Dance Innovators Series
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about the dance innovators series
Dance Innovators is a festival-style performance series that provides a glimpse into the current explorative work of celebrated faculty from Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation 2024.
AUG 8 | PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Performances by Takahiro Yamamoto, Allie Hankins, Lu Yim + keyon gaskin
aug 9 | RIVER, RIVER, RIVER + ANIMIST
Two new works by Shannon Stewart + Haruko Crow Nishimura
aug 10 | WE ARE (NOTHING) EVERYTHING
featuring makisig akin + anya cloud
PRODUCTION
Lighting Designer – Maria Manness
Technical Director – Adam Zopfi-Hulse
Stage Manager – Kait Mahoney
Assistant Stage Manager – Jensen Ghidella
About Velocity
Founded in 1996, Velocity is an artist-led nonprofit in Seattle, WA that is dedicated to providing Seattle dance-makers with the resources, advocacy, and collaborative support they need to blossom their ideas into impactful art and community actions. This is central to our mission to advance contemporary dance and movement-based art by fostering the creative explorations of artists and audiences. We do this through flexible and responsive platforms that support dance research and creation, movement education, and opportunities to share and experience contemporary dance performance.
SFD+I SUPPORTERS
The Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation is made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4 Culture, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. It is also supported by our community of individual donors, community partners, and arts advocates.
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on the land we inhabit
from Lover of Low Creatures opening speech:
We acknowledge and honor the fact that Velocity Dance Center is a part of a settlement on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish people, specifically, here, the Duwamish People. We recognize that all Coast Salish peoples are the contemporary and rightful stewards of this land.
We hold that not everyone has come to this place in the same way and for the same reasons. Some of us are settlers or the children of settlers. Some of us are the descendants of people forcibly taken from their lands. Some of us come as immigrants, as refugees, as people indigenous to this land and many other lands.
We are grateful to be here with you all.