SFD+I
Summer Festival of Dance + Improvisation
PERFORMANCE – RESEARCH – DROP-IN
The Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation is a vibrant month-long immersion in the Seattle dance community, and a chance to explore with dance practitioners experimenting at the leading edge of dance technique, creative practices, and dance improvisation. Grounded in SFDI’s nearly 30 years of community-building and intergenerational collaboration, this festival is a gateway for new dancers to connect with artists making work in the Seattle dance and improvisation community, and a chance for Seattle-based artists to train and research with internationally renowned artists.
PROGRAMS
PERFORMANCE COHORTS
RESEARCH WEEK
The PERFORMANCE Cohorts are immersive summer dance experiences for dancers of all ages and levels from beginning through professional.
Immerse yourself in three weeks of daily dance and movement training that will build your dance skills and connect you to your body and community. Daily classes with awesome and supportive local and national faculty will build stamina, movement skills, and artistry.
Then you’ll bring those skills into a new dance creation process led by cohort choreographer, culminating in final performances to share with friends, family, and the wider Seattle dance community. Whether you’re a dancer looking to connect and get your start in the Seattle dance scene, or someone who has never tried dance but always wanted to, we can’t wait to move with you this summer!
The RESEARCH Week is a full eight days of intensives, workshops, and events centering improvisational dance practice and research. This interdisciplinary and intergenerational gathering brings together both local and inter/national faculty in Seattle each year to share their practice with movers new to improvisation alongside artists who have been dancing for decades. Immerse yourself in a nurturing and rich environment where embodied research in somatics, contact and group improvisation, and creative and social practice create a week of extraordinary possibilities.
Registration for the full Research Week lets you create your own immersive schedule of intensives, classes, jams, and events. Choose between the morning 4 day intensives and morning dropins, one of three midday 5-day intensives, and one of two afternoon 3-day intensives or afternoon dropins. You’ll also get tickets to all sharings + events, and be able to participate in all the jams, morning practices and drop-ins your schedule can hold!