Dance In Albany Starts New Year with Bay Area Company; Collaboration with Skidmore

ALBANY — The performing arts centers at the University at Albany and The Egg present ODC/Dance as the sixth company in the 2022-23 Dance in Albany series. Having recently celebrated its 50-year anniversary, this San Francisco-based ensemble is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the uptown University at Albany campus located at 1400 Washington Ave. 

Founded in 1971 by Artistic Director Brenda Way, ODC/Dance was one of the first American companies to incorporate a post-modern sensibility into a virtuosic contemporary dance technique and to commit major resources to interdisciplinary collaboration and musical commissions for the repertory. 

Since then, the company has performed for more than a million people in 32 states and 11 countries with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. State Department and many state and city arts agencies. In addition to two annual home seasons, past highlights include numerous appearances at the Joyce Theater in New York, sold out performances at the Kennedy Center, two USIA tours to Asia and standing room only engagements in Europe and Russia. 

The company will perform three works on the program. Through a major collaboration with the Dance Department at Skidmore College, there will also be the premiere of a new work on the program. In a first-time choreographic collaboration by the pair, Way and Montalvo will spend five days at Skidmore from Jan. 18 to 22 creating a dance for 22 students selected through an audition process. ODC will welcome Skidmore’s students as guest performers on Jan. 27 when the students open the show performing the new dance.

Advance tickets for are $15 for the general public and $10 for students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff. Tickets purchased on the day of the show are $20 for the general public and $15 for students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff. Individual tickets can be purchased on the UAlbany Performing Arts Center’s site at www.albany.edu/pac or The Egg’s website (fees apply) at www.theegg.org.