2025 RENTALS DISCOUNT INITIATIVE AWARDS
Up to 10 weeks will be discounted 50% or 100% off for artistic activity. Up to 5 weeks are available at each discount tier. Up to 2 weeks (Sunday - Thursday) are available for artists who wish to rehearse in the theater with or without technical support and do not plan to have a public event. 8 weeks (Tuesday - Sunday) will be allocated to projects that culminate in a publicly ticketed event.
Projects are eligible for a maximum of 2 weeks of discount. The initiative is intended to support individual artists and organizations. Black, Native/Indigenous, People of Color, women, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+ persons are strongly encouraged to apply.
Space rental for a week in the Theater costs $5,500.00. After the discount on space use is applied, artists will be responsible for covering all equipment, technical and front of house staff, and/or box office setup costs. Renters collect box office revenue for any publicly ticketed event. See odc.dance/rentals to view current rates.
Artists renting ODC Theater will receive up to 3 coaching sessions with ODC Theater staff to support any coaching or mentorship needs.
This application will be reviewed by panelists hired by ODC Theater, including Resident Curators Maurya Kerr and Zaquia Mahler Salinas. Projects will be evaluated based on need and the curatorial interests of the panel. The panel will select a roster of projects, from which, ODC staff will make a final selection based on project scope and feasibility within the venue's capacities.
Questions? Please contact theater@odc.dance.
Important Dates
Monday, July 1, 2024 - applications open
The application deadline has been extended to August 12, 2024!
ODC Theater 2024-2025 Resident Curators
Zaquia Mahler Salinas (she/her), is the Director and Co-Founder of San Diego based movement arts organization, DISCO RIOT. She wears many hats: administrator, producer, choreographer, performer, and educator. Her art and life practice is grounded in cultivating responsiveness to the present moment, justice, community building, and the magic of collaboration.
Maurya Kerr is a Bay Area-based artist, poet, educator, and the artistic director of tinypistol. Much of her work—across the disciplines of movement, language, and film—is focused on Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University. Maurya's poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, including Magma Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Inverted Syntax, and is anthologized in The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Maurya’s work was recently honored as a runner-up in the 2021 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and chosen by Jericho Brown as a runner-up in Southern Humanities Review’s 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. She was a 2021/22 UC Berkeley ARC (Arts Research Center) Poetry & the Senses Fellow, and her first chapbook, MUTTOLOGY, is forthcoming with Harbor Editions in 2023.