Join Benjamin Levy and LEVYdance Company Artists for a week-long summer intensive focusing on technique, partnering, composition, repertory and personal and professional development.
ROMP at The ODC Walking Distance Dance Festival
June 29, 7pm and 9pm, @ ODC Dance Commons
One weekend only! 12 dance artists including ODC/Dance, past and present ODC Theater artists in residence, and national guests from Minneapolis, Seattle and Philadelphia take over the ODC campus for a fringe-style dance festival. Zip back and forth between the ODC Theater, Studio B, and intimate spaces. See San Francisco's dance luminaries, the avant-garde and rising stars. ODC Theater's ever-sharp curatorial eye will offer up a menu of what's hot in the contemporary dance world for veteran audiences and new explorers alike. Don't walk to Walking Distance Dance Festival. Run, leap, and dive in.
TICKETS
Festival passes on sale May 2,
Single tickets on sale June 4,
Buy online at
www.odctheater.org/buytickets
or call 415-863-9834,
Box Office: Wed-Fri 12-6pm
Low Down
LEVYdance and renowned San Francisco based dance company The Foundry are currently in the studio together rehearsing for the world premiere of Low Down: a creative collaboration exploring the body's ability to communicate. LEVYdance Artistic Director, Benjamin Levy, and The Foundry Artistic Director, Alex Ketley, have engaged both companies to mutually explore the body's ability to tell a story. Can a language of movement be developed that communicates specific meaning, while maintaining the profound expression inherent in dance? The artists are using found and invented texts as inspiration for choreographic exploration, looking at context, rhythm and meaning to inspire movement generation.
The creative process integrates the aesthetics of both choreographers and infuses the work with the performance sensibilities of both companies, producing a unified performance that is entirely new. Following the successful fall premiere of ROMP, named one of the "Top Ten Dance Moments of 2011" by The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ketley's Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography, both artists are ripe for this ambitious collaboration.
Click here to read San Francisco Chronicle's Ovation Highlight on the creation of Low Down
10th Anniversary Year Events
Launch Party
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6-8pm
Martin Lawrence Galleries
LEVYdance Gala
An Evening to Honor and Celebrate
Saturday, May 12, 2012 6-10pm
Z Space @ Theater Artaud
Spring Home Season
A Collaboration with Alex Ketley of The Foundry
May 17-19, 2012 8pm
May 20, 2012 2pm
Z Space @ Theater Artaud
Summer Intensive Showing
Thursday, June 28, 2012 3-4pm
Studio Gracia
Walking Distance Dance Festival
ROMP
Friday, June 29, 2012 7pm & 9pm
ODC Dance Commons, Studio B
VIP Preview Event
November 2012
Fall Home Season
LEVYdance with Sidra Bell Dance NY
November 15-18, 2012
ODC Theater
VIP Preview Event
March 2013
Spring Home Season
10th Anniversary Outdoor Retrospective
May 2013
LEVYdance Gala
An Evening to Honor and Celebrate
May 2013
Studio Gracia - Official Home of LEVYdance
Join us for one of our many exciting classes, including Tango, Salsa, Samba, Blues, Double Dutch, Hip Hop, 5 Rhythms and Modern! We would love to have you! Check out
Studio Gracia's website for class schedules.
Studio Gracia is also available for rentals. Please call (415)701-1300 for rates and availability.
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