How Am I Not You? (2026)
Miles Millikan & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 14, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
1978 (2025)
Jesse Zaritt & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 13, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
“45, 6, 7, 8” & “What Are We Doing?” (2024)
Kegan Marling, Kelly Murphy, & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 12, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
There Once Was a Man (2023)
Hien Huynh & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 11, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
No Matter What (2022)
Rosie Ueng & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 10, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
Queer-Ass Alien Sensuality (2020)
KJ Dahlaw & Talli Jackson, DANCE LOVERS 9, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
Leave Room for Whitney (2020)
Erik Lee & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 9, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
This duet explores Queerness, Christianity, and Whitney Houston.
The Grass is Sleeping (2019)
Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
A dancetheater piece exploring the health of our minds and American pop culture.
Four Years Later (2019)
Sebastian Grubb & Bear Graham, DANCE LOVERS 8, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
Roughly four years after creating and performing their evening-length duet “Homeroom,” (2015) Graham & Sebastian Grubb return to their collaborating relationship. They reflect on their current friendship, while using “Homeroom” as an anchoring point to measure what has changed. JGDT is interested in interpersonal relationships, masculinity and gender.
I Will Be The… (2019)
Johnny Nguyen & Melissa Lewis Wong, DANCE LOVERS 8, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
“Ellie” & “Two by Two, Bye” (2019)
Senior Thesis Show, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Do More of That (2018)
DANCE LOVERS 7, Counterpulse Theater, San Francisco, California
A Mother and Son duet, Sheila Graham Price & Bear Graham.
Agony Drag (2018)
Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, California
This piece was created with students inside of UC Berkeley’s Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Department’s Spring Concert the Berkeley Dance Project.
Bit by Bit (2018)
San Francisco City Hall Rotunda, San Francisco, California
This piece was created in Graham’s Choreography & Performance Workshop through LINES Dance Center February – April, 2018.
Alpha Mouse (2017)
ODC Theater, San Francisco, California
In this evening-length work, JGDT looks at themes of sameness in Queer love, the fantasy vs. reality of a female experience in society, and the Divine Feminine.
Two Dimes and a Nickel (2017)
Commissioned by SFDanceworks, ODC Theatre, San Francisco, California
Path of Occlusion (2017)
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
This work was created with the students in a one week intensive residency period. We play with set material, improvisational scores, crafted personal solos, and sounding (voice). I valued keeping everyone on stage and having a more or less socialist/non-hierarchical structure.
Metamorphic (2017)
Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA
This piece was created for Berkeley Dance Theater, our annual spring dance concert at UC Berkeley, Department of Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Ten or Eleven (2017)
Mint Plaza, San Francisco, CA
This piece was created in Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop through LINES Dance Center February – April, 2017.
Homeroom (2015)
ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
On Top of the Ground (2016)
Mint Plaza, San Francisco, CA
This piece was created in Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop at LINES Dance Center February – April, 2016.
Thirtysomething (2015)
Daegu International Dance Festival, Daegu, South Korea
“Thirtysomething” was created in collaboration with Hyun Jung Lee and Maree Remalia. Looking at our shared histories and being in our 30s.
Building People (2015)
Union Square, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area National Dance Week
This piece was created in Graham’s Choreographic & Performance Workshop at LINES Dance Center March – April, 2015.
Michael & Roland (2015)
Dance Lovers 4, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
In his second duet, from a series of three duets, Graham allows his choreographic and performative choices to stem from looking at control and power as they reside in prisons, colonial/colonized environments and relationships, in the wilds of nature, and in aspects of sexuality…namely S&M. Think: French-artistocratic-Wild-Panthers-in-a-Zoo-Men-With-Beards
Sanct (2014)
Dance at Night, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
We Would Sit Together in Homeroom (2014)
Dance Lovers 3, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
“We Would Sit Together in Homeroom” delves into platonic love between these two men, and deals with what is a healthy dynamic of play, ritual, and raw physicality between a man who loves men and a man who loves women.
Guilty Survivor (2013)
*Nominated for an IZZIE in Outstanding Choreography
Let Us Compare Chronologies at Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California,
This work pays homage to the gay men who died of A.I.D.S., those who stepped up to help (nurses, families, clergy, etc.), and looks at what it is to be missing an entire generation of mentors for younger men.
Preview by Andrea Pflaumer (SF Examiner) Preview by Irene Hsiao (SF Weekly)
Go Go, Italiano, Americano, Israeliano (2013)
Dance Lovers 2, Kunst-Stoff Arts, San Francisco, California
This duet looks at an interpersonal relationship where they must rely on each other and find common ground in spite of their differences, juxtaposed movement styles and trainings found in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, rectifying being stuck between two places, invested equally in both, feeling pulled apart and fed by these two worlds.
Fraternal Sacrifice (2011)
Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, California
I asked, “When two men give attention to each other, when is it healthy attention and when does it become a depletion of one’s power? How do we care for one another while taking care of ourselves?”
We explore various ways of relating, from the mundane to the sacred.
Godbody (2011)
SF Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Based on the poem “Dance of the Godbody” by James Broughton
There We Are (2011)
The Garage, San Francisco, California
This work shows aspects of a relationship that sometimes takes, sometimes gives, and sometimes doesn’t know what to do with itself.
Male Duet in J Major (2010)
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
This duet explores various relationships men may have with one another.
Separate Panes (excerpt), (2010)
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
This quintet was presented as an Installation/ Site-specific dance event in February 2010 in the vacant Sullivant Hall Library at the Ohio State University.
*Final section from a 1 hour piece.
Go To The Center (2009)
Judson Church, New York / Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
This duet was created with inspiration from William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies.