ODC Dance Stories

Understanding dance through the stories we tell
April 15, 2025
Megan Lowe. Photo by RJ Muna.

Nkechi Njaka

Just a Shadow, an evening-length work from Megan Lowe Dance that premiered last year at Joe Goode Annex, was restaged at ODC Theater as an intimate, immersive exploration of grief, remembering, and...

April 09, 2025
Photo c/o CubaCaribe.

Monica Ascencio

The 19th Annual CubaCaribe festival presented A Fire Within, “a celebration of the passion and drive of the artists that move and inspire us.” The dance and music diversity that CubaCaribe presented included the...

March 26, 2025
Photo by Whitney Brown.

Sheldon Smith

Those of us who are or have been parents know all too well what it is to be sleep-deprived — up in the wee hours of the morning, attending to and worrying about these living beings we have brought into the world. The...

March 20, 2025
Sam Pratt & Amadi Washington. Photo c/o Amadi Washington.

Garth Grimball

I can’t remember the last time I left a performance so curious of the whys that informed each decision, but so unbothered by the uncertainty because the decisions were so clearly...

March 12, 2025
“Marronage Undrowned by tara george. Photo by Alan Kimara Dixon.

Nkechi Njaka

For two decades, the Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now has been an important pillar in San Francisco’s dance community. Celebrating the brilliant, resilient,...

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