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SUMMARY:Bennyroyce Royon: Chameleon
DESCRIPTION:Chameleon: A Journey of Queer Joy and Reinvention\nChameleon\, a multidisciplinary contemporary dance experience by artist Bennyroyce Royon\, offers a profound exploration of reinvention\, boundless creativity\, and queer joy. This powerful work delves deep into personal lived experiences\, confronting past traumas and celebrating the discovery of supportive communities. Through visceral\, dynamic movement\, innovative visual design\, and compelling theatrical elements\, “Chameleon” guides audiences on a transformative journey. It illuminates the resilience of the human spirit and the empowering process of shaping an unapologetic future—one that is authentic\, vibrant\, and filled with hope. The performance serves as a powerful testament to personal evolution and the beauty of self-acceptance. \nPresented through the Velocity’s Regionally Established Creative Incubator Program
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bennyroyce-royon-chameleon/2026-09-06/
LOCATION:Filipino Community Center\, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr Way S\, Seattle\, 98118
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SUMMARY:Bennyroyce Royon: Chameleon
DESCRIPTION:Chameleon: A Journey of Queer Joy and Reinvention\nChameleon\, a multidisciplinary contemporary dance experience by artist Bennyroyce Royon\, offers a profound exploration of reinvention\, boundless creativity\, and queer joy. This powerful work delves deep into personal lived experiences\, confronting past traumas and celebrating the discovery of supportive communities. Through visceral\, dynamic movement\, innovative visual design\, and compelling theatrical elements\, “Chameleon” guides audiences on a transformative journey. It illuminates the resilience of the human spirit and the empowering process of shaping an unapologetic future—one that is authentic\, vibrant\, and filled with hope. The performance serves as a powerful testament to personal evolution and the beauty of self-acceptance. \nPresented through the Velocity’s Regionally Established Creative Incubator Program
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bennyroyce-royon-chameleon/2026-09-05/
LOCATION:Filipino Community Center\, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr Way S\, Seattle\, 98118
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SUMMARY:Bennyroyce Royon: Chameleon
DESCRIPTION:Chameleon: A Journey of Queer Joy and Reinvention\nChameleon\, a multidisciplinary contemporary dance experience by artist Bennyroyce Royon\, offers a profound exploration of reinvention\, boundless creativity\, and queer joy. This powerful work delves deep into personal lived experiences\, confronting past traumas and celebrating the discovery of supportive communities. Through visceral\, dynamic movement\, innovative visual design\, and compelling theatrical elements\, “Chameleon” guides audiences on a transformative journey. It illuminates the resilience of the human spirit and the empowering process of shaping an unapologetic future—one that is authentic\, vibrant\, and filled with hope. The performance serves as a powerful testament to personal evolution and the beauty of self-acceptance. \nPresented through the Velocity’s Regionally Established Creative Incubator Program
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bennyroyce-royon-chameleon/2026-09-04/
LOCATION:Filipino Community Center\, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr Way S\, Seattle\, 98118
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SUMMARY:SFD+I:  ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES + KEITH HENNESSEY
DESCRIPTION:Closer\, with music by jose e. abad\nAn improvised performance by Ishmael Houston-Jones (NY) and Keith Hennessy (SF) with live sound by jose e. abad \nIshmael and Keith first collaborated in the mid-90s and have continued for 25 years a deep conversation about art\, collaboration\, improvisation\, race\, activism\, sex\, dance\, history and futures. When they dance together\, the conversation and research continues. Sometimes we fight\, but there is always love. There will be questions\, there will be answers\, and much of the rest is unknown… \nKeith and jose have been in collaboration on multiple performance\, curation\, and teaching projects since 2016 and together have worked with Ishmael in the TRY project since 2020. Our relationships to each other\, to performing improvisation\, and to the worlds around us are the content of the work.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/sfdi-ishmael-houston-jones-keith-hennessey/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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SUMMARY:SFD+I PERFORMANCE COHORT SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:Four new works by Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, Kara Beadle \nVelocity Dance Center presents the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Performance Cohorts: Showcase\, with works by renowned choreographers Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, and Kara Beadle. The performances are a culmination of two to three weeks of intensive training and rehearsal for dancers across many backgrounds and skill levels during the festival. Sharing the stage are advanced students from across the US in the Professional Cohort\, and adult dancers in the Beginner and Intermediate Cohorts. The Performance Cohorts Showcase is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Seattle’s vibrant contemporary dance scene\, and witness Seattle’s up-and-coming talent. \n 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/sfdi-performance-cohort-showcase/2026-08-01/2/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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SUMMARY:SFD+I PERFORMANCE COHORT SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:Four