ODC.dance.stories

Last Sunday, Margaret Jenkins facilitated a conversation about the practices of resistance and activism in the arts, which have been…

This essay, written by dance writer Rita Felciano for ODC Theater’s 40th Anniversary catalogue in October 2016, is reposted here with her…

In May 2014, sculptor Brian Goggin announced that he would be taking down his Defenestration installation at the request of the city of San…

With the questions of migration and immigration urgently brought forth on both national and international stages, Nancy Karp’s new piece…

Bay Area choreographer KT Nelson remembers taking her son to performances when he was as old as 6 months old and noticing how he shifted…

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles…

Dancer and choreographer Lizz Roman first walked through the doors at 3153 17th Street in 1984. She started teaching class at ODC in 1993…

As ODC Theater celebrates 40 years of presenting with two weeks of performances, talks, exhibition and dance parties, I sat down with some…

In the 4-hour long video Gender Metamorphosis, multimedia artist Valérie Reding exposes the societal construction of gender by fluidly…

Much of RAWdance’s Double Exposure transports the viewer to the realm of the gallery space. First, there is the title of the piece borrowed…