ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE

From the menace of a 10-ton industrial crane to the delicacy of a butterfly's nesting ground, Zaccho's work explores overlooked and unseen environments and phenomena.

Zaccho was co-founded in 1980 by Joanna Haigood and Lynda Riemann. In 1983 Joanna Haigood became Artistic Director, guiding Zaccho as it actively provides performances and arts education programs in San Francisco, nationally and internationally. Haigood's work is centered on making dances that use natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement and narrative exploration. The dances become extensions of their surroundings, where choreography is developed as a direct response to the physical, cultural, and historical information contained therein. Haigood and the Company conduct research into the history and character of each site, often involving the community in the process.

Recent projects include:

Io and Her and the Trouble with Him - Zaccho Studio, April 2006
Dances Around the House - Exploratorium, January 2005
Ghost Architecture - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, February 2004
Picture Red Hook, presented in Brooklyn, NY August 2002
The View From Here, presented at Theater Artaud in San Francisco, April 2002
Picture Powderhorn, presented August 2000 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
Arena, a piece created for a former equestrian arena commissioned for the inauguration of Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, NY in 1999
Invisible Wings, based on the Underground Railroad and performed at Fort Point in San Francisco and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Lee, MA in 1998

Other commissions include The Exploratorium, Capp Street Project, Festival d'Arles in France, Boston Dance Umbrella, Jacob's Pillow, the San Francisco Arts Commission and McColl Center for Visual Art, NC.

Zaccho's Art Education Program conducts weekly arts education classes to 150 children annually from Bayview, and presents annual youth concerts at Theater Artaud.

Board of Directors Joanna Haigood, Diana Sunshine, Sean Cullen, Jose Maria Francos, Jennifer Ross

Advisory Board Ellen Sebastion Chang, Alex Hault, David Jenkins, Nancy Johnson, Adriene Josephs, Sarah Kornfeld, Elvia Marta, Erik Reinecke, Betty Soskin Reid