ODC Dance Stories

Understanding dance through the stories we tell
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,...

March 07, 2025
Jay Carlon, Wendell Gray II, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez, Justin Faircloth. Photo by Amelia Golden,

Megan Nicely

In How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell asserts that our hyper-connected, tech-driven world offers endless opportunities to “do,” yet this...

February 28, 2025
Photo by Robbie Sweeny.

Nkechi Njaka

“Dance as experimental theater without knowing that it is experimental theater.”

— ainsley tharp

Experimental dance and performance art have always had a fluid relationship in the San Francisco/ Bay...

February 27, 2025
Zaquia Mahler Salinas. Photo by Kirk Hensler.

Garth Grimball

In January I had the pleasure of seeing several dance performances in NYC during the annual APAP conference with ODC Theater’s new Resident Curator, Zaquia...

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