10TH ANNIVERSARY KICKOFF
An evening of warmth and community
As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, we invite you to gather with us for Winter Mingle—an evening to connect, celebrate, and toast the start of our 10th anniversary season.
Join us from 5:30 to 8:30 PM at Base as we nibble on light snacks and preview the exciting year ahead.
Join us at Base on November 9 + 10 for 12 Minutes Max, your favorite short-form performance showcase! This edition is curated by marco farroni leonardo and Adriana Hillas.
Featuring: Olga Kravtsova, Miri Daniels, Pooja Ganesh and Eve Salonen, Dani Schofer, Sara Caplan and Anja Kellner-Rogers.
Purchase tickets here—including free and discounted tickets made possible through 4Culture’s Public Free Access Program.
Learn more about the artists here.
12 Minutes Max Edition One at Base
November 9 at 5 PM
November 10 at 7 PM
Do you have any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to aaron@thisisbase.org.
About 12 Minutes Max
12 Minutes Max is a performance lab for new and experimental works, first developed by On the Boards in 1981. In this series, artists present 12 minutes of material, while audiences get an opportunity to be the first to see works-in-progress, some of which will go on to become full-length pieces. 12 Minutes Max has inspired similar programs in Vancouver, B.C., Bellingham, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Houston. Works presented range from performance art to dance, from experimental theater to sound art, from spoken word to comedy, and more.
Photo by Jim Coleman of DITO Dance Collective from 12 Minutes Max Spring Edition (2025).
A solo dance performance mytho-memoir about ancestor peasants, rhizome as gender identity, and becoming what you eat, featuring original choreography, projected elements, sets, and costumes.
Free admission here
45 minute with no intermission; q&a after each performance.
Concept, dramaturgy, and performance by Quinn Hallenbeck supported by Seattle City Arts.
quinnhallenbeck.com | @QDHPhoto
This event is through the Base Independent Rental Program.
A Body (Un)Becoming is a dance duet that explores the tension between decay and transformation—where the body meets disintegrating materials through acts of touch, labor, and experimentation. Working with discarded substances such as eggshells, the piece investigates what new forms can emerge through pressure, heat, and attention. By animating overlooked materials, including an aging female-identified human body, the work challenges fixed ideas of being and utility, proposing humanness as a permeable state—fragile, reforming, and ongoing.
Directed by Beth Graczyk
Performed by Leah Wilks & Beth Graczyk
Music by Aaron Gabriel, cello recording Laura Sewell
Lighting Design & Technical Director ILVS STRAUSS
Costumes by Asa Thornton
Rehearsal Assistant Neva Guido
Biomaterial Sculptures by Beth Graczyk*Note: Performance contains partial nudity (bare-chests)
Show runs ~ 45 minutesGet tickets here!
Beth Graczyk (sher/her), a native of the Northwest (Arlington shout-out!), is a choreographer, director, performer, and educator who has been based in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking for the past 11 years. Her formative years as an emerging artist were in Seattle, and her pre-formative years in Arlington, where she first learned to dance from her momma. She remains deeply connected to the Northwest through ongoing artistic dialogue. With a 22-year career as both an artist and scientist, Graczyk builds interdisciplinary bridges across fields. She is the Artistic Director of Beth Graczyk Productions, Inc. (BGP, founded 2020), a nonprofit that merges art and science while centering queer and neurodivergent perspectives. Since 2006, she has choreographed and presented work across the US and internationally (Japan, China, India), with presentations by Velocity Dance Center, Gibney, On the Boards, ODC, La MaMa, JACK, CPR, Movement Research amongst others. She is on faculty for the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC, and adjunct faculty at Montclair University. Her recent dance documentary Waiting for the Bus (2024–25) explores autism, self-expression, and identity, and has been selected for NY Global Lift-Off, Sans Souci, and the Winter Film Festival. In parallel, she is a biochemist & co-author of 11 science publications and currently conducts sensory research in the Ruta Lab at The Rockefeller University.
