San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
CLAUDIA BAUER’S DANCE PICKS
World Ballet Competition:
Tune in online to see young dancers from 25 countries compete for $300,000 in prize money, training scholarships and company contracts at the 12th annual event in Orlando. Sunday, June 10. Through Saturday, June 16. www.livestream.com/worldballetcompetition
Caseldance:
Peiling Kao returns to the Bay Area in a new work by ODC resident artist Gerald Casel, whose “Cover Your Mouth When You Smile” is an abstract exploration of the Asian immigrant experience. 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, June 13-15. ODC Theater, S.F. www.odc.dance
Flyaway Productions:
In “Tender,” Jo Kreiter’s outstanding activist aerial company pays homage to a century of outcasts and muckrakers who have called the Tenderloin home. 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14. Through Sunday, June 16. Cadillac Hotel, S.F. www.flyawayproductions.com
Fresh Meat Festival:
Dance gets a lot of stage time in this year’s celebration of trans and queer performing arts, including same-sex ballroom champions Robbie Tristan & Ernesto Palma, bachata team Quisqueya, and former Axis star Alice Sheppard with Laurel Lawson. (Stay late for the trans superhero rock opera.) 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, June 14-16. Z Space, S.F. www.freshmeatproductions.org
CubaCaribe Festival:
The 14th annual festival of Afro-Cuban diasporic performance opens with the premieres of Alayo Dance Company’s “Calle,” a street dance mixing contemporary, rumba and turf, and “Manos de Mujeres Cubanos.” 7 p.m. Friday, June 15. Through Thursday, June 28, at various locations. Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center, Laney College, Oakland. www.cubacaribe.org