A Curatorial Platform for Dance Thinking Students

During the second week of summer intensive, dance thinking students presented an online dance video to their peers, and explained how their curatorial choice related to the larger conversation within the dance discourse and/or Music Moves…

Embodied Unity | Guest Post By Amber A. Hopkins

In dance, the body is often expected to be a conceptual vessel. The dancer may be celebrated for unique strengths, but seldom asked to project personal narrative on stage. When the entire body is regularly your vehicle for communication, which is…

Harmonizing Beyond Geographic and Cultural Divides: Dance and Diaspora Program Notes | By Marie Tollon

Despite their different geographic and cultural origins, dances rooted in India and Cuba share a deep foundation in musicality, movements that accentuate…

Summer Intensive Students Think and Write About Dance

Dance thinking is one of the three tracks offered during ODC’s Next Moves Summer Intensive. In their class, students formulate and discuss questions prevalent in the dance field today, thereby increasing contextual understanding for…

The Theater As A Confessional | By Marie Tollon

A Work of Art Is A Confession.

- Albert Camus

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The Embodied Voice: Program Notes for the Joe Goode Performance Group | Guest Post by Christy Bolingbroke

When I first heard the Joe Goode Performance Group was introducing an evening of songs from select pieces over the last two decades, it made sense…

A Dance and a Song Walk into a Bar… | Guest Post by Megan Brian

The spectrum of joy and sadness is not a straight line, it’s more of a C shape with humor bridging the gap to complete the circle. Joe Goode’s work occupies that bridge. In Irresistibly Drawn, the Joe Goode Performance…