Seattle Edge
Contemporary Dance
Dec. 1 2, Noon 4pm
All presentations are FREE
Center House
Contemporary dance, ballet, martial arts, theater and more come together as international and regional dance groups perform excerpts from their current works.
Dec. 1, Noon 4pm Noon - Nikolai Lesnikov & Allegra Searle-LeBel present Physis, a dance about the relationship between myth and seduction. 12:35pm Phffft! Dance Theatre Company & Las Pleyades Danza present samples from their Beyond the Threshold International Dance Festival repertoire. www.phffft.org 1:35pm d9 Dance Collective present excerpts from their 2008 concert of works. www.d9dance.org 2:15pm Cheronne Wong presents excerpts from sub-Rosa, an exploration into the world of covert identities and numeric codes. http://www.cheronne.wordpress.com 2:55pm Monica Mata Gilliam presents Here, a site specific improvisational dance. www.quartetdance.com 3:35pm - Meredith Kalaman & Leigha Wald present Operok, high energy expression of the relationship between order and disorder, and Distance and Morph, a contemporary rendition of the Dying Swan.
Dec. 2, Noon 4pm Noon DASSdance presents excerpts from Poor Mans Boogie where modern, ballet, break-dancing, hip-hop, acrobatics and martial arts create visual surprises at every turn. www.dassdance.org 12:35pm - Agnieszka Laska and Dancers, BQ Danza present samples from Beyond the Threshold International Dance Festival. www.a-laska.com 1:30pm - Sheri Brown, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and Alan Sutherland with the Midway Orchestra present Sacrament and Gluttony: The last potato, a Butoh dance theatre piece about appetite and sharing that mixes humor, holiness, control and chaos. www.sheribrown.com 2:10pm The Stone Dance Collective presents Difficult Beauty and Me Over You, a modern interpretation of the ballet Pas de Quatre and the role of the classic woman. 2:55pm - Archana Kumar & Adam Hurst present Exploring Confinement, a dance intertwining Kathak, a north Indian classical form, with modern dance. www.archanakathak.comwww.adamhurststudio.com 3:30pm LAUNCH dance theater presents Ten and Marigolds Big Decision in its bold, glamorous, profound and humorous fashion. www.LAUNCHdancetheater.com
The season comes alive at Seattle Center Winterfest 2007 with six spectacular weeks of world-class entertainment, cutting-edge performers and cherished reminders of the past. Seattle Center Winterfest is presented by our community partner The Seattle Times with generous support from Seattle Center Fund, Center House Merchants and the City of Seattle.
Winterfest 2007 events and hours are subject to change.
Seattle Center is supported by
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