Ottawa Dance Directive / Centre de danse contemporaine (ODD) is a centre for professional dance. ODD creates a space in Ottawa for contemporary minded artists to investigate dance making, performance and collaboration.
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SERIES DANCE 10 #52 presents
Takako Segawa
Echoes: Vibrations from Japan to Canada
November 21, 22, 23 2024 / 7 :30pm / Arts Court Theatre / Doors open at 7 pm
SERIES DANCE 10 #51 Presents
Accumulation
by Co. Erasga Dance
October 24, 25, 26 2024 / 7 :30pm / ODD BOX / Doors open at 7 pm
ODD presents
MOVEMENT STORIES
by Kathryn Ricketts & Lana Morton
October 3-4 2024 / 7 :30pm / ODD BOX / Doors open at 7 pm
Hard Wire
SERIES DANCE 10 #50
Emma Kerson & Jane-Alison McKinney (Bare Nerve)
September 19,20,21 2024 / 7 :30pm / ODD BOX / Doors open at 7 pm
fluid resilience
Performances September 5 & 6
Workshop and documentary screening September 7
ODD BOX 2 Daly Avenue Ottawa
A ‘showing’ show! Works-In-Progress by Monique Léger and Jocelyn Todd
June 1 | 7pm | ODD BOX | $15
NAC Masterclass with Oona Doherty
Fri May 24 | 10am – 12pm
Ottawa Dance Directive (ODD) – Studio B (Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave)
Danse programme double
Sonia St-Michel Créations et Compagnie ODD
Monday April 29th 7pm
Salle Odyssée,
855 Bd de la Gappe, Gatineau
Empty Space | Empty Time
APRIL 21ST ST 8:00 pm
THE BETTY OLIPHANT THEATRE
404 Jarvis Street, Toronto
Dance and Riopelle: a moving response to Riopelle with Compagnie ODD and Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Thursday, April 4, 2024
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT
National Gallery of Canada – Scotiabank Great Hall
Freakin Fun Friday!
An ODD fundraiser, the party you dont want to miss!
Friday April 12, 2024. 7pm – 12am
ODD studios
Lina Cruz and Cathy Kyle Fenton
A Co-presentation with Ottawa Dance Directive
March 7 & 8 / 7:30pm / ODD BOX
SERIES DANCE 10 #48 Personne Danse + Jillian Peever
SERIES DANCE 10#48 presents two electrifying solos with performances by Jillian Peever & Charles-Alexis Dégagnés.
October 26, 27, 28 2023 / 7 :30 pm / Doors open at 7pm
National Dance Company of Korea + Compagnie ODD
Scent of Ink, Empty Space | Empty Time with Worlds Within by Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Tuesday, October 10, 2023 7pm
SERIES DANCE 10 #47 – Liz Winkelaar & Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson
September 28,29,30 2023 / 7 :30pm / ODD BOX Doors open at 7 pm
A Conversation Between Dancers, a Cellist and Flowers
August 19 at Gossamer Gardens Flower Farm, Opens 5pm
*** Change of venue to River House Vineyard and Winery
https://www.riverhousewine.com/***
Empty Space | Empty Time and Worlds Within
May 18, 19, 20 7:30 LabO Theatre, Ottawa
Ghost / Series Dance 10 #46
November 24,25,26 / 7:30 pm / Arts Court Theatre
Door open at 7pm
The eighth poem in ODD’s series from a man from jambican. Here for you to take a few moments of quiet reflection.
The seventh poem in ODD’s series from a man from jambican. Here for you to take a few moments of quiet reflection.
The sixth poem in ODD’s series from a man from jambican. We wish you a moment of pause to reflect and consider his words.
In Memoriam – Menaka Thakkar, March 3rd, 1942- February 5th, 2022
Menaka-di, as she was known to her many dance students, was a giant in the Canadian dance world. Arriving in Canada in 1972 from Bombay, she was a classically trained dancer in three techniques, Bharatanatym, Odissi and Kuchipudi. Her early performances in Canada mesmerized audiences. She was virtuosic in her execution of nritta or pure dance while also being an incredibly moving performer of abhinaya or expressional dance. Her dances took audiences on an unforgettable journey. She compelled a Eurocentric Canadian dance community to sit up and take notice of her art.
A man from jambican’s fourth poem in this series of poetry offerings. These are powerful words and reflections. We hope you will take a pause from your day to read them. An Ottawa artist of immense humanity.
ODD Statement of Support for Indigenous Peoples
Ottawa Dance Directive stands together with Indigenous peoples and our hearts are filled with sadness and compassion for the grieving families and communities of the children whose remains were found in unmarked burial sites near former residential schools. As settler allies, we commit to listening, learning, and adapting to better support reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. It is vital that we create new pathways for healing.
full statementBlack Lives Matter
Ottawa Dance Directive stands in solidarity with all those working for justice and protesting against racism, intolerance and other forms of oppression. It is imperative that we forge new pathways for discussion with open and compassionate hearts and minds so that change is finally realized. ODD is committed to having these discussions and creating space for the important work ahead. Diversity of expression is vital in the arts and in every sector of society and with it brings the greatest potential for our joint humanity.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
Ottawa Dance Directive acknowledges that its studios are located on traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin nation, as the traditional custodians of the land. We respect the land as the territory of the First Peoples. We are humbled to work in their community, and on their territory.
ODD acknowledges the generosity and support of its sponsors