ODC Theater Announces 2017 Season
ODC, the most active center for contemporary dance on the West Coast, has announced the program for its 2017 Theater Season. Highlights include world premieres by David Gordon, FACT/SF, Monique Jenkinson, tinypistol, Laura Elaine Ellis and Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, and West Coast premieres by Kate Weare Company and The Foundry. Additional season highlights include remounts of seminal works by Joanna Haigood and RAWdance.
Walking Distance Dance Festival to Return in June
Next month ODC Theater celebrates the fifth anniversary of its signature summer dance festival with performances by artists from around the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Over four days from Wednesday, June 1 to Saturday, June 4 the Walking Distance Dance Festival-SF will feature performances byBODYTRAFFIC, Christopher K. Morgan & Artists and N? Lei Hulu I Ka W?kiu. The festival culminates in a series of site-specific performances all within walking distance of ODC's two-building campus in the Mission District. Presented in association with Epiphany Productions, the Mission Street Dances program features ODC's flagship dance company ODC/Dance, as well as Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, 13th Floor, Dance Brigade, David Herrera Performance Company, and Zoe Klein of Epiphany Productions performing a solo choreographed by Kim Epifano.
ODC Theater to Present RESIDENT ARTISTS UNPLUGGED, 8/30
ODC Theater, one of the West Coast's major centers for contemporary dance and performance, announced today its newest class of resident artists: Gerald Casel, Maurya Kerr, Nicole Klaymoon, and the duo of Sheldon B. Smith and Lisa Wymore. The announcement of these five distinguished artists falls on the ten-year anniversary of ODC Dance Commons, whose upstairs Studio B will serve as venue for a one-night-only event offering a rare and candid look into the creative process of the new resident artists. Titled Resident Artists Unplugged, the event takes place Sunday, August 30 at 6pm.
THE DANCE THAT DOCUMENTS ITSELF Premieres Today at CounterPulse
Taking on Selfie Culture, Jess Curtis/Gravity will once again challenge and expand conceptions of performance and social context with a new production that combines performing bodies, online social networking, and video projection in an examination of the effects of the intertwining of digital and embodied experience.
THE DANCE THAT DOCUMENTS ITSELF to Premiere at CounterPulse, 12/4
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 28, 2014 --Taking on Selfie Culture, Jess Curtis/Gravity will once again challenge and expand conceptions of performance and social context with a new production that combines performing bodies, online social networking, and video projection in an examination of the effects of the intertwining of digital and embodied experience. A dance of process, community, memory, and resistance, The Dance That Documents Itself uses social networking and digital media to examine the effects of those very technologies (and the socio-economic conditions they spawn in communities) on dancing bodies, and to expose the threads of human interaction that come together to become a live dance performance. The Dance That Documents Itself features 4 dancers and incorporates live-feed and recorded video with live and recorded music to dynamically explore how technologies affect our lives, dancing bodies, the creative process, and the communities that we live in. Eight performances of The Dance That Documents Itself will be given Thursdays through Sundays, December 4-7 and 11-14, at 8:30 pm at CounterPulse, 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94103. For tickets and information, visit www.counterpulse.org andwww.jesscurtisgravity.org and participate in/follow the development of the project on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheDanceThatDocumentsItself.
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts Presents NUMBER ZERO (A SPACE OPERA) at CounterPULSE This Weekend
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is proud to announce the world premiere of Number Zero (a space opera), a highly physical, semi-improvised dance-theater adventure about a near future shaped by excessive computer control. Created by Sheldon B. Smith, Lisa Wymore and Ian Heisters, in collaboration with James Graham and Pei-Ling Kao, Number Zero runs today, June 20 - 22, 2014 at CounterPULSE in San Francisco.
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts to Present NUMBER ZERO (A SPACE OPERA) at CounterPULSE, 6/20-22
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is proud to announce the world premiere of Number Zero (a space opera), a highly physical, semi-improvised dance-theater adventure about a near future shaped by excessive computer control. Created by Sheldon B. Smith, Lisa Wymore and Ian Heisters, in collaboration with James Graham and Pei-Ling Kao, Number Zero runs June 20 - 22, 2014 at CounterPULSE in San Francisco.
UC Berkeley Presents BERKELEY DANCE PROJECT Tonight
With both people and places, sometimes the further away we are, the closer we feel. 'Intimate Distance' is the theme of this year's Berkeley Dance Project, an evening of choreography that will explore the relationship of distance and intimacy. The final production of UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies's Mainstage season runs today, April 17-26in Zellerbach Playhouse. Directed by Professor Lisa Wymore, it features new works by Jack Gray (visiting from New Zealand), Katie Faulkner (working here in Berkeley), and Ashley Ferro-Murray (choreographing from New York).
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts to Premiere #0, 6/20-22
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts has announced the world premiere of #0 (a space opera), a highly physical, semi-improvised, evening-length performance about a small band of humans who live on a future world with no name. Created bySheldon B. Smith and Lisa Wymore,#0 runs June 20 - 22, 2014 at CounterPULSE in San Francisco. The company will present a work in progress showing at Motion Pacific in Santa Cruz, May 16-17.
UC Berkeley Presents BERKELEY DANCE PROJECT, 4/17
With both people and places, sometimes the further away we are, the closer we feel. “Intimate Distance” is the theme of this year's Berkeley Dance Project, an evening of choreography that will explore the relationship of distance and intimacy. The final production of UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies's Mainstage season runs April 17-26in Zellerbach Playhouse. Directed by Professor Lisa Wymore, it features new works by Jack Gray (visiting from New Zealand), Katie Faulkner (working here in Berkeley), and Ashley Ferro-Murray (choreographing from New York).
UC Berkeley Presents New Works in 'Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture
The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies is excited to present Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture from April 19-28. The dance presentation will feature four new works by Lisa Wymore, Katie Faulkner, Scott Wells and Chia-Yi Seetoo; it will also include an art installation.
Photos: UC Berkeley Presents 4 New Dance Works in 'Berkeley Dance Project 2013: Aperture'; Thru 4/28
From 1964-68, Famed photographer Ansel Adams spent time at the University of California on a groundbreaking photographic project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr. At its core the project, entitled Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light, the University of California motto) asked Adams to answer the question "How can we imagine our future?" Over the course of the project, Adams took thousands of photos of the entire UC system, culminating in a published book written by Nancy Newhall in 1967, which was revisited in a full-year, campuswide multimedia exploration of Adams' work this year called On the Same Page.
