the piece, and hear about our plans for its premiere in 2021.
Photo by: RJ Muna
Photo by: Mark Guthrie
Megan Lowe Dances
Action Potential (Excerpts)
Athletic Playground 12th Year Anniversary
November 21st, 2020
Saturday at 7pm
Available Online via Zoom
"It's Athletic Playground's 12th Anniversary and we wouldn't dream of missing it - even though we are very much missing all of you! Join us for a night of virtual performances and shenanigans followed by a virtual Thai Massage class for you to take with your family and podmates." - Athletic Playground
Megan Lowe Dances will be sharing excerpts of Action Potential, a site-specific dynamic dance and live music adventure created for Emeryville's Athletic Playground in 2019. Wathc Megan, Sonsherée Giles, and Shira Yaziv artfully activate ladders, planks, bars, mats, blocks, walls, and each other, channelling their inner superheroes, climbing, lifting, assisting, jumping, and flying in celebration of movement, trust, strength, resilience, and the ability to take action.
Photo by: John Carnahan
Megan Lowe & Sonsherée Giles
Meeting Room
Presented by Joe Goode Performance Group in Virtual Open House
October 30th, 2020
Friday at 7pm
Available Online via Twitch.tv
"Meeting Room" is a site-specific duet rooted in contact improvisation and partnering in relationship to a space. In this dance, Megan and Sonsherée must all ways be in contact with an architectural structure in the room, either directly or through each other—an exciting challenge for the dancers to explore, that evolves as they shift from surface to surface. Through this unique rule and limitation, new possibilities of movement and relating to each other are found.
JGPG invites you to the FIRST of their new Virtual Open House series this fall, a new Annex platform for digital performance; an informal & conversational exchange between participants and artists. Artist Lineup: Afia Thompson, Daria Garina / Celia Sagastume, Ali Montgomery, Andréa Spearman / A. Spearman & Co., Megan Lowe / Sonsherée Giles, and Robert Moses.
Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Presented by RAWdance's CONCEPT Series: Digital Edition
August 14th, 2020
Friday 6pm-7:30pm
Available Online!
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Hosted live by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors, Katerina Wong, Wendy Rein, and Ryan T. Smith, the Digital Edition will focus on dance for camera, including a mix of short dance films completed during the recent months of sheltering-in-place, as well as works-in-progress. The films will be followed by a full on dance party, complete with Jumbotron camera action. RAWdance will be joined by choreographers Marissa Brown, Eric Garcia, Frankie Lee III, Megan Lowe, and Jocelyn Reyes.
Megan Lowe Dances
(UN)CAGED
Official Selected by Rogue Dancer's FilmFest: OUtBreaK! Edition
Available Online:
June 23rd - July 2nd, 2020
A pre-quarantine site-specific dance film adventure of an old abandoned zoo, revisited while sheltering in place. Join a dancer on a journey of juxtaposition—grace, flow, strength, and sensitivity through metal cages, crumbling stones, cracked concrete, and gritty dirt.
Rogue Dancer brings you a monthly curated on-line screening exclusively for dance films. The theme this month is devoted to the work made in, finished in, or related to this confusing PANDEMIC time in history.
Screenshot by: Craig Baurley
Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Dance Brigade
Butterfly Effect
January 24th - February 9th, 2020
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 6:00pm
Added Shows:
Thursday, February 6th at 8:30pm
Saturday, February 8th at 5:30pm
Sunday, February 9th at 3pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dance Brigade is pleased to announce its latest evening-length dance work, Butterfly Effect, which takes on the climate crisis. Created and directed by Krissy Keefer, the title is a nod to the idea that small actions can have far-reaching consequences. Featuring a live musical score by Bruce Ghent, Butterfly Effect pays tribute to the devastatingly large number of activists that have been silenced, often brutally, because they have spoken truth to power. Megan will be primarily singing in this show, with a little bit of dancing as well.
Miriam Woldarski/SENSE OBJECT
Dance Machine! A Surrealist Oracle
December 31st, 2019
Tuesday at 8:00pm
Finnish Hall
1970 Chestnut St
Berkeley, CA 94702
Dance Machine is a live interactive installation created by Miriam Wolodarski in collaboration with Rajendra Serber, featuring Megan Lowe and Rosemary Hannon. This surrealist oracle performance is followed by a contact improvisation jam with musical offerings, beverages, snacks, and surprises. Join us for a New Year's dance party to call in the joy and hope for 2020!
