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These hiphop dance styles include popping, locking, strutting, house, krumping, waacking, turfing, breaking, and many more, with West Coast styles well represented. The festival fundraises each year in order to fully fund artist travel and hotel expenses. [ 2 ]
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (also known as Yerba Buena Arts & Events, and YBGF) is an admission-free performing arts festival held in San Francisco, California.During the summer months, May to October, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival produces concerts and performances including music, dance, theater, circus and children's programs.
The event primarily features electronic dance music. Limited to people over the age of 21, it is intended to "present electronic music in an adult way". [1] [2] The festival is named after the 1909 Portola Festival, an event thrown by the city of San Francisco to demonstrate its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. [3] [4]
Bootie is the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to mashups and bootlegs, and was founded in San Francisco, California. [1] It is now the biggest and longest running all-mashup party in the world, with regular parties in several cities.
Death Guild opened on March 15, 1993, [1] and is currently held every Monday at DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Death Guild has always been an 18-and-over dance club, a rarity in San Francisco where most dance clubs are 21+. Death Guild has also been the promoter of most of the gothic and industrial live shows in San Francisco since the mid-1990s.
In the early '90s, the club hosted many rave-themed nights with acts including Right Said Fred, the Hardkiss Brothers and Tasti Box, and afterhours events such as Lift- it was an important venue in San Francisco rave history. The DNA Lounge was also one of the few bars in San Francisco that would serve the Flaming Dr Pepper, an ignited drink.
LINES Ballet performs its home season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco [3] while also maintaining an international touring schedule that includes featured performances at venues such as Venice Biennale in Venice, Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, and The Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong.
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]