Velocity Dance Center – Seattle Dances

May 30, 2020 Featured / 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.

November 8, 2019 Interviews

DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: KIM HOLLOWAY

Kimberly Holloway talks teaching, making, faith, and her journey to professional dance.

October 25, 2019 Reviews

COMPLEXITY IN CONVERSATION

Sean Dorsey’s Boys in Trouble finds complexity in personal narrative and questions over answers.

October 11, 2019 Reviews

MASCULINITY EXAMINED

Men in Dance’s 2019 Adjudicated showcase offers five works examining modern masculinity.

September 6, 2019 Interviews / News

THE NEW FALL KICK OFF

Velocity Artistic Director Erin Johnson discusses this year’s Fall Kick Off, along with take aways from attending the National Dance Presenter’s Forum at Jacob’s Pillow.