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:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240808T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240808T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T054310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224629Z UID:7966-1723111200-1723118400@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:PE Reading Group 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/pe-reading-group/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240808T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240808T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240618T212909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T161449Z UID:7661-1723122000-1723129200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:NWFF: RE-COLLECT SCREENING DESCRIPTION:NWFF SCREENING\nRE-COLLECT\nCo-presented with Northwest Film Forum\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AUG 8  | 1:00 PM\nNorthwest Film Forum | 1515 12th Avenue\, Seattle\, Washington \nEvent is FREE for SFD+I Full Research Week participants \n  \n \n \n \n TICKETS\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 RE-COLLECT is an experimental dance documentary that traces an embodied exchange of intergenerational dance artists. Recorded in 2022 at a research symposium calledThink Gravity Dance Tank: Celebrating & Reckoning with Contact Improvisation and Performance\, RE-COLLECT honors and interrogates the revolutionary dance form Contact Improvisation. The film serves as a time capsule during a pivotal moment at the intersection of COVID-19 and racial justice uprisings in the United States. Considering the gravity of these times\, RE-COLLECT questions Contact Improvisation’s historical narrative and brings unspoken histories to the forefront to invite a more inclusive future of the form. The documentary will be followed by a post screening panel discussion with artists involved in the film. URL:https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/event/nwff-re-collect-screening/ LOCATION:Northwest Film Forum CATEGORIES:All Levels END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240809T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240809T093000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T165729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224717Z UID:8025-1723192200-1723195800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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-morning-tuning-3/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240809T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240809T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T052734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224756Z UID:7948-1723197600-1723204800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:A Practice of Return 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/a-practice-of-return/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240810T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240810T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T053114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T221224Z UID:7953-1723284000-1723291200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:The Difference is Spreading 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-difference-is-spreading/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240810T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240810T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T053633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224904Z UID:7959-1723284000-1723291200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Embodiment + Presence (E+P) 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/embodiment-presence/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240810T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240810T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T055126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224933Z UID:7972-1723305600-1723312800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Fiction/Friction/Flow 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/fiction-friction-flow/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240810T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240810T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T055848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225001Z UID:7978-1723305600-1723312800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Intimate Spaces 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/intimate-spaces/ LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240811T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240811T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081047 CREATED:20240619T060526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225030Z UID:7988-1723370400-1723377600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Closing 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/closing-jam/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR