2024 Bay Area “Get Free” Hip Hop Dance Festival (June 29 – July 6)

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2025 Bay Area “Get Free” Hip Hop Dance Festival (July 11-13)

Get Free is a hip hop dance festival, July 11-13, 2025, rooted in the artistry of freestyling, experimental battling, healing through community practices, and love for Black social dance and our Bay Area street community. This festival was formerly a weeklong and free, but it looks like things have changed for 2025.

Get Free Festival
July 11-13, 2025
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
3316 24th Street San Francisco, CA
Tickets $20, but no one turned away for lack of funds

With Black social dances and house dance culture at its core, the Get Free Festival is back for its sixth year! Co-presented by Embodiment Project, Be Movement Collective and Dance Mission Theater, festival events include a film screening, panels, an experimental battle, the Rebearth House Dance Party and a live performance showcase.

Friday, July 11
8:00 PM – Dance Film Showing + Panel Conversation

Saturday, July 12
8:00 PM – MYCELIAL EXCHANGE
10:00 PM – 12:00 AM – Rebearth (Afterparty) with DJ JEFREEDOM

Sunday, July 13
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM – House Workshop with Lauren Benjamin
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Get Weird Battle with DJ SHIMMY

Saturday, June 29, 2024
2025 Bay Area “Get Free” Hip Hop Dance Festival (July 11-13)

This year Embodiment Project celebrates our 5th Get Free Festival  in partnership with Dance Mission Theater, Destiny Arts Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in the SF Bay Area. Join us for a FREE weeklong street dance festival offering 22 technique classes covering house dance and various styles, multidisciplinary performances with live musicians and poets, experimental battles, and a day party celebrating Black social dance and house music culture. Featuring dance workshops taught by Toyin Sogunro, K’niin Abbrey, Rama Mahesh Hall, Nicole Klaymoon, Nakachi Clark-Kasimu, and more. Participants have the chance to showcase new works at the end of the week. Our Get Free Festival includes live performances by Embodiment Project, Coflo Ferreira, Valerie Troutt, Tiffany Austin, and more

Event Registration Coming Soon

Please note, 2024 event schedule is not yet available as of 5/6/24.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.