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Velocity Dance Center
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: PEGGY PIACENZA
With 30 years experience making dance work in Seattle, Peggy Piacenza talks process, history, working slowly, and the beginnings of something new.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: JIM KENT
Reflecting on beloved dancer and musician Jim Kent, and his career of dynamic, expressive dancing.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: HENDRI WALUJO
With almost two decades of performing across Seattle, Hendri Walujo still craves the challenge of a new role.
NOT-SO-STRICTLY SEATTLE
Velocity Dance Center reworks its summer programing–Strictly Seattle and SFDI–in response to the needs of 2020.
ROMANCE TOLD THROUGH DANCE
Boaz Yakin’s narrative dance film shows the complication of love in stunning use of choreography (Bobbi Jene Smith). Online through July 17.
NEWLY FORMED: SEATTLE DANCE ALLIANCE
The Seattle Dance Alliance was established to collectively navigate a new era of dance teaching informed by COVID-19.
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.
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).
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.