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SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF DANCE + IMPROVISATION

RESEARCH WEEK

AUGUST 6 – 13

The RESEARCH Week is a full eight days of intensives, workshops, and events centering improvisational dance practice and research. This interdisciplinary and intergenerational gathering brings together both local and inter/national faculty in Seattle each year to share their practice with movers new to improvisation alongside artists who have been dancing for decades. Immerse yourself in a nurturing and rich environment where embodied research in somatics, contact and group improvisation, and creative and social practice create a week of extraordinary possibilities.

Registration for the full week of the RESEARCH Week lets you create your own immersive schedule of intensives, classes, jams, and events. Enjoy the 3-day intensive, one 4-day intensive, and your choice of one of the 5-day intensives. You’ll also get tickets to all sharings + events, and be able to participate in all the jams, morning practices and drop-ins your schedule can hold!

Registration for the full RESEARCH Week includes:

  • One 5-day intensive with Ryuta Iwashita OR Faye Driscoll (your choice)
  • One 4-day intensive with Mariana Valencia or morning drop-ins (your choice)
  • One 3-day intensive with Alia Swersky or afternoon drop-ins (your choice)
  • All morning practices, drop-ins, and jams
  • Tickets to all RESEARCH Module sharings + performances

$650

RESEARCH FACULTY

RYUTA IWASHITA

FAYE DRISCOLL

VICTORIA JACOBS

ALLIE HANKINS

MARIANA VALENCIA

ALIA SWERSKY

FOX WHITNEY

+ MORE

INTENSIVES

Learn more about the five-, four-, and three-day intensives included in this year’s festival. 

FAYE DRISCOLL

ENTITY SHIFTING

5-DAY INTENSIVE

 

FAYE DRISCOLL

In this creative process workshop we will work from images, memories and imagination to become other beings, other selves. We will work with immediate sensation through presence practices and touch as portals to the associative. How do we stay in the interior and relational simultaneously? How do we time travel while being right here? In this sensational labor we are altered, layered, we wear our many selves like loose clothing. We cultivate the ability to tune our presence, shape-shift, and shimmer. 

RYUTA IWASHITA

CI + 祖体 (SOTAI: Ancestral Body)

5-DAY INTENSIVE

RYUTA IWASHITA

This Contact Improv workshop is infused with Ryuta’s life research called 祖体 (SOTAI: Ancestral Body). You will be guided through different awareness practices of sensing and moving your body, journaling, and vocalization.

SOTAI provides deep rest for our ancestral bodies to say goodbye to the western approach of “filling up space with information” and “getting to the point”.

Flavored with Japanese cultural concepts and nuances, SOTAI emphasizes our cellular wellness and abundant love that was passed down from our ancestors.

This offering is not limited to movers/dancers. Anyone can benefit from ancestral deep rest, which prepares you to show up to your community and yourself with more 余裕 (YOYUU: a Japanese word for “ease and spaciousness of the self”).

MARIANA VALENCIA

scores for dance

4-DAY INTENSIVE

MARIANA VALENCIA

“scores for dance” explores improvisation through score-making. The scores function as altars for dance in the presence of the body’s improvisational functions. The workshop offers a buffet of references including: sound, popular culture, and self-narrative. Each student will create one score by the end of the week together; movement, writing, observation and discussion are central in the workshop. Please wear clothes that you feel comfortable moving in. 

 

ALIA SWERSKY

CI fundamentals

3-DAY INTENSIVE

ALIA SWERSKY

check back for more information on this foundational intensive focused on contact improvisation and partnering. 

DROP-INS, JAMS + MORE

DROP-INS

These two-hour drop-in classes are led by Seattle-based and visiting faculty and explore topics of dance creative and improvisational practices, somatics, contact improvisation and more. These classes are included in full festival registration, or can be purchased for $18/class. Pre-registration encouraged, but day-of drop-ins are available if space allows, with preference given to full festival participants.

Faculty: Fox Whitney, Allie Hankins, Victoria Jacobs + more

RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE

There will be opportunities to catch faculty research in performance as well as the opportunity to share your own performances and research in participant sharings. Check back for more details!

JAMS

These are three-hour jam sessions facilitated by local and visiting faculty. Some spaces will be open free jam, while others will have prompts, scores, music and other invitations. Jams are included in full festival registration, or are $10 to attend a la carté. Pre-registration encouraged, but day-of drop-ins are welcome as space allows.

Faculty: to be announced

+ MORE

There are always additional discussions, events, sharings and practices offered throughout the festival. These events are still coming together, so check back for more details!

PAYMENTS + DEPOSITS + REFUNDS

PAYMENT + DEPOSITS

To reserve your spot you can either pay in full* or hold your place with a non-refundable $250 deposit. Full payment to confirm your registration is required by June 30.

Registration for a la carte intensives, classes, workshops, and jams in both modules will open on July 1 and spaces will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. To register a la carte you will pay in full, though let us know if you need to discuss a payment plan. 

REFUND POLICY

Velocity’s refund policies were created to offer as much flexibility to our community as possible, while still protecting SFD+I from risk and instability.

The refund schedule for the Full SFD+I Pass, TRAIN Module (all cohorts), or RESEARCH Module is:

  • Before June 30: All registration fees, less the $250 non-refundable deposit, are fully refundable for any reason.
  • After July 1: All registration fees, less the $250 non-refundable deposit, are 50% refundable for any reason.
  • After your first class begins: All registration fees are non-refundable for any reason, including illness or injury.

The refund schedule for all a la carte intensives, workshops or classes (available after July 1) is:

  • After you register: All registration fees are 50% refundable for any reason.
  • After your first class begins: All registration fees are non-refundable for any reason, including illness or injury.

WORK/STUDY

Velocity’s Summer Work/Study program provides the opportunity for participants to receive discounted attendance to the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation in exchange for festival support. The deadline for this program is May 1st. Please email operations@velocitydancecenter.org with any questions.

TBIPOC Tuition waiver

As a part of Velocity’s Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation we are providing $10,000 in fee waivers to dancers who identify as Transgender, Black, Indigenous, and/or as People of Color, in an effort to shift power to Transgender and BIPOC communities. The deadline for this program is May 1st. Please email operations@velocitydancecenter.org with any questions.

APPLY 

Housing

Participant Housing

Velocity is working with the University of Washington to provide SFD+I participants with housing for the summer. Participants will sign up through a website link provided by the University of Washington. The link will be provided in the next few weeks and will be sent out via email to participants who already signed up for SFD+I.

Details

ULTIMATE SFD+I

$1,518.00 per person, double occupancy
$2,288.00 per person, single occupancy

Check in: Sunday, July 16 2023 after 2 p.m.
Check out: Sunday, August 13 2023 by 11a.m.

PERFORMANCE COHORTS

$1,143.50 per person, double occupancy
$1,721.00 per person, single occupancy

Check in: Sunday, July 16 2023 after 2 p.m.
Check out: Sunday, August 6 2023 by 11 a.m.

Registration link coming soon!

REGISTER FOR YOUR IMMERSIVE SUMMER EXPERIENCE

ULTIMATE SFD+I gives participants Velocity’s best summer dance experience by combining your PERFORMANCE Cohort and RESEARCH Week with a money-saving, bundled price.

 

 $995 for full participation in 4 weeks of SFD+I

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