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Project 7
Now in its seventh season Seattle Dance Project continues to highlight the artistry, professional maturity, and technical prowess of its dancers and choreographers by presenting Project 7 at the Broadway Performance Hall for THREE shows only,
May 2 and 3 at 8PM
May 4 at 5PM
This season we are pleased to have back choreographer Wade Madsen who was one of three collaborators of our successful production of Project Orpheus in 2008. For Project 7 he is presenting "Want." "Want" is a work that questions the place between desire and fulfillment/conformity and uniqueness and youth obsessed culture- through theme and variation/theater/repetition/breath. Wade Madsen's Want is created in collaboration with the dancers and features a musical medley evoking the period of the 1960's. Individual dancers strain against the confines of repression, their sensuality bottled to their breaking point. This work had its work in progress opening with Cornish Dance Theater in 2012.
SDP is pleased to have Amy O'Neal creating a new work for Project 7. O'neal's "Dessa Suites" is a classically structured with a contemporary bent. Two men grapple with self, other, and images of boyhood to music by Dessa from Minneapolis's Doomtree Collective.
Our very own SDP dancer, Iyun Ashani Harrison's puts on his choreographic hat. His "Falling Into It" is set to the haunting Prelude of Bach's Cello Suite #4 in E Flat and Sarabande from Suite #5 in C Minor. The duet takes a voyeuristic glance into a private moment shared by two men. The piece was premiered at the American Dance Festival in 2009."
Our dancers this season are Betsy Cooper, Iyun Harrison, Alexandra Dickson, Chris Montoya, Artistic Director, Timothy Lynch and returning this season is Ezra Dickinson. Bios are on our website.
We are also pleased to announce our newest member Karena Birk.
Karena is a Seattle-based teacher and performer. She holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, and a BA in Classics from the University of Washington. She teaches modern dance and ballet at the University of Washington Bothell, Cornish Preparatory Dance Program, and Bainbridge Dance Center, and has also taught at Dance Fremont, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and The Ohio State University. After training at Cornish and the Richmond Ballet, she went on to dance professionally with the Colorado Ballet, Lehua Dance Theatre, and ARC Dance. In addition to Seattle Dance Project, she also performs for Catherine Cabeen-Hyphen and Redd Legg Dance. She has been privileged to dance works of Trisha Brown, Anna Sokolow, Antony Tudor, George Balanchine, Fanny Elssler, Wade Madsen, Deborah Wolf, Hannah Wiley, and many others. Her MFA studies focused on dance performance, notation, history, and pedagogy, and she holds a Teaching Certification in Labanotation. She has staged a number of historical works from their Labanotation scores, including Doris Humphrey's The Shakers, and selections from Helen Tamiris's Negro Spirituals.
Lastly we are thrilled that Joshua Grant from the Pacific Northwest Ballet will be guesting with us on Project 7.
Joshua Grant is from Niceville, Florida. He trained at Northwest Florida Ballet, Harid Conservatory, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at Virginia School of the Arts, the Rock School, Harid Conservatory, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Mr. Grant joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2001 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2002. In 2004, he joined National Ballet of Canada, and in 2006, he joined Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. He performed as a principal dancer with Trockadero until 2011, when he rejoined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet.
We hope you can join us as we celebrate our seventh season. PROJECT 7.
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Location Broadway Performance Hall (View)
1625 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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