Dance review: ODC's 'Grassland,' 'Forest'

Questing and discovery loosely tied together two very different premieres at the ODC/Dance Downtown 2009 season, which opened with a gala performance Thursday evening, and which continues at the Novellus Theater in Yerba Buena Center through March 29.

At the heart of KT Nelson's "Grassland" - a new work set to a commissioned score by Marcelo Zarvos, and accompanied by Zarvos on piano along with a live string quartet under the direction of René Mandel - is a herd of wild things, pulsing with life.

Read more at the SF Chronicle site.