With support from the California Arts Council, Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) will uplift Bay Area high school students through its free Inspired Bodies dance theater program, introducing JGPG’s creative methodologies, offering mentorship with dance theater professionals and cultimating in devised work based on students’ stories and felt experiences.
Creation and presentation of new work of dance theater, by Joe Goode and local choreographers.
Movement for Humans, a gentle accessible movement class for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities
Resilience Project, a program which interviews a specific group of participants – originally Veterans – and using their stories about resilience to develop participant-specific new dance theater work.
The Joe Goode Annex. An affordable studio theater rental program for individual artists, community arts groups, and other small nonprofits.
Workshops and classes at the Annex and online, for people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests.
Inspired Bodies. JGPG offers teens at several school sites the opportunity to train with company member and create original dance theater works.
D.R.A.G | Divination, Rainbows, and Glitter is led by JGPG company member and teaching artist, Wailana Simock/Magdelena workshop participants explore new ways to express themselves through drag, movement and story-telling and honor ancestral and indigenous knowledge of sex and gender identities.
GUSH Dance Festival serves dance-makers and audiences in the SF Bay Area with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and QTPOC artists. This biannual community-centered project is aligned with equity, social justice and decolonizing the art-making experience by providing an open platform for artists to create work that voices their distinct history, culture and artistic imprint.

