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EIGHT/MOVES, San Francisco, CA (2026)

09/26/2025

It’s almost been 2 weeks since our Season 2 shows and we are still feeling the love and energy ✨

We’d like to thank everyone who made our second season so special - the incredible artists, our board of directors, all of our volunteers, every single person who supported us by showing up, donating, or spreading the word - we couldn’t do it without you!

Stay tuned for more exciting news from the EIGHT/MOVES family ✨

Spot any familiar faces? Tag yourself and your friends in the comments below 📸🌻

09/14/2025

Today’s the day—our final performance is at 2pm ✨

Opening night was beautiful, Saturday was electric, and we’re closing Season 2 with full hearts at ODC Theater. Thank you for lifting this work with your presence ✨

🎟️ A few seats remain—link in bio.

09/13/2025

✨ After a successful, electric opening night, we’re releasing a limited number of exclusive front row seats for tonight’s performance!

🎟 Use code 8MSATURDAY at checkout to unlock this special offer.

Seats are going fast — grab yours before they’re gone. Don’t miss your chance to be up close for Season 2 at ODC Theater!

09/12/2025

Are you ready? ⚡️Season 2 opens tonight!

And there are a couple of tickets left 🎟️ Grab the last seats for tonight in our bio link 🔗

See you tonight! ✨

09/09/2025

In the Chronicle today, and on the stage this weekend! 📰✨

“[Chong] is making a name for herself as the founder and artistic director of a new dance organization that aims to empower voices from marginalized artists: EIGHT/MOVES named after the Chinese lucky number eight.”

We are so grateful for the feature from and we hope to see you at our shows this week (Sept 12-14 at ODC Theater)! Grab your tickets and read the full story in our bio link. ✨

09/06/2025

🎟️ THIS WEEKEND ONLY: Community Appreciation Flash Sale ⚡️

We wouldn’t be here without YOU 💛

🎟 $20 tickets with promo code WEEKEND20

This special offer runs all weekend long, from midnight on Saturday through Sunday 11:59 PM, and applies to all tickets regularly priced $25-35.

📅 Sept 12–14 at ODC Theater, SF

Three bold works ➡️ world premieres by Mia J. Chong and Tsai Hsi Hung 洪綵希, and an expanded restaging of Steam by KT Nelson, Mia and the Company!

🔗 Visit the link in bio this weekend to get your $20 tickets!

09/04/2025

Welcoming back Crystaldawn Bell for Season 2!✨

“Very honored and grateful to be a part of this group of amazing dancers. It’s been exciting to bring Mia’s visions into motion. Looking forward to sharing what we’ve been cooking up in the studio!”

EIGHT/MOVES SEASON 2
🗓️ Sep 12-14, 2025
📍ODC Theater
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Crystaldawn Bell earned her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Since relocating to the Bay Area, she has worked with Robert Moses’ KIN, Post: Ballet, AXIS, Garrett + Moulton Productions, Sharp & Fine, and ODC to name a few. She received an Isadora Duncan Award (Izzie) for Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Ensemble for her performance in Eckert’s duet “First Stab at Closure” and has been nominated on three other occasions for Outstanding Performance-Individual. Crystaldawn was recognized as a Refinery 29: 30 under 30 and was the recipient of the Aninstantia Grant. She is also grateful to have been featured in DANCE Magazine on two occasions. Crystaldawn loves teaching and is on faculty at Saint Mary’s College of California and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
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Images by Maximillian Tortoriello 📸

09/04/2025

Welcoming back Colin Frederick () for Season 2!✨

“EIGHT/MOVES Season 2 has felt truly special and full of joy. The creativity that comes from Mia and the dancers is so authentic and unique. I can’t wait for audiences to see all the passion, hard work and care we’ve put into this show.“

Don’t miss the performances — happening at ODC Theater Sep 12-14, 2025! Tickets available at link in bio 🎟️

Colin Frederick (they/he) is a multidisciplinary artist, choreographer and movement instructor based in San Francisco, California. Colin attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where they obtained their B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography with an emphasis in Ballet and Modern. Since then, they have been freelancing professionally around the Bay Area with a variety of companies and choreographers including Garrett + Moulton Productions, Deborah Slater Dance Theatre, Post:ballet, under the direction of Robin Dekkers and Mia J. Chong’s EIGHT/MOVES. Colin has choreographed and co-produced bicoastal shows with BODYSONNET and is on faculty at Berkeley Ballet and also a yoga instructor at CustomFit SF.
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Image 1 by Maximillian Tortoriello 📸

09/04/2025

Welcoming back for Season 2!✨

“EIGHT/MOVES feels like the beginning of something for this next generation of artists, and I’m happy to join in the journey. Next week’s performances carry a real sense of power, the new work is striking, and even the returning work is shifting in exciting ways.”

We can’t wait for you to see her perform with us again — Sep 12-14 at ODC Theater! ✨Tickets available at link in bio 🎟️

Lani Yamanaka is a fourth-generation Japanese American artist with a history in both concert and commercial dance industries. She began training in Judo and Dance and graduated from UC Irvine with dual Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography.

