Velocity Dance Center – Seattle Dances

March 11, 2021 Featured / Interviews

DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: JIM KENT

Reflecting on beloved dancer and musician Jim Kent, and his career of dynamic, expressive dancing.

February 16, 2021 Featured / Interviews

DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: HENDRI WALUJO

With almost two decades of performing across Seattle, Hendri Walujo still craves the challenge of a new role.

July 23, 2020 Interviews / News

NOT-SO-STRICTLY SEATTLE

Velocity Dance Center reworks its summer programing–Strictly Seattle and SFDI–in response to the needs of 2020.

July 6, 2020 Reviews

ROMANCE TOLD THROUGH DANCE

Boaz Yakin’s narrative dance film shows the complication of love in stunning use of choreography (Bobbi Jene Smith). Online through July 17.

May 30, 2020 Reflection

NEWLY FORMED: SEATTLE DANCE ALLIANCE

The Seattle Dance Alliance was established to collectively navigate a new era of dance teaching informed by COVID-19.

March 16, 2020 Reviews

GENDER REVEAL PARTY

Kaitlin McCarthy’s Gender Reveal Party ruthlessly interrogates what it means to be pregnant, reclaiming agency as human and parent, and challenging gendered expectations.

February 24, 2020 Interviews

RAJA FEATHER KELLY TALKS POP

Raja Feather Kelly (coming to Washington Ensemble Theatre’s GUSH series) uses pop culture to explore something deeper in UGLY (Black Queer Zoo).

December 31, 2019 News / Reviews

FROM THE EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: NOV/DEC

New companies! New research platforms! And why Donald Byrd’s Love and Loss was exactly the kind of work we should be seeing at the ballet.

December 19, 2019 Reviews

RITUAL AND REBELLION

Velocity’s NEXT FEST runs the gamut of responses to theme Ritual & Rebellion within a permeable, shifting performance space.

November 20, 2019 Reviews

ORGANICALLY INVOLVED

Keith Hennessy’s Sink creates global connections from intimate, socially conscious, audience involvement.