new works by Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, Kara Beadle \nVelocity Dance Center presents the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Performance Cohorts: Showcase\, with works by renowned choreographers Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, and Kara Beadle. The performances are a culmination of two to three weeks of intensive training and rehearsal for dancers across many backgrounds and skill levels during the festival. Sharing the stage are advanced students from across the US in the Professional Cohort\, and adult dancers in the Beginner and Intermediate Cohorts. The Performance Cohorts Showcase is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Seattle’s vibrant contemporary dance scene\, and witness Seattle’s up-and-coming talent. \n 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/sfdi-performance-cohort-showcase/2026-08-01/1/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260731T193000
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SUMMARY:SFD+I PERFORMANCE COHORT SHOWCASE
DESCRIPTION:Four new works by Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, Kara Beadle \nVelocity Dance Center presents the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Performance Cohorts: Showcase\, with works by renowned choreographers Undercurrent\, Nia-Amina Minor\, Mark Haim\, and Kara Beadle. The performances are a culmination of two to three weeks of intensive training and rehearsal for dancers across many backgrounds and skill levels during the festival. Sharing the stage are advanced students from across the US in the Professional Cohort\, and adult dancers in the Beginner and Intermediate Cohorts. The Performance Cohorts Showcase is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Seattle’s vibrant contemporary dance scene\, and witness Seattle’s up-and-coming talent. \n 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/sfdi-performance-cohort-showcase/2026-07-31/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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SUMMARY:SFD+I: BRKFST
DESCRIPTION:for now\, but not for long investigates the restoration and habitat complexity of the once contaminated\, post-industrial landscape of Olympic Sculpture Park. This work explores how our individual lives are woven into and affected by reinvention\, and it will highlight the diverse landscape by using moving bodies as sculptural entities. Regeneration\, decay\, attraction\, and repulsion will emerge through sustained duration\, partnering\, and non-codified movement\, guiding audiences through the meadows and groves native to the Pacific Northwest. Subtle sounds of the natural environment in combination with a set score will emphasize the ever-changing ecosystem using the human body as a visual guide. \nPresented through the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation \nIn partnership with Seattle Art Museum\nFeaturing participants in the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Professional Performance Cohort \n 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/brkfst/
LOCATION:Olympic Sculpture Park\, 2901 Western Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-04-04/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-04-03/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T203000
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SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-04-02/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260328T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260328T203000
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SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-03-28/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-03-27/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T203000
DTSTAMP:20260107T053816Z
CREATED:20260107T053816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T053816Z
UID:10014964-1774553400-1774557000@seattledances.com
SUMMARY:Heather Kravas: RoCoCoCoCo
DESCRIPTION:RoCoCoCoCo — A Situation for Dancing\, in Four Movements\n\nI. March 26\, 7:30 PM · one hour | First Movement: Allegro Symone Sanz & Julia Sloane\nII. March 27\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Second Movement: Adagio Carlin Kramer & Amanda Morgan\nIII. March 28\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Third Movement: Andante Allie Hankins & Sylvia Schatz-Allison\nIV. April 2\, 7:30 PM · one hour | Finale & Coda | The Cast\nV. April 3\, 7:30 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast\nVI. April 4\, 2 PM · four and a half hours (with intermission and shared refreshments) | The Symphony | The Cast \nSince 1995\, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic\, somatic\, and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. For Made in Seattle\, she offers RoCoCoCoCo—an evolving cycle of four dances\, shared across four evenings and culminating in two full-length presentations of the complete work. \nImagined as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake\, fractals into a vortex\, veers into a grocery list\, emanates like an aura\, aligns like a pinball machine\, and collaborates like an ant colony\, RoCoCoCoCo slips beyond classification. \nInstead\, it proposes a new structure for performance—one that holds dancers and audiences alike in states of heightened attention\, curiosity\, and desire. Guided by the somatic dramaturgy of longtime collaborator Rebecca Brooks\, RoCoCoCoCo is created for Allie Hankins\, Carlin Kramer\, Amanda Morgan\, Symone Sanz\, Sylvia Schatz-Allison\, and Julia Sloane. The work traces the layered effort of dancing together—energetic\, rhythmic\, precise\, and tender. It invites us to sense how intimacy scales\, how perception expands\, and how dancing itself becomes a site for both clarity and complexity—a space of shared and essential presence. \nRoCoCoCoCo takes place in the black box of 12th Avenue Arts\, with spectators seated on three sides of the stage. The dancers share the space with two pianists performing Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No. 1 on upright pianos bound back-to-back. The live sounds of the theater—breath\, footsteps\, resonance—are at times amplified\, at times overtaken by electric music. Lighting\, designed by longtime collaborator Madeline Best\, shifts\, echoing the slow transformations of daylight in nature. \nAudiences are invited to experience RoCoCoCoCo in many ways: as singular performances that stand on their own; as a sequence unfolding across several days; or as the complete work\, gathered in the final two evenings.