Etienne Cakpo is an award-winning professional dancer, choreographer and musician from Benin, West Africa. He is specialized in instruction and performance of traditional African dance from Benin as well as contemporary African dance styles, and has been building his dance repertoire for nearly thirty years. He is director of Gansango Music & Dance, a dance […]
Hilary Grumman is a Seattle-based artist, educator, and community organizer. Drawing on training with international practitioners, and 12 years of personal floorwork research, she directs Undercurrent, a dance company nurturing floorwork technique, experiential design, multi-media performance, and care-centered community building since 2017. After earning her BFA at CalArts, Hilary pursued floorwork training in Piso Móvil, […]
Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist, choreographer, curator, and educator originally from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the body and what it carries using physical and archival research to explore memory and history. She approaches her practice as an imaginative space grounded in rhythm where improvisation, Black vernacular movement, and choreography meet. Nia-Amina has […]
Hannah Simmons is a multi-disciplinary performer, creator, and educator based in Seattle. She holds a B.A. from Bennington College in dance and mathematics. Her choreographies and installations are centered around queering forms and hybridizing reality and fiction, in service of giving viewers a dynamic and unusual perspective on their own bodies. Hannah’s recent generative work […]
Lucie Baker is a dance artist, educator and therapeutic expressive arts facilitator who practices a diversity of dance forms, including concert, folk, club and social dance styles. She believes in the transformative power of expressive embodiment. Raised in Seattle, Baker began her dance journey folk dancing with her family and studying at Pacific Northwest Ballet […]
Erricka Turner Davis has performed with Poetry+Motion, 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Chamber Dance Company, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Opera, Sankofa Theatre, Oakland Ballet, and Spectrum Dance Theater. She received her BFA in Ballet Ed. with Honors from The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her MFA in Dance from The University of Washington, Seattle, […]
Tonya Lockyer is an award-winning movement artist, writer and cultural producer with international recognition. Widely praised as “a key cultural change-maker” (Seattle Times) she is a Seattle Dance Champion awardee for her transformative “leadership of Velocity and advocacy for dance and movement artists in Seattle and beyond.” Her work as a performer and choreographer has […]
Alia Swersky is a movement artist, performer and educator deeply engaged in dance improvisation, durational time-based art, film, site-specific work, and environmental installation. She is an artist and an educator with degrees from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in dance from the University of Washington. Her artistic path over the last two decades […]
California native Markeith Wiley is a multi-dimensional art maker, who creates out of necessity. Their vast movement vocabulary spans a lifetime of influences. As of late, they dabble in dance, sound, theater, a combo of all three or none of the above. Wiley has been an arts educator in Seattle for a while now. When […]