San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)

CLAUDIA BAUER’S DANCE PICK

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Perspectiv­es will shift at the premiere of Catherine Galasso’s “Alone Together,” Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 6-8, at ODC Theater — Galasso is putting her performers in the seats and the audience on the stage. And they’re artists worth looking up to: dancers Arletta Anderson, Eric Garcia, Cookie Harrist, Hien Huynh, Phoenicia Pettyjohn and Karla Quintero, plus Millennium School seventh-grader Galicia Stack Lozano. San Francisco composer Dave Cerf created the music and sound design.

There’s a bit of a time warp afoot too. “Alone Together” is the third chapter in Galasso’s multivalen­t performanc­e series “Of Iron and Diamonds,” which is inspired by Boccaccio’s 14th century story cycle “The Decameron” but draws parallels with our alone-together digital culture and the audience-artist divide. The New York-based Galasso, a former ODC resident artist, has the honor of wrapping up the theater’s 2018 season, putting a cap on Julie Potter’s outstandin­g curation.

Catherine Galasso:

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 6-8. $30. ODC Theater, 3153 17th St., S.F. 415-863-9834. www.odc.dance/tickets

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