Email Author Bonner Odell

2009 Stories by Bonner Odell

• Moving Tradition

  published November 25, 2009

  While the less-successful experiments of Fidel Castro’s Cuba are well known, its state-run system for training dance professionals can hardly... More >>

• Moves to Melt You

  published October 21, 2009

  Few who have experienced Montana’s Glacier National Park would argue that it takes the cake for epic scenery among U.S. parks. But if global... More >>

• Soulfully Cerebral

  published October 14, 2009

  Soul and extreme technicality are rare companions in the art world, perhaps because the brain and the gut speak fundamentally different languages.... More >>

• Memory in Motion

  published September 23, 2009

  “Shared Legacies” reunites mentor Sara Shelton Mann and past protégés, including dance/music duo La Alternativa... More >>

• Honestly, Abe Survived!

  published September 23, 2009

  What if the headlines the morning after John Wilkes Booth pulled his pistol on Abraham Lincoln read “Assassination Attempt Narrowly... More >>

• Dysfunction Functions

  published September 16, 2009

  Choreographer Amy Lewis is a smart cookie. Her 2006 piece Conversion, in which five dancers performed a visual version of the complex musical... More >>

• Found in Translation

  published September 2, 2009

  It must have been a daunting scenario: two dance companies from opposite sides of the globe, five weeks to make a dance, and no language in... More >>

• Fall Dance Picks

  published September 2, 2009

  The Chitresh Das Dance Company: Sita Haran If any classical Indian choreographer is qualified to stage this favorite... More >>

• Kara and Katy

  published March 11, 2009

  Those who don’t count themselves fans of local modern dance have never seen Kara Davis move. This jewel in the crown of some of S.F.’s... More >>

• Evolution of a Native Species

  published February 25, 2009

  San Francisco is home to a dance scene steeped in contact improvisation, a phenomenon born of the 1960s counterculture. Part social movement and... More >>

• The Flamenco Generation

  published February 25, 2009

  Like the blues and hip-hop, flamenco was created by people living on the fringe. And like those forms, its music and dance have undergone mass... More >>

• We Got Your Hawaii Right Here

  published January 28, 2009

  While hopping a flight to Honolulu may be a pipe dream this year, hula doesn’t have to be. Bay Area performance troupe Hālau ’o... More >>

• Experimenting with Mind-Altering Dance

  published January 21, 2009

  Urban Japan is a culture in love with the cutting edge, and in this it shares a singular, pulsating passion with the world of contemporary dance.... More >>

• Dance Defying Description

  published January 14, 2009

  Promo copy for performances of butoh, the ever-evolving, highly experimental Japanese dance form, can be notoriously vague. “The human body,... More >>