NEXT FEST NW 2016: pastforward
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CHAMP ENSMINGER
NEXT DANCE CINEMA 2016
DEC 5 / 7PM + 8:30PM
Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
TICKETS $10 (ONE SCREENING) / $15 (BOTH SCREENINGS)
DEC 9-11 / 7:30PM
Velocity Founders Theater 1621 12th Ave
TICKETS $20 / $25 at the door / $18 Under 25 w/ ID / $17 MVP / $50 Patron
DEC 16 + 17 / 5-7PM
Velocity Founders Theater 1621 12th Ave
TICKETS $15 / $12 MVP
Velocity Presents Next Fest NW 2016: pastFORWARD—two weeks of performances, screenings and special events celebrating Northwest innovators in contemporary dance and dance cinema.
From transgender takes on Balanchine’s “Serenade,” to architectural drag, and reciprocal navel gazing – this year’s artists create new historical narratives and imagine brave new futures. Don’t miss exciting new performances by: Ethan Folk + Ty Wardwell, Syniva Whitney (Gender Tender), Quinn Hallenbeck, Sabina Moe, Alisa Popova, and Hayley Shannon.
On December 5, join us for Next Dance Cinema, a single night, double screening of local and inter/national dance films. Next Dance Cinema screens work by artists exploring the potential between dance and film, and offers audiences insight into the cutting-edge possibilities.
Iconoclast Nancy Stark Smith is also in residence at Velocity for The Glimpse Project: three weeks of workshops, conversations, community performance scores, and a performance installation to close out Next Fest NW 2016. Stark Smith is a legendary central figure in a generation of brave experimentalists whose work in the 60s and 70s continues to have a profound impact on the “cutting-edge” of contemporary dance today.
NEXT FEST NW PERFORMANCES
DEC 9-11 / 7:30PM
Velocity Founders Theater 1621 12th Ave
TICKETS $20 / $25 at the door / $18 Under 25 w/ ID / $17 MVP / $50 Patron
See how emerging artists are imagining new futures. From transgender takes on Balanchine’s “Serenade,” to architectural drag, and reciprocal navel gazing – this year’s artists create new historical narratives and imagine brave new futures. Don’t miss exciting new performances by: Ethan Folk + Ty Wardwell, Syniva Whitney (Gender Tender), Quinn Hallenbeck, Sabina Moe, Alisa Popova, and Hayley Shannon.
next dance cinema 2016
NEXT DANCE CINEMA 2016
DEC 5 / 7PM + 8:30PM
Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
TICKETS $10 (ONE SCREENING) / $15 (BOTH SCREENINGS)
PHOTO FROM BRETT LOVE’S “FLOATING”
Velocity’s annual Next Dance Cinema offers dance lovers and film lovers alike insight into how contemporary dance cinema continues to expand the possibilities of the screen.
ONE NIGHT ONLY two unique screenings of trail blazing local and inter/national dance films.
glimpse 3 performance installations
Glimpse 3 PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS
DEC 16 + 17 / 5-7PM
Velocity Founders Theater 1621 12th Ave
TICKETS $15 / $12 MVP
PHOTO RAISA KYLLIKKI KARJALAINEN
special events
LAST DANCE V2 FAREWELL PERFORMANCE PARTYDEC 10 / 9:30PM
Velocity: V2 1525 11th Ave
$5 minimum donation at the door
All proceeds help keep community art space on the hill
insights
★ ETHAN FOLK + TY WARDWELL’s guys like me invites the audience to be the taste-makers for the night, voting for three different pieces – 1. a social political work about toxic masculinity + privilege, 2. reciprocal naval gazing, and 3. exploring their fascination with butter.
★ What could happen in this building or body in the future and what has happened at these sites in the past? SYNIVA WHITNEY’S The Renovation is a ridiculous and serious embodiment of the possibility that anything is possible. A shape shifting cast of artists transforms the space, or tries and fails, or tries and succeeds. Part architectural drag, part DIY home renovation show satire, part space opera, part post modern jazz and somatic dance, The Renovation investigates the spaces above, below, around, on and inside of us all.
★ QUINN HALLENBECK’S serenade in c is a visceral display of what it takes to be a ballerina: technique, devotion, and a classical music overlord. Through the implementation and manipulation of ballet vocabulary the work challenges George Balanchine’s original Serenade first performed in 1934–a vestige thesis on women in ballet. Obsessing on the alleged stamina, virtuosity, and feminine aesthetic promoted in dance to qualify as a ballerina, a dancer, a woman, Hallenback asks Am I woman enough? Do I work hard enough? Am I beautiful enough?
★ In Becoming the Best, SABINA MOE pointedly compares the pompousness and fragility of high-powered business men with the shallow vanity of majestic birds of paradise. Raw human gesture, tableaux, and heart break work to relieve the weight of terror on your heart in this subtle dark comedy. This is masculinity as it is starved, stripped, and asked “Does Polly want a cracker?”
★ In watching the dance of the everyday, a.k.a. people watching, ALISA POPOVA explores repetition, specifically of one sports brand, Adidas – the ultimate representation of coolness among Russian “gangster-wannabes.” Her duet Three Stripes and You’re Out plays with alternate frames for watching performance, minimalism, secrecy, and the balance of masculine coolness and its awkward absurdity.
★ HAYLEY SHANNON confronts learned Patriarchal narratives of being less-than, and discovering personal stories as a gateway to a lineage of endurance from abuse. She who walks in shadows walks in light explores narratives of intergenerational women of harnessing an intuitive power that was taught to be quiet, and dismantling patterns of the compromising of self. With original sound scores by Devin Bews.
press
A Glimpse into the Underscore
Kaitlin McCarthy, Seattle Dances, December 28, 2016
New Dimensions in New Dance Cinema
Megan Stevenson, Seattle Dances, December 27, 2016
‘Next Fest NW’ Looks to the Future
Kailtin McCarthy, City Arts Magazine, December 14, 2016
The Top Things to Do This Weekend: December 8–11
Seattle Met Magazine, December 8, 2016
The Best Theater, Dance, and Comedy Events in Seattle This Winter
The Stranger’s Seattle Art And Performance Quarterly, December 7, 2016
The Top 15 Things to Do This Week
Seattle Weekly, December 7, 2016
Next Fest 2016 Performances at Velocity Dance Center, December 9-11 (Plus V2 Closing Party)
T.s. Flock, Vanguard Seattle, December 5, 2016
Velocity’s presentation of Next Fest NW 2016: pastFORWARD + Next Dance Cinema is made possible thanks to the generous support of 4 Culture, ArtsFund, The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, The Seattle Foundation, NEA Art Works, The Boeing Company, The Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation, Jeremy Steward + Eric Hartmann, and Case van Rij.
