World Premiere
Thursday, August 1, 2024, 8:00pm
Friday, August 2, 2024, 7:00pm - ASL
Risk Taker: 50-60 minutes
ODC Theater
Sisters is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender expression, motherhood, birth, and pregnancy, Sisters honors the whisper networks, emotional labor, and sororal secrets that sustain us through finely forged choreography and performances by eleven powerhouse women.
On Thursday, August 1 at 9:00pm a conversation with the artists will follow the performance, moderated by Julie Phelps, CounterPulse Artistic & Executive Director.
About the artist
Randee Paufve, Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator committed to rigorous choreographic craft and community programming. Named one of SF Magazine’s “100 Artists Putting the East Bay On The Map” (2017), Randee has received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Individual Performance, the inaugural Della Davidson Prize for Innovations in Dance-Theater, and two Edward E. Ford Foundation grants for dance research in Europe. She is a 2019 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grantee, and her work has been supported by residencies at Ucross Foundation, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Intersection for the Arts, and Polo Cultural Gaivotas in Lisbon, Portugal.
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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