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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…
Marie Tollon
Jul 17
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…
Marie Tollon
Jun 30
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…
Marie Tollon
Jun 7
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…
Marie Tollon
May 26
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…
Marie Tollon
May 10
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…
Marie Tollon
May 4
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…
Marie Tollon
Apr 3
Fearless Girls
Fearless Girls
Installed the day before International Women’s day this month, the Fearless Girl sculpture has fueled many conversations about gender…
Marie Tollon
Mar 29
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…
Marie Tollon
Mar 23
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…
Marie Tollon
Mar 21
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…
Marie Tollon
Feb 8
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…
Marie Tollon
Dec 14, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Dec 6, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Nov 30, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Nov 2, 2016
“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…
Marie Tollon
Oct 30, 2016
“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…
Marie Tollon
Oct 28, 2016
“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…
Marie Tollon
Oct 26, 2016
“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…
Marie Tollon
Oct 21, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Sep 8, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Aug 26, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Aug 20, 2016
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…
Marie Tollon
Aug 2, 2016
The New Dancer: A Conversation with Three Bay Area Freelance Dancers | By Marie Tollon
The New Dancer: A Conversation with Three Bay Area Freelance Dancer...
ODC
Sep 4, 2014
The Contemporary Mixtape | By Julie Potter
The Contemporary Mixtape | By Julie Potter
ODC
Apr 9, 2013
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