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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It All Began With A Chair

It All Began With A Chair

New York, 1940. Architects Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen enter the competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings organized by the…
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M(app)ing Dance

M(app)ing Dance

Galaxy S8 Plus, Xiaomi Mi 6, ZTE Axon 8, OnePlus5, Moto Z. These are just a few of the many sci-fi sounding named new smartphones released…
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A Pop-Up Dance

A Pop-Up Dance

What do dance and tea have to do with one another? Not much at first glance but for Salt Lake City-based choreographer Molly Heller, both…
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A Gender Theorist and a Drag Performer Walk into a Theater

A Gender Theorist and a Drag Performer Walk into a Theater

As audience members proceeded to their seats at CounterPulse on Friday, November 3, diamond-shaped lights ‘polka dotted’ the walls, ceiling…
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Beyond Vision: A Conversation with Jess Curtis

Beyond Vision: A Conversation with Jess Curtis

At some point in his life -which straddled the 19th and 20th centuries- French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry wrote: “To see is to forget…
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Double Exposure: Program Notes

Double Exposure: Program Notes

What is often not visible to the audience is that a dance might undergo drastic changes just minutes prior to the performance. This can…
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Soft Signals of Connection

Soft Signals of Connection

Watching Kate Weare’s work, images of wet clay being folded and molded often come to mind, the movement material or the actual piece akin…
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Keeping Mothers at the Creative Table

Keeping Mothers at the Creative Table

In a recent article about pregnant dancers’ experiences, Sima Belmar shared the voice of soon-to-be-mother artists. They expressed both…
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PORT: Keeping the Artists at the Center of the Conversation

PORT: Keeping the Artists at the Center of the Conversation

At the panel discussion about activism that took place at Margaret Jenkins studios last spring, participants discussed how artists evolve…
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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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