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with Alice Gosti

A series of exercises and experiments looking at ways we can build consent in dance spaces. This will be a dynamic space where we practice saying “no” as much as we practice saying “yes.” Where we practice deep listening to our own wants and needs 

Alice Gosti (she/her) is an Italian American immigrant choreographer, performance artist, and architect of experiences working across Europe and Seattle. Through site-responsive, durational, and embodied practices, she explores how history, politics, and place shape the body. A certified GYROTONIC® instructor, Gosti creates performances and community rituals rooted in care, transformation, and collective possibility.

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with Joseph Hernandez

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with Kayla Farrish

With inspiration from punk movements and maroonage, I’m working to hold a practice for our feeling, our untaming, our audacity, our aliveness, and our belief in the creation within us. This workshop time will shift through improvisation, dynamics and textures of movement, storytelling, arc/scene, and voice. How can we activate our world-building between us? How can we invite hushed emotions like rage to make portals for truth and reimagined present? Additionally, we may work with relationships and partnering with options of contact and no-contact. With open curiosity, mess-making, I encourage you to bring your voice to the questions and directives and we will discover possibilities.

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with Keyes Wiley

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with Bebe Miller

We’re always moving; we’re always in relationship; we’re always alone: I’m interested in how we frame the details of attentive imagination that inform our dancing from these perspectives. We track our interest, mining the details and contexts that emerge. Let’s consider Form: a way towards skilled awareness in our dancemaking practice. This workshop aims to further that practice by shaping our dancing in response to kinetic events, our immediate environment, as well as to the community we’re forming by our shared attention. Improvising with a choreographic tracking at play we will craft sequences in time and space, noting emergent constructs. We’ll move with clear regard for the leap of faith that dancing asks of us. We’ll consider how we see and are seen so we can work between what we feel, what we intend and what is legible. We’ll practice our frames of reference, claim our choices and continue on.

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with Mark Haim 

This professional level ballet technique class follows a traditional format of exercises at the barre, in the center and across the space. Rigorous and fun, graceful and sweaty, we explore involves exploring joint range, rotation, dynamic alignment, muscle efficiency, strength and flexibility, spatial clarity, and musicality. We’ll be balancing, turning, extending, making lines, and jumping. You will have a deepened sense of your body’s alignment, an expanded sense of spatial and rhythmic accuracy, and increased strength and flexibility. A ballet technique class is typically structured to prepare you to jump and leap for joy by its end. What could be better than that?

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with Kayla Farrish

With inspiration from punk movements and maroonage, I’m working to hold a practice for our feeling, our untaming, our audacity, our aliveness, and our belief in the creation within us. This workshop time will shift through improvisation, dynamics and textures of movement, storytelling, arc/scene, and voice. How can we activate our world-building between us? How can we invite hushed emotions like rage to make portals for truth and reimagined present? Additionally, we may work with relationships and partnering with options of contact and no-contact. With open curiosity, mess-making, I encourage you to bring your voice to the questions and directives and we will discover possibilities.

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with Keyes Wiley

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with Bebe Miller

We’re always moving; we’re always in relationship; we’re always alone: I’m interested in how we frame the details of attentive imagination that inform our dancing from these perspectives. We track our interest, mining the details and contexts that emerge. Let’s consider Form: a way towards skilled awareness in our dancemaking practice. This workshop aims to further that practice by shaping our dancing in response to kinetic events, our immediate environment, as well as to the community we’re forming by our shared attention. Improvising with a choreographic tracking at play we will craft sequences in time and space, noting emergent constructs. We’ll move with clear regard for the leap of faith that dancing asks of us. We’ll consider how we see and are seen so we can work between what we feel, what we intend and what is legible. We’ll practice our frames of reference, claim our choices and continue on.

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with Mark Haim 

This professional level ballet technique class follows a traditional format of exercises at the barre, in the center and across the space. Rigorous and fun, graceful and sweaty, we explore involves exploring joint range, rotation, dynamic alignment, muscle efficiency, strength and flexibility, spatial clarity, and musicality. We’ll be balancing, turning, extending, making lines, and jumping. You will have a deepened sense of your body’s alignment, an expanded sense of spatial and rhythmic accuracy, and increased strength and flexibility. A ballet technique class is typically structured to prepare you to jump and leap for joy by its end. What could be better than that?

