The Dance Center's most popular event, All You Can Dance for Just $5, returns on February 6, 1:00 to 5:00 pm. This bi-annual event allows you to sample bite-sized servings of different kinds of dance - ballet, modern, jazz, dance theater, hip hop, ethnic styles and much more. This is a great way to introduce dance to your non-dancer friends or for you to try a style of dance that you've never tried before. Visit our website for more information about All You Can Dance for Just $5.

Mary Carbonara is back with a new workshop. On January 22 and 23, Mary will host two days of movement, gesture, and partnering studies. Show up at the workshop warm and make sure your creative juices are flowing. Sign up for the workshop online.

Coming up, there are a wealth of other workshops to help you to kick off the new year right. MJ Paul returns with two excellent Performance/Theater Jazz workshops. Jenni Bregman, Heidi Schweiker, and Kat Worthington all have jazz and modern Choreography and Performance Workshops coming up. Liezl Austria renews her Absolute Beginner Ballet Workshop and Nol Simonse teaches San Francisco's only Fundamentals of Modern Dance workshop. Donna Bervinchak begins her 2011 Feldenkrais® workshop series on January 23. Breton Tyner-Bryan will teach a six-week Classical Variations Workshop, beginning January 17. And there will be much more throughout 2011. You can sign up for any of our workshops here.

Thank you to all of you who contributed to the 2010 Dance Center Fundraising Campaign. The fruits of your generosity can be seen in the newly painted walls in the hallways and in the new, easier to read schedule projection in the lobby. We are looking forward to delivery of a brand new Welcome Desk. This would not have happened without you and it promises to make your experience of the Dance Center even more pleasant. We are still accepting donations so if you wish to help us defray more of the costs of the renovation, please donate.

Finally, it has come to our attention that, due to a glitch in our computer scheduling system, some of you thought that we had resumed our regular schedule on Sunday, January 2 instead of Monday, January 3. We regret the confusion and thank you for your understanding.

As always, the Dance Center is happy to help you over the phone at 415.863.3040 x221.

The LINES Ballet Summer Program kicks off our national audition tour this weekend with auditions in Seattle on Saturday, January 8 and in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 9. Over the next few weeks we will see dancers in Phoenix (Jan 10), Houston (Jan 12), San Francisco (Jan 15), Silver Spring (Jan 15), Chicago (Jan 16), New York (Jan 17), Boston (Jan 20), Atlanta (Jan 22), Charlotte (Jan 23), Albuquerque (Jan 24), and will finish off the month with a 4-day Discovery Project in Kansas City, MO January 27-30.

Each year we look forward to meeting so many diversely talented dancers on our tour. Summer Program Director Shirin Keyani-Rose and core faculty member Maurya Kerr teach over 800 dancers on our 15-city tour. It makes the months of preparation very worth the effort to experience such welcoming energy all over the country.

Please visit our website to learn more about how to audition live for our Summer Program (including the full list of audition locations/dates), audition via video (due Feb 12), apply for financial aid (due March 5), and more information about program structure, faculty, summer 2011 dates and cost.

Please join us in spreading the word for our Discovery Projects in Kansas City, MO January 27-30 and in Tampa / St. Petersburg, FL February 3-6. For more information and a full schedule (to be posted soon), please visit our website.