Stitching the Stories of a Theater Season
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and prisons out of them, and to be without […]
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and prisons out of them, and to be without […]
A deeply sophisticated psychology permeates Brenda Way’s choreography for ODC Dance measuring the strength and self-determining action of the individual against the surrender to forces beyond one’s control. The importance […]
In Father On, a dance imbued with the implications of paternity, Scott Wells conjures his father, a soldier. In a monologue, Wells (an ODC resident artist) recalls growing up on […]
What do you get when you have a choreographer teach a class full of studio painters? A few tough questions to be sure. ODC Resident Artist Scott Wells taught a […]
NEWSFLASH: DANCERS can speak and radio hosts can boogie too. But you’ll have to go to the upcoming performance at the Nourse Theatre, Three Acts, Two Dancers and One Radio Host, […]
The 2013 ODC Theater season began with storytelling and this week with Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, the third presented company, it’s clear how many of those stories are women’s stories. Female […]
On October 30, Rosanna Gamson’s Layla Means Night makes it’s world premiere at the ODC Theater. During the choreographer’s visit to San Francisco in August, I spoke to Gamson about […]
Usually choreographers choose dancers. Los Angeles-based BodyTraffic co-directors Tina Finkelman Berkett and Lillian Barbeito had a different idea as performers choosing the choreographers with whom they’d like to work. By […]
In 2009, Bay Area dance artist, Alex Ketley, worked with the LA-based repertory company, BODYTRAFFIC, to create a new work. Now BODYTRAFFIC is on its way to the ODC Theater […]
During summer appearances in San Francisco, Tere O’Connor, Judith Butler and Claudia La Rocco all discussed notions of entanglement – O’Connor in relation to a dance work’s composition, Butler speaking […]