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Cameron PAGE Festival Map 4 Gallery June 1 Art on the Fly Launch 11:30-1pm 4 Is your portfolio 234 DEXTER AVE. N Inter|National Series 8pm 6-7 SEATTLE WA, 98109 June 2 Art on the Fly 12-6pm 5 balanced against 206.909.9096 Inter|National Series 8pm 6-7 June 3 Inter|National Series 7:30pm 6-7 [email protected] www.patriciacamerongallery.com June 4 US$ devaluation? Threshold Institute 10-5pm 12 (Runs for five consecutive days) June 5 Spotlight on Seattle 7:30pm 8-9 Contact John Jensen at June 6 Spotlight on Seattle 7:30pm 8-9 June 7 206.854.1310 Spotlight on Seattle 7:30pm 8-9 June 8 for more information about Inter|National Series 8pm 10-11 managed currency trading. June 9 Inter|National Series 8pm 10-11 Sanity Cafe 10pm 12 Tad Crawford June 10 “Start Without Me” Inter|National Series 8pm 10-11 3 Paper/Acrylic/pencil/resin on panel Ticket Info 15 FREE EVENT M cGraw S q uare ART ON H EVENT THE FLY W 2200 12-6pM

Experience dance in the urban terrain, where bodies meld with e s the cityscape along the Seattle Streetcar route in South Lake tlake Union. Join free dance classes, a guided dance tour, or sample from specialty food vendors. Enjoy a fusion of movement and architecture that will delight and surprise you. Starts at McGraw LAUNC Square and moves to 2200 Plaza with a loop through South Lake Union architectural features at 4pm. No matter when you arrive Van Vorst Plaza S

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June 1st 11:30am -1pm Launch Event oop June 2nd at Van Vorst Plaza (next to Amazon.com) at 410 Terry Street (see map at right)

4 June 2nd 2200 Plaza (Westlake Ave. & Denny Way)

McGraw Square 2200 Stage Discovery Stage 500 Stewart St. (at 5th & Westlake Ave.) Classes & traditional dance Suggested Tours

