Meany Hall

Chamber Dance Company’s 29th season explores the despair, thrill and humor intrinsic in the act of falling, with choreography by José Limón (1945), Brian Brooks (2012), Talley Beatty (1947) and Mark Morris (1982). Highlights include Brian Brooks’ First Fall (2012), a duet he created for acclaimed New York City Ballet ballerina Wendy Whalen. For the first time since exclusively performing and touring First Fall with Whalen, Brooks is sharing this work with Chamber Dance Company––the only company to perform the…

Chamber Dance Company’s 29th season explores the despair, thrill and humor intrinsic in the act of falling, with choreography by José Limón (1945), Brian Brooks (2012), Talley Beatty (1947) and Mark Morris (1982). Highlights include Brian Brooks’ First Fall (2012), a duet he created for acclaimed New York City Ballet ballerina Wendy Whalen. For the first time since exclusively performing and touring First Fall with Whalen, Brooks is sharing this work with Chamber Dance Company––the only company to perform the…

Chamber Dance Company’s 29th season explores the despair, thrill and humor intrinsic in the act of falling, with choreography by José Limón (1945), Brian Brooks (2012), Talley Beatty (1947) and Mark Morris (1982).   Highlights include Brian Brooks’ First Fall (2012), a duet he created for acclaimed New York City Ballet ballerina Wendy Whalen. For the first time since exclusively performing and touring First Fall with Whalen, Brooks is sharing this work with Chamber Dance Company––the only company to perform…

Declared “one of the most original and startling dance theater groups to be seen” by The New York Times, Sankai Juku is renowned as Japan’s finest example of contemporary Butoh. Directed, choregraphed and designed by Ushio Amagatsu, Sankai Juku's exquisite new work, Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land is a poetic meditation on the passage of time as symbolized by the circulation of water and the seasonal transformation of the earth. Amagatsu’s works are sublime visual spectacles and deeply moving theatrical…

Declared “one of the most original and startling dance theater groups to be seen” by The New York Times, Sankai Juku is renowned as Japan’s finest example of contemporary Butoh. Directed, choregraphed and designed by Ushio Amagatsu, Sankai Juku's exquisite new work, Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land is a poetic meditation on the passage of time as symbolized by the circulation of water and the seasonal transformation of the earth. Amagatsu’s works are sublime visual spectacles and deeply moving theatrical…

Declared “one of the most original and startling dance theater groups to be seen” by The New York Times, Sankai Juku is renowned as Japan’s finest example of contemporary Butoh. Directed, choregraphed and designed by Ushio Amagatsu, Sankai Juku's exquisite new work, Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land is a poetic meditation on the passage of time as symbolized by the circulation of water and the seasonal transformation of the earth. Amagatsu’s works are sublime visual spectacles and deeply moving theatrical…

Come to Your Senses is inspired by the company’s collaborations with Radiolab and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and includes a brand-new work made with collaborator Thao Nguyen, host of the podcast Song Exploder. The work combines dance, video and theater to create a journey through diverse worlds, each with its own atmosphere, characters and emotional tones, accompanied by a score performed live by the UW Chamber Singers.

Come to Your Senses is inspired by the company’s collaborations with Radiolab and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and includes a brand-new work made with collaborator Thao Nguyen, host of the podcast Song Exploder. The work combines dance, video and theater to create a journey through diverse worlds, each with its own atmosphere, characters and emotional tones, accompanied by a score performed live by the UW Chamber Singers.

Come to Your Senses is inspired by the company’s collaborations with Radiolab and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and includes a brand-new work made with collaborator Thao Nguyen, host of the podcast Song Exploder. The work combines dance, video and theater to create a journey through diverse worlds, each with its own atmosphere, characters and emotional tones, accompanied by a score performed live by the UW Chamber Singers.

Come to Your Senses is inspired by the company’s collaborations with Radiolab and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and includes a brand-new work made with collaborator Thao Nguyen, host of the podcast Song Exploder. The work combines dance, video and theater to create a journey through diverse worlds, each with its own atmosphere, characters and emotional tones, accompanied by a score performed live by the UW Chamber Singers.

The UW Department of Dance is thrilled to present new works from nationally and internationally recognized choreographers Alethea Alexander, Rachael Lincoln, Adele Nickel, Dani Tirrell and "Majinn" Mike O’Neal Jr. in a concert featuring premieres of collaborations that question hierarchies in art and life. Accompanying new works generated from a diverse range of contemporary movement lexicons, the bill also includes original sound scores from composers Ivory Smith and Dr. Kaley Lane Eaton and an ensemble improvisation by AVID (Scott Davis, Aiko Kinoshita, Rachael Lincoln, Aaron…

The Brian Brooks Moving Company is, as its name suggests, all about moving, and the audacious choreographic style of Brooks continues to “shatter conventional notions of the human capacity for strength and endurance” (Dance Magazine). In this Meany Center performance, Brooks investigates the intimate spaces between bodies on the stage and within the virtual space created by immersive technologies. The program includes two world premieres developed during his UW residency: a solo piece performed by Brooks and Closing Distance, an ensemble work with music…

Combining the sensuality of Afro-Brazilian dance forms with the technical prowess of ballet, Brazil’s leading contemporary dance company, Grupo Corpo, returns to Meany with two wildly different works, both Seattle premieres. In Bach, choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras renders the baroque beautifully modern, unveiling an intoxicating game between what is heard and what is seen. With Gira, he delves into the religious traditions of his homeland with rich poetic imagery animated by gestures of praise and worship.