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with Natalie Grant

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

The Countertechnique® class is a contemporary dance technique class. It stretches, coordinates, and strengthens the body, making the dancer sweat, build stamina, and really move. The class starts with a recurring set of exercises, allowing dancers to investigate the Countertechnique® principles in detail. The second half of the class consists of changing components, working towards luscious movement combinations. The Countertechnique class results in dancers using less energy, losing their fear of taking risks, and gaining speed in changing direction.

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with majinn

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Class will teach you various foundational steps, grooves and variations in House dance as well as culture and my personal history within House and Black social dance culture.  We work on connecting the movements in your body and learning to make them your own and help speak your voice through the movement, everyone has a different body and relates to movements differently so I teach towards what works for you after working on a base. My training style focuses on drilling movements utilizing 8 direction points and layering that with levels, direction and tempo changes and more. Freestyle is big part of class and showing your authentic self and is the base of Black social dance forms, you will hear various types of music in class during freestyle sections but foundation portions of the class will be to various types of House music,  class will end in a cypher (freestyle circle) .

In my House dance intensive we will be spending time not only on foundational steps and variations but will be working on putting steps together into short combos I create as well as you all together, we will also be working on floorwork (ways to get in and out of the floor, floor variations of steps, and different transitional moves) and lots of time playing with freestyle prompts in and out of the cypher. A big focus of the intensive will be aimed at dancing together and moving authentically to how the music makes you want to move, there are steps( language) i will give you but it will come back to your authenticity and how you utilize the language i give you with the language you already have in your body to speak your voice through house music.

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with Joseph Hernandez

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

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with Una Ludviksen

Cunningham Technique®

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

This workshop explores pattern, rigor, and the joy of moving in space to our fullest capacity, finding freedom in form. Cunningham is designed to prepare the brain and body for big dancing and endless possibilities. In a structure similar to ballet class, we will warm up sequentially starting with the Cunningham back exercises based on curve, arch, tilt, and twist. We will continue through short exercises that get our feet, torsos, and limbs warm separately, and then together, increasing in complexity and variation. We’ll discover new combinations of upper and lower body coordination through the Cunningham movement language. We’ll shift our weight and expand our relationship to verticality while traveling and dancing BIG. We will run, turn, hold, reach, and leap with commitment, clarity, and self-trust. Exercises range from slow, simple movements to layered combinations of limbs, torso, and rhythmic changes. Most of this work will be done from standing. Each class will build on the previous day, and we’ll have the opportunity to deep dive into the back exercises and play with group composition through chance and choice. Expect a learn-by-doing, “go for it” approach with plenty of opportunities to make the material your own. No prior Cunningham experience needed.

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with Undercurrent

Undercurrent Floorwork Technique

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Undercurrent offers a deep dive into the vigor, mechanics, and joyride of floorwork through a seamless and immersive physical practice. In these classes, movers will be guided through a continuous stream of sequences, each utilizing the body's architecture to make progressively challenging movement comfortable, playful, strengthening, and sustainable. Each class will begin with simple sequences that build logically and progressively towards increased complexity. Over the course of each class, and also over the arc of this three-day experience, the flow gathers momentum, and concepts grow in complexity and dynamic range. We prioritize biomechanical safety and energetic efficiency in service of full-body engagement, innovative inversions, and fluid choreographic sequencing.

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with Orb

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with Nia-Amina Minor

Dive into contemporary approaches to movement through groove + musicality, technical exploration, and choreography. Class is informed by historic and current movement practices including Black social dance, improvisation, floor work, and modern technique. We will be guided by music from the Jazz and Hip Hop continuum and discuss music just as much as we practice movement. As an experiment in groove, we’ll find a chorus of movement together. Bring all of yourself, that means any foundational movement practices or dance styles/genres of movement, party dances, and social dances; bring all the ways your body moves.

