World Premiere
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 6:00pm
Saturday, August 3, 2024, 7:00pm - ASL
Curious Creator: 30 Minutes
ODC Theater
Chimera explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior, relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language that combines care, wildness, intimacy, and enthusiasm, and centers on a duet between two men. The use of video design describes the often unseen implications of how relationships reveal hidden aspects of one’s own identity. Chimera contemplates the outlines of the self–their mutability, permeability, and how they overlap within the infinite undulating of context, environment, and relationship.
About the Artist
Dance artists David Harvey and Babatunji are long time friends and collaborators. They began working together while dancing for Alonzo King Lines Ballet and have cultivated a meaningful relationship based on playfulness, honesty, commitment, risk-taking, vulnerability, and process. Tending to this companionship is their primary creative goal together. This way of working leads to insightful and frank examinations of each other, of self, and of the worlds they belong to.
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Additional wheelchair seating provided at all State of Play performances.
About the Theater
ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community. This 170-seat venue is the site of over 150 performances a year involving nearly 1,000 local, regional, national and international artists.
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