Show of HANDS!
by
Alyza DelPan-Monley
& featuring Maritess Zurbano, Stasia Coup + the Mommy Poppy, Justin Huertas, Lothón, Light Aloud, Alice Gosti, Cessa Betancourt, Kaitlin McCarthy, Jackie Miedema & more!
Join us for a variety show featuring performances from zaza and their amazing friends – there will be magic hands, holding hands, texting hands, piano-ing hands, puppet hands, (h)and more!
SHOW of HANDS is a That’s a HANDFUL! event, with the culminating performance happening Oct 11-14. If you watch closely, you may catch a few sneak peek excerpts from the show throughout the night.
These hand puns may be getting out of hand, but I’ve gotta hand it to you, this show will be hands-down something you’ll wanna experience first hand!
ARTIST BIO
Alyza DelPan-Monley (they/them) believes in the expressive power that can be accessed in the body through movement. As a movement designer and choreographer, their work has been presented at Cafe Nordo (Violet’s Attic, Jitterbug Perfume), Washington Ensemble Theatre (Teh Internet, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Straight White Men, Dance Nation), and ArtsWest (Office Hour, The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion). They perform and collaborate regularly with Salvage Rituals and they are a company member and dancer with MALACARNE. Alyza is Velocity Dance Center’s Curating Artist in Residence through September 2023. They strive to participate in and build processes where everyone feels like they can exist in their fullest selves by cultivating and celebrating every body’s unique form of expression.
PROGRAM SUPPORT
This presentation is part of Velocity’s program the Curating Artist in Residency 2022-23, which was made possible with funding from the Cultural District Economic Recovery Fund initiated by Seattle Office of Arts + Culture.
Interested in joining the community of support that is making the Seattle presentation of this work possible? Contact erin@velocitydancecenter.org to learn how you can be involved.