Public Programs
Working at the intersection of culture, social change and public life, Julie has designed multiple initiatives from pilot to scale as a program manager specializing in performance and pedagogy. These public programs, focused on engagement and inquiry, incorporate dialogic formats as part of a nuanced facilitation.
How does the presence of artists distinctly affect the nature and identity of a site for assembly? How does one use the art part of performance to choreograph public dialogue differently? How does a gathering stimulate and mobilize emotional states, putting into motion new possibilities for thoughts, feelings and social relations? These programs employing a variety of deliberative modes encourage improvisation, curiosity and presence.
Projects
YBCA Fellows + the Public Square
photo by tommy lau
The YBCA Fellows program brings together creative citizens from across the Bay Area - artists and everyday people alike - to engage in a yearlong process of inquiry, dialogue, and project generation.
Signals From the West
Hope Mohr Dance’s 2019 Bridge Project, Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100, in partnership with Open Space, the Merce Cunningham Trust and ODC Theater was a multi-month project and bicoastal collaboration. As part of the international celebration of the Cunningham centennial, ten Bay Area artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds were commissioned to participate in a workshop August 12–23, 2019, led by former Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, and create new works of art in response. These works were presented alongside excerpts of Cunningham repertory by Bay Area dancers at ODC Theater November 8 & 9, 2019.
YBCA:You Program
Toward a Creative Ecosystem: Relationship Management, Access and a Culture of Invitation. photo by tommy lau
YBCA:You was featured in the American Alliance of Museums TrendsWatch 2015 as an example of personalized museum services, which integrate individualized curricula into a membership-based community engagement program. Read the guest blog post “Toward a Creative Ecosystem: Relationship Management, Access and a Culture of Invitation” about this program, during its third year.
Limited Edition
Photo by Andrew jordan
An Open Space partnership with CounterPulse, The Lab, ODC Theater, Performance at SFMOMA, and Z Space, Limited Edition explores questions of legacy and lineage through performances, discussions, and gatherings at various locations throughout the city, with commissioned texts appearing regularly online.
Smart Night Out
photo by tommy lau
Emerging from Dance Savvy, an Engaging Dance Audiences project designed to apply a critical pedagogy successful in visual arts to inform and educate audiences about performance, Smart Night Out is an immersive program that is part workshop, part happy-hour date, and part backstage sneak peek.
This Is Also The Art
Image by Williams College Photography
Throughout the fall of 2020, ODC Theater presented This is Also the Art, an online program featuring artists originally scheduled to be presented in ODC Theater’s 2020 Season. During this series, artists and their collaborators share and discuss content from the works in various stages of creation and reflect upon the research and continued lives of the pieces offstage.
