Current Touring Repertory

ODC/Dance presents its iconic works paired specially with a local restaurant or bar. Starting with an interactive cocktail class, wine tasting, or historical context into food & beverage, we then witness an intimate conversation between the choreographers and collaborators. After gaining insights into the process of creation, ODC screens a high quality video of the work, immediately followed by Q&A with the artists. Featured artists have included Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kimi Okada, Pamela Z, Zoë Keating, and Paul Dresher.

The Recipe

The Zoom Lobby

5:15pm
Your Zoom theater date begins with you and your friends in an informal, social chat with a mixologist, wine maker, or other expert leading you in the creation of the evening’s specialty drink. Your beverage of the evening can be ordered and delivered, or, if you live further afield and already have the ingredients, you will receive a recipe.

5:45pm
An intimate discussion of the work with the choreographer and special guest collaborators.

Livestream Screening

6:00pm
Together, we’ll watch a screening of the evening’s ODC/Dance performance, followed by a virtual Q&A with the artists.

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“ An experience like this comes close to watching a live show and the bonus of hearing from the creators of the piece themselves was wonderful and made me feel connected to an audience again.” — ODC PATRON, DRINKS & A DANCE: WALK BACK THE CAT

Duration

25 min

Choreography

Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kimi Okada

Concept

Brenda Way, Natalia Roberts

Commissioned score

Zoë Keating, Tchaikowsky, Marcelo Zarvos

A triple-bill exploration of ODC/Dance films, featuring 2011’s Love on the Run, plus the public premiere of ODC’s Sleeping Beauty, and the public world premiere of Walk on Air (against your better judgement).

Love on the Run (2011)
A 5 minute short that takes to the streets of San Francisco to excavate everyday sources of contemporary choreography. Take the trip with us from forthright public perception to the delight of choreographic transformation.

Walk on Air (against your better judgement) (2020)
Public World Premiere

A 15-minute film that realizes the imagination of a sequestered dancer, left with her longing, her memories and her imagination. Bodies may be constrained but minds are free to roam. In Walk on Air - from a poem by Seamus Heaney - we take you into nature and the uplifting vision of being together, dancing together, again.
 
Sleeping Beauty (2020)
Public World Premiere

A 4 minute short created in the suspended reality of Shelter in Place. Set to Tchaikowsky’s atmospheric Sleeping Beauty Waltz and Narrated by artistic director Brenda Way, we consider the musings of a profession in suspension. "So let the dance company lay in wait, like the fairy tale beauty. Asleep but not gone, dormant but not defeated. Awaiting a kiss of renewal.”

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"We take you into nature and the uplifting vision of being together, dancing together, again"

Duration

75 minutes

Choreography

KT Nelson

Narration

Geoff Hoyle

Score

Benjamin Britten

Story

Margery Williams

"Once, there was a velveteen rabbit ... and in the beginning he was really splendid, fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be, and on Christmas morning the little boy loved him best of all."

Brimming with wit, festive costumes, madcap characters and the perfect amount of holiday cheer, ODC/Dance, one of America’s most exciting and acclaimed contemporary dance companies, brings a new, interactive, and special digital presentation of The Velveteen Rabbit.

Make a memorable holiday season with your family and friends. Laugh, dance, sing, and experience The Velveteen Rabbit with never-before-seen “Dance Break!” videos. Get moving and dance along with your favorite characters with activities like the “Toy Slide,” “Bunny Beat,” and “Croc Bop.”

 

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"Delightful, imaginative, with something to offer both adults and children ... the choreography makes the story come alive." – NEW YORK TIMES

ODC/Dance offers live site specific composition classes taught by ODC Choreographers. Additionally, if you would like ODC's Artistic Leadership to join your podcast or other broadcast events for insight into ODC and the work, we would love to hear from you.

Cathy Pruzan
Booking Agent
(415) 789-5051
cathy@odc.dance

Joseph Copley
Associate Director of Artistic Planning
(415) 549-8515
joseph@odc.dance

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For ODC’s 5 men, 5 women

Duration

29 min

Choreography

Brenda Way, KT Nelson, Kate Weare

Commissioned score

Various + Shubert

Light + Scenic Design

Matt Antaky

Costumes

Way + Lisa Claybaugh

Way and Nelson team up with acclaimed New York-based choreographer Kate Weare in this unprecedented collaboration designed to shake up their creative process and explore new artistic territory. The inspiration for this work came from a rare original edition of Euclid's Elements, perhaps the most influential work in the history of mathematics. This highly physical, insightful, and emotive work moves from the formal elegance of geometry to its human implication: from triangles to threesome, from lines to connections, from the page to the heart.

