Off an old industrial alleyway in Georgetown something new is just beginning. Seattle dance fixtures Dayna Hanson and Peggy Piacenza, along with tech/lighting wiz Dave… Read More »Base: New Dance Space Arrives in Georgetown
Velocity Dance Center Artistic Director Tonya Lockyer often sets an extra challenge for the artists featured in Velocity’s annual NEXT FEST NW by asking them… Read More »Visions of Utopia At NEXT FEST
Homecomings are always a celebratory affair, but even more so when the centerpiece of the celebration is Danielle Agami and her LA-based troupe, Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY.… Read More »Zesty Grooves At Ate9’s Homecoming
If “art is limitation, and the essence of every picture is the frame,” as the writer G.K. Chesterton once said, then the essence of every… Read More »Ten Tiny Dances: Small Stage, Big Idea
The sister art forms of dance and film have much in common. At its core, cinema is about movement, light, timing, and story. When successfully… Read More »New Frontiers of Dance Cinema
If dance is, as choreographer Tere O’Connor said in a Q&A last weekend, “a journey away from language,” how on earth is one supposed to… Read More »Wandering through Abstraction in BLEED
Every year, Velocity Dance Center offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to a select group of Seattle choreographers with The Bridge Project, a celebrated show made entirely… Read More »The Bridge Project Makes Performance Personal
If you ever start fearing that contemporary dance in Seattle all looks the same, the Velocity Fall Kick Off is here to remind you otherwise.… Read More »Velocity Kicks Off into a New Season