Uncertain Weather is a culminating film for ODC’s dance performance class Step On Screen. Under the direction of ODC School Director and Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, the young students (ages 8-18) have adapted this formerly live performance piece into a short film based on the effects of climate change and extreme weather conditions.
Kicking off the ODC Theater Festival are ODC/Dance and ODC Theater's Opportunity Fund Recipients: Jeremy Bannon-Neches, Nicole Maria Hoffschneider, Noah Wang
Be immersed in a virtual array of innovative works, created specifically for a digital experience. ODC Theater kicks back into gear this summer with its annual festival! Two weeks of virtual events will feature repertory, premieres, and in-process work by the artists originally scheduled to appear in 2020’s Walking Distance Dance Festival and more.
NAKA Dance Theater's And the Twins Return is a meditation on bewitchment and calamity, deception and possession, inspired by images from Northern Japan and Southern Mexico. (Alone Together)2 Choreographer Catherine Galasso and composer Dave Cerf created Alone Together in 2018 as a site- specific work for ODC’s B. Way Theater. By flipping the orientation of the proscenium and placing the audience on the stage and the performers in the seats, the piece playfully dissected the relationship between viewer and subject. For the 2021 Festival, Galasso and Cerf have created a filmic response to their original collaboration; part documentary, part mystery-poem.
Before Bakkhai Before is a dance film by Maxe Crandall (playwright) and Hope Mohr (choreographer), inspired by the tragedies of gender reveal parties and Anne Carson’s Bakkhai.
UNHEARD Deaf Refugees in America (part 1) is an interdisciplinary dance production based on interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Hoh) refugees. The show fuses together American Sign Language (ASL), film, modern dance, ballet, and folk rock to raise consciousness about the plight of Deaf refugees and aims to effect justice for all refugees.
Robert Moses will present new and near new work focused on fractured heritage, risk and the theft of solace and safety from everyday life. Garrett + Moulton Productions presents Hunting Gathering, a video dance work designed for this year’s digital festival that features an original score by composer Jonathan Russell. Highlighting the company’s lush physicality and deep soulfulness, the piece traverses a vivid landscape of movement, image and sound as it explores the driving human urge to find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
In 1977, Geoff Hoyle became a Dad. In 2015, his son Dan became a Dad. Sometime in between then, they performed together for a bit, but it’s been ten yearssince that happened. And this is the first time they will be performing together as official, card-carrying Dads. They don’t know what to expect, but chances are there will be songs, skits, musings, maybe a character or two, and a laugh or three. From the solitary birds to the flocking birds, from the baggage of culture to the nature of culture, from the water to the sky, from the ritual of death, the divorce from the garden, from the funeral of drowned diver to the mythos of ibis or swan... For the 2021 ODC Theater Festival, Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert premiere a new duet thematically related to their previous 3 duets: Shorebirds Atlantic, And So They, and Shadows & Water.
World premiere of House of Names, an evening-length contemporary ballet reshaping the narratives of women and mythology. House of Names will consist of four original pieces, all focusing on women in biblical and mythological stories: Lot’s Wife, Cassandra, La Llorona and Miriam.
World premiere of House of Names, an evening-length contemporary ballet reshaping the narratives of women and mythology. House of Names will consist of four original pieces, all focusing on women in biblical and mythological stories: Lot’s Wife, Cassandra, La Llorona and Miriam.