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/heather-kravas-rococococo/2026-03-26/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/heather_featuredimages-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260307T210000
DTSTAMP:20260126T164825Z
CREATED:20250806T192858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T164825Z
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SUMMARY:The Bonnies: I'm on Fire\, You're on Fire\, We're on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Seattle performance duo The Bonnies (Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson) merge their decade of comedy dance experience with their “more serious” art practice to debut an evening length joyride of grotesque femininity\, experimental indulgence\, and the intimacy of a friendship 15 years in the making.  \nInspired by the beloved absurdist 1966 Czech New Wave film\, Daisies\, The Bonnies harness their perceived femininity–the silly\, slutty\, trivial\, and excessive–to craft a world where fantasies can play out on a larger-than-life scale: a candy-colored universe of impulse and freewheeling femme chaos. In a collision of eras\, The Bonnies pull from 60s cinema\, Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue\, the cultural phenomenon surrounding Lorena Bobbitt\, and Jenny and Kaitlin’s fantasy bedroom dances–both adolescent and contemporary. Working their way towards euphoria–and the inevitable crash down–The Bonnies (and their rainbow monster puppet alter egos) teeter between vision and delusion\, manifesting a shared destiny built from queer platonic love.  \nThe sound score by Jenny includes subversive covers of nostalgic classics (both 90s club anthems and road trip sing-alongs) side-by-side with sweeping original compositions in synth\, piano\, and voice. Riding the edge of parody into sincerity\, a collection of cultural references collide into something entirely new.  \nVisual design by Kaitlin manifests inside a fully operational set (by Teia O’Malley)\, a color-pop homage to both Věra Chytilová‘s saccharine-hued Daisies and an ecstatic obsession with texture. Two ornately handcrafted wearable art pieces distill the visual ethos into two characters of pure fantasy played by dancers Hendri Wa and Jackson Knappen.  \nAn interdisciplinary escapade through wild imagination\, I’m on Fire\, You’re on Fire\, We’re on Fire grapples with the morally complex territory of fantasy\, violence\, and vulnerability of desire\, cloaked as a ditzy comedy routine.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/the-bonnies-im-on-fire-youre-on-fire-were-on-fire/2026-03-07/
LOCATION:12 Ave Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Bonnies-PC-Jenny-Peterson-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T210000
DTSTAMP:20260126T164825Z
CREATED:20250806T192858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T164825Z
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SUMMARY:The Bonnies: I'm on Fire\, You're on Fire\, We're on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Seattle performance duo The Bonnies (Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson) merge their decade of comedy dance experience with their “more serious” art practice to debut an evening length joyride of grotesque femininity\, experimental indulgence\, and the intimacy of a friendship 15 years in the making.  \nInspired by the beloved absurdist 1966 Czech New Wave film\, Daisies\, The Bonnies harness their perceived femininity–the silly\, slutty\, trivial\, and excessive–to craft a world where fantasies can play out on a larger-than-life scale: a candy-colored universe of impulse and freewheeling femme chaos. In a collision of eras\, The Bonnies pull from 60s cinema\, Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue\, the cultural phenomenon surrounding Lorena Bobbitt\, and Jenny and Kaitlin’s fantasy bedroom dances–both adolescent and contemporary. Working their way towards euphoria–and the inevitable crash down–The Bonnies (and their rainbow monster puppet alter egos) teeter between vision and delusion\, manifesting a shared destiny built from queer platonic love.  \nThe sound score by Jenny includes subversive covers of nostalgic classics (both 90s club anthems and road trip sing-alongs) side-by-side with sweeping original compositions in synth\, piano\, and voice. Riding the edge of parody into sincerity\, a collection of cultural references collide into something entirely new.  \nVisual design by Kaitlin manifests inside a fully operational set (by Teia O’Malley)\, a color-pop homage to both Věra Chytilová‘s saccharine-hued Daisies and an ecstatic obsession with texture. Two ornately handcrafted wearable art pieces distill the visual ethos into two characters of pure fantasy played by dancers Hendri Wa and Jackson Knappen.  \nAn interdisciplinary escapade through wild imagination\, I’m on Fire\, You’re on Fire\, We’re on Fire grapples with the morally complex territory of fantasy\, violence\, and vulnerability of desire\, cloaked as a ditzy comedy routine.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/the-bonnies-im-on-fire-youre-on-fire-were-on-fire/2026-03-06/
LOCATION:12 Ave Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260305T210000
DTSTAMP:20260126T164825Z
