PAUFVE DANCE & DIRT
Dirt offers accessible pathways for engagement, using dance to foster healing, belonging, and cultural vitality, while creating opportunities for older audiences and artists to see themselves reflected on stage. This project provides a publicly accessible, community-centered, high-quality dance work that engages diverse Bay Area audiences while amplifying stories we need to hear now.
Paufve Dance is a contemporary dance organization dedicated to creating intimate portraits of humanity through the rigorous craft of choreography. Since 2001, Paufve Dance has been a cornerstone of the dance community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its acclaimed works explore themes of womanhood, community, and resilience, and have been performed in a variety of spaces ranging from theater stages and public parks to bars and nightclubs. Paufve Dance regularly hosts open workshops and rehearsals that invite dancers of all levels to celebrate their bodies and explore their inner worlds. Through its programs, Paufve Dance strives to honor the rigor of choreography and deepen the connections between movement, meaning, and imagination.
Randee Paufve - Dirt Choreographer/Director - is the Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, a Bay Area-based contemporary dance organization. A 2019 Fulbright Scholar, Randee has been a featured artist on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and 2015 Izzie awardee for Outstanding Individual Performance. Randee’s choreography has been supported by numerous grants and residencies including Ucross Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Red Cinder Creativity Center, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.