International Artists Series
June 4-6 & 11-13

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This is the festival's featured event running for five years since the festival's inception in 2006. Each year hosts a hotbed of dance companies from the international and national dance scene.

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PRESHOW: Each night features a music and video preshow starting 15-20 minutes before show time, including dance video by La Intrusa Danza (Spain), Helen Tudway-Cains (Canada) and Indian Sarod music by Brandon McIntosh at inter mission

WEEK 1 | June 4-6 :

  • Compagnie Prototype Status (Switzerland/Italy) - performing Marvin ‘a biomechanical birth of an android’ - with its fantasy mechanical world with a shimmering landscape of carefully raked sand, modern light sculptures of transparent plastic and soft stone - a robot, plugged into tubes becomes human.
  • Selfick Sg-Simancus (Venezuela/WA) performs Study for Casio which premiered in Kyoto, Japan in 2009. This is a study of pure, crisp movement using a Casio MT-100 as the sole inspirational source.
  • Khambatta Dance Company. (formerly Phffft! Dance Company of Seattle WA) performs La Fin - debarking on a farcical character-laden, theatrical traipse connecting the death of flies to the "big rip," a scientific term predicting that the universe will one day just rip in half.

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WEEK 2 | June 11-13 :

  • Rainbow Dance Theatre with choregraphers Darryl Thomas (ex-Pilobolus dancer) and Valerie Bergman (Hawaii/Oregon) bring their 12-member group to perform Street Suite. They’ll blend African-American Hip-Hop with Pilobolus-style dance and examine the urban camouflage required of the inner city life. Big Bang, delves the audience into an underworld of sea creatures both known and unknown.
  • maika misumi mt3 (Japan) performs Ditof, the artist explains "We build each new layer of our history upon a multitude of others. That which we appear to have destroyed does not disappear, but becomes another layer of the ground on which we stand,"
  • Khambatta Dance Company. performs La Fin - debarking on a farcical character-laden, theatrical traipse connecting the death of flies to the "big rip," a scientific term predicting that the universe will one day just rip in half.
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