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 PresentsODC Theater FEBRUARY 15-17,8PM GRANDMA OLINGHOUSE CORI the slippery construction of identity. years of improvisational practice andasa dance archivist, her work examines the body asa site for Cori Olinghouse and dark familial pasts asportals. an American landscapeof Twinkies and Wonderbread, excavates the effects of television, the media, utilized to summon the materiality andphysicality of the clown. Grandma, a live performance set in filmmaker Shona Masarin, optical printing, handpainting, drawing, and frame-by-frame animationare brokenness” to “shake up what’s structural.” Opening with Ghost line,a 16mm film collaboration with Lauren Berlant’s ideasof humor asa space for transformation, “where you learnhow to delight in Cori Olinghouse’s works employ shape-shifting and a queeringof the clown form—drawing from

isa Brooklyn-based choreographer, curator, and archivist. Drawing from fifteen Forward Looking Lineages Limited Edition: Open Space failure and the absurd. amusement, this practice invites andcelebrates as a space for mess making,irreverence, and animating a seriesof fictional personas. Meant and mines them asmaterial, exaggerating and Therapy bringsinternal states to the surface by chosensongsanddress-up elements. Clown conscious movement improvisations accompanied sessions, participants begin with stream-of- shifting nature of identity andpersonhood.In portraiture practice that explores the shape- studio practice methodology, animprovisational Clown Therapy disseminates Olinghouse’s current Clown Therapy Institute: Claudia La Rocco and Julie Potter. haptic with CoriOlinghouseandguests, hosted by focused onhumor inperformance, tactility and the Join us for a performative exchange anddiscussion SUNDAY,FEBRUARY 18, 11AM FEBRUARY 14,6:30-8PM

Image by Pillow, andHarkness Dance Center. program (LMCC), a NYSCA AIR atMovement Research, anda recent resident atBaryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Bogliasco Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, andSixPoints. Sheisa participant in the Extended Life Netta Yerushalmy devoted to Vaslav Nijinsky, Alvin Ailey, andMerce Cunningham. as inseparable parts of eachinstallment. At The Bridge Project/ODC Theater Yerushalmy will present her installments of moderndiscourse -such assovereignty, race, feminism, andnihilism- writers who situate these iconic works andartists within the larger project of Modernism. Exploring foundational tenants through deconstructions of landmarkmodernchoreographies, performed alongsidecontributions by scholars and Paramodernities isa multidisciplinary project. Itisa seriesof lecture-performances, or dance-experiments, generated (New York City) was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Jerome Robbins Paramodernities includespublicdiscussions ODC Theater Co-Present:ODC Theater The Bridge Project and Hope Mohr Dance/ FEBRUARY 15-17,8PM PARAMODERNITIES YERUSHALMY NETTA

moving bodies. our individualandshared past-present-future new perspectives for workshop-participants about These deconstructive methods aimatgenerating information with a variety of irreverent methods. manipulating that ofabout half be theworkshop will ideologies that these movements hold. The second commit ourselves to the physicality, meaning,and change our behavior, we’ll reverently (if temporarily) Like trying ona period-costume andallowing it to granted, or that we deem“old school” andnaive. know,sense thatwesome takein for that we will spend time studying anddancingmovements half ofInfirst the the bodies: workshop movingwe as the “geological” layers that comprise our trained re-embodyingthrough what Yerushalmyrefers to This workshop isaboutmeeting ourselves a new, A Studio Practice Deconstructing Dance History: Institute: TO REGISTER EMAIL SUNDAY,FEBRUARY 25, 12-5PM [email protected]

Image by 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. Through this new work, originating from Africa, England, France and the USA. Bibene questions the function of dances by the community - the ceremonial and sacred and those solely reserved for the initiated.

WALKING DISTANCE DANCE FESTIVAL May 15 - 20

ODC Theater Presents KIANDANDA DANCE THEATER NKINSI NKONDI, A DIVINE SCULPTURE FROM CENTRAL AFRICA MAY 17 AND 18, 8PM ODC Theater Presents NO PLAN (AN IMPROVISATION) with PHILLIP GREENLIEF, SHOKO HIKAGE, CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, RASHAUN MITCHELL, AND SILAS RIENER

MAY 19 AND 20, 6:30PM

WALKING DISTANCE DANCE FESTIVAL May 15 - 20

We live in a world that is densely populated with repressive systems of control. Free improvisers offer an alternative - to gather from diverse cultures and create compelling and beautiful work with no plan, no pre-arranged agreements. It takes years of hard work to be prepared to live fearlessly in this manner, and the artists on display this evening have been living in this practice for decades. Set aside your devices and plans and witness what it’s like to free yourself of control.

