Capitol Hill Arts District Streaming Festival 2020
GiveBIG 2020 Screening with Live Commentary
April 29 – May 3
FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Velocity Dance Center’s Artist Showcase
SUN | May 3 | 7:30 PM

Join us for the Capitol Hill Arts District Streaming Festival 2020, which celebrates the creativity of Capitol Hill and offering community members a connection to interdisciplinary art while the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order is in effect. 

Velocity Dance Center will be closing out the festival with a collection of dance films and performance videos on Sunday, May 3rd at 7:30 PM.

All programs will be streamed LIVE, here and on our Facebook page, as well as Northwest Film Forum’s website and Facebook page – visit each day at showtime to join us!

All events are FREE, with sliding-scale, pay-what-you-can tickets and festival passes! All donations go to the COVID-19 Artist Trust Relief Fund to support individual artists. Direct donations to the presenting arts organizations and individuals are also encouraged.

Tune in to see these seven performances

Alicia Mullikin – TRAPPED
Alicia Mullikin is a Chicana dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist. Her work is greatly influenced by her identity as a first generation Mexican American woman of color. As an arts activist she uses her craft to spotlight the experiences of her culture and her ancestors. [support]

Cherdonna – DITCH
Part drag queen, part contemporary dance, and part performance art, Cherdonna Shinatra is a queer, femme, contemporary dancer who uses clowning, drag, theater, comedy, camp, pop culture, gay culture, feminist traditions, absurdity and subversive commentary to make art. Cherdonna is a persona created by Jody Kuehner to explore and question our world. [instagram]

m00nyeka – 1st Excerpt & Diwata

CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work and Daniel Costa Dance – open / shut
Daniel Costa established Daniel Costa Dance (DCD) in 2015. DCD is a Seattle-based contemporary dance company whose purpose is to empower embodiment by creating spaces for individuals to discover more authenticity of the Self through dance and express that discovery with others in an effort to heal. [support]

Amanda Morgan – The Premiere

Lavinia Vago – NOESIS X (Excerpt)
Lavinia Vago is a dance artist based in Seattle, working between Montréal, NYC, Berlin, Vienna. She has created, performed and toured with SBDNY, Loni Landon, Vim Vigor Dance, Saint Genet, RUBBERBAND, Tianzhuo Chen and Kate Wallich + The YC. Lavinia researches, experiments, improvises and creates solo works. [website] 

LanDforms – AfterBANG
LanDforms is the creative partnership of Leah Crosby and Danielle Doell, who make movement-driven performance works. Crosby and Doell’s broad and multi-form creative careers include dance, music, puppetry, theater, floral design, fiber arts, and other expressive tools. As LanDforms, they examine how their disparate histories can be mined to create abstract performance works that are weird, but profoundly relatable. [website]