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Orb

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Cameo Lethem

Textures & Transitions dives into the varying levels of effort and speed that dancers utilize when transitioning from one motion to another; from quick and direct to slow and light, from easy stops to hard starts. Class will start with a follow-style warm up that then transitions into further explorations of these texture concepts through improvisatory structures. We’ll try out these ideas on isolated regions of the body first before creating a full bodied exploration of these concepts. We’ll then complicate these ideas through use of touch-based feedback from our peers, rhythm exercises, improvisation, and short choreographic phrasework. Class will almost always be upright (very little to no floorwork). There will be touch-based work, but no heavy lifting or major weight-sharing. Class will have some choreographic phrasework.

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with Mark Haim

This intermediate level ballet technique class follows a traditional format of exercises at the barre, in the center and across the space. Rigorous and fun, graceful and sweaty, we explore involves exploring joint range, rotation, dynamic alignment, muscle efficiency, strength and flexibility, spatial clarity, and musicality. We’ll be balancing, turning, extending, making lines, and jumping. You will have a deepened sense of your body’s alignment, an expanded sense of spatial and rhythmic accuracy, and increased strength and flexibility.A ballet technique class is typically structured to prepare you to jump and leap for joy by its end.What could be better than that?

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with Orb

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with Nia-Amina Minor

Dive into contemporary approaches to movement through groove + musicality, technical exploration, and choreography. Class is informed by historic and current movement practices including Black social dance, improvisation, floor work, and modern technique. We will be guided by music from the Jazz and Hip Hop continuum and discuss music just as much as we practice movement. As an experiment in groove, we’ll find a chorus of movement together. Bring all of yourself, that means any foundational movement practices or dance styles/genres of movement, party dances, and social dances; bring all the ways your body moves.

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with Cameo Lethem

Textures & Transitions dives into the varying levels of effort and speed that dancers utilize when transitioning from one motion to another; from quick and direct to slow and light, from easy stops to hard starts. Class will start with a follow-style warm up that then transitions into further explorations of these texture concepts through improvisatory structures. We’ll try out these ideas on isolated regions of the body first before creating a full bodied exploration of these concepts. We’ll then complicate these ideas through use of touch-based feedback from our peers, rhythm exercises, improvisation, and short choreographic phrasework. Class will almost always be upright (very little to no floorwork). There will be touch-based work, but no heavy lifting or major weight-sharing. Class will have some choreographic phrasework.

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Mark Haim

This intermediate level ballet technique class follows a traditional format of exercises at the barre, in the center and across the space. Rigorous and fun, graceful and sweaty, we explore involves exploring joint range, rotation, dynamic alignment, muscle efficiency, strength and flexibility, spatial clarity, and musicality. We’ll be balancing, turning, extending, making lines, and jumping. You will have a deepened sense of your body’s alignment, an expanded sense of spatial and rhythmic accuracy, and increased strength and flexibility. A ballet technique class is typically structured to prepare you to jump and leap for joy by its end.What could be better than that?

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with Orb

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Cameo Lethem

Textures & Transitions dives into the varying levels of effort and speed that dancers utilize when transitioning from one motion to another; from quick and direct to slow and light, from easy stops to hard starts. Class will start with a follow-style warm up that then transitions into further explorations of these texture concepts through improvisatory structures. We’ll try out these ideas on isolated regions of the body first before creating a full bodied exploration of these concepts. We’ll then complicate these ideas through use of touch-based feedback from our peers, rhythm exercises, improvisation, and short choreographic phrasework. Class will almost always be upright (very little to no floorwork). There will be touch-based work, but no heavy lifting or major weight-sharing. Class will have some choreographic phrasework.

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with Keyes Wiley

In this class we will focus on improvisation as both an artistic practice and a performance modality. Emphasis will be placed on developing spontaneous movement vocabulary while deepening somatic awareness, listening skills. spacial attention, and choice making strategies. There will be music, contact with others and the use of voice and spontaneous song making. Each class will build upon the previous one as we work towards collaboratively generating structures and scores.

