Zaccho Dance Theatre

Zaccho Dance Theatre, also known as Zaccho SF, is an aerial dance organization that offers performances, dance education, community partnerships, and programs to support artists at all career levels. Zaccho Dance Theatre’s theatrical productions are often site-specific and informed by African American experiences and perspectives. Each year, the organization serves over 300 children in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood with in-school and after-school classes and performance opportunities. The organization provides artists with funding, free studio space, and mentorship through three artist residency programs. This grant to Zaccho Dance Theatre supports the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and presents work that explores and offers new perspectives on the relationship of dance to place. Specializing in aerial choreography and nationally recognized site-specific work of multiple scales, Zaccho explores the history, character, and context of each site. Deeply rooted in San Francisco’s low-income community of Bayview Hunters Point, the organization provides residents with a Youth Performing Arts program, Zaccho Youth Company, and the Center for Dance and Aerial Art—a new effort that includes artist residencies and community outreach. A renewal grant would support increased marketing and fund development, the production and performance of new and existing works, and arts education programming.