UMO Ensemble’s creative process is rooted in physical theatre: improvisations in movement, character, vocalization, and writing are the basis for the creation and development of new works. In its over 30 year history, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative, compelling and critically acclaimed performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. […]
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A Guggenheim Fellow in choreography, Dayna Hanson creates minor-key, cross-disciplinary work with humanist values and a strong movement sense. A graduate of the University of Washington’s Creative Writing Program and a self-taught choreographer, Hanson entered film through dance: Measure, a short film she directed with Gaelen Hanson, has been considered a seminal work in dance […]
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Amii LeGendre is an independent choreographer, dancer, and teacher. In recent work, her aesthetic direction tends toward hybrid performance — dance supported by elements of theater, live sound, and set design. Artist Support Program 1998 (with Sandy Cioffi)
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Crispin Spaeth has been making dances in Seattle since 1990. Her award-winning work with Crispin Spaeth Dance Group (1992-2007) was commissioned by Western Bridge, Consolidated Works, On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, and Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art, among others. With a legion of collaborators, she has created seven full-evenings, and over 30 smaller works […]
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Maureen Whiting is a choreographer, dancer, and mathematician based in Oakland, California. Her work was supported in Seattle for over 20 years by On the Boards, Seattle University, Velocity Dance and ACT Theatre where she also developed “Ramayana” with nationally acclaimed directors. She taught dance at Seattle University’s Theatre Department for 3 years and has […]
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Amy Caron is an uber-multidisciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City. A gifted athlete, Amy spent her formative years excelling in gymnastics and figure skating. Shortly after she began underage drinking, Amy ditched the candy sports for the pure adrenaline rush of aerial ski jumping and went on to compete at the World Cup level […]
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Moonyeka (they/them) is a nonbinary Ilocano-Filipinx shapeshifter who takes form as a teaching artist, performing artist, choreographer, curator, scholar, brujx and interdisciplinary artist. With a specialty in offering sensually sacred dance and movement-based storytelling experiences, Moonyeka’s performance, community organizing, and divination work centers kapwa and kilig as a compass to imagine worlds where their communities […]
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Franchesska Berry is an eloquent performer, choreographer, and international intercultural arts educator. Franchesska specializes in dances and traditional culture of West Africa and the African Diaspora; however, her expertise is not limited to African based forms. Franchesska’s unique dance style is informed by her comprehensive background in the western classical forms of ballet, modern, jazz […]
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KT Niehoff is an artist whose focus is the complex relationship between bodies and space. She creates multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, immersive performance environments, with highly crafted audience participation. These experiences both integrate and transcend choreography, music, design, film and technology, narrative and audience/artist proximity. In 1992, KT was invited by choreographic pioneer Pat Graney to perform […]
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Tiffany Danielle Elliott is a Seattle based curator and artist who works in performative enactment, text(ile), and digital objects. In both her art and curatorial practice, she is focused on creating nuanced conversations around all the things we think we shouldn’t say. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MA […]
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