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Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock is a Seattle based multidisciplinary artist and the founder and visionary of the Queer BIPOC artist collective Yusephinum LLC. He has worked professionally within the musical theater and burlesque spheres of the Seattle community for over a decade. As the artistic producer and visionary of Yusephinum LLC, Peacock has taken on a number […]

Hilary Grumman

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 Alexander

Alethea (M.F.A., University of Washington) is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. Her teaching appointments include the University of Washington Department of Dance (2017-2023), Whatcom Community College (2014-2016), Velocity Dance Center’s SFD+I summer festival (2019, 2022), Cornish College of the Arts (2020-2023), as well as recurring guest teaching for ODC Dance (2013), Bellingham Repertory Dance […]

Lucie Baker

Raised in Seattle, Lucie Baker choreographs, performs, practices, and teaches concert and social dance forms. Graduating from The Juilliard School in 2008, Baker has worked with artists such as Jane Comfort, Tamar Rogoff, Erica Essner, Adam Barruch, Sidra Bell, Wade Madsen, Colemxn Pester, Yara Travieso, Phantom Limb Company, Seattle Opera, Arc Dance, Chamber Dance Company, […]

Charlotte Boye-Christensen

Charlotte Boye-Christensen, a native of Copenhagen received her formal training as a choreographer/performer/educator in Copenhagen, London and New York earning her MFA in dance from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Charlotte has created work on companies and institutions around the world, including for Danish Dance Theatre, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballet West, […]

Erricka Turner Davis

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, […]

Claudette Evans

Claudette Evans, a student of yoga for more than 20 years, originally trained as a musical theater performer and was an athlete in her youth. She now spends her days as a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and studio administrator. She is passionate about the study and practice of yoga, as well as the training and […]

Devin Marie Muñoz

Devin Marie Muñoz, Mexican American Seattle based photographer & videographer, has been honing her skills ranging in dance photography to editorial storytelling and film for the past few years. As a dancer herself, Devin blended her photography skills with her seventeen years of dance experience, bringing about the perfect fusion of her two passions. With […]

Tonya Lockyer

Tonya Lockyer is an award-winning choreographer, writer, cultural producer, and performing artist working internationally. She was named “one of the key cultural change-makers in the Northwest” by The Seattle Times. Her work in performance has been seen at Lincoln Center; National Museum of Women in the Arts; New York’s Joyce Theater, Dixon Place, and New […]

Alia Swersky

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 […]