Sadie Szabelski | Photo by Val Gonzalez
BRIDGE PROJECT 2027
Works by Dany Srey-Snow, Davianna Griffin and Sadie Szabelski
FEB 4 – 6 | 7:30 PM
FEB 6 | 2 PM
12th Ave Arts Studio Theater | 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
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Presented through Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator Program
Bridge Project is Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator, a multigenerational, intensive process aimed at connecting artists to each other and audiences to dance artists. This year’s Bridge Project features three new works.
DANY SREY-SNOW | MOTHER TONGUE, MOTHER BODY
Mother Tongue, Mother Body is an experimental movement work by Dany Srey-Snow that expands from her solo Neang Yeak, reframing the feared giant of Khmer mythology alongside the Hindu goddess Kali as feminine forces of protection, destruction, and transformation. Pulling from Dany’s experience as a daughter of refugees, mother of three, and survivor, and honoring her relationship with her womb ~ Mother Tongue, Mother Body bridges mysticism through the body. This work enters a trance-like ceremony, allowing the womb and vocal cords to become gateways to ancestral transmission and spiritual messages.
DAVIANNA GRIFFIN | AFTERTASTE (WORKING TITLE)
This new solo work physicalizes my cataclysmic relationship with grief through movement, sound, and text. Made through my lens as a Black, queer woman, it invites audiences to name their own grief through call-and-response, answering a culture that asks Black women in particular to carry their weight silently.
SADIE SZABELSKI | UNTITLED
My work explores body history: a meditation on time as a wasteland, modern evolution, and the surreal conditions that compel us to shapeshift. Somewhere between survival and liberation, the body bends, mutates, yet remains supple.
ARTISTS
DANY SREY-SNOW
DAVIANNA GRIFFIN
SADIE SZABELSKI
ABOUT THE VENUE
12th Avenue Arts is fully accessible for wheelchairs and walkers. The lobby, bathrooms and theater spaces are at street level, and seating is available without the need for an elevator or stairs. Bathrooms will be gender neutral. Seats are 16″ wide with arm rests on either side. Please let us know what we can do to make your dance experience more enjoyable and accessible. Examples of requests below:
- ASL, CART, Assisted Listening Device
- Reserved Ground Floor Seating
- wider chairs
- + more
For requests, please contact Shirley at operations@velocitydancecenter.org or write us a note on our ticketing service when buying tickets. We will do our best to accommodate!
ABOUT THE EMERGING CREATIVE INCUBATOR
Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator supports experimental dance artists who have not made work in Velocity’s Incubator Programs in the last 5 years. It is a platform where Seattle based choreographers are able to build or re-establish a relationship with Velocity and its audiences.
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PROGRAM SPONSORS
Velocity’s Incubator Programs are supported in part by 4Culture’s Cultural Support Services program and the TEW Foundation. Free and reduced cost ticketing supported by 4Culture’s Public Free Access program.
Photo by Devyn Snow
DANY SREY-SNOW
Dany Srey-Snow (she/her) is a Khmer-American omnidisciplinary artist, healer and women’s mentor. She is also a wife, mother, sister, friend, and daughter of Khmer refugees who found opportunity in Seattle (occupied Duwamish land).
She is the healer behind Srey Dany Co. Healing, producer and director of Srey Photography, and choreographer of Srey Selepak SEA .
Growing up in Seattle, she let her curiosity guide her, tapping into many spaces. Today, she embodies a multidimensional identity guiding feel divinely connected and create a life by design. She works in the healing arts and offers yoga, reiki, sound, other ritual, and boudoir photography. As a performing artist, she uplifts Khmer culture through robaim and contemporary dance and curates exhibitions and festivals in Seattle. By holding safe spaces, she helps turn shame into liberation. Dany speaks and shares about womb wisdom from the Divine Feminine/Matriarchal view.
She found her voice through her visual expression and somatic movement. Being a WOC, experiencing sexual trauma and witnessing domestic violence allowed her to grow resilient and transmute her shame into power and peace. Strength is in her vulnerability, openness, and reclaiming her voice and body.
Moving from Seattle to the midwest and back to the west coast in Long Beach,CA, her and her husband raise their three children with a life by design ~ owning an urban ashsram – creative studio and sacred space, Studio 7117 and live as working artists. Today, you can find her nose in a book on biographies or a historical novel, or gardening barefoot on her community roof, or dancing like no one’s watching with her children.
Her lived experience and wisdom is what she thinks is truly credible, but her professional experience includes:
- Highline College – Associates Degree with focus in Social Work
- Minot State University – Bachelors of Fine Arts in Public Relations & Concentrations in Graphic Design, Marketing, and Media Services
- Go Inward Studio – Usui Reiki 1 & 2 Attunement | 2019
- Lisa Powers Reiki – Master Reiki Attunement | 2020
- Embodied Mindfulness School – 12 Hr Yin Yoga Training | 2020
- Jupiter Soundscape – Meditation Teacher Initiation | 2021
- Shivakali Yoga – 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training | 2021
- Mother Yoga – 25 Hr Advance Vinyasa Training | 2022
- Chanlyka Leav – Traditional Khmer Ballet Intensive | 2025
- Velocity – SFD+I Beginner Performance Cohort Training | 2026
Photo by Ben Viatori
DAVIANNA GRIFFIN
Davianna Griffin (pronounced Day – VEE – AH – nah) is a dancer, educator, and collaborator. As a surging international performing artist-scholar, Davianna’s research focuses on 21st-century Black womanhood and centers the voices, bodies, and ideas of the Black experience. She received her MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. Davianna has presented her scholarly research at the Dance Studies Association, the International Association of Blacks in Dance, and the Collegium of African Diaspora Dance. Davianna has collaborated with Hybrid Arts Lab – Urban Arts Space, Virginia Arts Festival Rhythm Project, and Wexner Center for the Arts to share choreographic work and arts programming. She performed professionally with Todd Rosenlieb Dance and is currently a performing collaborator and co-founder of Thick Like Me non-profit (TLM). Through education, performance, creative collaboration, and advocacy, TLM seeks to uplift the labor, artistry, and unique knowledge of thick Black women in dance and beyond. Davianna is also on the dance faculty at Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center and a freelance writer for SeattleDances.
Photo by Val Gonzalez
SADIE SZABELSKI
Sadie (they) is a disabled, queer, Black-mixed movement artist based in Seattle, WA. Sadie has made a slow integration into the local scene, and since moving here, has been fascinated with Seattle’s thriving nightlife culture. From living the lifestyle and through independent study, they have developed a diverse movement vocabulary across many dance disciplines, primarily grounded in authentic freestyle. Self-funded and community-guided, Sadie bases their research in connection to the sources of club and street dance forms, particularly house and hip hop.
They have co-choreographer credits for Traces of the Moment (2025) at the Seattle Asian Arts Museum with their all-femme dance crew, EMRLDs. Sadie has also performed with Dani Tirrell and the Congregation in Elysium: Leviticus or Love and to walk amongst HUMANS ~ Book II (2025), and in supporting cast for Amy O’Neal’s Again There is No Other (The Remix) (2026). Sadie is now in a period of reflection from the immense exposure to culture, and competition they have experienced from training in numerous cities across the US and Europe. Their current work is a reflection of lived experience, and deep-internal reflection. It’s raw, honest, intersectional, and they are just getting started.