BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240717T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240717T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240514T024133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025936Z UID:7015-1721237400-1721242800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:BEG/INT: Technique DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/beg-dance-technique/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240717T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240717T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240514T020728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025913Z UID:6992-1721210400-1721217600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:PRO: Undercurrent DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/pro-undercurrent/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Professional END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240716T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240716T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240514T025304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025832Z UID:7034-1721151000-1721156400@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:INT: Dance Making 101 DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/int-dance-making-101/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Intermediate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240716T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240716T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240514T014059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T230020Z UID:6963-1721124000-1721131200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:PRO: my body\, the voice DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/my-body-the-voice/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Professional END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240715T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240715T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240612T214339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T020525Z UID:7433-1721064600-1721070000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:BEG/INT Technique DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/beg-int-technique/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240715T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240715T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240511T010028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T213103Z UID:6946-1721064600-1721070000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:BEG/INT: Dance Technique DESCRIPTION:Beginning Dance Technique \n\n\nwith Kaitlin McCarthy \n\n \nLocation: 12th Ave Arts Mainstage\n \nDrop-In: $18\n\n \n \n REGISTER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CLASS DESCRIPTION\nwith Kaitlin McCarthy \nThis class will develop movement pathways that will support any dance form\, building on material over three weeks towards a memorized sequence. Skills include learning the basic steps of Western-cannon dance\, as well as understanding weight transfer\, getting in and out of the floor\, strength building\, musicality\, and expression. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ARTIST BIOS\nKaitlin McCarthy is a Seattle-based dance artist\, journalist\, and teacher. Her choreography has appeared repeatedly at On the Boards\, Velocity Dance Center\, 12th Ave Arts\, and countless other venues\, festivals\, and self-produced evening-length performances. Her work is “fondly humorous and stunningly creepy” (SeattleDances) and “in the forefront of innovative contemporary Seattle dance” (Deconstruct Collective). In addition to her own work\, she has developed a decade-long collaborative partnership with Jenny Peterson\, performing under moniker “The Bonnies.” \nKaitlin graduated summa cum laude with a degree in dance from Mt Holyoke College in 2009. As a dancer she has performed for over a dozen local artists\, including regularly with Alice Gosti/MALACARNE since 2014\, with whom she has toured nationally and internationally. Kaitlin’s performance work specializes in improvisation\, durational and site-specific work\, theatricality\, and technical foundation in ballet\, modern\, and contact improvisation. \nShe has spent the last nine years as a teaching artist for Velocity Dance Center and eXit SPACE. Specializing in adult beginning dance\, Kaitlin prides herself on brings safe-body practices\, down-to-earth vibes\, and the joy of dance to the classroom. \nAs a dance journalist\, Kaitlin has spent the last decade writing about the Seattle scene in publications such as City Arts Magazine\, Dance Intl Magazine\, PublicDisplay.Art\, and SeattleDances.com\, where she has been the Editor since 2016. During her leadership she grew SeattleDances from a volunteer site to one that paid its writers and staff\, and realigned the organization’s mission to focus on local and independent dance. For her writing she received a 2022 fellowship to the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center for Theatre. \n  URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/beginning-dance-technique/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20240715T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20240715T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081545 CREATED:20240511T005436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T011756Z UID:6940-1721037600-1721044800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:PRO: Ballet Rituals DESCRIPTION:UNDERSCORE JAM \n The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing\, research\, and collaboration\, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving\, tuning\, spatial relationships\, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging\, experimentation\, play\, research\, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding\, risk-taking\, setting boundaries\, consent\, collective responsibility and care\, composition\, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore.  \nThe Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same. \nFor further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/ \nREGISTER \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANYA CLOUD \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I am an experimental contemporary dance artist originally from Alaska and currently based between Colorado and Berlin. As a queer\, female\, white person I orient my work to cultivate radical aliveness as an artist-activist practice; collaboration is central. I have taught/facilitated contact improvisation\, improvisation\, contemporary dance\, and somatics nationally and internationally at festivals and institutions including at Guatemala Contact Improvisation Festival\, Tanzfabrik Schule\, ImPuls Tanz\, Freiburg Contact Festival\, Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival\, wcciJAM\, Ukraine Contact Improvisation Festival\, Italy Contact Festival\, The Field Center\, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation among other. Important collaborators include Makisig Akin\, Sara Shelton Mann\, Karen Schaffman\, Eric Geiger\, Ishmael Houston-Jones\, and Nhu Nguyen among others. Makisig Akin and I co-direct the project-based dance company The Love Makers. I currently teach at the University of Colorado Boulder and am trained in the Feldenkrais® Method. www.anyacloud.com \nPhoto by Tim Richards URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/ballet-rituals/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Professional END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR