Brenda Way founded the Oberlin Dance Collective when she was on faculty at Oberlin College in 1971, and she brought the company with her to San Francisco five years later. From those beginnings, ODC/DANCE has become a major cultural force in the Bay Area, building its own theater and hosting a wide range of activities in its studios. Along with co-artistic director KT Nelson and choreographer-in-residence Kate Weare, Way conceived Triangulating Euclid as a way to embody some of the principles set forth in Erhardus Ratdolt’s influential book, Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. In Way’s words, “We wanted to journey from the formal elegance of geometry to its human implication: from triangles to threesomes, from lines to connections.”
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