Our Country

Inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, artist Annie Saunders sets off on an autobiographical journey, using recreations of recorded conversations with her outlaw brother.

[siccer]

Through a dance performance and accompanying video installation, Will Rawls invites us to consider the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media.

Revival

Revival is an immersive ritualistic theater and installation work by the well-known Seattle-based Indigenous artist Timothy White Eagle and his team of collaborators, The Violet Triangle–Paul Budraitis, HATLO, and John Kendall Wilson. This new theater work is rooted in ritual theater and explores one of the oldest and most universal myths, the story of a hero being swallowed alive and then returned, which has appeared around the world. The artists use this ancient story to ponder what it means to be living in our contemporary moment through isolation and longing for community.

Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence

Bear witness to stories from varied identities, weaved together in celebration of difference and unique individuality.

Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ

Different histories, artistic/cultural educations, and experiences fuse together to create a new form of dance that you don’t want to miss!

RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance’s claims to so-called “neutrality”. In this work, we seek to live, layer and situate form in our bodies, as these evoke past, present and future possibilities.

CORE/US

Vanessa Goodman (Vancouver) considers the embodiment of sound and how to generate artistic material in real-time that creates a direct correlation between movement and sound. Core/Us is a captivating new group work from Action at a Distance. Choreographed by artistic director Vanessa Goodman, four dancers expertly transverse our perception of how we hear movement and see sound with mesmerizing results. The live score sculpts an ever-evolving atmosphere that builds gravity for the body.

Skeleton Flower

Skeleton Flower is a performance of live music, visceral movement theater and dance, projected cinematic imagery and storytelling ritual. It is a semi-autobiographical exploration of Haruko Crow Nishimura’s (DAE’s director) struggle with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. The piece deals with these issues with humor and imagination, casting her family as monsters from a Godzilla movie, and traces her personal struggle through three fairy tales which were read to her by her mother growing up (

CUTLASS SPRING

Inching towards decensorship, engaging the infinite potential of everyday objects, CUTLASS SPRING is, at once, a manifesto and a heated reflection, an ethnography of sexual understanding and an archaeology of desire.

The Forever Project

Piacenza’s 30-year professional performance career and her history as a sex worker become an embodied tapestry of artistic material, a thematic entanglement of sex labor, the pursuit of freedom, and ageism.

The Other Shore: Always Now

Always Now is one of two complementary works within zoe | juniper’s performance, The Other Shore. In Always Now, the audience is guided through different spaces and positions to witness the performances, including lying comfortably on the floor, while multiple dancers move around and above them. With an exciting cast of 5 local and international dancers, Always Now explores perspective, lived experience, and body language as the audience is invited to experience the piece from very different viewpoints.