A Pacifican for over 25 years, Poon is founder and artistic director of the Shan-Yee Poon School of Performing Arts in San Francisco (formerly the Shan-Yee Poon Ballet School). The school teaches 15 levels of ballet, as well as jazz, tap, hip-hop, contemporary dance, tumbling and acrobatics, ballroom dancesport, boys’ ballet, capoeira, and they are starting a Chinese classical and ethnic dance division. In addition, they offer innovative rhythm and movement classes for toddlers and parents. They also offer an “Angelina Ballerina” class based on the PBS series.

Details: 7:30 p.m. Oct, 26-29; Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland; $20-$30; www.axisdance.org, Wendy Whelan, Brian Brooks and Brooklyn Rider: Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan’s post pointe-shoe career is turning out to be as interesting as her incandescent career with the New York City Ballet, SF Performances presents her collaboration with dancer-choreographer Brian Brooks to reprise their duet “First Fall” as part tan leather flats, leather slippers, house shoes, gift for her,leather travel shoes, tabi socks ,ballet flats,loafers, of the larger piece “Some of a Thousand Words.” The evening features a live score by the adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider playing works by John Luther Adams, Tyondai Braxton, Philip Glass, and a new piece by the Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen..

For Clark, an expert in the music of the pioneering 12th-century composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval devotional texts sung by Vajra Voices evoke a world in which spirit and flesh “comingle with such sensuality. I don’t know how Hildegard von Bingen gets away with it. Her ‘Antiphon to the Virgin’ is a very graphic text about how God chose to enter the docile female. You see that throughout her poetry.”. In addition to Petaluma-based contralto Clark, Vajra Voices features Allison Lloyd, Amy Stuart Hunn, Cheryl Moore, Phoebe Jevtovic Rosquist, and founding members Lindsey McLennan Burdick and Celeste Winant. The vocalists will be joined on vielle, medieval harp, recorder and psaltery by Kit Higginson, a founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz, and Shira Kammen, who’s recorded extensively in an array of early music, Sephardic and Celtic music settings, including Camerata Mediterranea, Ensemble P.A.N. and Ensemble Alcatraz.

The evening opened with the world premiere of “This Must Be True,” the third collaboration between San Francisco Ballet choreographer Amy Seiwert and Berlin-based interactive video designer Frieder Weiss, whose motion-triggered software produced dynamic projections on tan leather flats, leather slippers, house shoes, gift for her,leather travel shoes, tabi socks ,ballet flats,loafers, a screen behind the dancers, Rather than merely decorating standard choreography with special effects, Seiwert choreographed the work with the technology in mind, Synchronized duets and ensembles generated rhythmic waves and smoky billows on the screen, echoing the electronic beats, bells and samples in the recorded score, selections from Nils Frahm and Anne Muller’s album “7Fingers.” Extended pause allowed the graphics to radiate off the screen, and then abrupt movements triggered new sequences, Duets by Annali Rose with James Kopecky and Grace-Anne Powers with Joshua Seibel cast off showers of sparks on the screen and in their personal chemistry..

Friends Volunteers: The Friends of the Saratoga Libraries are looking for strong men who can move boxes of books from the Book-Go-Round to the Saratoga Library. This volunteer job is once a week, takes about an hour and is done in the morning. To volunteer, call Bobbi Stek at 408-868-0376. The Book-Go-Round: The Friends of the Saratoga Libraries are looking for a Korean-speaking volunteer to help process the Korean language books. The volunteer job would be a commitment of about two hours every one or two weeks. Adults only. For more information, call Bobbi Stek, store manager, 408-868-0376.