Compagnie 7273 (Swiss) - On Stage. A The Streetcar Trawler - Experience dance at Astad Deboo (IND)- India’s King of modern Tango - Century Ballroom dancer, Greg fluid meditation framing the changing McGraw Square, Catch a streetcar ride with 12pm dance integrates traditional Kathakali. Rolnick, teaches this dynamic . environment around us. artists to 2200 Westlake and cool off with dance inspired by the city’s waterworks. 1.5 Folded Paper Dance (USA) - We Carry the Susanna Leinonen Co. (FIN) - Variations. Hip Hop/Break Dance - Justice Beitze hours. See red boxes to the left. Water: Seattle. Our city’s waterworks inspire What happens when dancers hit the 12:30 teaches moves that are all the rage. these dancers. cement? Well Rounded Rover - Take a yoga class, Compagnie 7273 (SUI) - On Stage. A Salsa - Century Ballroom dancers, Alison then dry off and see high art on the grand Astad Deboo (IND)- - India’s fluid meditation framing the changing Cockrill and Deron Hayes, teach this exciting, staircase. Top it off with an energizing West 1:00 founder integrates traditional Kathakali. environment around us. sassy form of dance. class. 1.5 hours. See orange boxes to the left. Live Urban Art (GER) - Cover-Uncover- Pragmatic Dance (SEA) - Crosswalk. Turns Zumba - Get your groove on with Daren Wade Discover. Whimsical play on light and the confines of the crosswalk into a fleeting 1:30 in this fun and lively class. Guided Art Tour ( below) At 4pm listen for reflection. dance zone. the horns and follow a guided tour. Watch Folded Paper Dance (USA) - We Carry the Bachata - Centruy Ballroom dancers lead the dance emerge from the neighborhoods’ 2:00 Water: Seattle. Our city’s waterworks inspire fancy footwork and freestyle moves of this architecture. Just over an hour. See “SLU Art these dancers dance from the Dominican Republic. Loop” below. Live Urban Art (GER) - Cover-Uncover- Yoga - Move your chi with Michael Warner, a Discover. Whimsical play on light and 2:30 local favorite. SLU Art Loop reflection. Gansango - West African dancers and Guided Art Tour - Listen for the horns and Anna and John Dixon (USA) - Signals. Kinetic drummer teach traditional dance before 4:00 gather at SE corner of Westlake and Denny 3:00 sculpture and divining rod of impulses. performing. Khambatta Dance Co. (SEA) - Uses a Stone Dance Collective (SEA) - Piñata. Gansango - West African dancers and 4:10 haunting industrial space between buildings Examination of irrational thought and the drummer perform traditional dance after 3:30 to evoke a metaphor for humanity. psyche . teaching class. Pragmatic Dance (SEA) - Crosswalk. Turns Live Urban Art (GER) - Illuminating Claudia Males Capoeira - Learn and watch this 4:15 the confines of the crosswalk into a fleeting Fitch’s Placeholders’ sculpture. 4:00 fascinating “mock battle” dance form. dance zone. Stone Dance Collective (SEA) - Shape-shifting Khambatta Dance Co. (SEA) - X. Uses a 4:20 Zumba - Get your groove on with Daren Wade and emerging from the shadows. haunting industrial space between buildings 4:30 in this fun and lively class. to evoke a metaphor of humanity. John and Anna Dixon (USA) - Enmeshed in Stone Dance Collective (SEA) - Piñata. Afro-Cuban Drum Circle - Arturo Rene 4:30 their portable kinetic sculpture. 5:00 Examination of irrational thought and the Rodriguez bangs out award-winning beats. psyche . Join him with your drum or one of ours. Mendana Productions (SEA) - Uses live music 4:45 to animate Buster Simpson’s ping pong table. Mendana Productions (SEA) -Sanctuary. HIgh Nia - Get a full body workout while having fun energy dance accompanied by live 5-piece Grand finale - All of the dancers join with live 5:30 in this class taught by Jennifer Earle. funky eclectic jazz band. 5:00 music and return to 2200 in a dance blast parade! 5 Weekend One Inter|National Series June 1-3

The first of two spellbinding weekends of national and international companies, including collaborations, and new and award-winning works..

Raisbeck Performance Hall Cornish College of the Arts Tickets/Info: 1-800-838-3006 Susanna Leinonen www.SeattleIDF.org Company (Finland)

6 Fri. June 1 / 8pm Sat. June 2 / 8pm Compagnie 7273 Sun. June 3 / 7:30pm (Switzerland) Susanna Leinonen The company performs Listen and Watch, a Company (Finland) collaboration with guitarist Sir Richard Bishop. Bishop is the founder of the cult classic band, One of the most acclaimed companies of Finland, Sun City Girls, formerly of Seattle. A mental performing June 2 and 3 only. Chinese Objects and physical challenge, the dance has Nicolas delves into the world of the subconscious through a Cantillon in an organic fluid trance never moving fierce physicality and contemporary style informed from his spot or repeating a single movement. A by classical dance. This is the company’s debut tour short teaser takes place outside the theater prior in the U.S. Choreographer Susanna Leinonen has to the show, entitled On Stage. also created works for the Royal Swedish Ballet, The Finnish National Ballet, Danish Dance Theatre, and Gansango Nürnberg Ballet. (Benin/Belgium/USA) Compagnie 7273 This West African contemporary and (SwitzerlanD) traditional dance company led by Benin-born Etienne Capko will be joined Performing Romance-s by Laurence Yadi and by Benin-born Jean Gnonlonfoun Nicolas Cantillon, this pas de deux is a personal (Brussels) Togo-born Sylvestre Akakpo- love story of two artists, a collaborative team Adzaku (New York City) and Benin- and a couple in life, who love each other and born Charles Ahovissi (Nebraska), their art form. This contemporary work explores combining drums and movement in the plurality of human relations and love, as well a contemporary fusion inspired by as slices of , from classical to tradition entitled, African Soul/Sole. Oriental, to German expressive, and pantomime. 7 ver s Matt Drews performing transitory object: cleaning the house, a movement suspension collage.

