FKK
by
Lavinia Vago
MAY 3-4
8 PM | DOORS
9 PM | SHOW
10 PM | DJ SET
Georgetown Steam Plant | 6605 13th Ave S
Individual Tickets: $20-50
This event is for ages 18+
FKK is a hypermedia immersive performance inside a historic industrial landscape – where kittenish foolhardy experimental dreamscapes and physical machineries surrender reality.
Founded upon the demonic and angelic spirits that inhabit underground dance floors, this world contains bodily experiential journeys of flesh and bones, hardcore and subterranean sound beats, and ethereal cathartic painting that traces time, where time no longer matters.
This world is inhabited, danced , performed , painted , curated , designed , engineered and played by an array of Seattle icons and international guest artists . You are not gonna want to miss it.
Lavinia Vago (she/her) is an Italian dance artist, performer, educator, maker, collaborator, and director based in Seattle, with roots in NYC and Berlin.
Lavinia experiments and creates dance works as a solo artist, with strong collaborative processes. Her work researches and attacks themes of disobedience, kinesthetic empathy, queerness, and transcendence through exhaustion, duration, endurance, and rigor. She uses intuitive improvisational choreographies and scores to explore altered cerebral and emotional headspaces within experimental soundscapes. Her life work aims to research and demonstrate the importance of dance as a gathering force with the power to reverberate change into the world.
Recent premieres include “NOESIS X, a solo for two” in collaboration with Berlin artist Harald Stojan (Velocity Dance Center, 2019), “FLAMES AND BABES” (Seattle Art Museum, 2020) as part of the Flesh and Blood Exhibition of Italian Masterpieces from Capodimonte, “ENXORE” at SIFD (2021), “BBB” at the old historic Coliseum Theater basement in downtown Seattle, in collaboration with OVERKILL and Heather Kravas. (2023). Her work has been supported by Velocity Dance Center, the Henry Art Gallery, BTS residency at UW, and she has been commissioned a new work as part of the Made In Seattle program season 2023 / 2024.
As a dance artist Lavinia collaborated, performed, created works and toured the world with Sidra Bell Dance New York, Loni Landon Projects, Vim Vigor Dance Theater (NYC), Tom Weinberger, Corrie Befort, David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen, and most extensively with Montréal based Rubberband. She created works with Vienna based theater company Saint Genet, performing at Weiner Festwochen and Holland Festival.
Since 2019, Lavinia creates and tours with artist Tianzhuo Chen (Asian Dope Boys) and the incredible cast of collaborators in Physis and TRANCE (Mwoods / Beijing, Trauma Bar Und Kino / Berlin, Kampnagel / Hamburg, Norberg Festival / Sweden, Kindl / Berlin, Dark Mofo/ Tasmania).
Lavinia has been Associate Artistic Director of the non-profit Studio Kate Wallich (2017-2020), has been the rehearsal director of YC2 (a platform for emerging dance artists), and co-founded and co-directed dance company “The YC” with Kate Wallich (2010 – 2020). Recently they toured with band Perfume Genius at The Moore Theater, The Joyce, The Walker, ICA Boston, and MASS Moca.
She is now the Programming Director and Lead Teacher for Dance Church ®, developing programming for online and in person classes, leading all partnerships, and leading all bodies inclusivity initiatives (most recently in partnership with Harborview Medical Institute for SCI patients).
As an educator, Lavinia also teaches Dance for Parkinson’s, Rubberband Method, and masterclass series, intensives and workshops aimed to subvert, decolonize and rethink dance contemporary technique, floor work, and improvisation. She taught at Strictly Seattle, Springboard Danse Montreal, l’Ecole Supérieure de Ballet du Quebec, L’ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montreal, Domaine Forget, Lines Ballet Training Program, Tanzquartier Vienna, Tanz Platform Rhein Main (Frankfurt), and Staatstheater TanzMainz, among others.
Magna Cum Laude from Cornish College of The Arts ‘10.
HA KYOON
KEMC
JASON CODE
OVERKILL
PINKYGURL
ALEX MARKEY
HYEONJE
BASO FIBONACCI
ERIK SIMKINS
SUCCUBASS
RESEARCH
FKK is a long and intentional multilayered journey of research rooted in dance.
From underground raves, queer clubs, durational performance spaces, punk mosh pits, noise pressure, cathartic dancefloors, rituals of release, and empathetic relationships rooted in love, a performance is birthed. A portal for kinesthetic empathy, where time dilates and each moment extends to eternity in a collective journey of healing.
Dance is the place where we can encounter our demons and chase them, confront them, and ground with them. Make them our bitch, so we can dominate them; we find our freedom there. Music is the gateway to reconnect with joy, unconditional love, to each other, and the rhythm of the universe sitting inside us.
Using the solo form as a multitude of experiences on top of each other we ask : how much can one body do alone? How far can it be pushed? What else can you discover there? What is the tender space between pain and pleasure? The choreographic codes attack the vulnerability of the flesh using technologies of the body memory.
FKK is a place to celebrate the resilience of the body, the boundlessness of the soul, and to honor the immense power of dance.
PROGRAM SUPPORT
This project is presented through Velocity’s Made in Seattle new work incubator program. Made in Seattle is a core residency program, and supported by the Raynier Foundation along with Velocity’s season sponsors and community of individual donors.
Thank you to BTS Residency at University of Washington Dance Department.
This project is supported by Case Van Riji and Douglas Pearce.
Interested in joining the community of support to make this Made in Seattle project possible? Contact erin@velocitydancecenter.org to learn how you can be involved.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
The secret location is ADA accessible via ramp on the front of the building. The second floor is used during the first hour for part of the sound installation, and is not accessible via an elevator. The installation can be also experienced on the ground floor, and all parts of the performance happen on the ground floor.
