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Palanza Dance
2275 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Hello Friends! It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you Louis Acquisto, the newest member of the Palanza Dance Company. Louis moved to San Francisco this summer from NYC and we are thrilled to have him!! Please mark your calendars. We are showing work at RAW dance’s concept…
Please mark your calendars for MAY 5 AND 6! Palanza Dance will be performing at the Subterranean Art house in Berkeley: http://subterraneanarthouse.org.
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Hi friends! Palanza dance has some additions to the company! Please check out their bios and pictures. What a group!
Hello San Francisco! Palanza Dance is back. Please note our audition and the description of our work ahead, also available on the ODC website. The ODC School Audition Series brings dancers and choreographers together in a class context. Dancers may use class cards or pay a $14 drop in fee…
Friends. Palanza dance begins the 2011/2012 season, our second year running.We were delighted by our experience performing and receiving feedback longside artists RAW and Macklin Kowal at CounterPulse’s “2nd Sundays” on September 11th.Coming up: Palanza is running an audition October 8th from 3:30-5:30 at ODC. Looking for two dancers to…
Thank you friends for showing your amazing support of our first full length performance at the Dance Mission Theater. We felt such a great response from all of you who attended. We are looking forward to announcing our next work very soon. We will keep you posted!
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