ODC Dance Stories

Understanding dance through the stories we tell
November 11, 2024
Feng Ye. Photo by Harry Williams.

Garth Grimball

Dance, perhaps one of the professions safest from the tentacles of AI, is very interested in AI. Productions from Bay Area contemporary,...

November 08, 2024
seymour::dancecollective. c/o Chafin Seymour.

Melissa Mancini

BRIAR, the new work from seymour::dancecollective, opened with performers warming up on stage. My excitement began while watching the dancers practice different inversions and breaking...

October 28, 2024
Alaja Badalich & Julie Hasushi. Photo by Doug Kaye.

Emily Hansel

On October 13th, audience members at ODC Theater waited in excited anticipation for AXIS Dance Company’s 2024 Home Season, a performance whose scale has not been matched since the company’s...

October 23, 2024
Aviva and Molly Rose-Williams. c/o Molly Rose-Williams.

Melissa Mancini

Split Second-Game Time, a new work by Molly Rose Williams and Aviva Williams, began in the lobby of ODC theater. The sisters emerged from Robin’s cafe carrying a boombox that...

October 08, 2024
Surabhi Bharadwaj. Photo by Kyle Adler

Preethi Ramaprasad

“Who are we when we are not at war?”

Thus asked Surabhi Bharadwaj with her ensemble Siddhi Dance at the beginning of Finding Joy, the first part of two evening length works titled ...

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