Leah Wilks (she/they) is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer currently based out of Brooklyn, NY, originally hailing from central NC. At times she is also a gardener, musician, and elder-care/end-of-life companion. Leah has taught and shared her work in a variety of locations including the American Dance Festival, Elon University, University of Michigan, Ponderosa Tanzland festival, Gibney Dance, and Theater for the New City. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Montclair State University. Leah has been an Artist in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and MacDowell. She has collaborated with a variety of dance and interdisciplinary artists including Okwui Okpokwasili, Alexis Blake, Kendra Portier, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Anna Barker/Real.Live.People, and Tommy DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE. This is her first project with BGP and she is thrilled to be joining Beth on this creative dive.Aaron Gabriel (they/them) is a Twin-Cities based generative theater artist and composer whose works centers marginalized artists who identify as genderqueer and/or neurodiverse. Gabriel’s unique approach to participant-based music creation music and lyric writing has allowed them to produce over 40 original works with under-represented artists both internationally in Algeria, Congo, India, Morocco, Thailand, France and England and nationally in the Twin Cities, New York and New Orleans. Gabriel has been published in Movement Research and National Composers Forum. www.aarongabrielmusic.com
Cellist Laura Sewell (sher/her) has an active and varied musical career and has distinguished herself as a highly respected chamber musician. She was the founding cellist of the award-winning Lark Quartet which, during her tenure, won the Bronze Medal at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and served as the Juilliard String Quartet’s teaching assistants at the Juilliard School. Two decades later, she was the cellist of the acclaimed Artaria String Quartet from 2007-2016. She plays as a substitute cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra and performs with the Twin Cities-based Isles Ensemble. Ms. Sewell received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Juilliard School where she was a student of Leonard Rose, and her Master’s Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Alan Harris. At the age of seventeen, Laura had the unique opportunity to study with legendary cellist, Jacqueline du Pré.
*Note: Performance contains partial nudity (bare-chests)
Show runs ~ 45 minutes
Beth Graczyk Productions
Beth GraczykThis event is through the Base Independent Rental Program.
Please join us at Base on Tuesday, August 19 for a work-in-progress showing for Heather Kravas.
For her Base Residency, Heather Kravas is researching RoCoCoCoCo, a situation for dancing envisioned as a DIY folk dance that turns into a snowflake, fractals into a vortex, veers into a grocery list, emanates like an aura, aligns like a pinball machine and collaborates like an ant colony. Created for performers Allie Hankins, Amanda Morgan, Symone Sanz, Sylvia Schatz-Allison and Julia Sloane, RoCoCoCoCoexploits tension and so-called repetition to create a choreography full of vigor and syncopation. Supercharged, rhythmic, precise, euphoric and tender it proposes a different frame to hold the performers and audience in their complex states of expectation and desire.
Base Residency Entry Point: Heather Kravas
Tuesday, August 19 at 7:00 PM
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Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Photo by Erin Johnson
[Sylvia Schatz-Allison in Échapée, from tropisms by H. Kravas]
Please join us at Base on Saturday, July 26 at 12:00 PM for a work-in-progress showing for Alyza DelPan-Monley’s Base Residency.
During this residency, Alyza invites us into their research with the concept of time: systemic measurement, cultural significance, permanence, a lifetime, watches, rhythms and more. What will we discover? Only time will tell...
Base Residency Entry Point: Alyza DelPan-Monley
Saturday, July 26 at 12:00PM
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Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Photo by The Artist
[Alyza looks to the edge of the frame scribbled over by text, doodles and hatchmarks.]
Please join us at Base on Saturday, July 19 for a work-in-progress showing for Constance Strickland.
During her Base Residency, Constance Strickland will build a physical score for A Study on the Weight of Blackness (Unveils) the Resilience of Being Black, a solo that merges years of movement memory/ research with vocal investigations rooted in her own poetry and text.
