back stage with ODC Dance

SOTA students were invited to spend class last week with Artistic Directors Brenda Way & KT Nelson of ODC Dance. ODC heads to Yerba Buena theater this week for their annual season, Dancing Downtown. We got to learn a solo from Way's "Unintended Consequences" taught by two of the dancers and then we got to watch the piece live (with a sund score by Laurie Anderson), in the ODC studio theater where they rehearse every day. We ended class with a brief Q&A discussing the importance of the dancers awareness and presence onstage - the individuality of the lives of each dancers as experienced through the face is very important and unique - something that ODC strives to showcase.