Dive deep into this ODC/Dance’s Summer Sampler Performances with two premiere works by ODC Fellow KT Nelson and Staging Director Mia J. Chong, behind-the-scenes interviews and the critically acclaimed, "especially thrilling," work 10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making by Guest Choreographer Catherine Galasso.

This summer we celebrate our roots and our future with two World Premiere works. One by KT Nelson, whose extravagant movement and glorious performance helped define and inspire ODC/Dance for decades. And the second by Mia J. Chong, whose coast to coast artistic journey began at age 5 right here in our studios. These times call for courage--they ask us to both remember and boldly move ahead. KT and Mia promise to lead us on that path.

-Brenda Way

Program Details:

Nothing’s Going to Make (World Primiere) by KT Nelson

Nothing’s Going to Make Sense reflects on KT Nelson’s experience of the sudden death of her husband, an irreversible event that shifted her sense of reality. The dance holds an emotional story, often out of order, marrying contradictions of loss and love, reality and fantasy, aloneness and togetherness.

Theories of Time (World Premiere) by Mia J. Chong

Theories of Time traces the mysterious nature of time — how it rushes forward, halts in moments of intensity, or slips quietly through memory. Inspired by the science and sensation of time perception, this work abstractly explores time as both fixed and fluid — not merely something we measure, but something we shape.

Theories of Time is Mia J. Chong’s first choreographic work on ODC/Dance, building on a unique history with ODC from student to dancer to staging director, and now, choreographer.

10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making by Catherine Galasso

Catherine Galasso’s10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making (World Premiere) dissects the notion of “pedestrian” movement and the liminal, theatrical space between locomotion and dance through exactly 10,000 deliberate steps. Both joyful and self-reflective, 10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making reveals nuanced complexities within an intricate and exuberant structure.

Available mid August