Joe Goode Performance Group

Specialties

Joe Goode Performance Group’s innovative form of dance-​theater is accessible, personal, and explores unabashed emotional terrain with humor and honesty. Using text, voice, and high velocity movement, JGPG blurs the line between theater and dance to make work that is thoughtful, groundbreaking, and deeply felt.

History

Established in 1986.

In 1979, Joe Goode began synthesizing a genre of dance theater that combined text, gestures, and humor with his own deeply physical, high velocity dancing. In 1986, Joe Goode Performance Group incorporated as a non-​profit organization with the mission of promoting tolerance, compassion and understanding through the artistic vision of Joe Goode. Over the past 25 years the company has performed annually in the San Francisco Bay Area and toured extensively throughout the U.S. JGPG has also appeared in Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa.

Joe Goode Performance Group has received multiple awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, SF Arts Commission, and the California Arts Council, as well as receiving the Isadora Duncan Dance Award («Izzie») for both choreography and performance and the New York Dance and Performance Award («Bessie») for choreography.

Meet the Business Owner

Joe G.

Business Owner

Joe Goode is a choreographer, writer, and director widely known as an innovator in the field of dance for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and the United States Artists Glover Fellowship in 2008. In 2006 Goode directed the opera «Transformations» for the San Francisco Opera Center. His play «Body Familiar,» commissioned by the Magic Theatre in 2003, was met with critical acclaim. His hit 2009 première of «Traveling Light» installed at the San Francisco Mint was remounted in 2010 for an impressive four-​week run.

Goode is known as a master teacher; his summer workshops in «felt performance» attract participants from around the world, and the company’s teaching residencies on tour are hugely popular. He is a member of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in the department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.