It’s time for dance followers to get their calendars out and their ticket shopping for fingers warmed up as a result of the upcoming month is a veritable parade of thrilling dance performances. This may be the busiest month in Seattle dance historical past, so within the nice knowledge Daft Punk, time to lose your self to bounce.
**Before I get deep into this, don’t panic—all present dates, occasions, and ticket data can be found for straightforward viewing on the SeattleDances calendar.**
MALACARNE on the Volunteer Park Conservatory. Photo by Allina Yang.
Kicking off on March 1, Seattle is blessed with a one-night visitation from Kidd Pivot, performing Revisor at Paramount. This is adopted in fast succession by two distinct site-specific MALACARNE performances on the twond and threerd, one on the exquisitely tropical Volunteer Park Conservatory and the opposite on Seattle’s personal historic monorail on Friday afternoon. And that night simply throughout the sound at Bainbridge Island Museum of artwork, Christin Call will probably be performing in Sarah Fetterman’s set up piece, Lost within the Familiar.
I hope you’ve cleared your whole upcoming weekend, as a result of it additionally options SIDF Mini Winter Fest, the UW Dance Majors Concert, Robbi Moore at Seattle Center, and the primary of three out of city artists Velocity is bringing in through the subsequent three weeks!
Because Velocity is now principally working out of 12th Ave Arts (which is rented in time chunks to accommodate the run of an ordinary play), their season is compressed into extra of a competition schedule with again to again reveals each weekend. It’s a brand new format and lots to maintain observe of, so for that cause we’ll do a fast run-down of these choices.
First up is Sean Dorsey’s The Lost Art of Dreaming (Mar 2-5), about “queer dreaming and future-making.” The trans artist out of San Francisco is visiting Seattle for the threerd time, together with a troupe of 5 queer, trans, and gender-non-conforming dancers performing in what guarantees to be a fantastically produced, accessible, and extremely bodily present.
The following week is Black feminist efficiency artist Gabrielle Civil, who’s conducting a analysis and efficiency week with artists on the intersection of dancing and writing. What will really occur at Translated Bodies is a bit of exhausting to parse—looks like the form of occasion to simply present up with an open thoughts and see the place it takes you. March 9 and 11 are in-person efficiency experiences (although distinct from each other) and March 10 “Virtual Play” is an interactive digital expertise that integrates dance into your individual life. Sign as much as be despatched scores, prompts, and playlists all through the whole day.
Visiting from Portland, OR, Claire Barrera’s Grammar of the Imagination runs March 17-19, and options an intergenerational forged (Kids! Dancers over 60!) exploring play and kids’s video games as a option to think about “radically new social relations.”
Grammar of the Imagination
Then Velocity is premiering native fare to shut out their season, premiering a brand new Made in Seattle undertaking by Black Collectivity (Nia-Amina Minor, marco farroni, and David Rue), who share their multi-year analysis into the historical past and contributions of Black dance artists in Seattle, together with the extremely influential Syvilla Fort, who was the primary Black scholar at Cornish College of the Arts, danced with the Katherine Dunham Company, and went on to make main contributions in dance training. Don’t miss it—March 30-April 9.
One very cool factor is that Velocity has a number of performances with ASL interpretation, together with Sean Dorsey on March 3, Gabrielle Civil on March 9, Claire Barrera on March 17, and Black Collectivity on April 7.
In a enjoyable alignment of theme, the identical weekend as Grammar of the Imagination, Camille A. Brown and Dancers carry a piece that additionally sources youngsters’s video games, particularly African American vernacular types like double dutch, hand-clapping video games, and ring shout. BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play involves UW’s Meany Center with a narrative of Black feminine empowerment March 16-18.
And in but extra inspiration from the youth, Young Choreographers Club’s culminating efficiency is the afternoon of March 18, that includes works by this yr’s cohort of choreographers 14-24 years outdated. The program was just lately revived by earlier participant Moonyeka, who led the 8-week dancemaking workshop this winter.
Also this weekend from native makers: the return of BOOST Dance Festival (March 17-19) at Nod Theater (that includes Arinze Okammor, El Sueño, Coalescence Dance, Artistry in Motion, Emily Vazquez, Lisa Kwak, Robbi Moore, BadmarmarDance), and 12 Minutes Max, which is one in all my favourite reoccurring reveals, not solely as a result of it all the time has a wild combine of recent items from throughout genres, but additionally as a result of it’s on a Sunday-Monday when little else is occurring. March 19-20 at Base.
PNB’s Boundless (March 17-26) options premieres from Alejandro Cerrudo and Jessica Lang and the PNB college is placing on a family-friendly Snow White (Mar 19-25), which features a sensory-friendly efficiency on the afternoon of March 24. Other than that the fourth weekend of March seems to be a short reprieve!
But March isn’t fairly over but, with the ultimate busy weekend delivering us into April and a haul of extra native dance. Along with Black Collectivity Project, immersive night ode-Ok’an (March 30-April 1) options Abdiel, Cypher Queenz, Dani Blackwell, Hannah Simmons and Alethea Alexander, Lucie Baker and Connor Walden, Maia Melene Durfee, Nahaan, and Undercurrent, who’ve all created works for the Mini Mart City Park. And on the identical dates however a completely completely different vibe, Noveltease Theatre presents a burlesque version of The Count of Monte Cristo at Theatre off Jackson.
Two touring reveals additionally this weekend: Flock (administrators Alice Klock and Florian Lochner) mount Somewhere Between at Erickson (March 31-April 1), which options regionally beloved dancer Liane Aung, and The Motherboard Suite makes a single look on April 1 at Meany Center, which is carried out by musician Saul Williams and his musical collaborators. Unclear precisely what to anticipate right here, nevertheless it claims to characteristic seven choreographers and is directed by Bill T. Jones, so anticipate some cross-disciplinary magic.
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