Venue: ODC Theater, San Francisco

Carla Escoda reviews the world première of Scott Wells' and Sheldon B. Smith's Father On at the ODC Theater in San Francisco. 

Rosanna Gamson’s Layla Means Night, a riff on the Persian fable of Scheherazade, draws audiences into what program notes describe as “an immersive tour through a world of ritual violence and exquisite pleasure.” We were told to wear sensible shoes.

SPF 6, the sixth annual Summer Performance Festival for fledgling modern dance companies in San Francisco, closed on Sunday with an irresistible chamber ballet by The Milissa Payne Project that brought down the house at the small-but-splendid ODC Theater in the hip Mission district.