The historic Rincon Center in downtown San Francisco near the Embarcadero stands at the collision between the onetime Rincon Annex Post Office, with its stunning Art Deco lobby and New Deal murals, and a 1988 glass-and-steel modern commercial building and residential towers with a lofty atrium. It is the perfect spot to meet up with choreographer Joe Goode, to see the space where his latest site-specific installation Are You Okay? (runs Thu/14-August 31) will be performed. Also, to delve into his process. That being said, however, our turbulent times suggest that Is Anyone Okay? might be a more apt title.

Although Goode has been one of San Francisco’s mainstay creators since the founding of his Joe Goode Performance Group in 1986, my writing about Goode’s output only began in 1998 with De

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