• Dance Downtown

    ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 29 - April 2, 2023. Delight in two programs of captivating works, including two world premieres: Collision, Collapse and a Coda by ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way and Witness by guest artist Amy Seiwert. The exhilarating lineup also includes Impulse, Dexandro Montalvo’s audacious quartet for four women, and two repertory favorites, Triangulating Euclid, a bracing three-way collaboration created by Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kate Weare in response to the restoration of the 1482 printing of Euclid’s “Elements of Geometry,” and Something About a Nightingale by Way, a whimsical delight, set to the enticing music of the Tin Hat Trio.

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  • Dance Downtown Gala Guest Information Page

    Celebrate 50+ years of ODC in style with a festive dinner followed by a spectacular performance by ODC/Dance. Afterwards, join ODC dancers, choreographers and collaborators in their post-show glow for an unforgettable after-party replete with cocktails, delicious bites, dancing, and other delights.

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  • 2023 Dance Downtown Gala

    Celebrate the new season of fearless and exuberant dance in style with a sensational dinner followed by an electric performance by ODC/Dance. Afterwards, join ODC dancers, choreographers and collaborators in their post-show glow for an unforgettable after-party replete with cocktails, delicious bites, dancing, and other delights.

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  • Dance Downtown

    ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 29 - April 2, 2023. Delight in two programs of captivating works, including two world premieres: Collision, Collapse and a Coda by ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way and Witness by guest artist Amy Seiwert. The exhilarating lineup also includes Impulse, Dexandro Montalvo’s audacious quartet for four women, and two repertory favorites, Triangulating Euclid, a bracing three-way collaboration created by Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kate Weare in response to the restoration of the 1482 printing of Euclid’s “Elements of Geometry,” and Something About a Nightingale by Way, a whimsical delight, set to the enticing music of the Tin Hat Trio.

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  • Alayo Dance Company: Mouth Of A Shark

    A reflection on the lives of immigrants, Mouth of A Shark is inspired in part by Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem Home. It will incorporate the choreographer’s extensive knowledge of Afro-Cuban dance forms into a conceptual framework of the dual identities of immigrants. It is also informed by the time Alayo spent in his birthplace of Santiago, Cuba in 2020 and 2021, working with young professional dancers from Danza del Caribe—the company he danced with before immigrating to the US. The movement created and filmed in response to Shire’s poem,“No One Leaves Home; Unless Home is ...”

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  • Alayo Dance Company: Mouth Of A Shark

    A reflection on the lives of immigrants, Mouth of A Shark is inspired in part by Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem Home. It will incorporate the choreographer’s extensive knowledge of Afro-Cuban dance forms into a conceptual framework of the dual identities of immigrants. It is also informed by the time Alayo spent in his birthplace of Santiago, Cuba in 2020 and 2021, working with young professional dancers from Danza del Caribe—the company he danced with before immigrating to the US. The movement created and filmed in response to Shire’s poem,“No One Leaves Home; Unless Home is ...”

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  • Dance Downtown

    ODC/Dance returns to the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA for Dance Downtown, March 29 - April 2, 2023. Delight in two programs of captivating works, including two world premieres: Collision, Collapse and a Coda by ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way and Witness by guest artist Amy Seiwert. The exhilarating lineup also includes Impulse, Dexandro Montalvo’s audacious quartet for four women, and two repertory favorites, Triangulating Euclid, a bracing three-way collaboration created by Brenda Way, KT Nelson, and Kate Weare in response to the restoration of the 1482 printing of Euclid’s “Elements of Geometry,” and Something About a Nightingale by Way, a whimsical delight, set to the enticing music of the Tin Hat Trio.

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  • Alayo Dance Company: Mouth Of A Shark

    A reflection on the lives of immigrants, Mouth of A Shark is inspired in part by Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem Home. It will incorporate the choreographer’s extensive knowledge of Afro-Cuban dance forms into a conceptual framework of the dual identities of immigrants. It is also informed by the time Alayo spent in his birthplace of Santiago, Cuba in 2020 and 2021, working with young professional dancers from Danza del Caribe—the company he danced with before immigrating to the US. The movement created and filmed in response to Shire’s poem,“No One Leaves Home; Unless Home is ...”

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  • ODC Dance Jam presents "Through the Repetition"

    Born from a desire to instill technical challenge, creativity, and high-performance standards, ODC's Dance Jam is a rigorous training program for teens aged 13-18 looking to flex their artistic muscles. The Dance Jam trains in contemporary, ballet, composition/choreography, and Pilates five days a week. They have exposure and access to the current ODC company and company alumni, with multiple shared performance events and rehearsals. Their 2023 spring season, "Through the Repetition," is a culmination of this year's work featuring pieces by Kimi OkadaDexandro MontalvoMia J. ChongErin Derstine, and the dancers themselves.

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  • ODC Dance Jam presents "Through the Repetition"

    Born from a desire to instill technical challenge, creativity, and high-performance standards, ODC's Dance Jam is a rigorous training program for teens aged 13-18 looking to flex their artistic muscles. The Dance Jam trains in contemporary, ballet, composition/choreography, and Pilates five days a week. They have exposure and access to the current ODC company and company alumni, with multiple shared performance events and rehearsals. Their 2023 spring season, "Through the Repetition," is a culmination of this year's work featuring pieces by Kimi OkadaDexandro MontalvoMia J. ChongErin Derstine, and the dancers themselves.

