This page explains what this site is: an independent guide to the San Francisco Movement Arts Festival (SFMAF), created to organise and preserve publicly available information about the festival after the former official website stopped being updated in 2023.
History of SFMAF
The San Francisco Movement Arts Festival had documented editions between 2015 and 2022, held at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. The festival was dedicated to movement arts, a broad term that includes contemporary dance, physical performance and body-awareness practices, bringing together companies and artists in an architectural space that is unusual for this kind of event.
Mission and values
This guide is not the festival's official website and has no access to formal mission statements from the former organisers. This site's editorial approach is different: it works as a neutral informational resource for anyone researching the festival, Grace Cathedral as a cultural venue or the dance scene of San Francisco, without selling services, taking bookings or presenting itself as a representative of the original event.
Venues
In the documented editions, Grace Cathedral was the festival's performance venue. The cathedral, located in the Nob Hill neighbourhood, is known for its neo-Gothic architecture, its stained glass and two meditation labyrinths open to the public, and it often lends its space for cultural events beyond regular liturgy.
Organisation and team
There is no public confirmation of the entity or team responsible for the original SFMAF organisation. Anyone looking to contact the festival's former organisers should seek primary sources and current official channels, since this site is maintained by an independent editorial team with no link to the event's organisation.
Partners and supporters
There is no confirmed public information about sponsors or institutional partners of earlier editions of the festival. This guide does not receive or promote sponsorships on behalf of SFMAF.
Editorial policy of this guide
This site follows a simple rule: no information about SFMAF is presented as certain when no public source confirms it. On the pages of this guide, open questions, such as the exact number of editions, the names of companies by year or ticket policies, are marked as unconfirmed rather than answered with assumptions. Likewise, this site does not publish testimonials, reviews or quotes attributed to festival participants or visitors, since their authenticity could not be verified.
Contact the organisers
For questions, suggestions or corrections about the content of this guide, use the contact page. The editorial team of this site responds through that channel; no telephone number, postal address or other contact details of the festival's former organisers are available here.
Frequently asked questions
Who organises SFMAF?
This guide has no public confirmation of the entity responsible for the original organisation of the festival.
Is the festival a non-profit organisation?
There is no confirmed public information about the legal or institutional structure of SFMAF's former organisers.
How can I contact the organisers?
This site has no direct contact with the festival's former organisers; for questions about the content of this guide, use the contact page of the editorial team.