Zaccho Dance Theatre

Zaccho Dance Theatre (ZDT) creates and presents performance work that investigates dance as it relates to place. Artistic Director Joanna Haigoods creative work focuses on making dances that use natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Haigoods innovative work involves in-depth research into the history and the character of sites, often involving local communities in the creative process, and typically integrates aerial flight and suspension as ways of expanding performers spatial and dynamic range. In addition, Zaccho provides performances in San Francisco, nationally and internationally as well as an arts education program for the local community. Artistic Director Joanna Haigood relocated to San Francisco from New York in 1979 and co-founded Zaccho Dance Theatre in 1980. Joanna Haigoods work has been commissioned by leading arts presenters both nationally and internationally. Among them are the National ...