Performances happen throughout the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. In July, Alice Gosti’s site-responsive work takes over the Seattle Public Library and the Performance Cohorts share new works made over two to three weeks of training. In August, Research Week artists present evenings of new work and research. Select a show to see details and get tickets.
13 SHADES OF RED
Alice Gosti / MALACARNE
JUL 17 | 3 PM | Seattle Public Library, Central Library
Alice Gosti, SFD+I participants and the library collaborate on a site-responsive work about how architecture, history, politics and care shape dance.
SFD+I PERFORMANCE COHORTS SHOWCASE
Five new works by Bebe Miller, Kayla Farrish, Amy O’Neal, Cameo Lethem and Jen Salk
JUL 30 | 7:30 PM + JUL 31 | 2 PM + 7:30 PM | 12th Ave Arts Mainstage
Five new works created during the festival and performed by the professional, intermediate and beginner cohorts after two to three weeks of training.
RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE
Raphael Xavier, mayfield brooks + Raja Feather Kelly
AUG 5 | 7:30 PM | 12th Ave Arts Mainstage
Genius from the 1900s by Raphael Xavier is a choreographed improvisation reflecting on 40 years of movement practice through Carl Jung. Wave Jumper by mayfield brooks is a dance inspired by Detroit electronic duo Drexciya and their underwater mythology.
RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE
Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra + Naomi Macalalad Bragin; Emmy Smith-Stewart + Jeffrey Azevedo
AUG 7 | 7:30 PM | 12th Ave Arts Mainstage
Grief Ritual is an improvisation-based work on loss tied to migration. Emmy in her tub is a dance essay built from a nightly bath ritual, adapting stories of the artist Greer Lankton.




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