ODC Dance’s delayed 50th anniversary celebration is finally here, with new recitals bearing brand new works.
Going strictly by the calendar, ODC Dance marked its 50th anniversary last year, which meant that the company couldn’t celebrate its extraordinary longevity with the community that’s sustained it through the decades.
“You never have time to reflect when you’re running a nonprofit, and that two years in hibernation gave me a lot of time to think about what it meant to get the company going and what is it we want to keep doing,” she said. “What are the basic values that we want to fight for? We’re coming back with a lot of thought and a lot of energy and excitement about our mission. That’s what we’re celebrating.
ODC’s celebration centers on the April 1 50+ Anniversary Gala, which accompanies Program A and also features a performance by ODC’s teen company, Dance Jam. The event’s proceeds help fund ODC various creative initiatives and the dancers’ newly expanded, year-long contract. “We jumped into the possibilities that isolation offered,” Way said. “The biggest difficulty was we couldn’t be in the studio making work together, so we were shifting about how we can interact with the world. Now you can play to people in France or South Africa and the price to participate is much lower. It’s not live performance, and I’m devoted to live performance, but we got a lot done.”
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