Performance & Event Calendar

  • Small Art Music Projects: The Crushing Spiral Ensemble

    Small Art Music Projects will present The Crushing Spiral Ensemble at ODC Theater on Sunday, October 29 at 3pm. Comprised of the most adventurous and celebrated SF-Bay Area musicians, The Crushing Spiral Ensemble will perform the music of award-winning Composer - Matt Small. Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a gifted San Francisco bassist and composer whose alluringly original music draws on a rich range of classical, jazz and indigenous music", Small will be performing with Steve Adams, Cory Wright, Beth Schenck, Erika Oba, Motoko Honda, Chris Grady, Henry Hung, Michael Pinkham, and Jon Arkin.

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  • Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita

    Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita, an autumn-themed double bill featuring the tale of the Headless Horseman and a ballet celebration of life inspired by Día de Los Muertos. Artistic Co-Director Robert Burns Lowman adapts Sleepy Hollow from Washington Irving’s classic 1819 short story, embodying the tale of Ichabod’s encounter with the Headless Horseman through ballet, puppetry, and creative stage settings. Artistic Co-Director Edgar Lepe’s Lupita combines elements of classical and folklorico ballet set to Mexican folk music. Lupita centers around one woman whose transition to the afterlife leads her through a celebration of the joyous moments in life.

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  • Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita

    Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita, an autumn-themed double bill featuring the tale of the Headless Horseman and a ballet celebration of life inspired by Día de Los Muertos. Artistic Co-Director Robert Burns Lowman adapts Sleepy Hollow from Washington Irving’s classic 1819 short story, embodying the tale of Ichabod’s encounter with the Headless Horseman through ballet, puppetry, and creative stage settings. Artistic Co-Director Edgar Lepe’s Lupita combines elements of classical and folklorico ballet set to Mexican folk music. Lupita centers around one woman whose transition to the afterlife leads her through a celebration of the joyous moments in life.

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  • Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita

    Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita, an autumn-themed double bill featuring the tale of the Headless Horseman and a ballet celebration of life inspired by Día de Los Muertos. Artistic Co-Director Robert Burns Lowman adapts Sleepy Hollow from Washington Irving’s classic 1819 short story, embodying the tale of Ichabod’s encounter with the Headless Horseman through ballet, puppetry, and creative stage settings. Artistic Co-Director Edgar Lepe’s Lupita combines elements of classical and folklorico ballet set to Mexican folk music. Lupita centers around one woman whose transition to the afterlife leads her through a celebration of the joyous moments in life.

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  • Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita

    Oceánica Ballet presents Sleepy Hollow & Lupita, an autumn-themed double bill featuring the tale of the Headless Horseman and a ballet celebration of life inspired by Día de Los Muertos. Artistic Co-Director Robert Burns Lowman adapts Sleepy Hollow from Washington Irving’s classic 1819 short story, embodying the tale of Ichabod’s encounter with the Headless Horseman through ballet, puppetry, and creative stage settings. Artistic Co-Director Edgar Lepe’s Lupita combines elements of classical and folklorico ballet set to Mexican folk music. Lupita centers around one woman whose transition to the afterlife leads her through a celebration of the joyous moments in life.

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  • RACHAEL LINCOLN & LESLIE SEITERS: LONG PLAYING

    Long Playing is a training, a tribute, a trial, a social gathering for bodies still learning how to be animals, fully together and lost in a crowd. Lincoln and Seiters oscillate between decisive action that is explicit and demanding, and a receptive stance that is patient, wide, and behind-the-scenes. Viewers of Long Playing find evidence of a mercurial relationship, a critique of capitalism, an unfolding ritual, and transformation, both glacial and instantaneous. It calls on fictitious guides, animal instincts, and a long history of making together.

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  • RACHAEL LINCOLN & LESLIE SEITERS: LONG PLAYING

    Long Playing is a training, a tribute, a trial, a social gathering for bodies still learning how to be animals, fully together and lost in a crowd. Lincoln and Seiters oscillate between decisive action that is explicit and demanding, and a receptive stance that is patient, wide, and behind-the-scenes. Viewers of Long Playing find evidence of a mercurial relationship, a critique of capitalism, an unfolding ritual, and transformation, both glacial and instantaneous. It calls on fictitious guides, animal instincts, and a long history of making together.

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  • RACHAEL LINCOLN & LESLIE SEITERS: LONG PLAYING

    Long Playing is a training, a tribute, a trial, a social gathering for bodies still learning how to be animals, fully together and lost in a crowd. Lincoln and Seiters oscillate between decisive action that is explicit and demanding, and a receptive stance that is patient, wide, and behind-the-scenes. Viewers of Long Playing find evidence of a mercurial relationship, a critique of capitalism, an unfolding ritual, and transformation, both glacial and instantaneous. It calls on fictitious guides, animal instincts, and a long history of making together.

