Jeffrey David Schick is a screenwriter and film director. As the founder and executive producer of Audio Video Room, he leads a team focused on film, TV, and stage productions. His films Halo, Hatch, Swipe, and The Calling have garnered global acclaim, winning awards for Best Picture and Audience Favorite at various festivals. His TV […]
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 […]
Tracey Wong 黃麗塋 (she/her) is a queer Teochew-American interdisciplinary dance artist that lights up and inspires spaces through her art. She was born and raised in Seattle, WA in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, raised by her loving parents who were refugees from Vietnam. One of her purposes is to help us remember to play, connect […]
M. Colleen Bickel is movement artist, somatic teacher, and physical therapist. Originally from Albuquerque, NM, she obtained her BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah. She danced professionally for Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City for 5 years before moving to NYC where she continued to perform with a variety of companies. […]
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 […]
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, […]
Amy O’Neal is a dancer, choreographer, curator, and dance educator merging contemporary and street dance since 2000 to challenge notions of race, gender, and the sampling nature of innovation. She creates for concert dance, experimental performance, dance film, music video, and virtual reality and has toured eight acclaimed evening length works nationally and internationally. From 2000 […]
Jody Kuehner aka Cherdonna Shinatra uses dance, drag, theater, camp, feminist traditions, absurdity and subversive commentary to make art. Twenty years ago, she landed in Seattle and fell in love with its rowdy, postmodern dance culture. Over the last 10 years Jody has created and performed a wide array of evening-length works and performance installations […]
Since 1995, Heather Kravas has investigated choreographic, improvisation and collaborative practices in contemporary dance to explore the edges of performance. Her work investigates: lines, shapes, distances, presence, exertion, intersections, endurance, calamity, contradiction, concentration, tension, failure, sacrifice, labor, love, the cobbled together, + words. Precise and extreme, these dances look like landscapes punctuated by Rube Goldberg machines. Glacial movements give way to strange loops, still forms tremble and transform, DIY […]