Dirt

Dirt is a new full-length dance featuring women dancers over 50, created in partnership with Ruth’s Table, a San Francisco-based community arts initiative. Dirt will premiere at Joe Goode Annex in September 2026.

Dirt follows Randee’s 2013 solo show Soil that was subsequently produced in 2014 by ODC Theater and for which she received the 2015 Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie) for Outstanding Solo Performance. Randee performed Soil, a concert of five physically challenging dances when she was 52, during one of the most fertile and exciting periods of her dancing career.  

Twelve years later, Randee has invited three acclaimed dancers, and the award-winning videographer Olivia Ting, who created video for Soil, to explore the stunning virtuosity afforded by a life lived in dance: former Alonzo King’s LINES dancer Maurya Kerr, recently nominated for an Izzie for Paufve Dance’s 2024 production Sisters; celebrated Bay Area dancer Pei-Ling Kao; and veteran Joe Goode Performance Group collaborator Marit Brook-Kothlow. 

Dirt investigates what the aging dancer body affords rather than what it limits. Dirt highlights the prowess of older women dancers through choreography that values the granular possibilities of the entire body: spare gestures, intricate hand/arm work, facial expression, and space-eating locomotive movement. In Dirt we explore the rigors of extraordinary physicality, intimacy, attention, expression, and aggregated experience.  

Dirt grapples with this challenging moment through embodied truth telling, offering beauty and meaning at a time when we most need it, through the artistry of older women dancers not indulging in what has passed, but moving in this moment, via the experiences of our years. In a time of excess and extremes, Dirt shows us that less is more.