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“There’s a point-to-point logic to the piece that seems as irresistible and inevitable as those ancient mathematical theorems. The new work... flows, twirls and regroups with utter confidence.” – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

For ODC's 5 men, 5 women

Duration

1 hour

Choreography

Brenda Way, KT Nelson

Concept

Andy Goldsworthy

Commissioned score

Zoë Keating

Visuals

RJ Muna

Light + Scenic Design

Alexander V. Nichols

Inspired by the work of visual artist Andy Goldsworthy and set to a commissioned score performed live by acclaimed avant cellist Zoë Keating, Way and Nelson's fearless choreography touches on transformation in both art and nature. RJ Muna's cinematic mise en scène, which traces the shifting light, changing landscape, and building process of Goldsworthy's installation, takes us through the chaos of creative process to the clarity of realization.

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"boulders and bones dances along the edge of shifting light, gravity, and natural chaos. And, like Goldsworthy, ODC makes artistry appear entirely natural, leaving ample room for reflection” – SF WEEKLY

For ODC's 5 men, 5 women

Duration

30 minute

Choreography

KT Nelson

Commissioned score

Joan Jeanrenaud

Light + Scenic Design

Matthew Antaky

Costumes

Liz Brent

A sabbatical in Death Valley serves as the inspiration for KT Nelson's Dead Reckoning. Original music from celebrated Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud underscores the story of how humanity has lost its way, and the impact that has on the surrounding natural forces. Dead Reckoning refers to navigating without the predictable reference points of stars, increasing the likelihood of accumulative error. Nelson says "Today at the rate of change in nature is unprecedented. How will we negotiate it? Are we in a time of dead reckoning?"

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"a company classic" – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

For 1 man

Duration

12 minute

Choreography

KT Nelson & Brandon "Private" Freeman

Video & Scenic Design

Sara Horner & David Robertson

Lighting Design

David Robertson

Sound Design

Joan Jeanrenaud

Music

Joan Jeanrenaud & Max Richter

Working with award-winning composer Joan Jeanrenaud, Nelson ventures into the dream life of the boy and the man in her formal exploration of the artistry and prowess of ODC/Dance virtuoso, Brandon "Private" Freeman

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"...a superior pièce d’occasion" – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

For ODC's Dancers

Duration

30 minutes

Choreography

Brenda Way

Light + Scenic Design

Alexander V. Nichols

Why do we hold on and how do we let go - of our stuff, our habits, our opinions, our relationships? What defines us in the end?

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For ODC's Dancers and Volti

Duration

1 hour

Choreography

KT Nelson

Composer

Joby Talbot

Conductor

Robert Geary

Lighting Design

David Robertson

Path of Miracles is a site-specific performance experience created in collaboration with San Francisco’s outstanding 17-member vocal ensemble, Volti, singing a transcendent score by Joby Talbot. Path of Miracles explores our journey through space and time.

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"The artists spoke fluently to one other, each in her own language." – San Francisco Chronicle

For ODC's Dancers

Duration

1 hour

Choreography

Brenda Way

Visuals

Doug Argue

Light + Scenic Design

Alexander V. Nichols

Music

Holly Herndon, David Lang, Laurie Anderson

A bracing artistic response to a turbulent world.

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"News was charged from beginning to end, filled with messages of gender-based orchestration, control and manipulation." – Dance Tabs

For ODC’s 11 dancers & 6-10 local children

Duration

75 minutes

Choreography

KT Nelson

Narration

Geoff Hoyle

Score

Benjamin Britten

Story

Margery Williams

"Once, there was a velveteen rabbit ... and in the beginning he was really splendid, fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be, and on Christmas morning the little boy loved him best of all."

ODC/Dance brings Margery Williams' classic tale of a well-worn stuffed rabbit to life through music, dance, and a splendid narration by actor/comedian Geoff Hoyle. Brimming with wit, festive costumes, and endearingly madcap characters, this production incorporates eight local children, and is a holiday treat and evergreen classic.

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"Delightful, imaginative, with something to offer both adults and children ... the choreography makes the story come alive." – NEW YORK TIMES