Troupes entertain with annual San Francisco Trolley Dances

Never mind that the performance was happening on the unforgiving sidewalks on a steep hill at 30th and Sanchez streets. When two dancers from the Alayo Dance Company ended “Romance en la Havana” with a dramatic dip, the audience of first-graders sitting criss-cross applesauce could have been watching from the front-row seats of a high-culture theater. The students then moved around the corner to be wowed by members of Paradizo Dance, who turned the intersection of Sanchez and Day streets, complete with traffic, into an acrobatic circus stage. Paradizo and Alayo were among six dance troupes taking part in the 11th annual San Francisco Trolley Dances, performing in neighborhoods connected by trolleys — in this case, the J-Church line. “It’s like going on an adventure,” said Anna Fulton, who teaches third grade at Glen Park School, as she corralled her students onto Muni Metro to see three more performances at City College.