For more information, please visit:
Photo by: Finnish Hall
Photo by: Sebastian Arrua
Megan Lowe Dances
Finger Trap
Presented by Scott Wells & Dancers in Muscle Memory
December 5th-8th, 2019
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 7:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
"Dancing with you, is like taking an advanced course in physics," Brenton Cheng said to Megan Lowe after an extensive and exciting dance at a contact jam, years ago. In Megan Lowe Dances' Finger Trap, Megan and Brenton dive deep into physical puzzles, while treading on the surface of shared ancestry. This duet will be shared in an evening with Scott Wells & Dancers, featuring Mira Barakat, Sabrina Danielle Baranda, Liz Duran Boubion, Megan Lowe, Mel Mark, Kristen Rulifson, Carmen Serber, Ronja Ver, Shira Yaziv, and Mindy Zarem.
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Photo by: Robbie Sweeny
Lenora Lee Dance
In the Skin of Her Hands
November 1st-3rd, 2019
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 5:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
“In the Skin of Her Hands” will share stories and perspectives of breast cancer survivors, their families and communities, gained from a community engagement project involving interviews and workshops. So many women have been affected by breast cancer, including Lenora’s sister and mother, creating an extremely urgent need for greater awareness, information, and connection in the face of this health crisis. On average, every 2 minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. Over 3.3 million breast cancer survivors are alive in the United States today. Featuring dancers Jory Horn, Lynn Huang, Hien Huynh, SanSan Kwan, Lenora Lee, Megan Lowe, and John Nguyen.
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Photo by: Austin Forbod
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Ossining, NY)
September 20th-22nd, 2019
Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 3:00pm & 8:00pm
Sunday at 3:00pm
Next to Sing Sing Prison
354 Hunter Street
Ossining, New York 10562
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Directed by Jo Kreiter, and featuring Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe.
For more information, please visit:
Photo by: Sebastian Arrua
Megan Lowe Dances
Action Potential
August 17th-25th, 2019
Saturdays at 6:00pm & 8:00pm
Sundays at 7:00pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Action Potential is a site-specific dynamic dance and live music adventure by Megan Lowe Dances, created for Emeryville's Athletic Playground. Audiences will be led on an innovative journey through the rooms of Athletic Playground, while dancers artfully activate ladders, planks, bars, mats, blocks, aerial apparatus, walls, and each other. Megan, Sonsherée Giles, and Shira Yaziv, join together for six energetic, athletic, and virtuosic performances, demonstrating prowess in site-specific dance, contact improvisation, and dynamic partnering. Girl Swallows Nightingale will paint a vivid musical canvas that shifts its colors between modern rock, jazz, theater, funk, and pop, to underwater soundscapes and dreams of outer space. Witness one of six invigorating shows and watch a space come to life and transform.
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Megan Lowe Dances
Alive (Excerpt of Action Potential)
Athletic Playgrounds' After Dark
July 20th, 2019
Saturday at 7:30pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Megan Lowe will be showing an excerpt of Action Potential, of an exciting solo with a tall wooden ladder, in an evening of dance and acrobatic performances at the Athletic Playground.
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Screenshot by: John Carnahan
Screenshot by: Megan Lowe
SWERVE Dance Collective (the company formerly known as Scott Wells & Dancers)
Presented by San Francisco Movement Arts Festival
July 19th, 2019
Friday 5:30-8:30pm
(SWERVE performs outside from 5:30-6:30pm)
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Our first performance as SWERVE Dance Collective, will occur at the Grace Cathedral outside courtyard, as part of SFMAF. This site specific exploration is created and performed by Sebastian Grubb, Megan Lowe, and Miriam Wolodarski-Lundberg; it will be opening the festival, which includes 300+ artists representing some of the many different flavors of the Bay Area arts scene.
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Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room (Richmond, CA)
May 17th-18th, 2019
Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm
Performed on the empty lot next to the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
339 11th Street
Richmond, CA 94801
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Composer Pamela Z will translate the oral histories of several women with families fractured by incarceration into a score informing the choreography of Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter, who has assembled a cast of six women performers: Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope and Megan Lowe.
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Megan Lowe Dances
at Aerial Tea
May 5th, 2019
Sunday at 2:00pm
Bandaloop Studio
1601 18th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv will be showing a snippet of Action Potential in an afternoon of dance performances at Sonya Smith's Aerial Tea. Want a taste of Megan and Shira's previous explorations? Check out Triangulate - Excerpts.