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with Maya Soto

This beginner modern dance class is designed specifically for adults looking to explore movement, build physical confidence, and connect with their creativity. It is also a welcoming space for returning dancers looking to safely step back into their practice, as well as anyone who simply wants to slow down and focus on foundational movement mechanics. Class starts on the floor with breath, gently awakening the core, building functional strength, and releasing daily tension. Drawing on natural flow and momentum, dancers are introduced to essential modern dance concepts such as fall and recovery, rebound, suspension, and spirals. Focus is placed on understanding and maintaining healthy alignment while moving with ease. This class flows through accessible, structured exercises incorporating ideas from Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals as well as release and countertechnique principles. Foundational practice is paired with individual exploration, keeping the dialogue between work and play central to the experience. Increased spinal mobility, range of motion, and mindful body awareness are the ultimate goals. Class culminates with fun, low-pressure phrases that emphasize rhythmic dynamics, musicality, and artistic expression in a supportive and encouraging environment. 

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with Jennifer Salk

One of the great loves of my life as a choreographer is opening the door for others to enter that mysterious landscape. Simply put, we will investigate the multitude of ways to make dances. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome. Your histories are relevant here. We honor the dances you dance in your life. We will explore “making” through improvisation, collaboration, solo, duet, group work, composing while dancing, and more formal choreographic challenges and puzzles. The diversity of backgrounds in the group will help determine and shape projects. The format allows for prolific making in a short period of time, followed by editing and refining to create one dance performance. By the end of this experience the community we have created will provide future support for you in your dance making. 

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with majinn

Class will teach you various foundational steps, grooves and variations in House dance as well as culture and my personal history within House and Black social dance culture.  We work on connecting the movements in your body and learning to make them your own and help speak your voice through the movement, everyone has a different body and relates to movements differently so I teach towards what works for you after working on a base. My training style focuses on drilling movements utilizing 8 direction points and layering that with levels, direction and tempo changes and more. Freestyle is big part of class and showing your authentic self and is the base of Black social dance forms, you will hear various types of music in class during freestyle sections but foundation portions of the class will be to various types of House music,  class may end in a cypher (freestyle circle) 

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with Maya Soto

This beginner modern dance class is designed specifically for adults looking to explore movement, build physical confidence, and connect with their creativity. It is also a welcoming space for returning dancers looking to safely step back into their practice, as well as anyone who simply wants to slow down and focus on foundational movement mechanics. Class starts on the floor with breath, gently awakening the core, building functional strength, and releasing daily tension. Drawing on natural flow and momentum, dancers are introduced to essential modern dance concepts such as fall and recovery, rebound, suspension, and spirals. Focus is placed on understanding and maintaining healthy alignment while moving with ease. This class flows through accessible, structured exercises incorporating ideas from Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals as well as release and countertechnique principles. Foundational practice is paired with individual exploration, keeping the dialogue between work and play central to the experience. Increased spinal mobility, range of motion, and mindful body awareness are the ultimate goals. Class culminates with fun, low-pressure phrases that emphasize rhythmic dynamics, musicality, and artistic expression in a supportive and encouraging environment. 

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with Jennifer Salk

One of the great loves of my life as a choreographer is opening the door for others to enter that mysterious landscape. Simply put, we will investigate the multitude of ways to make dances. Adults of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome. Your histories are relevant here. We honor the dances you dance in your life. We will explore “making” through improvisation, collaboration, solo, duet, group work, composing while dancing, and more formal choreographic challenges and puzzles. The diversity of backgrounds in the group will help determine and shape projects. The format allows for prolific making in a short period of time, followed by editing and refining to create one dance performance. By the end of this experience the community we have created will provide future support for you in your dance making. 

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with majinn

This beginner modern dance class is designed specifically for adults looking to explore movement, build physical confidence, and connect with their creativity. It is also a welcoming space for returning dancers looking to safely step back into their practice, as well as anyone who simply wants to slow down and focus on foundational movement mechanics. Class starts on the floor with breath, gently awakening the core, building functional strength, and releasing daily tension. Drawing on natural flow and momentum, dancers are introduced to essential modern dance concepts such as fall and recovery, rebound, suspension, and spirals. Focus is placed on understanding and maintaining healthy alignment while moving with ease. This class flows through accessible, structured exercises incorporating ideas from Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals as well as release and countertechnique principles. Foundational practice is paired with individual exploration, keeping the dialogue between work and play central to the experience. Increased spinal mobility, range of motion, and mindful body awareness are the ultimate goals. Class culminates with fun, low-pressure phrases that emphasize rhythmic dynamics, musicality, and artistic expression in a supportive and encouraging environment. 