Performed by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (dance), Phillip Greenlief (saxaphone), Shoko Hikage (koto) Claudia La Rocco (text).

Stirring, mysterious and tremendously physical, Sharon Moore’s Anthem for the Living unleashes deep layers of McGuire through textured and magnetic movement, ODC Theater Presents which synthesizes dance, theatre and circus. The Eight Propositions was created BELINDA collaboratively by Emio Greco, McGuire and Pieter C. Scholten via ICKamsterdam with sound design by Jerome Begin. Originating from spherical imagery, McGuire etches MCGUIRE, each segment in space, defining the content, boundaries and dancer within. SOLO WORKS Belinda McGuire is an American-Canadian dancer and choreographer whose work MAY 19 AND 20, 8PM has been supported by the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and presented across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. A former student of the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, she completed her formal education at The Juilliard School. WALKING DISTANCE DANCE Workshop and Toast Talk: FESTIVAL Creative Habitats May 15 - 20 SUNDAY, MAY 20, 11AM

During this shared practice session, Belinda McGuire teaches a Limón-based technique class, aiming to break down preconceptions of physical limitations and encourage the discovery of potential breadth and power of expression. In a search to satisfy an adventurous spirit through movement, the class will broaden perception of range and appreciation of the depth and versatility that such newfound tools can bring. For the company’s 20th anniversary GERALDCASELDANCE presents two world premieres: Cover Your Mouth When You Smile and Not About Race Dance, a preview. In collaboration with Na-ye Kim (Korea/Hong Kong) and Peiling Kao (Taiwan/U.S.), Cover Your Mouth When You Smile explores the model minority myth, racial GERALDCASELDANCE and ODC Theater Co-Present melancholia, and the concept of mimicry among Asian immigrants. Not About Race Dance confronts hierarchical structuring in choreography and dance presentation, COVER YOUR MOUTH demonstrating how it fails to accurately represent ethno-cultural identity. The dance WHEN YOU SMILE comments on the realities of systemic racism and oppression that persist today while also drawing a parallel to Neil Greenberg’s seminal work, Not About AIDS Dance AND NOT ABOUT (1994), which underscored illness, death, and disappointment that was rampant RACE DANCE Resident Artist Premieres during the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s. ( Embodiment Project, JUNE 13-15, 8PM GERALDCASELDANCE Gerald Casel is a ‘Bessie’ award winning dancer, ODC Theater resident artist, and tinypistol) choreographer and teacher. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, he received a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in 1991 and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007. He has danced in the companies of Michael Clark, Sungsoo Ahn, Stanley Love, Zvi Gotheiner, Russell Dumas, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Lar Lubovitch and Stephen Petronio and is an assistant Embodiment Project’s new work uses street dance, live song, choreo-poetry, and professor of dance at University of California, Santa Cruz. GERALDCASELDANCE and documentary theater to explore a timely conversation on the school-to-prison pipeline, ODC Theater Co-Present childhood trauma, Restorative Justice, race, power and healing as a call to action. EMBODIMENT Embodiment Project is a San Francisco based street dance theater company founded by Artistic Director/Choreographer, Nicole Klaymoon in 2008. Embodiment PROJECT Project’s Ancient Children was commissioned by YBCA and their Izzy Dance Award NEW WORK Winning show Chalk Outlines toured nationally and is regarded by SF Chronicle as WORLD PREMIERE “potent, powerful, epic dance theater”. Klaymoon was selected as one of KQED’s 2017 Women to Watch and is currently a resident artist at the ODC Theater, a recipient of the JUNE 7-10, 8PM Headlands Center for the Arts residency, and the Gerbode and Hewlett Foundation’s Commissioning Choreographers Award. 2014 Cowles Visiting Artist grant, andselection to Whim W’Him’s Inaugural 2015Choreographic Shindig. 2011 Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition Award, a 2012CHIMEgrant, a University of Minnesota founder andartistic director of tinypistol, a project-based company since 2011. tinypistol hasbeenhonored by a Maurya Kerr acknowledging our celestial truth andboundlessnessisa decidedly politicalact. futurity. In a landcreated in the negationof our otherness, andmaintained indenialof our kinship with a starry sky, our internal andexternal cosmoses, vaulting skyward andplummeting inward to claim the firmament and a new Can a utopian orientation actasbulwark against our nation’s encroaching dystopia? isa SanFrancisco-based choreographer, educator, dancer andODC Theater resident artist. Sheis kosmos Theater Co-Present tinypistol andODC JUNE 21-23,8PM JUNE KOSMOS quests andcelebrates 28, 8PM ODC/Dance Presents JULY 20,21,27 AND SAMPLER SUMMER

