Virtual exhibit Mapping Dance: The Scores of Anna Halprin features some of Halprin's iconic choreographic scores that have not previously been available online.

In cooperation with San Francisco Ballet, the Museum of Performance and Design is launching a virtual version of Helgi Tomasson: 35 Years of Artistry.

We're proud to launch a new online exhibit entitled The African American Performer on the San Francisco Stage as part of San Francisco History Days 2020.

To celebrate dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin’s 100th birthday, we're adding a new digital exhibit featuring 100 photos entitled Anna Halprin at 100!.

The Museum of Performance and Design has received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for our project Preserving Bay Area Dance Legacies.

Helgi Tomasson will receive the 2020 San Francisco Arts Medallion due to his leadership and generosity in the arts. The ceremony has been postponed.

The exhibition San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker: A 75th Anniversary Celebration features items from all five of the Company's productions, from 1944 to today.

Preserved! features photographs, programs, designs, set models, and clips from notable productions, such as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Sizwe Bansi is Dead.

Michael Tilson Thomas will receive the 2019 San Francisco Arts Medallion on May 14 at Saint Joseph's Arts Society in San Francisco.

The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz And The Missing Beat, a new one-act play by Alejandro Murguía, is sold out. Call 415-741-3531 to join the waiting list.

Boutique exhibition San Francisco Ballet and Fairy Tales celebrates the company's fairy tale ballets and features costume designs, programs, videos, and more.

The Museum of Performance + Design plans to digitize some of our at-risk live theater video recordings with the support of the NEA Art Works grant program.

Join us to commemorate 50 years of dance history and celebrate the launch of our new site, Captured Live: Fifty Years of Bay Area Dance Photography.

The first public workshop performance of The Latin Quarter: Maclovia Ruiz and the Missing Beat by Alejandro Murguía will take place on June 28, 2018.

Join Muriel Maffre and Pascal Molat as they converse with Sofiane Sylve, James Sofranko, and Madison Keesler about the process between choreographer and dancer.

The Museum of Performance and Design celebrates the 110th anniversary of the launch of Nijinsky's career with a special display in the Reading Room.

The Museum of Performance and Design received support from the NEA to digitize, catalog, and provide open access to 2,500 images of live dance performances.

All Over Sound explores sound in performance and features the work of Latifa Medjdoud, Haco, and warren-crow+warren-crow in collaboration with local artists.

We've worked with theater collective The Collected Works to develop a site-responsive dramatic performance based on archived texts, images, and recordings..