Dirt

Dirt, a new full-length dance featuring women dancers over 50, will premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2027.

Dirt follows Randee Paufve's acclaimed 2013 solo Soil, produced by ODC Theater in 2014 and honored with a 2015 Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie) for Outstanding Solo Performance. Twelve years later, Randee invites three acclaimed dancers to explore the stunning virtuosity afforded by a life lived in dance: former Alonzo King LINES dancer Maurya Kerr (Izzie-nominated for Paufve Dance's Sisters), celebrated Bay Area dancer Pei-Ling Kao, and veteran Joe Goode Performance Group collaborator Marit Brook-Kothlow.

Dirt investigates what the aging dancer's body affords rather than what it limits — spare gestures, intricate hand and arm work, facial expression, space-eating locomotion — the rigors of physicality, intimacy, and aggregated experience.

In challenging times, Dirt offers embodied truth-telling: older women dancers moving not in nostalgia, but fully in this moment. In an age of excess, Dirt shows us that less is more.