CREATED:20250806T192858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T164825Z
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SUMMARY:The Bonnies: I'm on Fire\, You're on Fire\, We're on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Seattle performance duo The Bonnies (Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson) merge their decade of comedy dance experience with their “more serious” art practice to debut an evening length joyride of grotesque femininity\, experimental indulgence\, and the intimacy of a friendship 15 years in the making.  \nInspired by the beloved absurdist 1966 Czech New Wave film\, Daisies\, The Bonnies harness their perceived femininity–the silly\, slutty\, trivial\, and excessive–to craft a world where fantasies can play out on a larger-than-life scale: a candy-colored universe of impulse and freewheeling femme chaos. In a collision of eras\, The Bonnies pull from 60s cinema\, Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue\, the cultural phenomenon surrounding Lorena Bobbitt\, and Jenny and Kaitlin’s fantasy bedroom dances–both adolescent and contemporary. Working their way towards euphoria–and the inevitable crash down–The Bonnies (and their rainbow monster puppet alter egos) teeter between vision and delusion\, manifesting a shared destiny built from queer platonic love.  \nThe sound score by Jenny includes subversive covers of nostalgic classics (both 90s club anthems and road trip sing-alongs) side-by-side with sweeping original compositions in synth\, piano\, and voice. Riding the edge of parody into sincerity\, a collection of cultural references collide into something entirely new.  \nVisual design by Kaitlin manifests inside a fully operational set (by Teia O’Malley)\, a color-pop homage to both Věra Chytilová‘s saccharine-hued Daisies and an ecstatic obsession with texture. Two ornately handcrafted wearable art pieces distill the visual ethos into two characters of pure fantasy played by dancers Hendri Wa and Jackson Knappen.  \nAn interdisciplinary escapade through wild imagination\, I’m on Fire\, You’re on Fire\, We’re on Fire grapples with the morally complex territory of fantasy\, violence\, and vulnerability of desire\, cloaked as a ditzy comedy routine.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/the-bonnies-im-on-fire-youre-on-fire-were-on-fire/2026-03-05/
LOCATION:12 Ave Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Bonnies-PC-Jenny-Peterson-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T210000
DTSTAMP:20260126T164825Z
CREATED:20250806T192858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T164825Z
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SUMMARY:The Bonnies: I'm on Fire\, You're on Fire\, We're on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Seattle performance duo The Bonnies (Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson) merge their decade of comedy dance experience with their “more serious” art practice to debut an evening length joyride of grotesque femininity\, experimental indulgence\, and the intimacy of a friendship 15 years in the making.  \nInspired by the beloved absurdist 1966 Czech New Wave film\, Daisies\, The Bonnies harness their perceived femininity–the silly\, slutty\, trivial\, and excessive–to craft a world where fantasies can play out on a larger-than-life scale: a candy-colored universe of impulse and freewheeling femme chaos. In a collision of eras\, The Bonnies pull from 60s cinema\, Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue\, the cultural phenomenon surrounding Lorena Bobbitt\, and Jenny and Kaitlin’s fantasy bedroom dances–both adolescent and contemporary. Working their way towards euphoria–and the inevitable crash down–The Bonnies (and their rainbow monster puppet alter egos) teeter between vision and delusion\, manifesting a shared destiny built from queer platonic love.  \nThe sound score by Jenny includes subversive covers of nostalgic classics (both 90s club anthems and road trip sing-alongs) side-by-side with sweeping original compositions in synth\, piano\, and voice. Riding the edge of parody into sincerity\, a collection of cultural references collide into something entirely new.  \nVisual design by Kaitlin manifests inside a fully operational set (by Teia O’Malley)\, a color-pop homage to both Věra Chytilová‘s saccharine-hued Daisies and an ecstatic obsession with texture. Two ornately handcrafted wearable art pieces distill the visual ethos into two characters of pure fantasy played by dancers Hendri Wa and Jackson Knappen.  \nAn interdisciplinary escapade through wild imagination\, I’m on Fire\, You’re on Fire\, We’re on Fire grapples with the morally complex territory of fantasy\, violence\, and vulnerability of desire\, cloaked as a ditzy comedy routine.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/the-bonnies-im-on-fire-youre-on-fire-were-on-fire/2026-03-04/
LOCATION:12 Ave Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Bonnies-PC-Jenny-Peterson-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260107T053454Z
CREATED:20260107T051315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T053454Z
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SUMMARY:Bridge Project 2026
