“Roseˮ Ziyu Xu (徐子瑜) is a new media researcher, choreographer, and performer working at the intersection of dance, media arts, and machine learning. Rejecting the dichotomy of art and science, she explores how shared human questions can be articulated across different disciplinary languages. Rather than complying with AI to generate or replace creative labor, Rose […]
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Juliet McMains is a filmmaker, video installation artist, dance scholar, educator, and lifelong practitioner of improvisational social dance. She strives to translate the kinesthetic experiences of dancing to digital forms through cinematographic, editing, and video mapping techniques. Her artistic research is in dialogue with her academic research, which interrogates systems of gendered and racial power […]
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Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy have been making strange performance works together in Seattle, WA since 2013. Oft performing under moniker “The Bonnies,” they gravitate to the grotesque/off-kilter/marvelous like moths to the flame, developing their dream worlds through movement, text, music, costume, and photography. They have performed at countless festivals, underground art salons, and nightlife […]
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Leah Mann is a multi-disciplinary artist, somatic practitioner, and embodied social justice activist. She is artistic director emeritus of Moving in the Spirit, a youth mentorship program utilizing dance, based in ATL, GA. She is also in a long term community based wellness project with the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership at Morehouse College.
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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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