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with Undercurrent

Undercurrent offers a thorough and inclusive introduction to the vigor, mechanics and pleasures of floorwork. Classes build towards seamless and immersive practice, relying on repetition and embodiment as tools for building comfort with new sensations. We build trust and practice in utilizing the body's architecture to make progressively challenging movement comfortable, playful, strengthening, and sustainable.

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with Undercurrent

Undercurrent offers a thorough and inclusive introduction to the vigor, mechanics and pleasures of floorwork. Classes build towards seamless and immersive practice, relying on repetition and embodiment as tools for building comfort with new sensations. We build trust and practice in utilizing the body's architecture to make progressively challenging movement comfortable, playful, strengthening, and sustainable.

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with Naomi + Milvia

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4 | 4-6pm

This creative lab experiments with translation as a medium and practical method for improvising across expressive forms, including movement, voice, visual art and the written word. In our creative practice, Little Brown Language has used translation to navigate the complex experience of communicating meaning across cultural borders. How do we make our bodies available and receptive to unpredictable conceptual vocabularies? What do we lose in translation and how can our felt sense of loss open up possibilities for becoming close with others? Activities may include meditation, vocal work, freewriting, drawing, and structured improvisation. We are enthusiastic to invite artists interested in decolonial research practice and working at the intersections of ritual and performance.

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with Karen Nelson

Normally $225. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4 | 4-6pm

A dancing body can be a playground of investigation where senses are active research tools, imagination is based in physical awareness, and composition is exposed in a moment by moment reveal, connecting all our environments, human and non-human. 

We begin by tuning our own instruments— the 5+ senses, consciousness of survival patterns, making choices, and resisting the dominant system’s cultural expectations by showing up for our own experiences and respecting what others are bringing to the room.

In Tuning we share our opinions through actions (dancing), verbal calls (composing), silences (observing) and stillness (dancing) giving way to a culture of agency, where we contribute to, and hold, the space. The scores are guidelines that build a verbal and movment language where dancing can unfold. 

Like any improvisational map, the magic happens in the terrain of the dancing itself; how we respond as dancers following our intuitive guide, how “calls” (pause, reverse, replace, etc) become utterances of musical sound, how the environments dance with us all the way. This dip into Tuning intends to hone one’s awareness, felt opinions, sensations, images, and desires, and activate those into dancing.

Here’s what to expect:

A guided warm-up activating the senses that includes touch, sight, sound, imagination etc. This is a personal space, that over time will also include working with the environment including human partners. Eyes open and closed (whatever level of closed feels good to you), learning by touching, exploring the space ie walls, floor, curtains, chair, other people will also occur. Group scores will emerge from the warm-up.

Each day a different Tuning Score will be introduced. We will work both in smaller groups and as one group.We will spend time in “observatory mode” where even as we observe another group working, we are active and inside the action.

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with Jonathan González

Normally $325. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 10-12pm

How does a city choreograph its inhabitants? What forms of movement are encouraged, prohibited, or rendered invisible through architecture, urban planning, and the organization of public space? How might choreography intervene in the spatial arrangements that govern our everyday lives?

The Public Is a Choreography is a four-day laboratory investigating the relationship between movement, architectural form, psychogeography, and the social production of space. Working between the studio and the city, we will approach choreography as a method of spatial research, attending to the ways bodies are organized through pathways, thresholds, circulation systems, boundaries, and the built environment.

Drawing from architectural theory, critical urbanism, and the Situationist practice of the dérive, or drift, we will examine how the city produces particular habits of movement, perception, and social encounter. Through walking scores, collective observation, spatial mapping, durational studies, and experiments in assembly and dispersal, participants will investigate the relationships between bodily agency and the designed environments we inhabit.

Over four days, our research will move from the analysis of architectural and urban conditions toward the development of choreographic propositions that test, redirect, or temporarily reorganize them. We will consider the politics of access, visibility, proximity, and occupation, asking how movement might reveal the otherwise imperceptible systems through which public life is structured.

