{"id":445,"date":"2007-06-20T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2007\/06\/go_the_oakland_dance_festival\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T04:47:07","slug":"go_the_oakland_dance_festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2007\/06\/go_the_oakland_dance_festival.html","title":{"rendered":"GO: The Oakland Dance Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Foot contributor Paul Parish sent me this email from the other coast, a de facto recommendation:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etix.com\/ticket\/servlet\/onlineSearch;jsessionid=C70888B1D4ABBB2ECA3D1F5915F1A275?action=displayPerformance&#038;pageNumber=0&#038;pageSize=10&#038;queryString=pageNumber%3d0%26pageSize%3d10%26action%3dvenueSearch%26venue%5fid%3d2740%26cobrand%3dcompanycballet\">The Oakland Dance Festival<\/a> has got another weekend.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a little like going to the Oakland Ballet used to be. There are kinda long waits between the numbers, but all the performances are full of energy, sincere, and they&#8217;ve got ideas&#8230;.<br \/>\nI saw ODC last night, on a mixed bill put together by Charlie Anderson&#8217;s Company C  &#8220;contemporary ballet.&#8221; ODC looked amazingly good seen out of context, and the piece, based on &#8220;Streetcar Named Desire,&#8221; was just incredible. I think [ODC artistic director] Brenda Way did it for Dance Theatre of Harlem. It&#8217;s technically amazing but SO inherently dramatic, and her dancers have the idiom in their bones. It&#8217;s just amazing to see a company who know what they&#8217;re doing and why and what it means&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foot contributor Paul Parish sent me this email from the other coast, a de facto recommendation: The Oakland Dance Festival has got another weekend. It&#8217;s a little like going to the Oakland Ballet used to be. There are kinda long waits between the numbers, but all the performances are full of energy, sincere, and they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}