The 2025 World Arts West Dance Festival is a 3-weekend global dance & music festival that focuses on the theme of “Dance as Health and Healing.”

The festival will feature movement workshops, artist dialogues, and new activities like Hawaiian lei making, Kalimba music and Afro-Cuban healing rituals. Additionally, community activations will occur across the San Francisco Bay Area, emphasizing the theme of health and healing through dance.

Weekend 1 of the festival (July 12-13) will be hosted on the 3rd floor of our 447 Minna building in PUSH Dance’s Sanctuary studio space.

About World Arts West

World Arts West is a San Francisco-based, non-profit organization that supports over 450 Bay Area dance companies that are sustaining and celebrating the world's cultural legacy. The work of their organization includes producing and presenting the nationally acclaimed dance festival each June. The New York Times called their annual festival "a glorious achievement...one of the finest of all American dreams: a setting where cultures can celebrate their own traditions while honoring and applauding others."