2018 ODC Theater Season Publication

ODC Theater 2018 SEASON A Note from Why dance? At ODC Theater we return to this question everyday. And the reasons reveal themselves through the perspectives and work of the artists in our midst. ODC Presents JULIE Emerging from considerations of humor and criticality, creative habitats, grand gestures and the consequences POTTER of care, the 2018 season is full of new contemporary performance work and an invitation to direct your time and ODC/DANCE attention, consider channels for resilience and regeneration, and be with the beauty, difficulty, ambiguity and UNPLUGGED Director, contradiction embedded in art. ODC Theater The 2018 theater season features premieres by dynamic performance makers from across the country: Cori JANUARY 26, 7PM Olinghouse, Catherine Galasso, Sara Shelton Mann and Bobbi Jene Smith. Our annual May festival gathers such dance artists as Yara Travieso, Byb Chanel Bibene, Belinda McGuire, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, with collaborators across disciplines. Theater Unplugged brings you into the process of Katie Faulkner’s new work, and Summer Sampler features flagship company, ODC/Dance. Step into the rehearsal studio with ODC/ Additionally, central to the ODC Theater’s mission is a commitment to supporting the artists we grow. Our resident Dance for a behind-the-scenes look into artists, Gerald Casel, Nicole Klaymoon, Maurya Kerr and Lisa Wymore/Sheldon Smith, work longitudinally over the artistic process of Path of Miracles by the course of three years to evolve their craft, provoke the community and bring new performance work to life. KT Nelson. Before its premiere at Grace 2018 marks the conclusion of this cohort’s ODC Theater residency, with three of these choreographers premiering Cathedral this year as part of Dance Around commissions in June. Town 2018, see the first steps of its journey and find out what it means to see a site- We are also dedicated to our publics at this dance-led creative center. Here for each other, we do this work in specific piece outside of its site. relationship. ODC Theater is excited to be part of Limited Edition: Forward Looking Lineages, a special partnership dedicated to performance in San Francisco during the beginning of 2018, initiated by Open Space, SFMOMA’s contemporary arts and culture platform, along with CounterPulse, The Lab, Performance at SFMOMA, and Z Space. At ODC Theater, you can see dance just about every week of the year. Coming together at the theater we can imagine new possibilities, be engaged and challenged, and celebrate along the way. Join us to cultivate this potent space for expressions of the body, connection, and reflection. And please do make dance a habit. Warmly, Julie Potter ODC Theater Presents Open Space Limited Edition: CORI Forward Looking Lineages OLINGHOUSE FEBRUARY 14, 6:30-8PM GRANDMA Join us for a performative exchange and discussion FEBRUARY 15-17, 8PM focused on humor in performance, tactility and the haptic with Cori Olinghouse and guests, hosted by Claudia La Rocco and Julie Potter. Institute: Clown Therapy SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 11AM Clown Therapy disseminates Olinghouse’s current studio practice methodology, an improvisational portraiture practice that explores the shape- shifting nature of identity and personhood. In Cori Olinghouse’s works employ shape-shifting and a queering of the clown form—drawing from sessions, participants begin with stream-of- Lauren Berlant’s ideas of humor as a space for transformation, “where you learn how to delight in conscious movement improvisations accompanied brokenness” to “shake up what’s structural.” Opening with Ghost line, a 16mm film collaboration with by chosen songs and dress-up elements. Clown filmmaker Shona Masarin, optical printing, hand painting, drawing, and frame-by-frame animation are Therapy brings internal states to the surface utilized to summon the materiality and physicality of the clown. Grandma, a live performance set in and mines them as material, exaggerating and an American landscape of Twinkies and Wonderbread, excavates the effects of television, the media, animating a series of fictional personas. Meant and dark familial pasts as portals. as a space for mess making, irreverence, and amusement, this practice invites and celebrates Cori Olinghouse is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, curator, and archivist. Drawing from fifteen failure and the absurd. years of improvisational practice and as a dance archivist, her work examines the body as a site for the slippery construction of identity. Image by Image Paramodernities is a multidisciplinary project. It is a series of lecture-performances, or dance-experiments, generated Institute: through deconstructions of landmark modern choreographies, performed alongside contributions by scholars and Deconstructing Dance History: writers who situate these iconic works and artists within the larger project of Modernism. Exploring foundational tenants of modern discourse -such as sovereignty, race, feminism, and nihilism-Paramodernities includes public discussions A Studio Practice as inseparable parts of each installment. At The Bridge Project/ODC