Going through a series of seven movements, Strickland will trace and honor her maternal ancestral heritage, using voice as a vessel for remembrance and reconnection. She will also continue her exploration of sculptural creation using natural materials such as earth, wood, and collected plants. These elements are not merely aesthetic—they are extensions of lineage and land, grounding the work in a tactile relationship to ancestry, ritual, and resilience.
Base Residency Entry Point: Constance Strickland
Saturday, July 19 at 4:00 PM
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Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
[Constance Strickland holding bricks in front of face. “Icanbearthisandworsetoo”. Photo by Francisco Montenegro]
Please join us at Base on Saturday, June 21 for a new work by Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice.
Base Residency Entry Point: Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice
Sunday, June 21 at 8:00 PM
Pre-show begins at 7:30 PM
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WHAT IS HOLY is a performance collage of shared histories, rooted in the evolving creative collaboration between Alia and Hannah. The piece weaves together material from past projects while unearthing the emergent question: What is holy?
Over the past several months, Alia and Hannah have worked with sound, choreography, video, and improvisation scores to explore their artistic connection—one defined by transition and transformation—beginning to end and a beginning again.
Their relationship began when Alia was Hannah's professor at Cornish College of the Arts. Over the past seven years, that connection has developed into a rich and sustained creative partnership. As Rice prepares to leave Washington for graduate school this summer, WHAT IS HOLY marks a meaningful threshold—both a closing and an opening. It is an opportunity to honor a collaboration that has deeply impacted them as both artists and individuals.
The work draws on their personal and professional relationship, their physical and emotional journeys, and the ongoing evolution of their shared practice. Alia's recent experience navigating breast cancer has left a powerful imprint on the process—altering how they move, listen, and create. It is a reminder of the urgency of presence, and the significance of making work in times of deep change.
Collaborators Wade Madsen, Greg Mares, Rachel LeBlanc, and Casey Adams have all contributed essential elements to the development of this performance.
Audiences are invited to gather on the solstice evening to witness and co-create a space brought to life by this collective of artists—through movement, sound, and shared experience.
[ Alia Swersky and Hannah Rice in primary colors sitting on chairs looking down. High heeled shoes in foreground].]
Please join us at Base on Saturday, May 31 for a work-in-progress showing for Joseph Tran.
Audiences are invited to witness a work-in-progress showing of GOOD ENOUGH—a solo performance by Joseph "MN Joe" Tran in collaboration with choreographer Rudi Goblen. Originally premiering as a dance film, GOOD ENOUGH was created during MN Joe's McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dancers in 2021. During his residency at Base, Joe will begin transposing this dance film into a live-performance for the first time. Following the showing, there will be a Q&A and viewing of the film
Base Residency Entry Point: Joseph Tran
Saturday, May 31 at 4:00 PM
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Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Photo by Adam Adolphus
[Joe Tran in a Cypher with onlookers and judges around him.]
Featuring Christian Swenson, Naphtali Gunther, Emma Sluss, Alexandra Kronz with DItO Dance Collective, and Sabine (in the sheets)
Join us at Base on April 27 + 28 2025 for the second and final 12 Minutes Max of our 2024-2025 season! This edition is curated by DaeZhane Day and Ashley Menestrina.
12 Minutes Max Spring Edition at Base
April 27 at 5pm
April 28 at 7pm
Purchase $10 and $25 tickets here
Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to aaron@thisisbase.org.
About 12 Minutes Max
12 Minutes Max is a performance lab for new and experimental works that was first developed by On the Boards in 1981. In this series, artists present 12 minutes of material, while audiences get an opportunity to be the first to see works-in-progress; some of which will go on to become full-length pieces. 12 Minutes Max has inspired similar programs in Vancouver, B.C., Bellingham, Salt Lake City, Chicago and Houston. Works presented range from performance art to dance, from experimental theater to sound art, from spoken word to comedy, and more.
Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis of Marissa Rae Niederhauser from 12 Minutes Max Fall Edition (2024).
