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 […]
Dayna Hanson is a Guggenheim fellow, a MacDowell fellow, a United States Artists Foundation fellow and Creative Capital awardee whose body of work spans three decades and multiple disciplines. Her dance and performance work has been presented by On the Boards, REDCAT, Noorderzon Festival, Fusebox Festival and others. Dayna’s narrative and experimental films have screened […]
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, […]
Alethea is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. Community, sensuality, care, effort, subversion and collaboration are central tenets of her creative work with dance partners human, object, site and sonic. She is co-founder and teaching artist with Ballet Rituals offering queered ballet technique for Seattle dancers, in addition to hosting local and touring contemporary dance […]
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 Colopy specializes in treating patients with orthopedic and sports injuries and has a special interest in dance medicine and injury prevention. She grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. and spent eight years living in North Carolina, where she earned her Doctoral Degree in physical therapy from Duke University and my Bachelor […]
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 […]
Amiya Brown is a multidisciplinary artist and scenographer based in Seattle, WA. Designing nationally and internationally for Theatre, Dance, Music, and Film, she specializes in site-specific, generative productions and large-scale installations. Her work has been presented at The Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York Live Arts, The Joyce SOHO (NYC), The Kasser Theatre (Montclair, NJ), On […]
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, […]