Now, SFist doesn't usually go to modern dance performances (we're never sure when to clap, for one thing), but last year, our yoga class went to the ODC theater to see our yoga teacher dancing in the corps for Chris Black and the POTRZEBIE Dance Project's . (It was a little weird seeing everyone in street clothes, but we had a nice time, and our yoga teacher seemed very limber, like she always does.) The show did so well they've brought it back for a return engagement this weekend.
The Ecstasy is a forty-minute solo piece exploring ideas of religion, beatification, and objectification of female figures, with ritualized motions, innovative choreography and sound, and really cool costumes. Chris Black is herself a pilates teacher, so our yoga class also enjoyed picking out the parts of the dance that were strengthening her core muscles. We're still captivated by the image of Black getting up in the morning, milking a cow, and tipping over a bucket, over and over again.
Tickets are $15, and the shows are tonight through Saturday at 8. The Ecstasy is being performed along with a piece by the Fellow Travelers Performance Group called Warning Signs, as part of their Inferno Project, about nagging voices of self-doubt, and the entire series is being called "An Evening of Heaven and Hell."
