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🚨 6-Week Intro Series Contemporary Classes are here!|| 🔗 Sign-up https://odc.dance/schedule

Intro to Contemporary Technique w/ Nol Simonse
August 7-14-21-28, September 3-10 Thursdays 7:00-8:30pm

Nol brings his fun, engaging style to this absolute beginner workshop. Start at the very beginning to learn the fundamentals of modern technique.(This is an “upright” class, which means we will not be working on floor work or inversions.) If you’re looking for a non- judgmental space to learn more about your body and be more comfortable in dance class, this is it! From spinal isolations to chassés, we will use different modes to find all the different flavors that dance has to offer. We will break everything down, and become more proficient as movers. Tell your friends, this workshop will be a lot of fun!

6-Week Intro Series: Contemporary Fundamentals with Erin Yen
July 10-17 (NO class July 24) July 31, August 7-14-21, Fridays 7:30-8:30pm

Short description: Contemporary Fundamentals with Erin Yen is a summer class series exploring four core principles of movement: space, weight, time, and flow. Through guided exercises and phrasework, dancers will investigate how they occupy and navigate space, shift and share weight, develop clarity in timing and rhythm, and build both control and release. Open to movers of varying experience levels, this class centers curiosity, embodiment, and play, offering tools that support both technical growth and personal expression. Contemporary Fundamentals invites participants to deepen their physical awareness while discovering new pathways through contemporary movement.

🎭 ODC Theater and TBA Community Mixer: Uplifting hands that make art happen
FREE Event || June 15th at 5:30pm, RSVP here https://odc.dance/calendar

Join ODC Theater and Theatre Bay Area on Monday, June 15 from 5:30 – 7pm for a casual community mixer uplifting the tech, design, and stage management professionals in our community. Over the course of the evening there will be opportunities to make new connections, imagine new opportunities, and enjoy the warmth of Bay Area performing arts community over a drink and some light bites.

All attendees will be invited to submit information about their work to a digital contact book that will be shared after the event. Whether you are a front of house, onstage, or back of house professional looking for opportunities, a producer or arts leader looking to expand your network, or an arts lover looking for the chance to connect, we hope to see you at the community mixer!

Co-hosted by: theatre Bay Area

ODC presents: Eddie Brown Tap Dance Symposium 👞
August 6-9, 2026
ODC Dance Commons & ODC Theater

Celebrate the late tap dance legend Eddie Brown at ODC. Created by Brown’s protege Babs Yohai along with Gabe & Mindy Copeland, The Eddie Brown Tap Dance Symposium offers tap classes for all levels embodying Brown’s signature rhythms and routines, a sneak preview of the Eddie Brown Documentary, and chance to engage with tap stars and stewards of Eddie’s teachings.

The Symposium culminates in a showcase at ODC Theater with special guest Bill Irwin and live music from The Cottontails with Karina Deniké.

✍️ Register and view the schedule by visiting https://odc.dance/eddiebrown

📷 Come honor honor Doug Winter and his prolific photography in the ODC Theater Lobby as we gear up to Summer Sampler 2026.
June 25th, 2026 || 📍 ODC Theater @ 5:30pm
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4x3xDEV

KT Nelson’s Izzie award-nominated Nothing's Gonna Make Sense (Reflections on Grief) is the choreographer’s response to Winter's sudden death in 2023, and will be performed as part of this year's Summer Sampler program.

🧠 Body Mind Centering® and Movement Science with Diana Lara
Mondays in June, 5:30 - 7:00pm in Fisher Studio
🔗 Register for class: https://bit.ly/4vtLzWW

Explore gravity and space from the point of view of biomechanics and Body Mind Centering®. The classes will invite participants to explore postural tone, bonding with the earth and space, primitive reflexes, and righting reactions.

🏳️‍🌈 Black Benatar's Pre-Pride Party
Monday, June 22 @ 7pm
🎟️ Tickets starting at $0, https://odc.dance/calendar

Beatrice Thomas (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and the creator of Black Benatar, a drag persona known for blending comedy, puppetry, and spectacle. Thomas’s work has been presented at La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, ODC Theater’s State of Play Festival, and the University of Utah, alongside residencies with community partners nationwide. Their other touring project, Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret, continues to receive acclaim for its inventive mix of drag, circus, and social justice storytelling.