producing

Underwater scene showing several people in black wetsuits doing a yoga pose. Light streaks and streaks of red and white paint are overlaid on the image. The word "ROT" is written in bright green text across the bottom.

ROT festival

ROT festival

ROT is an artist-run organization presenting experimental dance, music, and interdisciplinary performances, workshops, panels and forums for creative praxis and critical conversation. We curate programming around the belief that interdependence of generations, backgrounds, and artistic fields creates a more powerful, sustainable and border-less arts ecosystem. ROT nourishes the San Francisco creative community through innovative curation, paying artists well, offering opportunities for study and experimentation, and providing forums for critical dialogue. Currently Directed by Clarissa Rivera Dyas and ainsley e. tharp.

ROT

Founded in 2019, the QUEERING DANCE FESTIVAL is by and for LGBTQIA2S+ movement artists. Through performances, events, workshops and more, QDF highlights the artistic work and issues on the minds of the queer, trans and gender-nonconforming dance community in the Bay Area.

​Produced by the QDF Steering Committee, a non-hierarchical collaborative of queer dancers, QDF presents dance through a queer lens, elevating the work and diverse voices of local LGBTQIA2S+ movement artists from all backgrounds.​

Queering dance festival

Two performers on stage, one dressed in a white top and long pants with a raised arm, the other wearing a white top, red sequined skirt, and brown tights, with a golden glittering fabric stand or prop nearby.

Steering Committee: Jessi Barder, Snowflake Calvert, Clarissa Rivera Dyas

Queering Dance Festival

photo credit on page in order of appearance:
Robbie Sweeny
ainsley e tharp
Robbie Sweeny