As a storyteller and collaborator, she has performed works by the late Donald McKayle, JA Collective, Jodie, Gates, Jennifer White, Bryan Arias, Edward Clug, Yin Yue, Daniel Ezralow, Alba Castillo, Kate Weare, Kat Burns, Yayoi Kambara, and Shanda Sawyer, et al. As a company member, she’s danced with Akram Khan Company, SFDanceworks, EightMoves, ODC Dance, and Entity Contemporary Dance.

Beyond performing, Lani is passionate about educating future movement artists. As a certified personal trainer (NASM), she has collaborated with DancePrehab, emphasizing injury prevention and wellness, carrying these principles into all her teaching, whether in dance, personal training, or martial arts. In her free time, she is working toward her next black belt degree in Judo.
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Image 1 by Maximillian Tortoriello 📸

09/04/2025

Welcoming back Kira Fargas () for Season 2!✨

“I’m excited about dance, and about learning my body. I’m always looking to push my body’s capacity. Remounting ‘Steam’ by Mia and KT this year has been especially fun for me. I am enjoying approaching it from where I am now artistically. I’m always changing and evolving and exploring possibility, so it’s really awesome to be in a space that allows for that.”

Kira is a q***r, first-generation Filipinx-American movement artist, choreographer, educator, and drag performer. She grew up dancing at the Westlake School for the Performing Arts in Daly City, CA, and received a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona in 2017.

Kira currently performs and collaborates with UNA Productions (Chuck Wilt), EIGHT/MOVES (Mia Chong), and Detour Productions (Eric Garcia and Kat Gorospe Cole). She has also worked with New Dialect (Banning Bouldin), Rosie Herrera, Alex Ketley, Ariel Freedman, KT Nelson, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and Rena Butler, among others.
Her own work has been showcased at UNA Productions’ Glimpse, ODC’s State of Play, and BODYSONNET’s OTHER/self. Central to her artistic practice are explorations of her Filipinx and q***r identity—honoring both her cultural history and her chosen family.

Kira co-directs the Contemporary Training Program at the Westlake School for the Performing Arts alongside Hadassah Perry and is deeply committed to advancing the field through mentorship and collaboration with the next generation of dancers.
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Image 1 by Maximillian Tortoriello 📸

09/03/2025

When asked about EIGHT/MOVES, returning dance artist mentioned “ is a special person whose empathy towards her company and the environment at large is present inside the work itself.”✨

Come see for yourself, Sep 12-14 at ODC Theater! Tickets in bio 🎟️

William Brewton Fowler Jr. is a Christian freelance dancer and emerging choreographer from Augusta, Georgia. Throughout his career he has worked with companies such as Zaccho Dance Theatre, Gallim Dance, Company SBB, dawsondancesf, Eight/Moves, SFBATCO, Joe Goode Performance group, Deborah Slater Dance Theatre and Alex Ketley’s company The Foundry. William has also participated in works under the direction of artists such as Maurya Kerr, Melecio Estrella, Natasha Adorlee, and Destiny Muhammad. As an emerging choreographer, he dedicates his creations to his faith and recently created a solo, Gentleness in His hands, during his 2024/2025 fellowship with Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Black Futures residency. William has received an Isadora Duncan award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance in the Individual category (2023-2024) for Zaccho Dance Theatre’s “THE PEOPLE’S PALACE”

Image 1 by Maximillian Tortoriello 📸

09/03/2025

Introducing Douglas Gillespie (), who will be joining us for Season 2!✨

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining EIGHT/MOVES for my first season! I’m particularly excited about the premieres because I was a part of the process in making them and I’m so honored to be amongst these stunning artists.”

EIGHT/MOVES SEASON 2
🗓️ Sep 12-14, 2025
📍ODC Theater
🎟️ Tickets in bio

Douglas Gillespie is a dance artist and choreographer passionate in the making, teaching and embodying dance as an art form. He teaches at colleges and dance centers around the world, including Festival Danza Urbana and Piroutteando in Mexico, The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch Summer Program, ODC Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group, National Taiwan University of the Arts and Gibney Dance Center in New York, among others. Gillespie is an avid dance maker; in 2023 he premiered Squid, a duet co-choreographed with long time dance partner Leslie Kraus for the Oklahoma Contemporary Museum. Douglas’ company choreography includes works for the Teoria De Gravidad company of Monterrey, Mx., Limon Professional Training Program and Sarasota Contemporary Dance. Gillespie has created his own student commissions for colleges and festivals around the US and Mexico; with two works having been showcased at American College Dance Association. Currently Gillespie is in his inaugural season with EIGHT/MOVES and also performing as a guest artist for ODC. More recently in New York Douglas was with Company SBB, Stefanie Batten-Bland and a performer and co-creator in Life and Trust, Emursive’s newly premiered dance-theater immersive project. Douglas was a performer for David Dorfman Dance from 2018-2021 and an originating member, creative contributor, rehearsal director and choreographic assistant for Kate Weare Company from 2007-2021. Gillespie has performed in Punchdrunk Emursive’s Sleep No More and Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell. Douglas is thrilled to be in his second season as Associate Director of the ODC Dance Jam. Gillespie was born in San Diego, raised in Jacksonville, Fl. and received his BFA in Dance from Florida State University in 2005.

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