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  • ODC Dance Jam presents "Through the Repetition"

    Born from a desire to instill technical challenge, creativity, and high-performance standards, ODC's Dance Jam is a rigorous training program for teens aged 13-18 looking to flex their artistic muscles. The Dance Jam trains in contemporary, ballet, composition/choreography, and Pilates five days a week. They have exposure and access to the current ODC company and company alumni, with multiple shared performance events and rehearsals. Their 2023 spring season, "Through the Repetition," is a culmination of this year's work featuring pieces by Kimi OkadaDexandro MontalvoMia J. ChongErin Derstine, and the dancers themselves.

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  • UNA Productions: Grass is Green

    UNA Productions is a dance production company, founded in 2013 by Artistic Director and Choreographer Chuck Wilt, creating, teaching, and performing internationally. UNA's mission is to discover and communicate deeply rooted embodiments of human existence through physically powerful dancing, unapologetically Queer imagery and storytelling. UNA celebrates individuality and is dedicated to bringing vibrancy and joy to the world.

    Grass is Green is an evening-length work for seven dancers and drag performer/live cellist/live pianist, Rose Nylons.

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  • UNA Productions: Grass is Green

    UNA Productions is a dance production company, founded in 2013 by Artistic Director and Choreographer Chuck Wilt, creating, teaching, and performing internationally. UNA's mission is to discover and communicate deeply rooted embodiments of human existence through physically powerful dancing, unapologetically Queer imagery and storytelling. UNA celebrates individuality and is dedicated to bringing vibrancy and joy to the world.

    Grass is Green is an evening-length work for seven dancers and drag performer/live cellist/live pianist, Rose Nylons.

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  • UNA Productions: Grass is Green

    UNA Productions is a dance production company, founded in 2013 by Artistic Director and Choreographer Chuck Wilt, creating, teaching, and performing internationally. UNA's mission is to discover and communicate deeply rooted embodiments of human existence through physically powerful dancing, unapologetically Queer imagery and storytelling. UNA celebrates individuality and is dedicated to bringing vibrancy and joy to the world.

    Grass is Green is an evening-length work for seven dancers and drag performer/live cellist/live pianist, Rose Nylons.

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  • After Everything presents Four Songs To Cross The Threshold

    After a storm so violent it kills the world and frightens the gods, Utnapishtim sees what remains. Everything he sees is a new and empty world that Gerard Grisey attempts to realize in his piece Four Songs To Cross the Threshold. After Everything presents a concert which explores the themes of death and transition in this piece and others in the program. Death from a place of anxiety, a place of love, and a place of sympathy; from the deeply personal death of a friend, to the powerful loss of an influential but unknown figure, to the tragic, long-terms disappearances and deaths of civilizations, languages, and worlds.

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  • Dragons Dance & TWO IN SEVEN BILLION: We Aren’t Alone Here

    We Aren’t Alone Here” is a 2-day event including a dance show and workshops. This show is produced by Dragons Dance, and it will feature new work and Bay Area premieres by Two In Seven Billion, Babatunji Johnson and Charmaine Butcher, Dominique Hargrove, and Dragons Dance. “We Aren’t Alone Here” is a chance to bring physically-driven dance artists together from across the nation to connect with Bay Area dance communities. We can’t wait to share our work with you.

    Effy Grey, Tom McKenzie, and Abigail Hinson

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  • ChrisMastersDance: Mausoleum

    In this new evening-length work, which is site-adaptive for being performed in the round and in the proscenium, dancers become videographers, redirecting the audience's gaze through live simulcast projections. Overstimulating and nonstop, the work interrogates our overconsumption of media, addiction to drama, inertia that concretizes unsustainable forms of life and work, and the inextricable link between love and loss—death only matters if care is established.

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  • ChrisMastersDance: Mausoleum

    In this new evening-length work, which is site-adaptive for being performed in the round and in the proscenium, dancers become videographers, redirecting the audience's gaze through live simulcast projections. Overstimulating and nonstop, the work interrogates our overconsumption of media, addiction to drama, inertia that concretizes unsustainable forms of life and work, and the inextricable link between love and loss—death only matters if care is established.

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  • ChrisMastersDance: Mausoleum

    In this new evening-length work, which is site-adaptive for being performed in the round and in the proscenium, dancers become videographers, redirecting the audience's gaze through live simulcast projections. Overstimulating and nonstop, the work interrogates our overconsumption of media, addiction to drama, inertia that concretizes unsustainable forms of life and work, and the inextricable link between love and loss—death only matters if care is established.

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  • Andrew Pearson: Abbale (a dance-theater memoir)

    Abbale, a dance-theater memoir, weaves together the true stories of 3 fatherly relationships, spanning 3 decades and 3 different cultures, as one man tries to understand just what it means to fill Daddy’s shoes. With compelling nuance and deep introspection, dance and theater collide through a series of moving stories and provocative choreography, getting at the heart of what it means to be a child, a lover, and a creator.

     

    Who’s your daddy?

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