Sign inGet started
What’s In the Room: An Interview with Catherine Galasso

What’s In the Room: An Interview with Catherine Galasso

Choreographer Catherine Galasso’s background in film and painting is made evident through her careful manipulation of space, sound and…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Ready to Build Again? Bobbi Jene Smith and Keir GoGwilt’s With Care

Ready to Build Again? Bobbi Jene Smith and Keir GoGwilt’s With Care

The highly cinematic opening of With Care, a piece by choreographer and performer Bobbi Jene Smith and violinist and writer Keir GoGwilt…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Körper

Körper

body the pedestrian body the photographed body the sick body the capitalist body the body truncated the sculptural body the ridiculous…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Watching a Wrecking

Watching a Wrecking

To wreck: to damage something so badly that it no loner exists (Mc Millan Dictionnary)
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
When Form Reflects the Disappearing Sound : A Response to Sara Shelton Mann’s ECHO / riding the…

When Form Reflects the Disappearing Sound : A Response to Sara Shel...

Life cannot be neatly arranged like a box of cables tamely wrapped on top of a technicians’ cart. In Sara Shelton Mann’s ECHO/riding the…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Investigating the Lyric I: An Interview with Hope Mohr

Investigating the Lyric I: An Interview with Hope Mohr

We do see Sappho begin to turn toward it, toward this unreachable end. We see her senses empty themselves, we see her Being thrown outside…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Edging the Unknown

Edging the Unknown

It was unexpectedly, as Katie Faulkner was sifting through old photographs last winter, that the contours of her new piece began to take…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
This Is (Not) A Goodbye: An Interview with Jeremy Smith

This Is (Not) A Goodbye: An Interview with Jeremy Smith

Season after season, he could seamlessly portray a vulnerable soul caught in the turmoil of climate change (Dead Reckoning), a lively…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Notes about ODC’s 2018 Walking Distance Dance Festival

Notes about ODC’s 2018 Walking Distance Dance Festival

The four works presented at the Walking Distance Dance Festival this year spanned a wide spectrum of dance genres, stretching the medium to…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Reshaping Space Through Choreographic Intervention: An Interview with Rebecca Chaleff

Reshaping Space Through Choreographic Intervention: An Interview wi...

The process of disidentification scrambles and reconstructs the encoded message of a cultural text in a fashion that both exposes the…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
A Healing/Shifting Ground

A Healing/Shifting Ground

“Spare the rod, spoil the child” is one of the recurring lines in Nicole Klaymoon’s Music of the Actualized Child. Tracing back to biblical…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
The Artist as Shaman: A Conversation with Keith Hennessy

The Artist as Shaman: A Conversation with Keith Hennessy

There is often an offering, something sweet, that melts and transforms. Once ingested it becomes body. It is chocolate that Keith Hennessy…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Three Objects Moving At A Different Pace: Notes about Still Life №7

Three Objects Moving At A Different Pace: Notes about Still Life №7

In the beginning there was light.
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Yara Travieso and Belinda McGuire in Conversation

Yara Travieso and Belinda McGuire in Conversation

Yara Travieso, opening the 2018 Walking Distance Dance Festival with her work “La Medea”, and Belinda McGuire, closing the festival with…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
A Premiere | By Katy Dammers

A Premiere | By Katy Dammers

This is the work. It’s different in each moment.
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Bringing the Minkisi Home

Bringing the Minkisi Home

It was unexpectedly and on foreign land that Byb Bibene encountered a nkisi nkondi for the first time. During a visit at the Musée du quai…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Innovating Within a Tradition: Leela Dance Collective’s Son of the Wind

Innovating Within a Tradition: Leela Dance Collective’s Son of the ...

Girls are lined in single-file rows. Wearing red and beige school uniforms, they yell as they punch the air, one arm forward, the other…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Archival Bodies: Christy Funsch’s Mother, Sister, Daughter, Marvel

Archival Bodies: Christy Funsch’s Mother, Sister, Daughter, Marvel

It was only coincidental that I attended the rehearsal of Christy Funsch’s Mother, Sister, Daughter, Marvel on International Women’s Day…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
On the Edge of Adulthood: a Conversation with the ODC Dance Jam

On the Edge of Adulthood: a Conversation with the ODC Dance Jam

There’s So Much To Do (To Save The World). The title of KT Nelson’s 2006 piece, which is on the ODC Dance Jam’s upcoming season program, is…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
A Veil Over the Moment: “News of the World” Program Notes

A Veil Over the Moment: “News of the World” Program Notes

When choreographer Brenda Way and New York-based painter Doug Argue first talked about collaborating, Way was interested in applying…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Remember To Write!

Remember To Write!

It was out of necessity that Bay Area choreographer Liss Fain started to create the dance installations that have become a staple of her…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Dissonant Objects of Memory: Cori Olinghouse’s Grandma

Dissonant Objects of Memory: Cori Olinghouse’s Grandma

A day after seeing Cori Olinghouse’s Grandma, I come across a black and white cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein in a former issue of the…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Rethinking Dance Landmarks: An Interview with Netta Yerushalmy about Paramodernities

Rethinking Dance Landmarks: An Interview with Netta Yerushalmy abou...

Part of the creation of Devouring Devouring, a 2012 piece by New York based dance maker Netta Yerushalmy, involved communicating…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Grandma Program Notes | By Julie Potter

Grandma Program Notes | By Julie Potter

You are wearing an aqua satin parachute of a clown suit. It changes your shape. It smells musky having been in the trunk of a car during a…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
Program Notes : Path of Miracles

Program Notes : Path of Miracles

Most of the time walking is merely practical, the unconsidered locomotive means between two sites. To make walking into an investigation, a…
Go to the profile of Marie Tollon
Marie Tollon
About ODC.dance.storiesLatest StoriesArchiveAbout MediumTermsPrivacy