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Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine: Melissa Hudson Bell
Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine: Melissa Hudson Bell
Dance writer, dance scholar, and dance maker Melissa Hudson Bell was just getting her groove writing about dance for the San Francisco…
Sima Belmar
May 20
FAN MAIL: Yara Travieso + La Medea
FAN MAIL: Yara Travieso + La Medea
May 18, 2020
Sima Belmar
May 18
FAN MAIL: Monique Jenkinson + The F Word
FAN MAIL: Monique Jenkinson + The F Word
FAN MAIL is a writing series and gesture to celebrate dance artists who perform on the ODC Theater stage. These letters, written by ODC…
Sima Belmar
May 1
Dancing in Quarantine: The Shelter-in-Place Videos of ODC Dancers
Dancing in Quarantine: The Shelter-in-Place Videos of ODC Dancers
If you live in the Bay Area, you have been sheltering in place for about a month and a half now. In that time, everyone from the late…
Sima Belmar
Apr 30
FAN MAIL: Catherine Galasso + Notes on de Groat
FAN MAIL: Catherine Galasso + Notes on de Groat
FAN MAIL is a writing series and gesture to celebrate dance artists who perform on the ODC Theater stage. These letters, written by ODC…
Sima Belmar
Apr 15
Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine: Sarah JG Chenoweth
Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine: Sarah JG Chenoweth
Sarah JG Chenoweth is a gorgeous dancer and marvelous dance writer based in Oakland where she lives with her robot-designing husband and…
Sima Belmar
Apr 11
FAN MAIL: d. Sabela Grimes + ELECTROGYNOUS
FAN MAIL: d. Sabela Grimes + ELECTROGYNOUS
FAN MAIL is a writing series and gesture to celebrate dance artists who perform on the ODC Theater stage. These letters, written by ODC…
Sima Belmar
Apr 8
Black Choreographers Festival, Weekend 3
Black Choreographers Festival, Weekend 3
It didn’t seem like COVID-19 was keeping anyone away from the Lisser Theater at Mills College on Sunday night, March 8, though it’s hard…
Sima Belmar
Apr 6
Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine with Bhumi B. Patel
Dancing (and Dance Writing) in Quarantine with Bhumi B. Patel
The other day (what day is it?) I sat down in front of my screen to talk about dance writing in the age of quarantine with dancer…
Sima Belmar
Apr 2
Dancing in Quarantine: Gaga with James Graham
Dancing in Quarantine: Gaga with James Graham
On Tuesday I joined James Graham’s online Gaga class. You can find out all about Gaga, Ohad Naharin’s “movement language” on James’…
Sima Belmar
Mar 26
Dancing in Quarantine in Italy
Dancing in Quarantine in Italy
If you can only do one dance-related thing today, please watch this stunning video of the dancers of Milan’s Teatro della Scala. If you…
Sima Belmar
Mar 22
Dancing in Quarantine
Dancing in Quarantine
There may be a shortage of toilet paper, but there is no dearth of sayings about dancing through tough times:
Sima Belmar
Mar 18
Kinetech Arts’ AI Sensorium
Kinetech Arts’ AI Sensorium
ODC Resident Artists Kinetech Arts presented AI Sensorium at ODC Theater, February 21–23. I attended the Saturday evening performance with…
Sima Belmar
Mar 5
Mind Moves II
Mind Moves II
Twenty-five minutes. That’s how long the Wax Poets performance of MidCentury Blue(s) was at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center on Saturday and…
Sima Belmar
Feb 10
Mbongui Square Festival
Mbongui Square Festival
Am I the only dance-lover/viewer/goer that dreads the mixed bill? On the one hand, I like variety and I like short pieces, and mixed bills…
Sima Belmar
Jan 14
Mind Moves I: Tere O’Connor’s Long Run
Mind Moves I: Tere O’Connor’s Long Run
When discussing the contours of this blog, Brenda Way, Artistic Director of ODC/Dance, told me that she would be interested in short posts…
Sima Belmar
Dec 15, 2019
An invitation to stumble
An invitation to stumble
Many years ago, I witnessed a LINES Ballet dancer — I believe it was Xavier Ferla — stumble. This was not your ordinary stumble: Ferla…
Sima Belmar
Nov 16, 2019
ODC/Dance “Path of Miracles” at The Presidio Theatre
ODC/Dance “Path of Miracles” at The Presidio Theatre
It was hard to park near The Presidio Theatre, not necessarily because there was limited parking, but because I had no idea where to find…
Sima Belmar
Nov 8, 2019
Up for Air Program Notes
Up for Air Program Notes
Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…
Marie Tollon
Aug 3, 2019
Dance Mongering: A Response to the 2019 Walking Distance Dance Festival
Dance Mongering: A Response to the 2019 Walking Distance Dance Fest...
You know, we’re all mongers of one sort or another. Whatever we’re selling — fish or gossip or war or peace — it’s the imperative of…
Marie Tollon
Jun 3, 2019
Traveling To and Through the Cosmos of Blackness: An Interview with d. Sabela grimes
Traveling To and Through the Cosmos of Blackness: An Interview with...
In science fiction and fantasy writer N.K. Jemisin’s work, characters often travel through many forms of the gender spectrum. In The…
Marie Tollon
May 10, 2019
Kinetech Arts and the Unpredictability of Artistic Systems
Kinetech Arts and the Unpredictability of Artistic Systems
In the rehearsal studio, Hien Huynh punches the air with an electric-orange boxing glove. After a few punches, he stops and runs his…
Marie Tollon
Apr 30, 2019
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater’s listening creates an opening | By Sima Belmar
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater’s listening creates an opening | By S...
Choreographer Mary Armentrout is my dear friend and Feldenkrais practitioner. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about…
Marie Tollon
Apr 24, 2019
From the Black Box to the White Cube: An Interview with Lauren Simpson
From the Black Box to the White Cube: An Interview with Lauren Simpson
Bay Area dance makers Lauren Simpson and Jenny Stulberg’s Still Life Dances were based on 19th century still life paintings from the de…
Marie Tollon
Apr 10, 2019
Do You See Me
Do You See Me
In a recent public letter, the National Domestic Workers Alliance celebrated the women of Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 film Roma…
Marie Tollon
Mar 7, 2019
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