ODC/Dance Presents Its 47th Home Season At Two Iconic San Francisco Locations

ODC/Dance presents its 47th Home Season "Dance Around Town" at two iconic San Francisco locations The company presents a world premiere at Grace Cathedral and a world premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in an innovative home season.

Grace Cathedral: February 9-10, 2018
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater: March 15-18, 2018
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ODC/Dance performs at Grace Cathedral, photo by RJ Muna SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2017 - ODC/Dance, San Francisco's internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company, announces "Dance Around Town," its 47th annual home season.

Fresh from a triumphant, sold-out national tour, ODC presents a new home season format featuring two world premieres in two iconic San Francisco venues. At the majestic Grace Cathedral from February 9-10, ODC/Dance premieres ODC Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson's immersive, site-specific work, Path of Miracles. The work is inspired by English composer Joby Talbot's evocative and transcendent work for a cappella choir, also titled Path of Miracles. Talbot's work is a pilgrimage in composition inspired by the arduous pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago. Reflecting the extremes of that journey, the score ranges from primal basses to celestial peaks, while ODC's dancers explore a physicality that meets both hardship and inspiration.

Path of Miracles was created in collaboration with San Francisco's 17-member vocal ensemble Volti. Under the baton of Robert Geary, they will join ODC's exquisite dancers and lead the audience to different sites within Grace Cathedral. The following month, from March 15-18 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, ODC/Dance presents the world premiere of ODC Founder and Artistic Director Brenda Way's News of the World. A bracing feminist response to a turbulent world, Way's new work features music by Oscar-nominated composer David Lang, mise-en scene by set designer Alexander V. Nichols and New York-based painter Doug Argue responding to Picasso's famous disruptive 1907 painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".

The evening will also reprise 2017's prescient work, What we carry, What we keep. This work was originally choreographed as a wide-ranging reflection on holding on, hoarding and clearing out. What we carry, What we keep has taken on deeper resonance following recent natural disasters at home and around the world in which countless individuals and communities made profound split-second decisions about what to save and what must be let go. ODC/Dance hosts its annual Spring Fundraising Gala, "ODC Dance Around Town" on Friday, March 16, 2018 at the St. Regis at 6pm. The luminary evening will include a pre-performance dinner, a special gala performance, and an after-party. Proceeds support ODC's creation of innovative new work. More information is at www.odc.dance/gala.

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