Sat. March 27, 8pm
Sun. March 28, 5pm and 8pm
Chosen from over 60 applicants, six strong female voices emerge, presenting new works as part of ODC Theater and ODC School’s mentorship program for emerging choreographers. ODC provides the performance venue, technical production, lighting, and box office, but Pilot challenges choreographers to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" and produce a concert on a discretionary budget of $300. For more information on the Pilot Program, click here.
Pilot 56 artists come from a diverse background of culture and dance influence. Elizabeth Castaneda’s piece will walk the audience through the exhibition hall of her heart, exploring the essential motivations and emotions of life. Angela Demmel, an MFA candidate at Mills College, offers a piece that will explore dream space, drawing inspiration from Salvador Dali paintings. Yukie Fujimoto, a former ODC/Dance dancer, is crafting a duet inspired by doll costumes. With these inanimate bodies Fujimoto will express the artlessness of uncoupling oneself from bizarre attachments. Sarah Lewin will present a duet that focuses on snapshot moments in time that plays with the ephemeral nature of memory and the ways in which our present and future self can deteriorate. Michelle Fletcher is working on a full-length piece about marijuana and human energy, tapping into the body's ability to create natural highs. Noosh Afarin, a Persian physician, brings passionate, underground dance (illegal in Iran) to the Pilot stage. "Rooftop Awakening" shares the healing power of community, as well as the ongoing struggle to achieve individual rights under oppression.
TICKETS
$12
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LOCATION
ODC Dance Commons, Studio B
351 Shotwell Street SF CA 94110