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Do The Damn Thing

Do The Damn Thing

Last April, Margaret Jenkins facilitated a conversation on the practices of resistance and activism, which have been rekindled in response…
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Summer Sampler Program Notes

Summer Sampler Program Notes

“This is what happens when you have an archivist, they bring back the old stuff,” joked ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way at a…
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Working the Narrative: Amy Seiwert’s Wandering

Working the Narrative: Amy Seiwert’s Wandering

Sitting down at the end of a day of rehearsal last week, Amy Seiwert shared some of the questions that are at the back of her mind as she…
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A Different Way of Seeing

A Different Way of Seeing

Shifting perspectives was the announced curatorial lens to apprehend the many choreographic voices that resonated throughout the two…
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Ex(e/o)rcising Rage

Ex(e/o)rcising Rage

Navigating both ‘macro-questions’ pertaining to issues of identity, race and gender and ‘micro-questions’ tracing, for example, the subtle…
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Fauxnique Doesn’t Beat Around The Bush

Fauxnique Doesn’t Beat Around The Bush

Last November 6, Bay Area dance maker Monique Jenkinson was performing The F Word at San Francisco’s cabaret nightclub Oasis. “F Is for…
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Same Same

Same Same

In 2015, Holly Herndon’s album Platform broke through the electronic music scene with the force of a meteorite. With sounds sourced from…
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Reframing Dance in the Rural South: A Conversation with Alex Ketley

Reframing Dance in the Rural South: A Conversation with Alex Ketley

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

Pilot: a Work in Progress

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

Fearless Girls

Installed the day before International Women’s day this month, the Fearless Girl sculpture has fueled many conversations about gender…
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Shaping and Being Shaped by our Surroundings : ODC/Dance Downtown Program Notes

Shaping and Being Shaped by our Surroundings : ODC/Dance Downtown P...

A particular familiar object has been around for twenty-five years. How many centuries will it be before it disappears? I have changed…
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Actionphiles in Action

Actionphiles in Action

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

The Dance Between Place and Memory

With the questions of migration and immigration urgently brought forth on both national and international stages, Nancy Karp’s new piece…
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The Practice of Kinship: A Conversation with Jassem Hindi

The Practice of Kinship: A Conversation with Jassem Hindi

It was at the Prisma festival in Mexico that French-Palestinian performer, writer and sound artist Jassem Hindi met Keith Hennessy for the…
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Dance As Resistance

Dance As Resistance

When I arrived at the rehearsal studio, GERALDCASELDANCE’s performers were getting ready to show Thirdperson, a piece that premieres at ODC…
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The Rabbit Turns 30

The Rabbit Turns 30

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…
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The Spectacle Of The Spectacle

The Spectacle Of The Spectacle

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles…
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“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Christy Bolingbroke

“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Christy Bolingbroke

A self-described “recovering marketer turned curator,” Christy Bolingbroke was the performance curator at ODC Theater from 2011 to 2016…
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“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Rob Bailis

“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Rob Bailis

In September 2010, ODC Theater celebrated a much awaited reopening, after a two-year, $9 million renovation, overseen by Director of ODC…
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“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Lizz Roman

“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Lizz Roman

Dancer and choreographer Lizz Roman first walked through the doors at 3153 17th Street in 1984. She started teaching class at ODC in 1993…
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“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Kimi Okada

“Welcome Home @ 40” Interview Series: Kimi Okada

As ODC Theater celebrates 40 years of presenting with two weeks of performances, talks, exhibition and dance parties, I sat down with some…
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RAWdance: Double Exposure | Guest Post by Megan Brian

RAWdance: Double Exposure | Guest Post by Megan Brian

Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith, the longtime duo behind RAWdance, have been working for over four years on duets created for them by West…
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Owning the Abject: A Conversation with Monique Jenkinson

Owning the Abject: A Conversation with Monique Jenkinson

Bay Area dance artist Monique Jenkinson intertwines contemporary dance and drag performance to explore the construction of femininity and…
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Performing Non-Normative Gender Identity: A Look at Ivan Monteiro and Valérie Reding’s Work

Performing Non-Normative Gender Identity: A Look at Ivan Monteiro a...

In the 4-hour long video Gender Metamorphosis, multimedia artist Valérie Reding exposes the societal construction of gender by fluidly…
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Dance As A Generous Act | By Marie Tollon

Dance As A Generous Act | By Marie Tollon

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…
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