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SUMMARY:Joy of Dance Experience (JODE)
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/class-solvej/
LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week
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SUMMARY:Let's Change the Subject
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/class/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T093000
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SUMMARY:FREE! Morning Tuning
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/free-tuning-creation-warmups/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240804T190000
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SUMMARY:Small Dance Jam
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/jam-8-5-jam-ms/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week
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SUMMARY:PRO: For the Love of Dance\, A Hardcore Manifesto
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-for-the-love-of-dance-a-hardcore-manifesto-2/
CATEGORIES:Professional
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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-dance-technique-2/
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
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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-dance-undercurrent/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240730T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240730T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
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SUMMARY:INT: Tips + Tricks for the Limelight
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-tips-tricks-for-the-limelight/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intermediate
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240730T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240730T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T223727Z
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SUMMARY:PRO: For the Love of Dance\, A Hardcore Manifesto
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-for-the-love-of-dance-a-hardcore-manifesto/
LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240729T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240729T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240613T200934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225616Z
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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-dance-technique/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240729T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240729T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T223108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T012454Z
UID:7467-1722247200-1722254400@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/pro-ballet-rituals/
LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240726T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240726T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T222311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T023104Z
UID:7456-1722015000-1722020400@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:BEG/INT: Feel the Funk
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/7456/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240726T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240726T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T192550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T030609Z
UID:7371-1721988000-1721995200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:PRO: Honey N Sensualitea
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/honey-n-sensualitea/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240725T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240725T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T195154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T185750Z
UID:7420-1721928600-1721934000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:INT: Where Resides the Rebel Heart?
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-where-resides-the-rebel-heart/
CATEGORIES:Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240725T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240725T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T191827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T185704Z
UID:7360-1721901600-1721908800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:PRO: The Move: Experiments Inside the Groove
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/the-move-experiments-inside-the-groove-2/
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240724T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240724T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T194847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T185937Z
UID:7413-1721842200-1721847600@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-2/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240724T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240724T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T162719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225835Z
UID:7261-1721815200-1721822400@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/7261/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240723T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T193852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T024639Z
UID:7392-1721755800-1721761200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:INT: Where Resides the Rebel Heart?
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/where-resides-the-rebel-heart/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240723T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240723T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240608T001126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T024000Z
UID:7237-1721728800-1721736000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:PRO: The Move: Experiments Inside the Groove
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/the-move-experiments-inside-the-groove/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240722T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240722T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240612T192945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T030129Z
UID:7381-1721669400-1721674800@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/7381/
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240722T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240722T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240607T233830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T012223Z
UID:7223-1721642400-1721649600@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/pro-br2/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240719T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240719T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240514T024348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T022858Z
UID:7019-1721410200-1721415600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:BEG/INT: Feel the Funk
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-feel-the-funk/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240719T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240719T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240514T021019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T030055Z
UID:6999-1721383200-1721390400@summer.velocitydancecenter.org
SUMMARY:PRO: Sequins Sequence
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/pr-class/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240718T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240718T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240514T025535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T030032Z
UID:7039-1721323800-1721329200@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-101-2/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Intermediate
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240718T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240718T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
CREATED:20240514T020125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225954Z
UID:6986-1721296800-1721304000@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/pro-my-body-my-voice/
LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240717T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240717T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065003
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:20260404T065003
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:20260404T065003
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:20260404T065003
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:20260404T065003
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
END:VCALENDAR