DESCRIPTION:New works by Miguel Almario\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic\nThree brand new works and fresh takes\nBridge Project is Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator\, a multigenerational\, intensive process aimed at connecting artists to each other and audiences to dance artists. This year’s Bridge Project features the work of Miguel Almaria\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris after an intensive 5-week rehearsal process at 12th Ave Arts. As an audience member\, you will be invited to engage in a written feedback process that provides the choreographers with valuable information to help with their artist development. \nMiguel Almario | Working TItle: Hard Feelings\nHard Feelings is about cost.  The toll of belonging to a community built on community and competition\, or pushing a body past what it can give\, of choosing an art form that never stops asking for more. \nThe work aims to honor the Black and Brown American roots of street dance while challenging the way these forms are seen\, consumed\, and contained. Hard Feelings carries the weight of both community and confrontation\, and showcases the body as an archive: tracking years of physical pursuit. Every step adds interest. Every injury compounds debt. Through the eyes of an aging mover\, Hard Feelings examines the balance between respect and rivalry\, devotion and decay. \n  \nJessica Jobaris | Fucking Mercy\nRelentless\, irreverent\, and oddly hopeful\, Fucking Mercy\, doesn’t ask for forgiveness; it just wants to see if we can still look each other in the eye after the world’s gone feral. A social autopsy of cruelty\, performed in motion\, this trio becomes a crucible where the urge to dominate collides with the ache to belong. Mercy here isn’t some soft-focus virtue; it’s weaponized\, withheld\, begged for\, and occasionally\, miraculously\, offered. The dancers\, and audience\, stagger between the wretched and the sacred\, testing how much humanity can survive in a body that’s fighting to stay alive. \n  \nOlivia Anderson | Untitled New Work\nThis dance is rooted in improvisation—an act of listening\, surrender\, and response. For me\, movement begins not with choreography\, but with a need: a physical and spiritual need to express what lives inside the body. Dance is first a form of prayer\, a way to connect to self and spirit\, before it becomes performance. As fascism casts a shadow on our horizon\, I wonder: What can art do now? I believe it can do what it has always done—offer a space for resistance\, for remembering\, for rehumanizing. In this piece\, my body becomes both question and answer. Through breath\, emotion\, and embodied storytelling\, I seek to communicate in a language that bypasses intellect and speaks directly to the nervous system. In moving\, I hope to move something in you.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bridge-project-2026/2026-02-07/2/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bridgeprojcet_mainimage-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260207T160000
DTSTAMP:20260107T053454Z
CREATED:20260107T051315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T053454Z
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SUMMARY:Bridge Project 2026
DESCRIPTION:New works by Miguel Almario\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic\nThree brand new works and fresh takes\nBridge Project is Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator\, a multigenerational\, intensive process aimed at connecting artists to each other and audiences to dance artists. This year’s Bridge Project features the work of Miguel Almaria\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris after an intensive 5-week rehearsal process at 12th Ave Arts. As an audience member\, you will be invited to engage in a written feedback process that provides the choreographers with valuable information to help with their artist development. \nMiguel Almario | Working TItle: Hard Feelings\nHard Feelings is about cost.  The toll of belonging to a community built on community and competition\, or pushing a body past what it can give\, of choosing an art form that never stops asking for more. \nThe work aims to honor the Black and Brown American roots of street dance while challenging the way these forms are seen\, consumed\, and contained. Hard Feelings carries the weight of both community and confrontation\, and showcases the body as an archive: tracking years of physical pursuit. Every step adds interest. Every injury compounds debt. Through the eyes of an aging mover\, Hard Feelings examines the balance between respect and rivalry\, devotion and decay. \n  \nJessica Jobaris | Fucking Mercy\nRelentless\, irreverent\, and oddly hopeful\, Fucking Mercy\, doesn’t ask for forgiveness; it just wants to see if we can still look each other in the eye after the world’s gone feral. A social autopsy of cruelty\, performed in motion\, this trio becomes a crucible where the urge to dominate collides with the ache to belong. Mercy here isn’t some soft-focus virtue; it’s weaponized\, withheld\, begged for\, and occasionally\, miraculously\, offered. The dancers\, and audience\, stagger between the wretched and the sacred\, testing how much humanity can survive in a body that’s fighting to stay alive. \n  \nOlivia Anderson | Untitled New Work\nThis dance is rooted in improvisation—an act of listening\, surrender\, and response. For me\, movement begins not with choreography\, but with a need: a physical and spiritual need to express what lives inside the body. Dance is first a form of prayer\, a way to connect to self and spirit\, before it becomes performance. As fascism casts a shadow on our horizon\, I wonder: What can art do now? I believe it can do what it has always done—offer a space for resistance\, for remembering\, for rehumanizing. In this piece\, my body becomes both question and answer. Through breath\, emotion\, and embodied storytelling\, I seek to communicate in a language that bypasses intellect and speaks directly to the nervous system. In moving\, I hope to move something in you.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bridge-project-2026/2026-02-07/1/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bridgeprojcet_mainimage-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260107T053454Z
CREATED:20260107T051315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T053454Z
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SUMMARY:Bridge Project 2026
DESCRIPTION:New works by Miguel Almario\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic\nThree brand new works and fresh takes\nBridge Project is Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator\, a multigenerational\, intensive process aimed at connecting artists to each other and audiences to dance artists. This year’s Bridge Project features the work of Miguel Almaria\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris after an intensive 5-week rehearsal process at 12th Ave Arts. As an audience member\, you will be invited to engage in a written feedback process that provides the choreographers with valuable information to help with their artist development. \nMiguel Almario | Working TItle: Hard Feelings\nHard Feelings is about cost.  The toll of belonging to a community built on community and competition\, or pushing a body past what it can give\, of choosing an art form that never stops asking for more. \nThe work aims to honor the Black and Brown American roots of street dance while challenging the way these forms are seen\, consumed\, and contained. Hard Feelings carries the weight of both community and confrontation\, and showcases the body as an archive: tracking years of physical pursuit. Every step adds interest. Every injury compounds debt. Through the eyes of an aging mover\, Hard Feelings examines the balance between respect and rivalry\, devotion and decay. \n  \nJessica Jobaris | Fucking Mercy\nRelentless\, irreverent\, and oddly hopeful\, Fucking Mercy\, doesn’t ask for forgiveness; it just wants to see if we can still look each other in the eye after the world’s gone feral. A social autopsy of cruelty\, performed in motion\, this trio becomes a crucible where the urge to dominate collides with the ache to belong. Mercy here isn’t some soft-focus virtue; it’s weaponized\, withheld\, begged for\, and occasionally\, miraculously\, offered. The dancers\, and audience\, stagger between the wretched and the sacred\, testing how much humanity can survive in a body that’s fighting to stay alive. \n  \nOlivia Anderson | Untitled New Work\nThis dance is rooted in improvisation—an act of listening\, surrender\, and response. For me\, movement begins not with choreography\, but with a need: a physical and spiritual need to express what lives inside the body. Dance is first a form of prayer\, a way to connect to self and spirit\, before it becomes performance. As fascism casts a shadow on our horizon\, I wonder: What can art do now? I believe it can do what it has always done—offer a space for resistance\, for remembering\, for rehumanizing. In this piece\, my body becomes both question and answer. Through breath\, emotion\, and embodied storytelling\, I seek to communicate in a language that bypasses intellect and speaks directly to the nervous system. In moving\, I hope to move something in you.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bridge-project-2026/2026-02-06/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bridgeprojcet_mainimage-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260107T053454Z
CREATED:20260107T051315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T053454Z
UID:10014959-1770319800-1770327000@seattledances.com
SUMMARY:Bridge Project 2026
DESCRIPTION:New works by Miguel Almario\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic\nThree brand new works and fresh takes\nBridge Project is Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator\, a multigenerational\, intensive process aimed at connecting artists to each other and audiences to dance artists. This year’s Bridge Project features the work of Miguel Almaria\, Olivia Anderson\, Jessica Jobaris after an intensive 5-week rehearsal process at 12th Ave Arts. As an audience member\, you will be invited to engage in a written feedback process that provides the choreographers with valuable information to help with their artist development. \nMiguel Almario | Working TItle: Hard Feelings\nHard Feelings is about cost.  The toll of belonging to a community built on community and competition\, or pushing a body past what it can give\, of choosing an art form that never stops asking for more. \nThe work aims to honor the Black and Brown American roots of street dance while challenging the way these forms are seen\, consumed\, and contained. Hard Feelings carries the weight of both community and confrontation\, and showcases the body as an archive: tracking years of physical pursuit. Every step adds interest. Every injury compounds debt. Through the eyes of an aging mover\, Hard Feelings examines the balance between respect and rivalry\, devotion and decay. \n  \nJessica Jobaris | Fucking Mercy\nRelentless\, irreverent\, and oddly hopeful\, Fucking Mercy\, doesn’t ask for forgiveness; it just wants to see if we can still look each other in the eye after the world’s gone feral. A social autopsy of cruelty\, performed in motion\, this trio becomes a crucible where the urge to dominate collides with the ache to belong. Mercy here isn’t some soft-focus virtue; it’s weaponized\, withheld\, begged for\, and occasionally\, miraculously\, offered. The dancers\, and audience\, stagger between the wretched and the sacred\, testing how much humanity can survive in a body that’s fighting to stay alive. \n  \nOlivia Anderson | Untitled New Work\nThis dance is rooted in improvisation—an act of listening\, surrender\, and response. For me\, movement begins not with choreography\, but with a need: a physical and spiritual need to express what lives inside the body. Dance is first a form of prayer\, a way to connect to self and spirit\, before it becomes performance. As fascism casts a shadow on our horizon\, I wonder: What can art do now? I believe it can do what it has always done—offer a space for resistance\, for remembering\, for rehumanizing. In this piece\, my body becomes both question and answer. Through breath\, emotion\, and embodied storytelling\, I seek to communicate in a language that bypasses intellect and speaks directly to the nervous system. In moving\, I hope to move something in you.
