ODC/Dance, Brenda Way's perpetually peripatetic dance company returns home to San Francisco now and then — for 43 annual home seasons, to be exact — and beginning March 20, it will strut its always-new stuff at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Photo by RJ Muna
Brenda Way and Co-Artistic Director KT Nelson have collaborated creating boulders and bones, inspired by the work of visual artist Andy Goldsworthy, and in collaboration with composer Zoë Keating, photographer and filmmaker RJ Muna, and lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols.
The evening-length work integrates elements of sculpture, video, movement, and music, influenced by a new stone installation of Goldsworthy in Northern California. Conceived in three parts, "the dance moves from the noise and effort of construction, to the stillness of completion, to the outpouring of energy."
boulders and bones combines time-lapsed video of Goldsworthy’s building process; shot by Muna, visual design by Nichols, and a new score by Keating, who uses a foot-controlled laptop to record layers of sound in the performance.
Program B of the home season includes Way and Nelson’s 2013 collaboration with Kate Weare, Triangulating Euclid, ODC associate choreographer Kimi Okada’s new duet Two If By Sea/; and Brenda Way’s 2008 work Unintended Consequences.