The 2020 Walking Distance Dance Festival has been cancelled. If you are a ticketholder you may request a full refund, or hold on to your tickets to be used for next year’s festival. Additionally, you can return your tickets to ODC Theater as a tax-deductible donation. All donations help to cover the significant costs the Theater has already incurred. Please contact boxoffice@odc.dance
2020 Walking Distance Dance Festival
June 4 -14, 2020
The 2020 Walking Distance Dance Festival (WDDF) marks the start of ODC’s 50th anniversary. This special milestone edition of the festival, now in its ninth year, features a rich ecology of Bay Area artists immersed in the conditions and particularities of the region.
Two distinct double bills each weekend guide theater-goers across a range of dance and across ODC’s two-building campus. During the opening program, the flagship company, ODC/Dance will appear in a special outdoor performance along Shotwell Street. In addition to dynamic performances, four pre-show legacy talks, an archival screening lounge, and two community convenings will mine histories as well as the present-future of Bay Area dance, and inquire upon aspects of the body, story, and community.
From feminisms, bewitchment, and migrations, to dance incorporating literature, visual arts, folklore, film, and music, join us to binge on performance and celebrate an extraordinary gathering of artists including José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama of NAKA, Catherine Galasso, Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert, Geoff and Dan Hoyle, Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, Robert Moses, Hope Mohr and Monique Jenkinson.
All ticket sales are final. Performances, dancers, and guest artists subject to change.