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ODC/Dance
San Francisco’s groundbreaking ODC/Dance presents innovative and fearless contemporary choreography, fusing ballet with modern dance techniques.
Saturday, Jan 18, 2025, 8 p.m.
tickets
- A: $65
- B: $50
- C: $35
- D: $25
The house opens 30 minutes before showtime.
MEMBER BENEFIT: Members receive 10% off on all tickets to this performance.
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About the Event
Program Details
A Brief History of Up and Down (2024)
Choreographed by Brenda Way
Lighting and Projection Design by Alexander V. Nichols*
Costume Design by Kyo Yohena
Music: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Chad Lawson / J.S. Bach
Dancers: Full Company
*Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE
Choreographer’s Note
A Brief History of Up and Down reflects on the aesthetic evolution that has taken place in dance over the fifty-five-year lifespan of ODC/Dance, from simple movement to virtuosity.
Unintended Consequences (A Meditation) (2008)
Choreographed by Brenda Way
Music: Laurie Anderson*
Light & Scenic Design: Alexander V. Nichols
Commissioned: The Equal Justice Society
*Music used with the generous permission of the artist
Unintended Consequences (A Meditation) premiered in 2008, set to music by renowned performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Commissioned by the Equal Justice Society, an Oakland, California-based organization working to transform the nation’s consciousness on issues of race and social justice, Unintended Consequences “offers a cutting critique of human relationships, and of how easily we become isolated” (The New York Times). The work considers the effects of America’s fetish of individualism and its perversion into “every man for himself.”
Inkwell (2024)
Choreographed by Kimi Okada
Projection Design by Yuki Izumihara
Costume Design by Maya Okada Erickson
Additional Costume Design by Kyo Yohena
Lighting Design by Thomas Bowersox
Sound Design by Miles Lassi
Music: Raymond Scott, Caravan Palace, Django Reinhardt, Lizzy & the Triggermen
Dancers: Full Company
Choreographer’s Note
Inspired by the dark cartoon world of Max Fleischer in the 1920s and 1930s, Inkwell explores the power of a demagogue over an unwitting human and the path from seduction to indoctrination.
About ODC/Dance
Founded in 1971 by Artistic Director Brenda Way, who trained under the legendary George Balanchine, ODC (Oberlin Dance Collective—named after Oberlin College in Ohio) loaded up a yellow school bus and relocated to San Francisco in 1976. Her goal was to ground the company in a dynamic, pluralistic urban setting. ODC was one of the first American companies to return, after a decade of pedestrian exploration, to virtuosic technique in contemporary dance and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.
ODC/Dance Company consists of ten world-class dancers and performs its imaginative repertory for more than 50,000 people annually. In addition to two annual home seasons in San Francisco, recent highlights include appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival in New York, MODAFE Festival in Seoul Korea, Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, and past standing-room-only engagements in Europe, Russia, and Asia. Way’s work was selected by Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Inaugural Dancemotion Tour in 2010.
The company has been widely recognized for its rigorous technique and for its numerous groundbreaking collaborations with composers Marcelo Zarvos, Bobby McFerrin, Zoë Keating, Zap Mama, Pamela Z, and Paul Dresher; writer/singer Rinde Eckert; actors Bill Irwin, Geoff Hoyle and Robin Williams; visual artists Andy Goldsworthy, Wayne Thiebaud, Jim Campbell, and Eleanor Coppola; and welder/bike designer Max Chen.
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