The 2023 Seattle International Dance Festival schedule includes over a week full of shows with a different show every night, featuring guests artists from France, Switzerland, India, the US, and a special South Korea Fest the second weekend of the festival. Experience the excitement of local, national, and international contemporary dance.

Schedule of Events

June 10, 2023

8pm: Inter|National Series Weekend One - A at Broadway Performance Hall

AZOTH Dance Theatre - Blois, France
The company will present a humorous and playful work, F*** the Boxes, and LOVE, a piece that questions our need for parenthood and studies the different family models that exist today.

Olympic Ballet Theatre - Edmonds, WA

Guest Curator: Donald Byrd
Olympic Ballet Theatre presents Donald Byrd’s commissioned work, From the Dark Land, inspired by the music Black Angels 13 Images from the Dark Land (1970) by composer, George Crumb, bringing Byrd’s edgy, contemporary style to this classical ballet company.

June 11, 2023

7:30pm - Inter|National Series Weekend One - B at Erickson Theater

Ishita Mili - NJ/India
Ishita Mili presents a new solo work fusing street, contemporary, and classical Indian dance to navigate relationships with religion and culture

Artistry in Motion Collective - Hawaii/Seattle
AIMCo has been commissioned to create a full-length premiere for SIDF of an original work-in-progress of four minutes chosen for its grandiose and powerful movement, accompanied by a French-accented poetic voiceover soliloquizing the sanctity of the human body.

June 13, 2023

7:30pm - Spotlight on Seattle at Erickson Theater

Jeremy Cline/J Cline Motion - Maine/Seattle
Jeremy Cline/J Cline Motion presents Agua de Beber, a duet between two dancers expressing longing, missed connections, and the struggle to communicate and relate effectively with another.

Coalescence Dance Company - Seattle, WA
The company performs a piece working through the dynamic emotions of realizing a loved one is leaving this earth, the grieving that comes with it, and the rebuilding with the grief that comes after the shock.

Bri Wilson and Sean O'Bryan - Seattle, WA
This dynamic duo presents Weave in which the dancers weave in and around each other, building off each other’s energies in a series of lifts and unison sequences.

Rosemary Adams - Seattle, WA
The dance is an exercise in constructing and deconstructing a small industrialized society, using recorded sounds from the early 1900’s in The Netherlands.

Leah Russell - Seattle, WA
Leah Russell presents one of her signature power-packed performances bringing her emotional ferocity and physical strength to the subject of life on earth.

June 14, 2023

7:30pm - James Ray Residency Program A at Erickson Theater

SLOWBURN Dance - Seattle, WA
SLOWBURN Dance presents Exosphere, created by Meredith Pellon in collaboration with the dancers. This new work is a choreographic collage of entities that transcend to a higher layer of every space they inhabit. Through charged and glorious movement, they eat fractures of a lovely future.

Mary Sigward + Artists - Seattle, WA
Choreographed by Mary Sigward, Spectacle is a new contemporary dance work investigating contemporary consumer culture and its negative impact on our relationship to one another. Inspired by Guy Debord’s writings, Spectacle exemplifies how humans have lost touch with one another (and with the Earth) in an over-stimulated world by supplanting their relations between people with commodities.

June 15, 2023

7:30pm - James Ray Residency Program B at Erickson Theater

Karin Stevens Dance - Seattle, WA
Karin Stevens Dance presents two works. Created in 2019/2020, and featuring improvisational music by Kin of the Moon, A Small Space of Wildness was choreographed from Steven’s improvisational practice with her backyard landscape in winter and summer. The work is an extension of Steven’s ongoing interest in the human body and the greater ecology. Premiering on the SIDF 2023 stage, Parts of the Whole, with original music by Kin of the Moon, explores the parts within us that make the whole of ourselves and our relationships; the emotions under the surface, the many internal parts that we are.

Degenerate Art Ensemble - Seattle, WA
Degenerate art ensemble presents, Anima Mundi – Amnesia, exploring the amnesia that we face in our connection to the natural world, inspired by the ways that human beings have cultivated positive connections to nature through ceremony and ritual. It channels these practices through an embodied movement sensibility celebrating the decolonized body and using live voice, sound and video projection in a richly visual experience.

inkBoat - San Francisco/Luzern
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant revolves in the cycles governing a day, year, a lifetime. The human being returns to source. Begin again. The project combines the Daoist sage Lieh-Tzu’s observations on a “Guide to Practical Living” with theatrical performance devising traditions rooted in the Japanese avant-garde.

June 16, 2023

8pm - Inter|National Series Weekend Two - A at Erickson Theater

Yoon Su-mi Dance Company - Tank, S. Korea
Yoon Su-mi Dance Company will present Tundra, a work of concise and delicate lyricism about ecology and the planet we live on.

June 17, 2023

8pm - Inter|National Series Weekend Two - B at Erickson Theater

Unplugged Bodies - Seoul, Korea
**** Ludens is the final piece of the **** series of Unplugged Bodies, co-produced ty and premiered in 2021 at the Asia Cultural Center, Asia’s largest theater. **** Lupiens is a combination of “Ludens”, a human being of play, and “Sapiens”, a current human being, and contains all human characteristics such as knowledge, tools, and play. Kyoung Shin Kim spent several years exploring the work of human nature, curious about the future human image, and created **** Lupiens, a compound word that would refer to future human beings.

Project Artdock - Tank, South Korea
Project Artdock presents Hole(?)lump – ver.2, looking at the role of the cycle of lack and desire.

KIMI Dance - Tank, South Korea
KIMI Dance presents, **** Ludens ?, about the role of transformation using the butterfly as metaphor.

June 18, 2023

7:30pm - Inter|National Series Weekend Two - C at Broadway Performance Hall

Emily Schoen Branch - Seattle, WA
Curated by SIDF Guest Curator, Eva Stone, Emily Schoen Branch brings the poetry of David Whyte to life through intimate dance portraits, where physical nuance meets the poignancy of language. The Puget Sound-based creative team- including Emily, David, and dancers – looks forward to their worlds uniting in this first collaboration together.

Price Suddarth/JUMPKUT - Seattle, WA
Curated by SIDF Guest Curator, Eva Stone, Reverie was commissioned by the Ballet Sun Valley festival in 2021 and served as a celebration of movement. The work marked one of the first live performances mounted in more than a year of COVID-19 lockdowns and the dance represents the unparalleled feeling of freedom experienced by all.

Victoria Gutierrez - Mexico/Seattle
Victoria Gutierrez presents Deranged, elaborating the feeling of suffocation when fear and anguish permeate the air and distress is palpable. A breath of collective pain is imminent before Catharsis arrives.

Khambatta Dance Company - Seattle, WA
Khambatta Dance Company (KDC) will present Strange Animals, which draws on precision animal movements to draw similarities between humans and their animal world counterparts, and Now What?, a post-covid questioning of our value system, volleying between whimsy and deep reflection.

Date: June 10-18, 2023

Locations:
Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard, Seattle, WA 98122
Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

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