Theater Yerushalmy will present her installments SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 12-5PM devoted to Vaslav Nijinsky, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham. TO REGISTER EMAIL [email protected] Netta Yerushalmy (New York City) was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Jerome Robbins This workshop is about meeting ourselves a new, Bogliasco Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Six Points. She is a participant in the Extended Life through re-embodying what Yerushalmy refers to program (LMCC), a NYSCA AIR at Movement Research, and a recent resident at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s as the “geological” layers that comprise our trained Pillow, and Harkness Dance Center. moving bodies: In the first half of the workshop we will spend time studying and dancing movements that we in some sense know, that we take for granted, or that we deem “old school” and naive. Like trying on a period-costume and allowing it to change our behavior, we’ll reverently (if temporarily) commit ourselves to the physicality, meaning, and ideologies that these movements hold. The second half of the workshop will be about manipulating that information with a variety of irreverent methods. These deconstructive methods aim at generating Hope Mohr Dance/ new perspectives for workshop-participants about The Bridge Project and our individual and shared past-present-future ODC Theater Co-Present: moving bodies. NETTA YERUSHALMY PARAMODERNITIES FEBRUARY 15-17, 8PM Image by Image I Don’t Know and I Never Will is an evening-length immersive performance installation by Liss Fain Dance. Based on the deeply personal contact we create and respond to in the letters we write and receive, I Don’t Know and Never Will gives physicality to the voices of people from decades ago through their spoken letters, and brings in voices of people from today. Inside the installation environment, the audience, moves about at Funsch Dance Experience and will, experiencing the work from multiple perspectives. ODC Theater Co-Present Liss Fain Dance is a San Francisco based dance company whose work expresses the unpredictable course MOTHER SISTER of events that comprise one’s life. Liss Fain’s highly physical, emotionally resonant choreography fuses modern DAUGHTER dance’s forceful energy with the kinetic precision of ballet. APRIL 5-8, 8PM For Funsch Dance Experience’s 15th Anniversary season, Christy premieres Mother Sister Daughter, a full-length work for dancers aged over 40. MSD harnesses the movement histories of its cast to pay tribute to the California Dancing Girls, one of the first Funsch Dance Experience and all-women dance companies based in San ODC Theater Co-Present Francisco in the 1910s. MSD features an 20TH ANNIVERSARY original score by composer Gretchen Jude. SEASON: Funsch Dance Experience is under the artistic direction of Christy Funsch, an I DON’T KNOW AND East Coast native currently based in San NEVER WILL Francisco. The mission of the company is to celebrate the vulnerable yet indefatigable FEB. 28 - MAR. 3, 8PM spirit through choreographic experiments with gaze, distinctive movement invention, and unpredictable phrasing. This year’s Walking Distance Dance Festival traces performing artists and creative habitats within and beyond the Bay to share a powerful harvest from a Euripides-inspired Latin disco-pop variety show to free improvisers and fierce solo acts. On creating, writer Rebecca Solnit asks, “What are your principal WALKING crops? Who do they feed?” Enjoy these artists working across disciplines to offer artistic sustenance to kickoff the summer. DISTANCE DANCE La Medea is a musical reimagining of Euripides’ violent tragedy, dance-theater in the style of a Latin-disco-pop FESTIVAL variety show. Directed, performed, filmed, edited, and May 15 - 20 streamed in real time with a live studio audience, La Medea brings theater to cinema and cinema to theater. Embracing a multiplicity of cultural lenses, La Medea confronts the historically prevalent image of the hysterical, dangerous, foreign woman, while also offering the revolutionary female figure willing to destroy her own children in the name of justice. Chaos reigns beneath the skin of a classic myth. ODC Theater Presents YARA TRAVIESO Yara Travieso is a NYC based director and choreographer LA MEDEA creating films, operas, musicals, and dance installations. MAY 15 AND 16, 8PM She is a 2016 PS122 RAMP Artist, and a 2015 recipient of NALAC through the Ford Foundation and the Surdna Foundation. Born in Miami FL, she graduated from The Juilliard School (Dance 2009). During a visit to the Musée du Quai Branly, choreographer Byb Byb Chanel Bibene is a choreographer and performer working in Bibene discovered the Nkisi Nkondi statue from the Kongo theater and contemporary dance. His own technical and aesthetic people in central Africa, a divine figure representing the moral sensibility is rooted in the culture and dances of his country of and spiritual codes as well as political and religious symbols of origin. He has toured and performed internationally with companies power, resistance, fear, and defiance.

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