Dance at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ - Dance Company Residency & Guest Artists
ODC Dance Company
ODC/Dance Company of ten world-class dancers performs its imaginative repertory for more than l 50,000 people annually. In addition to two annual home seasons in San Francisco (Dance Downtown and its holiday production, The Velveteen Rabbit), recent highlights include appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival in New York, MODAFE Festival in Seoul Korea, Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, and past standing-room-only engagements in Europe, Russia, and Asia. Way’s work was selected by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for the Inaugural Dancemotion Tour in 2010. For this return performance, the company plans to bring a pair of masterworks by Founding Artistic Director Brenda Way. The company classic "Investigating Grace", named an American Masterpiece by the NEA in 2010.The company will also be performing Way's more recent "Collision, Collapse and a Coda" also named a "mini-masterpiece" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Dance Company Residency, now in its twelfth year, engages Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ students and the surrounding community. Through classes for dance students, general studies students, and the public, the artists-in-residence teach movement and share their experiences as working artists. The residency culminates in a performance at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 9, at 7:30 pm.
Master Classes for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Dance
Besides the Dance Company Residency and our Guest Artists, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ brings in various professionals for master classes throughout the year. Previous master classes have been in modern, partnering, ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and many others.
Previous Guest Artists and Master Classes
- BigKid Dance, Philadelphia, PA
- Nathaniel Hunt, Ailey II, New York, NY
- Tiffany Mills Compay, New York, NY
- Michael Nickerson-Rossi, Palm Springs, CA
- Saleana Pettaway, Kariamu + Company, Philadelphia, PA
- Gallim Dance, Brooklyn, NY
- Dance Now! Miami, Miami, FL
- Lehrer Dance, Buffalo, NY
- Dawn Marie Bazemore, PhilaDanco
- Julie B Johnson, Independent Artist
- Scott McPheeters, Subcircle
- Julius Carter, Broadway performer (Spiderman, On The Town)
- Jenna Riegel, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and David Dorfman Dance
- Edward Rice, Third Rail Projects and Alexandra Beller/Dances
- Meredith Rainey, Pennsylvania Ballet
- Caroline Fermin, New York, NY
- Starr Foster. Richmond, VA
- Robert Moses' KIN, San Francisco, CA
- Bryn Cohn, New York, NY
- Raphael Xavier, Philadelphia, PA
- Melissa Chisena, Richmond Ballet and Chisena Danza
- Ellie Goudie-Averill, Stone Depot Dance
- Jae Hoon Lim, Koresh Dance Company
- Rebecca Stenn, Rebecca Stenn Dance Company and Pilobolus
- Michael Spencer Phillips, Rioult Dance
- Amy Marshall, Amy Marshall Dance Company
- Marjorie Folkman, Mark Morris Dance Company
- Erin Pasko, Hip Hop Performer
