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How are you doing? No, really, are you okay? Joe Goode, the Bay Area’s preeminent maestro of dance theater, wants to know.

Working with a cadre of artists who’ve been in his Joe Goode Performance Group for decades, the choreographer presents his latest site-specific work “ Are You Okay? ” at the Rincon Center downtown Thursday through Sunday Aug. 14-31, and it’s an immersive sojourn exploring the emotional fault lines running through our shaky national psyche.

Goode has often drawn inspiration directly from the locations of his productions, like 2018’s “ Still Standing ,” which transformed San Francisco’s historic Haas-Lilienthal House into a

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