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  • FANNY ARA PRESENTS LILITH

    Fanny Ara reflects on the journey of Lilith, a female symbol of independence, freedom and control over destiny through experimental and improvisational flamenco dance. Does liberation have a price? Are we the prisoner of our freedom? In Lilith, Ara exposes the weight of chains she once had to carry, self-inflicted as well as imposed by the expectations of others. She takes us through the mesmerizing journey of her fight towards growth, acceptance, and liberation. Ara reaches a point of maturity, embodying strength and courage that came from years of experiences and assumed choices. 

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  • FANNY ARA PRESENTS LILITH

    Fanny Ara reflects on the journey of Lilith, a female symbol of independence, freedom and control over destiny through experimental and improvisational flamenco dance. Does liberation have a price? Are we the prisoner of our freedom? In Lilith, Ara exposes the weight of chains she once had to carry, self-inflicted as well as imposed by the expectations of others. She takes us through the mesmerizing journey of her fight towards growth, acceptance, and liberation. Ara reaches a point of maturity, embodying strength and courage that came from years of experiences and assumed choices. 

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  • FANNY ARA PRESENTS LILITH

    Fanny Ara reflects on the journey of Lilith, a female symbol of independence, freedom and control over destiny through experimental and improvisational flamenco dance. Does liberation have a price? Are we the prisoner of our freedom? In Lilith, Ara exposes the weight of chains she once had to carry, self-inflicted as well as imposed by the expectations of others. She takes us through the mesmerizing journey of her fight towards growth, acceptance, and liberation. Ara reaches a point of maturity, embodying strength and courage that came from years of experiences and assumed choices. 

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  • Kayla Farrish - Put Away the Fire, dear

    Put Away the Fire, dear is an evening-length premiere that dreams in frames of Old Hollywood cinema revamped and remixed for live group performance. Exploration of film techniques, reconstruction of stories and archetypes, dance theater, and sound score provide the foundation for characters to bring film to life onstage and play out themes of love and darkness. Through captivating film noir, musical, romance, and thriller, Put Away the Fire, dear asks audiences to reimagine who plays the roles and what it could mean for excluded voices to hold or change these stories. 

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  • Kayla Farrish - Put Away the Fire, dear

    Put Away the Fire, dear is an evening-length premiere that dreams in frames of Old Hollywood cinema revamped and remixed for live group performance. Exploration of film techniques, reconstruction of stories and archetypes, dance theater, and sound score provide the foundation for characters to bring film to life onstage and play out themes of love and darkness. Through captivating film noir, musical, romance, and thriller, Put Away the Fire, dear asks audiences to reimagine who plays the roles and what it could mean for excluded voices to hold or change these stories. 

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  • Kayla Farrish - Put Away the Fire, dear

    Put Away the Fire, dear is an evening-length premiere that dreams in frames of Old Hollywood cinema revamped and remixed for live group performance. Exploration of film techniques, reconstruction of stories and archetypes, dance theater, and sound score provide the foundation for characters to bring film to life onstage and play out themes of love and darkness. Through captivating film noir, musical, romance, and thriller, Put Away the Fire, dear asks audiences to reimagine who plays the roles and what it could mean for excluded voices to hold or change these stories. 

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  • Degenerate Art Ensemble - Skeleton Flower

    Skeleton Flower is a semi-autobiographical exploration of complex struggles with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. Degenerate Art Ensemble confronts these issues with humor and imagination—casting family as monsters from a Godzilla movie—and traces personal struggle through three fairy tales. Existing at the intersection of live music, visceral movement theater, dance, projected cinematic imagery, storytelling, and ritual, Skeleton Flower is a multi-dimensional patchwork quilt that conjures and consoles female ancestors through hand felted wools, ten thousand hand painted silk flowers, and knitted sweaters which fill fantastic worlds in the work’s cinematic imagery.

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  • Degenerate Art Ensemble - Skeleton Flower

    Skeleton Flower is a semi-autobiographical exploration of complex struggles with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. Degenerate Art Ensemble confronts these issues with humor and imagination—casting family as monsters from a Godzilla movie—and traces personal struggle through three fairy tales. Existing at the intersection of live music, visceral movement theater, dance, projected cinematic imagery, storytelling, and ritual, Skeleton Flower is a multi-dimensional patchwork quilt that conjures and consoles female ancestors through hand felted wools, ten thousand hand painted silk flowers, and knitted sweaters which fill fantastic worlds in the work’s cinematic imagery.

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  • Degenerate Art Ensemble - Skeleton Flower

    Skeleton Flower is a semi-autobiographical exploration of complex struggles with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. Degenerate Art Ensemble confronts these issues with humor and imagination—casting family as monsters from a Godzilla movie—and traces personal struggle through three fairy tales. Existing at the intersection of live music, visceral movement theater, dance, projected cinematic imagery, storytelling, and ritual, Skeleton Flower is a multi-dimensional patchwork quilt that conjures and consoles female ancestors through hand felted wools, ten thousand hand painted silk flowers, and knitted sweaters which fill fantastic worlds in the work’s cinematic imagery.

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