ODC Theater Presents: 2027 Spring Season
April 9 — May 2, 2027
Explore the captivating artistry by acclaimed choreographers at ODC Theater's 2027 Spring Season, featuring local and touring experimental dance artists.
Explore the Season Lineup
Letter from the Creative Director
Dear Friends,
...myth, ritual, embodied resistance, and an offering of alternate approaches to our modus operandi...such as something more self-attuned...
Arts will never go away, but artists can help guide where we do go collectively. To get there we must move our bodies, our mindsets, and our spirits. The 2027 Spring Season artists will help us to do so over four weeks of restaged solos and West Coast, U.S., and world premieres.
I have now been working on curation with Zaquia Mahler Salinas since 2024 and through our collaboration, ODC Theater is slated to present a highly physical and referential lineup of artists in its 2027 Spring Season. I'm grateful to Bridge Live Arts, SOZO Impact, Beth Beauchamp, the ODC School, and the ODC Theater team for their efforts in producing and contextualizing the performances.
Stay tuned between now and our season kick off on Friday, April 9, 2027 for opportunities to connect with the artist through mixers, open rehearsals, and workshops. In the meantime, I invite you to peruse the programming and purchase early to reserve your seat for this truly star studded season.
See you at the Theater,
Chloë L. Zimberg
Creative Director, ODC Theater
About the Curators
Chloë L. Zimberg (she/her) is a dancer, producer, curator, consultant and arts program specialist currently leading ODC Theater as Creative Director. Her work centralizes on the strategic development of equitable performing arts platforms and the live arts sector.
In partnership with Courtney King, Zimberg is the Co-Founder of Chlo & Co Dance, which curated and presented Drove, a twice-annual evening of dance performance by West Coast artists, as well as Tabled, an interdisciplinary discussion series highlighting universal issue areas in the national arts ecology from 2014-2021. The company generated aesthetically dynamic choreography that was both physically rigorous and intricate.
Zimberg is originally from the Puget Sound and holds a BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice from the University of San Francisco with concentration in Dance and minor emphases in Politics and English Literature. She has served the Bay Area dance community in various roles at the University of San Francisco, Dancers’ Group, FACT/SF & CSW Consulting, and ODC. Zimberg is an alum of the National Arts Strategies and University of Pennsylvania Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy and provides creative career coaching to artists and arts professionals.
Zaquia Mahler Salinas (she/her), is a Chicanx/Palestinian dance artist invested in movement-art as an act of reclamation and world-building. She dances at the intersection of performance, social practice, education, and advocacy; Zaquia finds joy in cultivating community, and lives for the magic inherent in collaboration. In 2018, Zaquia co-founded DISCO RIOT, a nonprofit organization that supports radical dance and creative possibilities in San Diego. She has been awarded various artistic residencies, including a 2019 residency in Bethlehem, Palestine with Diyar Dance Theatre where she deepened her understanding of dance as a form of cultural, embodied resistance. In 2023, Zaquia was awarded one of San Diego’s inaugural Far South/Border North grants for artists working in socially engaged practice, and in 2024, relocated to Boston to accept the role of Senior Director of Artist Programs and Residencies with Boston Center for the Arts. She is launching a new venture, Ephemeral Artery, with the intention to uplift and cultivate collaborative art practice and project development.