The intensive will culminate in a proposed public performance or series of site-responsive interventions in Seattle, developed in coordination with the festival. These actions may take the form of a procession, an unexpected assembly, a collective drift, a durational occupation, or a disappearance into the rhythms of the city. Rather than treating public space as a neutral backdrop for performance, we will engage it as an active material, one shaped by histories of planning, regulation, exclusion, and collective use.

What might choreography make visible about the design of our cities? And how might the temporary reorganization of bodies suggest other ways of inhabiting them?

This laboratory welcomes participants interested in choreography as a spatial practice, a method of critical inquiry, and an experiment in the possibilities of public life.

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with Alia Swersky + Hannah Rice

Normally $325. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 10-12pm

The entry point of this intensive is a deep practice in kinesthetic listening and training the reflexes to be responsive and receptive to constantly shifting conditions. Each person/body is welcome with their unique set of circumstances, orientations, identities, and movement sensibilities. This is part of the experiment: to introduce the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation within an atmosphere of curiosity, investigation, interrogation, questions, and imagination. The improvisation practice is an investigation of presence and a deepened understanding of each mover’s layered physical landscapes. We will explore an ever-shifting site for a multifaceted range of movement possibilities and perceptual awarenesses, moving and sensing with our breath, listening to the sounds that shape our sonic and musical surroundings, seeing and being seen through shifting modes of perception, and attuning to the subtle ecosystems within and around us. How does our listening allow for myriad perspectives to co-exist and merge into nuanced communications with self, others, and the environment through touch? Class will offer structures and improvisational frames that invite curiosity, willingness, risk, and play. We will explore movement practices in solo, duet, and group constellations that connect us to some of the principles of Contact Improvisation: shifting points of contact, counter-balance, falling, recovering, weight sharing, touch and tone, rolling, spiraling, momentum through spherical space, and whatever else is emergent in the room. Contact Improvisation is an uncodified improvisational dance form in which we will research a range of physical expressions, from the still and subtle to the out-of-breath play with gravity and momentum. Essential to our work together is awareness in building trust, consent, boundaries, agency, self-care, and collective care. As a group, we will seek to learn and understand fundamental principles of CI while co-creating with what is present and evolving.

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with Jasmine Hearn

Normally $525. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 1-3pm

Aug 5 | 1-5pm 

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with Raphael Xavier

Normally $525. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 1-3pm

Aug 5 | 1-5pm 

Ground-Core is the exploration of movement and it’s relationship between the body and it’s core and the ground/workspace. A derivative of Breaking, a form of hip-hop dance, Ground-Core focuses on the possibilities of pushing boundaries with the body in its entirety. By removing the vertical plain the body moves in, you are forced to resort to thinking horizontally and changing the perspective of your idea of movement, allowing new spaces to be created by changing the center of your body’s workspace. As the core center does not change your core workspace is continuously changing. This creates a fluid motion in any direction we choose to move. Because 90% of the form takes place on the back and the stomach, Ground-Core uses many core strengthening exercises to build your strength and coordination. From plank variations, sit-ups and crunches to new modified abdominal and back exercises, you will become physically and mentally strong at the same time. Ground-Core is for all dancers, professional and not, movers and those who exercise regularly, and even the interested who may think they are aging. You will unlock the hidden potential of movement and dance. Many dancers have become bored with dance and seek new ways to enjoy their passion to move or perform. Ground-Core is the new way. Anyone who participates in this somatic form will be venturing into new physical territories of strength/power and movement.

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with Raja Feather Kelly

Normally $525. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 1-3pm

Aug 5 | 1-5pm 

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with mayfield brooks

Normally $525. Early Bird Discount is applied and ends on March 15.

Aug 2, 3, 4, 7 | 1-3pm

Aug 5 | 1-5pm 

This workshop will explore disorientation as dancing into liberation, release, wildness and joy. Drawing from mayfield’s practice of Improvising While Black or IWB the invitation is to bring all of you to the dance. We will practice arriving, falling, body surfing, catching spirit, riding waves, cosmic vocalizing, decomposing dance, deep belly laughter, and play. This is a practice of embracing the feral, and wild parts of ourselves. In the eye of collective societal storms, I will also invite participants into moments of collective movement, embodied interspecies singing and quietude. Disorientation is a release from all that holds us back. Are you ready to fall into the mystery?

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