Regional companies are offered commissioning, touring, national networking, and performance opportunities over 3 years.
The Artist in Residence Program at ODC Theater offers a crucial intermediary step for those artists arriving at mid-career status. These artists bring wonderful expression, variety, and quality to our city’s cultural life. ODC Theater’s residency is marked by three distinguishing characteristics:
1) Commitment to artistic development, professional sustainability, and infrastructural development for the companies we support;
2) Significant fundraising efforts for selected projects;
3) Long-range advocacy for works created at ODC in markets outside the Bay Area.
The Artist in Residence Program makes selected artists eligible for the following career advancement opportunities designed by ODC Theater in collaboration with funders and presenters nationwide:
• SCUBA. A multi-city touring circuit created by ODC, Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, and the Southern Theater in the Minneapolis. SCUBA now includes Philadelphia Dance Projects. One resident artist per year is selected by panel for this national touring opportunity.
• The Director’s Fund. A new works initiative offering $5,000- $10,000 in cash commissions at the discretion of the ODC Theater Director. The Fund is supported generously by a gift from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and gifts from over 100 private investors.
• Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI). ODC is the hub-site for this program of New England Foundation for the Arts / National Dance Project. RDDI is a comprehensive artist lab, linking emerging artists in traditional and culturally specific forms with artistic, financial, and administrative support from established practitioners at the region and national tier.
• ODC Theater Presents. Each year selected resident artists are commissioned to make new work which premieres during the presenting season.
• Creative space. Resident artists are allotted 50 hours of fully subsidized space in which to rehearse and create.
Incoming Resident Artists 2009-2012
Modern Dance:
WENDY REIN & RYAN SMITH - RAWDance www.rawdance.org
HOLLY JOHNSTON - Ledges and Bones Dance Project www.ledgesandbones.org
Dance Theater:
CATHERINE GALASSO - www.catherinegalasso.com
SHINICHI IOVA KOGA - inkBoat www.inkboat.com
JACINTA VLACH / Liberation Dance Theater -www.jacintavlach.com
KATIE FAULKNER / little seismic dance company (dance, film) - www.littleseismicdance.org
Performance Art:
MONIQUE JENKINSON / Fauxnique - www.fauxnique.net
Musical Theater/Composition:
CHRISTOPHER WINSLOW - website under construction
Documentary film:
PAUL FESTA - www.paulfesta.com
Resident Artists 2005-2008
KUNST-STOFF - www.kunst-stoff.org
CHRIS BLACK - www.potrzebie.com
SHIFT>>> Physical Theater - www.shiftdance.org
LISA TOWNSEND COMPANY - www.lisatownsend.com
THE FOUNDRY - www.foundryprojects.org
ERIC KUPERS/DANDELION DANCE COMPANY - www.dandeliondancetheater.org
LEVYdance - www.levydance.org
JACK PERLA/ MUSIC WITHOUT WALLS - www.jackperla.com
SFSOUND - www.sfsound.org
MOTION LAB - www.motion-lab.net
BALCK CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL - www.bcfhereandnow.com
MARY CARBONARA DANCES - www.marycarbonaradances.org
PEONY PERFOMANCE GROUP - www.houarts.org
JOANN SELISKER - www.joannselisker.com
HAGEN & SIMONE - http://hagenandsimone.com/
NAVARRETE X KAJIYAMA - http://www.nkdancetheater.com/
Invitation to residency is at the discretion of Rob Bailis, ODC Theater Director. Inquiries should be sent to residence@odctheater.org
The Artists in Residence Program is supported in part by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and San Francisco Arts Commission.
