The 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival is a 3-weekend experience, from July-September that focuses on the theme “Dance as Health and Healing,” exploring what constitutes a healthy community. It aims to showcase dance and art forms rooted in cultural traditions, including sacred, social, and contemporary.
The festival will feature movement workshops, artist dialogues, and new activities like Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music and Afro-Cuban healing rituals. Additionally, community activations will occur across the San Francisco Bay Area, emphasizing the theme of health and healing through dance.
$15 presale/$20 in person - Single workshop/activity
$25 - $60 presale/in person - Full Day Packages
$5 - No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds (NOTAFLOF)
Donations accepted! (Your donation makes it possible for 1- working artists and lower-income community members to attend and 2- allows World Arts West to compensate instructors/musicians/panelists more equitably.)