For more information, please visit:
Photo by: Maurice Ramirez
Screenshot by: Danny Nguyen
Megan Lowe Dances
Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish
Screening on:
May 4th, 2019
Saturday at 2:00pm
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema's "Kids + Dance + Film"
Lafayette Public Library Meeting Room
775 W. Baseline Road
Lafayette, CO, USA
A girl. Some stairs. Some railings. A door. It's frame. A wall. A ledge. The floor. Some grates. A bench. A window. Curtains... Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish is a truly inventive, site-specific exploration that is sensuous, full of texture and trickiness rooted in weight and elasticity, expanding perspective on the infinite ways a person can interact with the space around them. Crawl through and explore with the dancer, indulge in gravity defying/gravity defining feats, witness tender moments of connection, and watch a space come to life.
Not a resident of Colorado? If you want to view Never Finished: Explorations at the Finnish, please visit:
Photo by: RJ Muna
Flyaway Productions
The Wait Room
April 19th-27th, 2019
Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00pm
+ Saturday Matinees at 2:00pm
Downtown San Francisco near Civic Center
1125 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Engaging the ideas of waiting and weighting, The Wait Room blends oral history, dance, music and public art in an exploration of the physical, psychic and emotional burdens of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones. Composer Pamela Z will translate the oral histories of several women with families fractured by incarceration into a score informing the choreography of Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter, who has assembled a cast of six women performers: Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope and Megan Lowe.
For more information, please visit:
Photo by: Yayoi Kambara
Kambara + Dancers
LATERAL BIAS
Presented by David Herrera Performance Company
April 11th-13th, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 8:00pm
Z Space
450 Florida Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
KAMBARA + DANCERS with singer Megan Lowe will present LATERAL BIAS — a new commission for Dance Mission Theater in collaboration with architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak contemplating climate change. Included in David Herrera Performance Company's 10th home season, who is premiering Resurrection of Everyday People.
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Screenshot by: Chris Hosch
Megan Lowe Dances
Terraces
Officially Selected for Screening at the 7th Annual Tiny Dance Film Festival
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 at 2:30pm (Program B)
Roxie Theater
3117 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Follow a dancer on a sunny outdoor adventure: explore a staircase, climb a tree, kick up leaves, expand through a spacious field, and glide across water. "Terraces" is in an inventive, site-specific exploration, expanding perspectives on the infinite ways a person can interact with the space around them.
Tiny Dance Film Festival is based in San Francisco and features short dance films from across the globe, that stretch into new territory, challenge dominant narratives, and embrace brevity.
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Photo by: Yayoi Kambara
Kambara + Dancers
LATERAL BIAS
Presented by Dance Mission's D.I.R.T. Festival 2019
Saturday, March 9th, 2019 at 8:00pm
Sunday, March 10th, 2019 at 7:00pm
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
KAMBARA + DANCERS with singer Megan Lowe will present LATERAL BIAS — a new commission for Dance Mission Theater in collaboration with architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak contemplating climate change. The D.I.R.T. Festival, or Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, is a social political dance festival in its 4th year. D.I.R.T. presents the work of artists that explicitly addressing local/global challenges through their creative process.
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Photo by: Cal Performances
Megan Lowe Dances
Caleidoscope
Presented by Cal Performances
February 8th, 2019
Friday at 8:00pm
Zellerbach Hall
101 Zellerbach Hall #4800
Berkeley, CA 94720
Showcasing the very best of the performing and fine arts at UC Berkeley, Caleidoscope brings together students, faculty, and staff in short (two-to-four-minute) performances running back-to-back—without applause or interruptions—in a seamless, dramatically conceived performance on the Zellerbach Hall stage. Megan Lowe will be singing at this event.
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Megan Lowe Dances
Dynamic Partnering
Athletic Playgrounds' After Dark
January 25th, 2019
Saturday at 7:00pm
Athletic Playground
4770 San Pablo Ave, Ste E
Emeryville, CA 94608
Megan Lowe and Shira Yaziv will be showing a short dynamic partnering dance in an evening of dance and acrobatic performances at the Athletic Playground. Want a taste of Megan and Shira's previous explorations? Check out Triangulate - Excerpts.
For more information, please visit:
