Free Pride Weekend Vertical Dance + Trans History Tour (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

6/25/26, 7pm tour – 8pm show AND 6/26/26, 8pm show

TRANSMARSH kicks off Pride Weekend by rewilding the Transgender District with the trans history and ecology alive in the Tenderloin’s soil. This free outdoor vertical dance performance features B Dean/BODYSTORM, Pangaea, and tome on the Taylor Street facade of the Timbri Hotel at Turk and Taylor. June 25, 7pm: Preview Performance presented with the Tenderloin Museum – featuring a trans history walking tour of the Turk and Taylor neighborhood, a performance by Skywatchers, GRAVITY Access Services, and Oaklash Block Party at the Timbri Hotel, with local drag performers and DJs. June 26, 8pm: join the SF Trans March for a day of direct action. BODYSTORM’s 8pm performance follows the post-march rally at Turk and Taylor.

TRANSMARSH rewilds the Tenderloin with the memory of the prehistoric salt marshes beneath Market Street, the 1966 trans-led uprising at Compton’s Cafeteria, and the gay bars teeming with life where the Timbri Hotel now stands. The work lifts these intersecting narratives off the ground and asks what comes next – how we grieve the past, adapt to the present, and move through the coming storms together. In a work by trans people, for trans people, vertical dance flips the stage on its side, beckoning us to see the world anew and reimagine what we are capable of.

“Trans folks are world builders. We imagine new ways of seeing and defy imposed expectations that demand uprightness in an upside-down world. Our bodies are experts at transition, at change, because the trans body is a force of nature, and nature is hella queer.” – B Dean, Artistic Director of BODYSTORM.

BODYSTORM is a Bay Area vertical and site-specific dance company centering queer, multiracial, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Founded by transgender vertical dancer B Dean, BODYSTORM is fiscally sponsored by Circo Zero, supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Rainin Foundation, and Svane Family Foundation, with special thanks to BANDALOOP and the Timbri Hotel.

Presented by BODYSTORM

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