Stone Dance Collective performs Piñata, an examination of irrational thought and the psyche.

a y NorthWest Dance Syndrome performs The Snapping Point exploring a family portrait, a dark house, a broken mother and her Oli ver W Ea te d by a sinister children. ur C Andrew Bartee a PNB dancer, presents #helpimalive – “That moment when you feel your years, and it terrifies you.”

Mark Haim presents The Moment, a synchronized evolving journey of small movements for Pam Kuntz and Brooke Evans of Bellingham Spotlight TUEsd Repertory Dance. Music by composer Paul Lansky. PERPETUUM|Mobile (PE|Mo) Rosa Vissers and Jessica Hatlo on Seattle perform Creature/ Pull, a narrative movement experiment. Two June 5-7 Tue-Thur | 7:30pm women are forced along a wall; will they break free? Whim W’Him performs Flower Festival with Andrew Bartee and Three curators give their take on the Seattle dance Lucien Postlewaite, presenting Olivier Wever’s take on traditional scene: Olivier Wevers, Whim W’Him Artistic Director and Bournonville romantic ballet, trading peasant costumes and former PNB dancer; Tonya Lockyer, Executive Director of congeniality for today’s business suits, urban edginess, and Velocity Dance Center; and Dan Mayer, Executive Director contemporary office power plays. of Kirkland Performance Center and a founding Board Member of the National Performing Network. Spectrum Dance Theater will perform Euclidean Space, a wild new work featuring the electronic music of Amon Tobin. Raisbeck Performance Hall Cornish College of the Arts Khambatta Dance Company performs Modern Barbarism, a Tickets/Info: 1-800-838-3006 humorous work about two corporate types, whose one-upmanship leads to a no holds barred rampage that nearly does them in. 8 Cat Dreams Do Come True (2010) is a short WEDnesday dance film created in Ann Arbor, MI for the blog Curated by Tonya Lockyer er a n M ay LittleDancesEverywhere. Kaitlin McCarthy lives in Seattle.

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Sheri Brown and Company performs Divided VESSEL: New works, homages, by Zero. What happens when mathematical reconstructions and performances impossibility becomes mathematical necessity, by Mary Sheldon Scott + Jarrad when humans import the infinite into their finite Powell, and Jarrad Powell and Corrie beings?

Befort, Chad Beiler, Beth Graczyk, H URsd Kristin Hapke, Jessica Jobaris, Misha Kuntz and Company performs Reach. Two T Kaschock, Jess Klein, Jim Kent, Jessika people navigate communication through quiet, Kenney, Amy O’Neal, Juliet Waller gaze, touch, and offering. Pruzan, Michael Rioux, Sean Ryan, Ellie Sandstrom, and Belle Wolf. Pragmatic Dance Project presents Hail Mary for the Millennials. A moving meditation accompanied by voice mail recording, toy accordion, and banjo. The result is absurdist, poignant, and mesmerizing.

Khambatta Dance Company performs A Moment Repeated, a new work for three women using rocking and incremental shifts to reveal an intimate relationship.

9 Weekend TWO Inter|National Series June 8-10

The second of two weekends featuring mesmerizing and powerful works from national and international companies

Raisbeck Performance Hall Cornish College of the Arts Tickets/Info: 1-800-838-3006 Khambatta www.SeattleIDF.org Dance Company

10 Fri.-Sat 8-9 / 8pm Sun. 10 / 7:30pm Khambatta Dance Company Khambatta Dance Company performs its most recent work India Calling, with an original score by Indian Veena player/vocalist Nirmala Rajasekar and new music composer/cellist Michelle Kinney. Artistic Director, Cyrus Khambatta lived most his life without his father (of East Indian descent). Meeting him after a long absence and as an adult, Khambatta was stunned by the similarities in their posture, gestures, and mannerisms. This very personal work explores the ways our ancient family history is deeply absorbed into our bodies, and how by discovering our history, we can be powerfully reconnected with our ancestors, weaving together a more cohesive understanding of our past, present, and future.

