ODC Performance : ODC Theater Presents SCUBA

SCUBA- the national touring network for dance- brings together Megan Mazarick, locust and The Foundry for a weekend of provocative premieres. All the work on this year’ SCUBA show is in some way inspired by the hip and hasty elements of the information age, technologies that encourage imagined identities and make believe lives, and the subsequent hardships that spring up like weeds in the garden of authentic communication. In a world where everything is a touch screen – are we losing touch? This show asks rather viscerally, does anyone take their pants off anymore, or is it all shadowboxing? Companies from Seattle, Philadelphia, and SF share this show, demonstrating this is a nation wide investigation.

Megan Mazarick Avatard
Philadelphia
Three video gamers become characters inside a game and must rely on the controls within their bodies to keep playing. Pop culture references, a sci fi theme song sound score and video projections create a humorous, surreal atmosphere offset by Mazarick’s highly stylized movement language.

locust, Amy O’Neal Artistic Director crushed
Seattle
crushed flips the script on the preconception that the victim is always the most affected person in an accident, using hip hop, contemporary dance, video and a live electronic soundscape to create an electric atmosphere in which chaos and control vie for prominence.

“infectious, energizing stuff; dance that sucks you in and makes you want to get off your ass and join in”--Willamette Weekly

The Foundry, Alex Ketley Artistic Director Please Love Me
San Francisco
One of three presentations of the Theater Irrelevant project, ODC's is ironically the only one to take place in a theater. Subsequent performances will be outdoors or in bars, each time offering a new view of Ketley’s poetically elegant material. You saw it here first, enjoy it wherever it goes.

“At the vanguard of American dance”--SF Chronicle

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SCUBA touring network is paving the way for mobilizing dance in America. Now in its eigth year, this multi-city touring network was proudly co-created in collaboration with the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, Velocity Dance Center in Seattle and Philadelphia Dance Project.