BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20240726T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240726T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 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:20240729T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240729T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 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:20240729T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240729T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240613T200934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225616Z UID:7505-1722274200-1722279600@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-dance-technique/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240730T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240730T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240612T223727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025109Z UID:7474-1722333600-1722340800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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:20240730T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240730T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240613T201700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025549Z UID:7512-1722360600-1722366000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240731T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240731T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240613T195545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T010926Z UID:7486-1722420000-1722427200@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-dance-undercurrent/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Professional END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240731T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240731T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240613T201940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T225643Z UID:7517-1722447000-1722452400@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-dance-technique-2/ CATEGORIES:Beginner/Intermediate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240801T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240801T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240613T200342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T025255Z UID:7498-1722506400-1722513600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240804T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240804T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081337 CREATED:20240514T035131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T223732Z UID:7109-1722798000-1722808800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T093000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240514T025942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T223801Z UID:7043-1722846600-1722850200@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-tuning-creation-warmups/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240514T033032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T223845Z UID:7057-1722852000-1722859200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240514T034958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T223915Z UID:7101-1722873600-1722880800@summer.velocitydancecenter.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240514T035319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T223940Z UID:7114-1722884400-1722895200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:BIPOC Improvisation and Contact Improvisation 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-stu/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240805T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240805T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T050747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224005Z UID:7935-1722884400-1722895200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Open 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/open-jam-3/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T093000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T164914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224034Z UID:8014-1722933000-1722936600@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/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T040425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224111Z UID:7875-1722938400-1722945600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Intuitional Certainty 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/intuitional-certainty/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T042056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224156Z UID:7894-1722960000-1722967200@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Body + Site 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/body-site/ LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T044628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224226Z UID:7909-1722970800-1722981600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Street Dance Contemporary 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/street-dance-contemporary-jam/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240806T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240806T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T045225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224314Z UID:7917-1722970800-1722981600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Open 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/open-jam/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240807T083000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240807T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T165246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224352Z UID:8019-1723019400-1723066200@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-2/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Mainstage\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240807T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240807T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T041352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224421Z UID:7884-1723024800-1723032000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:A Queer High-Risk Love Practice (AQHRLP) 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-queer-high-risk-love-practice/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240807T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240807T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T043015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224452Z UID:7902-1723046400-1723053600@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:SHARED PRACTICE 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/shared-practice/ LOCATION:NOD Theater\, 1621 12th Ave\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240807T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240807T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 CREATED:20240619T051349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T224545Z UID:7942-1723057200-1723068000@summer.velocitydancecenter.org SUMMARY:Underscore 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/underscore-jam/ LOCATION:12th Ave Arts Studio\, 1620 12th Ave\, Seattle\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:All Levels,Jam,Research Week END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240808T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240808T120000 DTSTAMP:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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:20260404T081338 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 END:VCALENDAR