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This September a smorgasbord of dance film descended upon San Francisco with the 2013 San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

Up a hidden staircase above a metal warehouse in Berkeley, CA, The Foundry thrives as a space where artists from a variety of mediums coalesce.

“Her Other Side,” by Esther Baker- Tarpaga, is an interactive performance art project that reveals stereotypes of the female body in Arab versus American society.

Bandaloop’s performance, Harboring created an astounding aerial performance and reflection of San Francisco’s naval past and the lives touched by this history.

“I felt like this piece was my initiation into elder-ship. I had never really seen myself as an elder before,” wrote Amara Tabor-Smith.

“I dance all the time, in the kitchen, through the hallway and in nature…” says Abby McNally, of A Mused Collective.

Deborah Slater Dance Theater performed in the San Francisco Public Library for dance anywhere 2013.

I was interested in the way that different cities move, so in other words the choreographies of those cities. I was also interested in thinking about both human and non-human movers- for example- vehicles and structures, and also bodies moving in those different cities. And I was interested in the different ways that those cities move and were choreographed, and what that might tell us about identity and community in those cities.

“Site-specific work is intentionally engaging in a way that dance doesn’t always achieve. It provides a foundation based in physical space and time: anything can happen or appear, both physically and emotionally.”