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ODC/Dance returns to the YBCA Blue Shield of California Theater for Dance Downtown, March 27 - 31, 2024. Two bracing programs feature world premieres and major reprises by ODC's Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way, Associate Choreographer Kimi Okada, ODC Fellow KT Nelson and guest choreographer Sonya Delwaide. Both Program A and Program B conclude with Nelson's exhilarating Dead Reckoning, set to a commissioned score by composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Springing from the raucous world of cartoon, the front pages of the news, the intimacy of human connection, or the mystery of artistic process, Dance Downtown invites the viewer on a visceral, thought-provoking journey and simply breathtaking dance.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
San Francisco dance fans have annual events that they look forward to every year, and one of the most beloved is ODC/Dance’s Dance Downtown, where the company sojourns from their Mission District campus to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Five terrific works will span two different programs, with three world premieres joining Brenda Way’s “Collision, Collapse and a Coda” (2023) and KT Nelson’s “Dead Reckoning” (2015).
Heather Desaulniers
Contributing Writer
ODC/Dance
ODC/Dance was one of the first U.S. companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.
ODC/Dance was one of the first U.S. companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory.