September 5 – 21, 2025

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 8pm

2050 47th Ave Ocean Beach SF between Pacheco St and Quintara St

Audience size limited

All tickets advanced sales only

Capturing the Moment

Photography by Lydia Daniller

Meet the Dancers

The local talent that makes it all possible.

Erin Coyne

Erin Coyne is a San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, and educator. Originally from the Chicago area, Erin received dual degrees in Dance and Education from the University of Minnesota. She has worked with FACT/SF, Paufve Dance, Lizz Roman & Dancers, and Kinetech Arts, among others. Erin has had the pleasure of presenting her choreography at various venues throughout the Bay Area and currently is the director and co-producer of the dance + social event, Flight.

Colin Epstein

(They/he) is a performer, writer, and professional GM/DM based in Berkeley. Frequently seen performing with 13th Floor, Lizz Roman & Dancers, and Tara Pilbrow Dance, he has performed in parks, theaters, houses, bank vaults, on floating docks, and more in the 15 years they have called the Bay Area their home. Colin has been performing with LR&D for a decade now, and gives huge thanks to both Lizz and the company dancers thru those years for enabling and assisting their own growth as a dancer. And hey, why not check out The Roll Report wherever you find your podcasts?

Clairey Evangelho

Claire Evangelho is a movement artist and educator rooted in Contact Improvisation, Noguchi Taiso, and release techniques. She has recently danced with AXIS Dance Company, Push Up Something Hidden, Carol Keuffer-Moore, and Nkéchi Njaka, and is delighted to be back performing with Lizz Roman and Dancers. Claire currently creates improvisational performance works and co-organizes dance education that brings us closer to the earth and each other with badgoatdance.com.

Clarissa K. Ko

Clarissa K. Ko is a choreographer and educator who encourages supportive and reflective dance spaces for all ages. Clarissa received her BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice from the University of San Francisco and her MSEd in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. She has been Lizz’s Company Manager since 2017 and dancing in her site works and films since 2019. Clarissa has presented work at CounterPulse, SAFEhouse for the Arts, Little Boxes Theater, and the Asian Art Museum. Keep updated with her teaching and creative projects at fivefeetdance.com.

Jamie Nakama

Jamie Nakama is living a passionate life as an anthropology professor, climate justice educator, dancer, capoeirista, and yoga teacher. It is through movement that she finds ultimate freedom and joy. Her diverse movement background includes capoeira, modern, aerial dance, butoh, hula, and Afro-Brazilian dance. Jamie performed with various dance companies in Hawaii before moving to the Bay Area in 2016. She joined Lizz Roman and Dancers in 2017 and is honored to have been in all four unique installments of Sunset Dances. Creating site-specific dances with Lizz is a constant reminder that life is a dance!

Creative Collaborators

Designers, Musicians, and Filmmakers

Jerome Lindner

Musician/Composer

Jerome Lindner, is a San Francisco Native. Jerome began playing guitar at 13 years old. Soon after, he began to accompany Lizz Roman’s dance classes throughout the city. He then went on to compose and perform for Lizz Roman & Dancers, where he won his first Izzy. In 2014 he graduated From Ex’pression College with a Bachelor's Degree of Applied Science. Jerome has since gone on to create music over the past 9 years including composition for projects with LR&D as well as his own music with Andrew Bigs, Malcolm Lee among others.

Malcolm Lee Halcrombe

Percussionist

Malcolm Lee Halcrombe is a San Jose based music producer, engineer, MC, drummer and father. He has drummed with San Jose's Akoma Arts for 7 plus years, studied Afro-Brazilian rhythms and movement with Capoeira Irmandade for 10 plus years, and has operated recording studios for over 12 years. Malcolm's drumming style is rooted in the traditional West African, Afro-Cuban and African American rhythms of the 60's. Malcolm is also a respected teacher in the community hosting many youth classes for drumming, music production and recording all throughout the Bay Area. Malcolm currently runs Wav Haven Music studio in San Jose CA.

Clyde Sheets

Lighting Designer

Clyde Sheets began working with Lizz Roman & Dancers in 2000 on their work 81/2 X 11 at ODC Theater. This began a run of designing the next 6 shows for Lizz, also doing music for 4 shows (with Alex Kelly and later Jerome Linder). These shows earned critical acclaim, an Izzy Award for the company and a place for CS in the Prague Quadrennial in 2011 for the lighting design of the 2006 show Blue Floor Reflections. Clyde designed the company's work Sunset Dances in 2017 and Sunset Dances II in 2019. Clyde is currently the Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Northern Michigan.

Pete Litwinowicz

Filmmaker

Pete Litwinowicz is a choreographer and filmmaker who concentrates on combining both art forms. Pete is a visual effects software developer and artist for the motion picture and video industries. Pete holds several awards including an Academy Award©; an Emmy®, an Ars Electronica Golden Nica (Austria); and an Imagina Award (Monaco) for Best Visual Effects and Visual Innovation. Pete has been the filmmaker for Lizz Roman and Dancers since 2017, worked as co-artistic director of Dance Continuum SF from 2007-2012, and danced for Company Chaddick from 1996-2006.