HOLIDAY PARTY
All I Want for the Holidays is to be Festive with Community
DEC 2 | 6-9 PM
Performances at 7 PM
Base Camp II | 1901 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Free + open to all
Velocity Dance Center’s Postmodern Dance Holiday Spectacle, Roast, Show + Party but also Cultural Event Fundraiser aka All I Want for the Holidays is to be Festive with Community (aka A Postmodern Holiday Party) is a chance for the Seattle dance community to come together and celebrate the holidays together. We’ll gather to share a potluck-style feast, cheap and festive drinks, and a smattering of Postmodern Holiday performances. Along the way we’ll have a few low-key ways to help Velocity reach its end of year goal in support of our next season.
We would love to see you there to celebrate the past year of extraordinary Seattle dance, and to toast to a new year of artmaking in our city!
FAQS FOR VDCPDHSRS+PBACEF AKA AIWFTHITBFWC
Ummmmm… like who is performing? WELL have you heard of Chad, Mark Haim, Destiny Poole, and Alana O’Farrell Rogers?
Ummmmm… like what do I wear? Sparkly stuff
Ummmmm… like what should I bring? Your cool self and a plate to share!
Ummmmm… like transit or whatever? Light rail to Westlake Station is a short walk away, tons of buses stop on 3rd Ave, and there’s paid street parking and garages nearby.
Ummmmm… like accessible? YA, the building is on the ground floor and bathrooms are completely accessible for wheelchairs and mobile aids.
Ummmmm… like should I come? YA!
PERFORMERS
CHAD
MARK HAIM
DESTINY POOLE
ALANA O’FARRELL ROGERS
ABOUT THE VENUE
Base Camp II is in the Bergman Luggage Building at 3rd Ave and Stewart St in downtown Seattle. The building is on the ground floor and bathrooms are completely accessible for wheelchairs and mobile aids.
Transit: Base Camp II is a short walk from Westlake Station (Link light rail), and many King County Metro buses stop along 3rd Ave near Stewart St.
Parking: Paid street parking and several public parking garages are within a few blocks.
For requests, please contact Shirley at operations@velocitydancecenter.org. We will do our best to accommodate!
Chad, Photo @oliviazgphotography
CHAD
Chad (he/him) is a drag, burlesque and dance artist based in Seattle. In 2013, Chad lost his virginity in the backseat of his mom’s Honda Pilot to the first verse of Breezeblocks by Alt-J. He’s been riding that high ever since.
Mark Haim, Photo Tim Summers
MARK HAIM
MARK HAIM has been choreographing and teaching for over 25 years. He was Artistic Director of Mark Haim & Dancers from 1984-1987, and the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa from 1987-1990. He has created new works for dance companies such as the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt, the Limon Dance Company, the Joffrey II Dancers, and the Rotterdamse Dansgroep, and has restaged his works on The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Djazzex, and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. His full evening solo project, The Goldberg Variations, has been performed at the American Dance Festival, the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The John F. Kennedy Center, On The Boards and other venues in the U.S, Europe, Asia. His newest work, This Land Is Your Land, opened the ArtDanThe Festival in Paris, and has also been performed at the Joyce Theater in NYC and in the Nasher Museum of Art as part of the 2013 ADF performing series. Most recently, Mark choreographed for the Seattle Opera’s productions of The Consul and Tales of Hoffmann. Mark has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1993 and was the Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington Dance Program from 2002-2008. He has also taught at the Reed College, NC School of the Arts, University of Illinois, Ohio University, SMU, VCU, Cornell, JMU, and for schools and companies in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Argentina, Chile and Japan. He is a recipient of a NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, 2 NEA Choreographers Fellowships, and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink, Inc. and the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Mark is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.
Destiny Poole, Photo Luis Arellanes
DESTINY POOLE
Destiny Poole (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary creative based in Seattle, WA. Creating works in the form of dance, photography, videography, fashion, and writing. Destiny is currently on a journey to define what it all means to be an angsty queer black creative in this city. Leading with dramatics and ever-changing ideas that they can’t quite ever really explain but promises whatever they create hopefully will lead to impact and gives the audience a question or feeling.
Alana O’Farrell Rogers, Photo Ernie Sapiro
ALANA O’FARRELL ROGERS
Alana O’Farrell Rogers is a Seattle-born dance artist and Artistic Director of the project-run, Alana O. Rogers Dance Company. Her works seek to submerge their audience, through emotional landscapes, narrative and abstraction. She has been called a “world-builder,” audaciously dedicated to theatricality and the role of performance in art. Known for its crisp athleticism and poignant sensibility, her choreography has been commissioned by many festivals and programs in the PNW including the Seattle International Dance Festival, Walk Don’t Run, Slip Gallery/Belltown Art Walk, Velocity Dance Center, ChopShop, On the Boards, and the BOOST Dance Festival. She has been fortunate to receive grants and project support from the James Ray Residency Project/The Raynier Foundation, Artist Trust, 4Culture, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. www.alanaorogers.org