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/bridge-project-2026/2026-02-05/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seattledances.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bridgeprojcet_mainimage-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251203T210000
DTSTAMP:20251108T020316Z
CREATED:20251108T020316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251108T020316Z
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SUMMARY:A Postmodern Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:A Postmodern Holiday Party\n\nPotluck mirth and community celebration | featuring performances by\nAlyza Delpan-Monley\, Lou Chow\, Miss Texas 1988\nDEC 3  | 6 – 9 PM (Performances at 7) \nCommon Objects | 2601 1st Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98121 \n\nVelocity Dance Center’s Postmodern Dance Holiday Spectacle\, Roast\, Show + Party but also Cultural Event Fundraiser aka All I Want for the Holidays is to be Tipsy (or Sober) with Community. \n  \nAcronym: VDCPDHSRS+PBACEF AKA AIWFTHITBT(OS)WC \n  \nVelocity Dance Center’s Postmodern Dance Holiday Spectacle\, Roast\, Show + Party but also Cultural Event Fundraiser aka All I Want for the Holidays is to be festive with Community (aka A Postmodern Holiday Party) is a chance for the Seattle dance community to come together and celebrate the holidays together. We’ll gather to share a Potluck-style feast\, cheap and festive drinks\, and a smattering of Postmodern Holiday performances. Along the way we’ll have a few low-key ways to help Velocity reach its end of year goal in support of our next season. \n  \nWe would love to see you there to celebrate the past year of extraordinary Seattle dance\, and to toast to a new year of artmaking in our city!
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/a-postmodern-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Common Objects\, 2601 1st Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T203000
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 2
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 2 –  OCT 9–11\n\nJordan MacIntosh-Hougham + \nJesse Freitas (SEA) //\nVanessa Goodman (VAN) with \nTonga Collective (POL) \nThe second week of the festival takes a more cerebral approach to the body. With AI\, where does the organic end and the artificial begin? And looking inward\, is our chemistry our humanity? Both questions blur the boundaries between self and science.  \nSeattle’s Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham and Jesse Freitas\, and Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman in collaboration with Tonga Collective from Poland show us that our scientific explorations are still of us\, and of the body\, at the end of the day. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-2/2025-10-11/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T203000
DTSTAMP:20250717T044506Z
CREATED:20250717T044506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T044506Z
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 2
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 2 –  OCT 9–11\n\nJordan MacIntosh-Hougham + \nJesse Freitas (SEA) //\nVanessa Goodman (VAN) with \nTonga Collective (POL) \nThe second week of the festival takes a more cerebral approach to the body. With AI\, where does the organic end and the artificial begin? And looking inward\, is our chemistry our humanity? Both questions blur the boundaries between self and science.  \nSeattle’s Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham and Jesse Freitas\, and Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman in collaboration with Tonga Collective from Poland show us that our scientific explorations are still of us\, and of the body\, at the end of the day. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-2/2025-10-10/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T203000
DTSTAMP:20250717T044506Z
CREATED:20250717T044506Z
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 2
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 2 –  OCT 9–11\n\nJordan MacIntosh-Hougham + \nJesse Freitas (SEA) //\nVanessa Goodman (VAN) with \nTonga Collective (POL) \nThe second week of the festival takes a more cerebral approach to the body. With AI\, where does the organic end and the artificial begin? And looking inward\, is our chemistry our humanity? Both questions blur the boundaries between self and science.  \nSeattle’s Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham and Jesse Freitas\, and Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman in collaboration with Tonga Collective from Poland show us that our scientific explorations are still of us\, and of the body\, at the end of the day. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-2/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T203000
DTSTAMP:20250717T044317Z
CREATED:20250717T044317Z
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 1
