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 […]
Hannah Rice is a movement-based performance artist and body-based educator living in Seattle, Washington. Her creative practice pays close attention to the body in relationship to space both architecturally and sonically. Her current practice utilizes field recordings, sound design and movement scores to research memory and time. Hannah has collaborated with choreographer and mentor Alia […]
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 […]