Rachel Howard June 1, 2021Updated: June 1, 2021, 7:31 am
Brenda Way, ODC artistic director. Photo: Darryl Bush / The Chronicle 2007
With a 13,000-square-foot Mission District campus billed as “the most active contemporary dance center on the West Coast,” ODC found itself in a strong position for survival when the pandemic hit. But “ODC doesn’t want to be the last dance organization standing after COVID,” ODC executive director Carma Zisman said recently. “We want the dance ecosystem around us.”
The organization is proving its commitment to that statement with the online ODC Theater Festival, which examines the San Francisco dance landscape, past and future, starting Thursday, June 3.
Chronicle Staff May 3, 2021Updated: May 3, 2021, 7:20 am
Mugwumpin’s Black Baba struts down a scenic path in Cutting Ball Theater’s “Phantasmagoria.” Photo: Julie Schuchard, Cutting Ball Theater
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Cutting Ball, Mugwumpin and Bay Area Theatre Cypher team up for Lewis Carroll collage
Among the few theatrical upsides of the pandemic is the emergence of thrilling multi-troupe collaborations, as companies who were long on each other’s radar suddenly have more bandwidth to make partnerships happen.
The latest in this glorious list, “Phantasmagoria,” brings together two stalwarts of the experimental and avant-garde, Cutting Ball Theater and Mugwumpin, with a relative newbie, Bay Area Theatre Cypher, which combines theater and hip-hop.
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