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State of Play Presents: Laila J. Franklin: BabyBabyBaby

Friday, August 28, 2026 - 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Tickets range from $0-$80
ODC Theater | 3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco

Event Details

Submitted by the Event Organizer

ODC

A dance about dances about love.

Interested in the human impulse for connection, BABYBABYBABY (2024) (West Coast Premiere) taps into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. With reference points ranging from early aughts romantic comedies and So You Think You Can Danceduets, to archival footage of live performances by Roberta Flack and Nina Simone, to obstacle course TV game shows and clowning, the work stumbles through shades of silliness, irrationality, passion, and grief. It calls into question the role of sincerity, earnestness and truthfulness in performance, and the power of physical states.

BABYBABYBABY seeks to explore how we contend with the precarity of trust, impulsivity, and continuity via flexible agreements and disagreements, in its physical acts and overarching theme. It is a work interested in companionship and partnership, exploring the ways we give and receive care.

BABYBABYBABY is the grand gesture Franklin is committing.

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Cost: FREE*
*Tickets range from $0-$80
Categories: Fairs & Festivals, In Person, Theater & Performance
Address: 3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA

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