ONE WITH NATURE
Butoh company Sankai Juku brings a work investigating connection to the natural world at Meany Center.
West Liberty
West Liberty (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, graduate of the Cornish College of the Arts Dance program and founder of the Body as Teacher, a movement workshop for people of varying ages and abilities who are looking to have a healing conversation with their bodies through dance. West has also danced professionally, most recently in ‘How to Become a Partisan’ (choreographed by Alice Gosti) which premiered at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle in 2015. They have also presented choreographic works for and performed in numerous shows and festivals including Velocity Dance Center’s ‘The Bridge Project’ & Next Fest NW and On the Boards’ Northwest New Works Festival. West premiered their second short film, Milo & Onyx in June 2019 at the Northwest Film Forum. Milo & Onyx was produced as part of the Blanket Fort Films Motion Picture Program and features an all trans and gender non-conforming cast and crew. West is deeply invested in teaching and learning with others how to source wisdom from the body as a resource in humanity’s efforts toward liberation for all beings.
MALAKINSI AT THE SHED
Ana Puzycki and Ryan Hatfield show the results of their residency at new space, The Shed.
ALL HAIL THE QUEENS
Simone Pin Productions centers women of color in a dazzling, creative, and powerfully sexy burlesque show.
THE GRAY GETS DETAILED
Beth Terwilleger’s The Gray shows complex counterpoint inside traditional choreographic structures in The Year.