touring to Jacob’sPillowsummer. this including a specialsecond week headlining the program their homespace, featuring work by ODC’s artistic force, Summer Sampler isa chance to savor ODC/Dance in Delight in the exuberance of summer with ODC/Dance!

Image by Andrew Weeks Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Rauschenberg Residency, and the residence at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, the Marin Headlands Center for the in-Residence atSan Francisco’s ODC Theater from 2009-2011 andhasbeenin form of numerous grants, commissions, residencies, andawards. She was an Artist- founding the project-based company in2006,Faulkner hasreceived supportin the Artistic Director of littleseismicdance company, originally from North Carolina. Since Katie Faulkner questions related to the research of her next work premiering atODC Theater in2019. creative process. For this edition,joinKatie Faulkner assheshares excerpts, insights and ODC Theater Unplugged, isa recurring platform offering a rare andcandidlookinto the ODC Theater PresentsODC Theater AUGUST 3, 8PM FAULKNER WITH KATIE UNPLUGGED THEATER

is a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, teaching artist and the Hope Mohr Hulsker, visual designer Joan Osato, andcostume designer Tiffany Amundson. Anne Carson’s performed in the round that explores fragment, interruption, rhythm, and faulty archives. Inspired by and featuring text from boundary-pushing artmaking.” (SF/Arts). For the company’s 11thhomeseason, Artistic Director Mohr will premiere a new work Hope Mohr Dance, Resident Company atODC,recently “marked a hugemilestone; a decadeof creative collaboration and outstanding artat the intersection of critical thinking and the body.

is a choreographer, curator and writer. In 2007,Mohr established Hope Mohr Dance to create, present and foster If not,If Winter and featuring anall-star team of dancers andcollaborators, includingsounddesigner Theodore 11TH HOME Co-PresentODC Theater Hope Mohr Dance and OCTOBER 4-6, 8PM OCTOBER SEASON

Image by Andrew Weeks ODC Theater PresentsODC Theater OCTOBER 11-13,8PM OCTOBER THE RAPIDS ECHO /RIDING MANN SARA SHELTON

FoundationforContemporary ArtsAward. Achievement Bay Guardian Award, and Fellowship, 7Isadora Duncan Awards, Lifetime 1996. Her awards includea Guggenheim group Contraband inSanFrancisco in1984- with the artists. Mann founded the performance Sara SheltonMann slaves andarchers. sketch of players, kings,queens, vagabonds, to imagine yourself in this history, this room, this present,and forbiddenthe formal teasing you stuck in time and you see the imageof a past as bits of personality, culture, preference. Or, itis or something of the past coming forward divulging can almost experience a presence, a conversation When entering a grand room of another era one space? Where does the light shine? terrain between viewer, performer, composer and it aninvitation to inhabita spacialinterium, the What isanecho that resounds from the walls? Is , Director incollaboration ODC Theater PresentsODC Theater OCTOBER 18-20,8PM OCTOBER NOW DECAMERON GALASSO CATHERINE “Critics’ Pick.” Floatones atLa MaMa was a New York Times for a 2016“Bessie.” Her revival of Jim Neu’s The de Groat atDanspace Project was nominated dancing, a collaboration with choreographer Andy Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. get nominated for a 2011“Izzy” andis featured in the among others. Festival and the Intl. Theater Festival inKosovo, Santa Barbara, Joyce SoHo, the River to River SFMoMA, the National Library inParis, MoCA Catherine Galasso cinematic tableaux, andnonlinear narratives. to performance rooted in the avant-garde, remaining reflective of a contemporary approach take onBoccaccio’s seminal work, while Diamonds to reveal a collective humanity. the uniquequalitiesof individualcast members based artists, this localchapter isbuiltusing century. Working with a group of SanFrancisco- collection of urban tales publishedin the 14th based onBoccaccio’s The Decameron, a satirical Diamonds Galasso returnsODC TheaterGalasso to with reveals a sharply present, whimsical , a multi-chapter performance work Her BringOn The Lumière! hasbeenpresented by the Of Iron and Of Iron and was