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 1 – OCT 2–4 \nmaia melene durfé (SEA) //\nJobel Medina + Elliott “L” Sellers (LAX)  \nThe first week of the festival is a slow simmer against the backdrop of chaos\, with artists exploring subtle connections amidst aggressive existentialism and dysregulation. \nCome see dancers shine in what we do best; namely expressing the body-based and intangible.  In this split-bill Seattle’s maia melene durfé and Jobel Medina + Elliot Sellers from LA each share meaning that is elegantly unresolved\, performance that is virtuosic and deft\, and compositions that highlight the body as potential for innovation. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-1/2025-10-04/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T203000
DTSTAMP:20250717T044317Z
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 1
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 1 – OCT 2–4 \nmaia melene durfé (SEA) //\nJobel Medina + Elliott “L” Sellers (LAX)  \nThe first week of the festival is a slow simmer against the backdrop of chaos\, with artists exploring subtle connections amidst aggressive existentialism and dysregulation. \nCome see dancers shine in what we do best; namely expressing the body-based and intangible.  In this split-bill Seattle’s maia melene durfé and Jobel Medina + Elliot Sellers from LA each share meaning that is elegantly unresolved\, performance that is virtuosic and deft\, and compositions that highlight the body as potential for innovation. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-1/2025-10-03/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251002T203000
DTSTAMP:20250717T044317Z
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SUMMARY:OUT THERE Week 1
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for for OUT THERE\, Velocity’s brand new whiplash of a dance festival October 2–12\, 2025\, featuring West Coast dance artists who are here to f*ck shit up\, and show us what is OUT THERE.  \nOUT WHERE? Not OVER there. HERE! OUT HERE! On the West Coast\, where experimentalism has always been a primary making material of the artists who live here\, pushing our region towards a more connected\, sassier\, imaginative\, expansive\, expressive\, engaging\, intuitive\, sweaty\, and collaborative future! \n  \nNightly Schedule / Each OUT THERE show includes a DJ let PRE/POST show party \nPrevibrations | FREE no RSVP 6pm – drinks + music \nOUT THERE dance show | 7:30pm – two\, thirty minute works by two west coast movement artists \nafterglow |  FREE no RSVP 8:30pm – a party featuring drinks\, dj for dancing and post show conversation at Velocity’s popup bar \n  \nWEEK 1 – OCT 2–4 \nmaia melene durfé (SEA) //\nJobel Medina + Elliott “L” Sellers (LAX)  \nThe first week of the festival is a slow simmer against the backdrop of chaos\, with artists exploring subtle connections amidst aggressive existentialism and dysregulation. \nCome see dancers shine in what we do best; namely expressing the body-based and intangible.  In this split-bill Seattle’s maia melene durfé and Jobel Medina + Elliot Sellers from LA each share meaning that is elegantly unresolved\, performance that is virtuosic and deft\, and compositions that highlight the body as potential for innovation. 
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/out-there-week-1/2025-10-02/
LOCATION:12th Avenue Arts\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250808T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250808T213000
DTSTAMP:20250806T234617Z
CREATED:20250806T234617Z
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SUMMARY:SFD+I: ALL THE WAY AROUND
DESCRIPTION:ALL THE WAY AROUND\nBy \nMEG STUART + Doug Weiss\nWith \nMariana Carvalho\nPresented through the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation \nInternationally acclaimed Meg Stuart makes her long awaited return to Seattle with this tour de force evening of music\, dance\, and the thrilling logic of improvisation.\nAll the way around | meg Stuart + Doug Weiss\nIn an intimate concert setting\, choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart meets jazz bassist Doug Weiss and pianist Mariana Carvalho. Together\, they go on an uncharted journey into movement and sound. The light design by Emese Csornai becomes a fourth player\, adapting to unpredictable elements in each new venue. All the Way Around starts with the ballad\, a song of longing and defiance\, and breaks it down into small but meaningful gestures. Tracing and unfurling spirals of memory\, All the Way Around takes a deep dive into what was\, riding the waves between the almost-remembered and the unknown. \nInterested in working with this stellar artist?  Sign up for the SFD+I Research Week and get in the action!
URL:https://seattledances.com/event/sfdi-all-the-way-around/
LOCATION:On the Boards\, 100 West Roy St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98119
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