On Thursday, ODC/Dance founder Brenda Way inaugurates the company’s 41st spring season by revisiting a theme from an early repertoire work, called “Ladies in Waiting,” about compliant women in the “Mad Men” era. But in “Breathing Underwater,” she brings the audience forward a few decades. Choreographed for four women, the title suggests women’s ability to survive under impossible circumstances. Way explains a darker meaning.
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Who’s in townAstronomer and UC Santa Cruz professor Sandra Faber tells the story of how we got here and where we are headed, cosmically speaking. [6 p.m., Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., S.F.]LecturesUrban winemaking: Wine experts explore the shift in wine production from rural wineries to urban facilities. A wine-tasting session follows the talk. [6:30 p.m., Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., S.F.]
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Modern dance companies rarely survive four decades. That Oberlin Dance Collective — founded by Brenda Way in 1971 and now known in The City as ODC/Dance — has thrived all these years is exceptional.
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