On Thursday (3/17), the pioneering artists from San Francisco's contemporary dance company ODC will launch their 2016 season with a stunning array of world premiere pieces at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts! See video teasers above and below. Tickets available here. I've seen many ODC performances over the years and the commonality between them is that they are all sublime. This Thursday is the first ever performance of ODC founder/artist director Brenda Way's "Walk Back the Cat," featuring an original score commissioned and performed by Paul Dresher, with visuals by RJ Muna and Ian Winters.
"'Walk Back the Cat,' a metaphor for retracing the complex backstory of an event, explores the skeleton of the creative process," Way says. "How does context affect meaning in dance? Developing from pure movement ideas into a dramatic scenario, the work is conceived as a kind of choreographic puzzle, which ultimately comes together in a scenario inspired by Thomas Hart Benton’s muscular and vital murals of American City Life in the 1930s."
The other pieces in the 2016 season include:
* KT Nelson’s new work, "Going Solo," for the exceptional Private Freeman
* Reprise of Nelson’s explosive 2015 hit, "Dead Reckoning"
* Kimi Okada’s "humorous I look vacantly at the Pacific…though regret"
* An unprecedented co-commission from NY choreographer Kate Weare who brings her fiery movement to the ODC dancers with the world premiere of "Giant"
ODC/Dance Downtown (March 17-27)
"Dead Reckoning":
"I look vacantly at the Pacific… though regret":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_39e9EyrBs&
