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3153 17th St San Francisco, CA 94110
San Francisco, CA 94110

RAWdance's 20th Anniversary Home Season


RAWdance celebrates 20 years with an ambitious home season at ODC Theater, featuring four world premieres: “Social Circle” and “Escape” by the company’s Co-Artistic Directors ...


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AXIS Dance Company Announces 2024 Home Season


by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2024

AXIS Dance Company has announced its 2024 home season featuring new works by choreographers Jennifer Archibald and Robert Dekkers, along with a revival of Marc Brew's acclaimed piece, 'Radical Impact.'...

REYES Dance To Premiere DIOS At ODC Theater in September


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 12, 2024

REYES Dance will premiere DIOS at ODC Theater, exploring themes of losing faith and finding personal power through innovative choreography and powerful performances. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Sharp & Fine to Premiere A DETECTIVE STORY in October at Z Space


by Blair Ingenthron - June 29, 2024

Sharp & Fine, a contemporary dance company known for its original experiments in theatrical storytelling, has announced its newest work, A Detective Story, premiering October 18 at Z Space in San Francisco....

Siddhi Creative Presents TWO FOLDS At ODC Theater


by A.A. Cristi - June 26, 2024

Siddhi Creative will present TWO FOLDS, a double feature showcasing the world premieres of THE MAZE and FINDING JOY, choreographed by Artistic Director Surabhi Bharadwaj, on September 20 and 22 at ODC Theater....

FACT/SF Presents 5th Annual FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival


by A.A. Cristi - June 03, 2024

Experience diverse contemporary dance at the 5th Annual FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival, featuring nine premieres by seven artists/companies over two weekends, August 16-25 at ODC Theater, San Francisco....

STATE OF PLAY Festival Programming Revealed at ODC Theater


by Stephi Wild - May 24, 2024

ODC Theater has announced the complete program for its 12th annual summer dance festival, August 1 - 4. STATE OF PLAY invites audiences to join the creative process through a curated artistic exchange, presenting premieres alongside works-in-progress....

18th Annual CUBACARIBE Festival of Dance & Music Presents ACTS OF RESISTANCE, ACTS OF JOY In June


by A.A. Cristi - May 21, 2024

CubaCaribe has announced its 18th Annual Festival of Dance & Music featuring two weeks of world premieres, performances, master classes, and celebrations at venues in San Francisco.  ...

ODC/Dance Reveals Program for its Summer Sampler Taking Place in July


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 26, 2024

ODC/Dance has revealed the program for its annual SUMMER SAMPLER. See the lineup and learn how to purchase tickets....

Oakland Ballet to Present Third Annual Dancing Moons Festival This Spring


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 08, 2024

Oakland Ballet Company's 2023-24 Season will continue in March with the third annual DANCING MOONS FESTIVAL....

ODC Dance to Present Three World Premieres by Brenda Way, Kimi Okada, and Sonya Delwaide at the YBCA


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 14, 2023

ODC Dance presents three world premieres by Brenda Way, Kimi Okada, and Sonya Delwaide at the YBCA. Learn more details here!...

Past Shows

State of Play Festival: Audrey Johnson - For a Moment/No Longer


*For A Moment/No Longer* (working title) is a dance about letting go and staying. Breaking open and re-assembling. About turning towards each other, the necessity ...

State of Play Festival: Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra - Spoken Choreographies


Interdisciplinary Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña has a long-standing history of collaborating with dancers and choreographers including La Ribot (Spain), Marecela Levi (Brazil), Sara Shelton Mann ...

State of Play Festival: hadar ahuvia - nefesh


*nefesh* sutures generations and genres, bridging the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims millennia old diasporic ...

State of Play Festival: PEILING KAO DANCES - Palimpsest Corpus


*Palimpsest Corpus* represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a ...

State of Play Festival: David Harvey and Babatunji - Chimera


*Chimera* explores the many identities of one body - how they emerge through behavior relationship, and embodiment. This dance work employs a sensitive physical language ...

State of Play Festival: SFDanceworks with Bryan Arias - The Broken Glass


Bryan Arias’ *The Broken Glass* premiered during SFDanceworks’ 6th season (2023). Delving into themes of resilience, fragility, and redemption, The Broken Glass offers audiences a ...

State of Play Festival: Paufve Dance - Sisters


*Sisters* is an anthology of dances addressing an urgent contemporary political issue: a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the dancers' personal stories of gender ...

Degenerate Art Ensemble: Skeleton Flower


Skeleton Flower is a semi-autobiographical exploration of complex struggles with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. Degenerate Art Ensemble confronts these ...

Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts: Put Away the Fire, dear


Put Away the Fire, dear is an evening-length premiere that dreams in frames of Old Hollywood cinema revamped and remixed for live group performance. Exploration ...

Fanny Ara: Lilith
Fanny Ara: Lilith
2/23 - 2/25/2024


Fanny Ara reflects on the journey of Lilith, a female symbol of independence, freedom and control over destiny through experimental and improvisational flamenco dance. Does ...

Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters: Long Playing


Long Playing is a training, a tribute, a trial, a social gathering for bodies still learning how to be animals, fully together and lost in ...

Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: I came here to weep


I came here to weep is a performance co-created with its audience. It is a confession, an intentional undoing, an exorcism. Castro asks questions about ...

Kensaku Shinohara: lunch box #3 & Good Bye


lunch box #3 is a collaborative dance piece choreographed and performed by Kensaku Shinohara and sam wentz. This mobile dance piece, with less tech-dependent elements, ...

Marissa Brown: How Lonely Sits The City


How lonely sits the city is a poetic layering of dance film and live performance that tells the quiet interior stories of Black identifying dancers ...

Tableau Stations: HOME WAVES


HOME WAVES is an intermedia dance performance project by TABLEAU STATIONS featuring collaborations spanning from the Bay Area to Manipur, India with Isak Immanuel, Marina ...

ODC/Dance: Summer Sampler 2023


Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience renowned company favorites by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Kimi Okada’s acclaimed May’s Letters, ...

ODC presents Brad Barton: Reality Thief


Join us at ODC Theater for an interactive magic and mind reading show featuring Brad Barton, Reality Thief. The show combines magic, psychology, comedy, mind ...

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