Image by Andrew Weeks ODC Presents ODC/DANCE UNPLUGGED FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, Step into the rehearsal studio with ODC/Dance for a behind-the-scenes 7:00PM look into the artistic process of an exciting collaboration with New York- based Resident Choreographer, Kate Weare and ODC Founder and Artistic STUDIO B, Director, Brenda Way. ODC DANCE COMMONS FROM MATTHEWFROM AUCOIN AND A SPECIAL ORIGINAL FEATURING OR SCHRAIBER, MIRANDA CUCKSON, KEIR GOGWILT BOBBI JENE SMITH IN COLLABORATION WITH AMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY (AMOC) CO-COMMISSIONED BY ODC THEATER AND ODC Theater PresentsODC Theater NOVEMBER 1-3, 8PM WITH CARE

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contemporary culture. a crucialneed for smartcontext around arts funding, Limited Edition addresses face of rapid gentrification anddecreased arts spaces struggle to stay afloatin the be imperiled,andas vital independent well-resourcedcontinue to arts writing to supporting diverse voices. As sites for explorations, as well asa commitment history of collaborative, place-based Limited Edition buildsonOpen Space’s Performance atSFMOMA CounterPulse of anunprecedented partnership with during the 2018 winter season. The result dedicated to performance inSanFrancisco to present Limited Edition, a program arts andculture platform, ispleased Open Space, SFMOMA’s contemporary Forward Looking Lineages Limited Edition: Open Space Presents Public Engagement at ODC Theater , The Lab , ODC Theater

, and ZSpace , , SFMOMA’s About our partner: openspace.sfmoma.org. commissioned texts appearingregularly on city,locations throughout theandthrough these questions through events at various appropriated. Limited Edition will explore of legacy, of the authentic and the and bedeviled by questions of ownership, many things, a set of traditions, enriched Contemporary performance is,among Edition is“Forward-Looking Lineages.” ofThe theme this year’sLimited performances, andother live events. over the world. We alsohost parties, by artists, writers, and thinkers from all critical +experimental +poetic ruminations a wide net, commissioning andsupporting We’re anchored in the Bay Area but we cast unruly, non-instrumentalized gestures. Open Space

is a home for February 14,20186:30-8pm season artist CoriOlinghouseon Theater Forward Looking Lineages stories aboutODCand the world of dance. Residence Marie Tollon for a collection of Visit odc.dance/stories by ODC Writer in ODC Dance Stories performing atODC Theater. Visual artcurated inconcert with artists ODC Theater Lobby Gallery Exhibitions project pagesandatodc.dance.) guest information canbe found on the artist chat, or both! (More specific workshop and over toast in the cafe. Come to move or discussion with the artist andlocalguests season often followed by a brunch time based workshop by visiting artists in the morning institute composed of a practice- On select Sundays, ODC Theater hosts a of February. Paramodernities during the month highlight performances of Grandma and by Claudia La Rocco and Julie Potter, and Workshopsand Toast Talks

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Image by Andrew Weeks expression andinquiry to our region’s longitudinally. These artists bringpotent their creative work andinfrastructure Francisco Bay Area dance artists to develop Theater offers anopportunity for San The Resident Artist Program atODC Artist Program ODC TheaterResident Sheldon Smith Kerr, Nicole Klaymoon, Lisa Wymore and 2015-June 2018):Gerald Casel,Maurya ResidentTheaterODC Artists createcontinue to work. but flexible, andsustaining homeas they a particular project; and to create a strong, research anddevelopment; to fully explore support for artists to undertake creative opportunities. These resources constitute technical residencies andperformance mentorship andsupport,anannualretreat, space, choreographic andadministrative includes artistic commissions, studio field. ODC’s three-year commitment contributions to the makelong term can cultural life, and with adequate resources,

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