Sharp & Fine

Co-directed by sisters Megan & Shannon Kurashige. San Francisco. An evening-length piece that will premiere at ODC Theater in San Francisco, October 23-26, 2014.

Sharp & Fine is a contemporary dance company creating narrative performances that combine exuberant choreography, emotionally nuanced text, live music, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Currently, Sharp & Fine is working on:

Project #4: A collaboration with trumpet player Theo Padouvas that will bring together a mixed cast of musicians and dancers to tell a story.

06/02/2026

One of the collective preoccupations of Sharp & Fine is how imagination makes movement mean something. And, oh man, does fill movement to the brim with imagining! We are all obsessed. Please note the sweetest cheerleader gremlins in the background + a music sneak peek from the early rehearsal recordings has been sharing.

05/12/2026

Recent rehearsal moments: Building images (a paper boulder for Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s shadow selves, chair monsters) while finding and trying and layering words.

With , , , .tv, , and Charmaine… and a fun visit from !

05/05/2026

A little behind-the-scenes from a photo shoot with for our Iphigenia show. We can’t wait to see the final images! Thank you to Natalia and our stunning collaborators for being down to clown and so generous with their time, effort, and ideas for this shoot: , , .tv, , , and Charmaine. 💕

04/19/2026

We’ve been thinking about playing with this idea again... Back in 2017, we played around with having our composer “conduct” both movement and text in performance. It was fun and challenging and we ended up loving the strange energy and effect it created. Thank you to for putting up with our experiments!

Excerpt from Your Sister Turns Into a Lion
with , , and as “grey people,” on composing and conducting duties, as the lion, and vocalist as intrepid flower handler.

04/04/2026

In November, Sharp & Fine had the immense pleasure of creating a show for the beautiful with vignettes of dance and live music paired with specific locations throughout the garden. Here are and moving through the “currents duet” with music by saxophonist Beth Schenck. They are under the Long Bridge, which is covered with vines and surrounded by layers and layers of lush greenery.

- Choreography and direction by and , in collaboration with the performers
- Music direction by
- Video by

Thank you to , , and for helping to make this project possible! 🌿💚

02/21/2026

A week of making, remembering, working on, figuring out, editing, digging through, and exploding duets. With + , .tv + Charmaine, and + . ❤️‍🔥

02/17/2026

Since we have some new folks following us (Hello! We’re so happy you’re here!), we wanted to share a little introduction and an invitation to join our wonderful newsletter readers. 💌 We’ll mostly be talking about the process of making THE IPHIGENIA PROJECT, which premieres in October, plus a few other shows and maybe workshops along the way.

The video clips feature collaborators from our two most recent evening-length shows, A DETECTIVE STORY and IMAGINARY COUNTRY: , , Charmaine Butcher, , , , and (just a glimpse!)

with music by

and thank you, as ever, to for the photo of Co-Directors and

01/13/2026

We’re trying to understand how one (or many) might arrive at the point where sacrifice can be demanded, without gods or soothsayers putting a supernatural finger upon the scale. It’s taking us to territory that’s unfamiliar for S&F, but so interesting and discomfiting to explore. This is from a scene we’ve been calling “town hall” and sketching through improvisation, seeing how many layers we can use to add meaning. Some great and unexpected ideas bubbled up from the group, and we’re excited (and nervous) to continue pushing forward to hone in on what might create the inescapable pressure that drives the darkest choices of our story.

With , , .tv, , , and Charmaine

12/30/2025

Next week, we go back to the studio to continue working on The Iphigenia Project. We’ll be sketching a first draft of the structure so we can figure out how all the shiny bits we’ve been gathering fit into the necessary landmarks of story, image, and feeling.

It’s the second-to-last day of 2025, so if you want to help us start 2026 strong and get through this daunting-thrilling-confusing-hilarious-magical stage of creating a new piece, check out the last slide ⬆️

In the meantime, we’ve got this little dump of recent rehearsal moments with , , , .tv, and Charmaine + a soft launch of the fact that the stunning is joining our cast! More soon.

Wishing everyone rest and rejuvenation today and tomorrow so you can dive into the new year with exactly the fierceness and softness you need. See y’all in 2026! ✨

12/16/2025

We’re experimenting with performing more in 2026! And we need your help to bring projects out of the rehearsal studio and into performance. You can help make more S&F performances happen! ✨

This trio is an early exploration of overcoming and being overcome with , .tv, and . We’ve been thinking about heroes, heroism, and capitulation, all in the context of Achilles, one of the most famous heroes of all. We’re also digging our Beethoven at the moment. He brings all the feels!

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75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
San Francisco, CA

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https://sharpandfine.org/

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