We Carry the Water A film by Kanta Kochar Lindgren shot in the Hong Kong WaterWorks in 2011. Liz Erber / Urfluss (Germany) Performs Choro Corpora, with original sound design by Julia Kny, costumes by Ariana Fantin, and by Liz Erber. The work is an investigation of spine - our ancient vertebral backbone, undulation (fluid wave movement), and evolution. It is a tearing away of human culture to reveal kinetic meaning and the memory of cell, bone, and blood. The movement is wave-like, cyclical, continuous, ever-evolving.

11 Threshold Kirkland Sanity Cafe Dance Institute Performance Alcohol served...... Discussion encouraged. June 4-8 Center A daytime intensive from 10am to 5pm with an A late evening series in which international roster of artist/teachers performing World-class entertainment on three artists are given 7 days at the festival, from Finland to India and beyond. the Eastside including: to create a themed evening for Cost: $350 your viewing pleasure. With Erin Music Nichole Boyt, Joan Laage, and Teachers include Annie McGhee. (see website for details): Family Performances Astad Deboo (India) Nicolas Cantillon & Dance Cornish College of the Arts Laurence Yadi (Switzerland & France) Enriching Educational Sat. June 9 / 10 PM Sat. 9th Ave Theater Susanna Leinonen Company (Finland) 427 9th Avenue North Oleg Gorboulev- Ballet (Uzbekistan/US) Programs Cyrus Khambatta - Contact Partnering (Seattle) much more! For more information: www.SeattleIDF.org click on "Insitute" or call 206-552-0694. www.kpcenter.org 425.893.9900 June 9-10 Contact Improvisation Workshop with Liz Erber

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RHC 020112 small 1_6v.pdf THEATER VENUES Ticket Information (all shows) Cornish College of the Arts 9th Ave. Theater TO PURCHASE: www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/243996 Raisbeck Hall Theater 427 9th Ave. North or call 1-800-838-3006 201 Boren Ave (at Fairview) (at Republican) For more information: www.SeattleIDF.org | 206-552-0694 Seattle, WA 98101 Seattle, WA 98101

$20 Advance / $15 Student/Senior Festival Staff $25 at the Door / $20 Student/Senior Artistic Director: Cyrus Khambatta 2-Show Pass: $35 (see any two shows) Publicist: Jennifer Rice All Access Pass: $50 Great deal. See any/all seven evenings. Development Consultant: Theron Shaw Community Partners/AoF Coordinator: Erin Nichole Boyt Education Coordinator: Abigail Wallace Graphic Design: Jon Vlasak/Rustbelt Creative Donate to the Festival Lighting Designer/Technical Director.: Sara Torres We need your financial support to sustain the festival and keep growing. visit our Sound Board Operator: Brandon Chapman kickstarter campaign: www.kickstarter.com. Or click“support” page on the website: Stage Manager: Zac Eckstein

www.SeattleIDF.org Photo Credits: Cover Chris McCallister (balloon skirt by Pia Johns): Cyrus Khambatta | P.4 Art on the Fly: Nikolai Leznikov | P.6 Susanna Leinonen: Sakari Viika | P.7 7273: Dorothée Thébert & Michel Cavalca / Gansango: Adrian McDermott | P.8 & 9 Molly Scott: Peter Mumford | P.10 Khambatta Dance: Siamak Poursabahian | P.11 Urfluss: Ule Many thanks to our generous sponsors: Mägdefrau & Liz Erber | P.12 Threshold Inst: Joseph Lambert Additional photos: Mark Haim, Rosa Vissiers: Tim Summers | Whim W’Him: Bamberg Fine Arts | Stone Dance: Rex Tranter.

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