For specific questions and accommodations, please contact Shirley at operations@velocitydancecenter.org
Ha Kyoon – Sound Design + Live Performance
Ha Kyoon is a protean artist born in South Korea and based in Paris.
With a circus, dance & acting background (CNAC and CNSAD), he has collaborated with different artists (Christophe Honoré, Damien Manivel, Philippe Quesne, Clédat & Petitpierre, Phia Ménard, Marcela Santander Corvalàn … ) & performed with Rebeka Warrior during their dj sets.
He has co-created with Tsirihaka Harrivel & Vimala Pons the collective Ivan Mosjoukine with
« De Nos Jours [Notes on the Circus] » in 2012 in Les Subsistances- Lyon.
He created his first solo “RUINE” at LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS (still on tour) in 2019 and a short version « Envers Amour » at La Station Gare-des-Mines / Paris in september 2020.
HA KYOON is his first musical project (in permanent mutation) with a trigged drum, machines, synths and a voice; he has shared the stage with artists as varied as Angel Karel, Dopplereffekt, Metaraph, Rebeka Warrior, Heimat, IV Horsemen, Jung An Tagen, Ascendant Vierge, Flavia Laus, Pelada (…) and played in Paris, Bruxels, Seoul, Busan, Berlin, Shanghai, Beijing, Hamburg and more.
In april 2020 he did the first version of « Inverted Méditation – Die Sicht der Wirbel”: a one hour musical act, mainly in balanced on the head, invited by the german label MMODEMM and Theater Mousonturm in Francfort.
He’s working on a new piece Memory For The Future, the first draft-version had been presented at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris last december.
He released ep’s on labels WARRIORECORDS, Chronicles Records, & TSA Records.
OVERKILL – Performers
Emma Wheeler and Carlin Kramer — dance duo + life duo — together they are OVERKILL. Both from Seattle, WA, they have spent over 10 years dancing, playing, improvising and performing together. In 2019 they created their first full length work XTC, which premiered at The Grotto at Rendezvous. Since then they’ve shown their work at On The Boards, Kremwerk, XO Seattle and other subterranean zones. They continue to create immersive performances in the shadows of Seattle – raving, roughhousing, ripping your heart out.
Baso Fibonacci – Performer + Painter
Baso‘s a painter from Seattle.
KEMC – Costumes and Merch Designs
KEMC (b. 1993, Oakland) is a screenprinter and tattoo artist working in Seattle, WA. Her work explores digital detritus, geological process, conceptual architecture, and underground rave dynamics via home industrial manufacturing and visual terrorism. She has been published by SEITH COMMUNITI and COLD CUBE PRESS.
Pinkygurl – Masks Artist
Manda Selena as an artist and designer has established her way within the contemporary art community and the fashion industry. Graduated as a fashion designer in 2015, she co-founded Studio Macan together with Ican Harem in 2019 and build “Harem”, a fashion brand specializing in upcycling clothes and costumes headgears. Studio Macan has built worldwide customer profile such as singer / producer Lia Lia, Rich Brian, artist Tianzhuo Chen and many others. On her own personal project, Manda also paved a way as an installation artist, who has exhibiting in Jogja Biennale and ICAD Jakarta with her project “Tumpengan Instinct” a series of installation revolves around weaponries, armories, and sculpture that are rooted on her Indonesian ancient culture, exploring the idea of future ancient, motherhood, rebirth, wisdom and willpower.
Erik Simkins – Visual Media Specialist
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Jason Code – Lighting Designer
If you’ve spent time at Seattle events thrown by folks such as secondnature, High & Tight, Research, Routine, Lotion, BottomForty, and more in the past year or so, you might have noticed a significant level up in the dance floor lighting department. Much of that we credit to Jason Code who’s using creative lighting and immersive design under the imprint DATA-CLUB. In addition to his lighting work, Jason has produced warehouse parties in Nashville with the Terminal 8 collective, and is a prolific producer/DJ, with plays from a wide range of artists including Darwin, Nikki Nair, Bored Lord, Jossy Mitsu, and Justin Jay.
Alex Markey – Sound Engineer
Alex Markey is an audio engineer and music producer from Seattle who has supported the local experimental music and art scene for over a decade with his work designing and implementing sound systems. His resume includes work with the rave collectives secondnature and Research, experimental music festivals Corridor and Ground Hum, and more mainstream events such as Bumbershoot, Upstream Festival, and Folklife. Alex’s passion is using his technical expertise to help artists translate their ideas into reality.
Succubass – DJ
As Seattle has gained recognition as one of America’s best incubators of underground talent, Succubass has become a strong stalwart of the city’s notoriously disciplined DJ scene. Many who claim to be agnostic of genre can fall prey to a lack of focus; Succubass shines with her veteran mixing skills, marrying disparate influences without losing context or the groove. Succubass earnestly bares her personality through the music with humor and grace in a true display of artistry. It’s no wonder she’s stolen the hearts of ravers nationwide. If she hasn’t stolen yours yet, prepare to fall head over heels.
Hyeonje – DJ
Hyeonje is a multidisciplinarian who is concerned with examining the questions of — who are we? and why are we here? — through their creative work and engagement with the experience of being alive. They are empowered by the sacred tools of memory, truth-telling, delight, humor, introspection, and contrast. Hyeonje believes that at any particular gathering, with its unique permutation of space, context, people, and collective psychic state, there is a sonic story awaiting yet-untold within its circumstances. As a DJ, Hyeonje’s goal is always to locate and reveal this story.