Seattle Arts Fellowship Announces Inaugural Cohort
Each fellow will be placed at one of the presenting organizations for a year. Areas of focus will range from Marketing, Community Education, and Artistic Planning. Beginning in 2022, the program will also include Broadcasting as Classical KING FM 98.1 joins the roster of presenting organizations.
It's Cherdonna's BIRTH-O-RAMA, And She'll Cry If She Wants To
Cherdonna's BIRTH-O-RAMA is coming to Re-Bar, and it's a blowout! Join Cherdonna Shinatra and three DONNA dancers for an explosive evening of dance, drama, and guileless glee. This is one wild night of fun and games where these party animals will have their cake and eat it too, because Cherdonna's signature subversion of clown, comedy, drag, and dread will bake up some candy-coated chaos.
Velocity Presents Summer Festivals 2019
Registration is open for Velocity Dance Center's Summer Festivals: Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive (July 7-27) and the international Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (July 28-Aug 4). These two festivals offer an immersive entryway into the Seattle dance scene for professional and beginning dancers alike.
THE BUTTCRACKER Returns to Erickson Theater
Just when Seattleites thought they'd experienced all the magic of the holiday season, The Buttcracker returns in a haze of sweat, glitter, and hairspray for the fourth year in a row. This city's beloved modern-dance variety show salutes the glory of '80s hair metal with a festive 'mix of professional dance and raunchy satire,' (The Seattle Times).
Velocity presents Next Fest NW: DISRUPTION
Velocity presents Next Fest NW 2017: Disruption a weekend celebrating Northwest artists as inter/national innovators in contemporary dance and dance cinema. This year's Next Fest NW artists create new work in response to the theme of disruption. In Seattle's rapidly changing landscape, how will this generation of young artists respond to the question what does it really mean to be disruptive in these times ?
Peak Performances' 2017-18 Season to Highlight Works by Women
Peak Performances, the renowned series at Montclair State University that plays a key role in the global performing arts landscape by introducing major new stage productions and critical innovations in the development and presentation of contemporary theater, dance, performance art and music, has announced that its 2017-18 season will consist entirely of new works by women.
Strictly Seattle Announces Free Events
Now in its 19th year, Strictly Seattle is a festival of open experimentation where audiences get to "see local choreographers try new things, often with big future projects in mind" (Michael Upchurch) and see stunning new dancers who just moved to Seattle from all over the country.
Maximum Velocity Summer Festivals 2017 Announced
A world-class summer immersion bringing together Strictly Seattle summer dance intensive and the International Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI). Maximum Velocity is the premiere west coast summer dance festival.
Peak Performances Devotes 2017-18 Season to Works by Women
Peak Performances, the renowned series at Montclair State University that plays a key role in the global performing arts landscape by introducing major new stage productions and critical innovations in the development and presentation of contemporary theater, dance, performance art and music, is proud to announce that its 2017-18 season will consist entirely of new works by women. The season as a whole, and the nine premieres that comprise it, make a timely contribution to national and international conversations about women's agency. All performances will take place in the state-of-the-art Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair.
Montclair State University's PEAK PERFORMANCES 2017-18 Season Dedicated Only To Women
Peak Performances, the renowned series at Montclair State University that plays a key role in the global performing arts landscape by introducing major new stage productions and critical innovations in the development and presentation of contemporary theater, dance, performance art and music, is proud to announce that its 2017-18 season will consist entirely of new works by women.
Washington Ensemble Theatre presents Cherdonna's DOLL'S HOUSE, a Collaboration with Stranger Genius Award Winner Cherdonna Shinatra
This Spring Washington Ensemble Theatre (WET) will give Henrik Ibsen's beloved play A Doll's House a fresh new makeover in Cherdonna's Doll's House, a wild and dynamic collaboration with and featuring Cherdonna Shinatra (aka Jody Kuehner), the 2015 Stranger Genius Award winner for Performance. Playing April 28 - May 15, 2017 in the Studio Theater at 12th Avenue Arts, Cherdonna's Doll's House follows the story of Nora, a married woman and mother who struggles to discover her true self or lack thereof. Cherdonna, who is part bio-drag queen, part contemporary dancer, and part performance artist, will celebrate, dissect, and illuminate this text through her own unique feminist lens, scouring Ibsen, Nora, Torvald, and the whole gang for contemporary meaning. Ali Mohamed el-Gasseir, former Co-Artistic Director of WET and co-adapter of the play with Kuehner, directs.
Peak Performances' 2017-18 Season to Highlight Works by Women
Peak Performances, the renowned series at Montclair State University that plays a key role in the global performing arts landscape by introducing major new stage productions and critical innovations in the development and presentation of contemporary theater, dance, performance art and music, has announced that its 2017-18 season will consist entirely of new works by women.
Danielle Agami Collaborates with Wilco's Glenn Kotche for CALLING GLENN
Israel has long been a hotbed for contemporary dance, with Batsheva Dance Company at its epicenter. Velocity + Seattle Theatre Group present former Batsheva dancer Danielle Agami's new work, Calling Glenn, for her Los Angeles based company Ate9, named one of the country's "hottest cultural commodities" (Dance Magazine). Rhythmic anchor of the beloved band Wilco, Glenn Kotche, performs original live music.