Please join us at Base on Saturday, April 12 at 4:00 PM for Allie Hankin’s Base Residency Entry Point.
Allie will be working on her solo By My Own Hand, Part 4: MELODY, which concerns itself with the embodiment and biomechanics of voice and the interconnectedness of vocalization and movement. Throughout the piece, five analog tape recorders with looping tapes of various durations make brief recordings that are played back and overlapped to create unexpected overtones, rhythmic patterns, textures, and an imperfect and wavering chorus of voices that reveal the aural spaces between harmonies and the surprising pleasure of dissonance. The recurring sounds get paired and then re-paired with dances, actions, and images, creating an ever-evolving soundtrack that layers and distorts the audience's associations and experience of time and memory.
Space is limited– please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Base Residency Entry Point: Allie Hankins
Saturday, April 12 at 4:00 PM
Reserve tickets here
Photo by West Smith
Please join us at Base on Saturday, March 1 for an installation and work in progress showing by 2024-2025 Base Resident Artists Hannah Simmons + Alethea Alexander. This event offers audiences agency to tune in, change the channel and interact at their leisure. Rolling entry: please arrive any time between 4:00-5:00 PM.
During their residency, Hannah and Alethea will develop a methodology for Failure Lab: an exorcism of their "worst ideas." They will sift through their backlog of unmade performance works to see what "terrible" ideas have to offer them. Trash, incoherence, decay, and regurgitation will be expected and celebrated.
Base Residency Entry Point: Hannah Simmons and Alethea Alexander
Saturday March 1st
Rolling entry 4:00-5:00 PM
Purchase pay what you wish tickets here
Space is limited; please reserve a ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Photo by Allina Yang
[ Two bodies glow softly in low light: limbs are draped and tangled, askew, and gravity is inverted.]
Applications will open February 10 for the spring edition of 12 Minutes Max. Audition applications will be open until March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM for the March 16 audition. Performance takes place April 27 & 28, 2025.
Applications slots are limited and accepted on a first come, first served basis. You must fill out an application to audition on March 9, 2025.
Learn more about the upcoming edition here. Questions? Email cat@thisisbase.org.
12 Minutes Max: Spring Edition at Base
April 27 at 5:00 PM, & April 28 at 7:00 PM
Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis of Evelyn Morrison and Aubra Heller from Midnight Sky Dance in ‘I Came Looking’ from 12 Minutes Max Fall Edition (2024).
with DaeZhane Day, kelly langeslay, + No Girls, No Masters
FEB 6-7 | 7:30 PM
FEB 8 | 2 PM + 7:30 PM
Purchase tickets and get more information here
Velocity begins the year with a celebration of the new with the Bridge Project, their program for emerging Seattle dance-makers. Bridge Project is a chance for audiences to get in at the ground floor of an artist’s career – to be acquainted with choreographers who, today, have been making work in Seattle for five years or less, but who could become the Seattle mainstays of the future. The performances you will see are the result of an intensive 6-week rehearsal process undertaken by three choreographers and their cast of dancers. You’ll be invited to share what you see, and engage in a written feedback process that provides the choreographers with valuable feedback and affirmation.
Bridge Project is a beloved program because it is a chance for the community to come together to welcome a new year, new artists, and to celebrate the generative power of creating work together.
The Bridge Project is a core residency program, and supported by Velocity’s season sponsors and community of individual donors. The Bridge Project is presented in partnership with Base.
Interested in joining the community of support to make the Bridge Project possible? Contact erin@velocitydancecenter.org to learn how you can be involved.
Stop by Base from 6PM - 8PM to see short performances by Shayley Timm, Meredith Pellon, Samantha Fabrikant, Dahlia Levine, Nat Robine, Nolan Klock, Gia Falzone, and Maria Matienzo! You can view the program here.
See below for other community activities:
Saturday, December 14 at Equinox Studios
3:00-9:00PM - Open Studios, Food Trucks, Music, Fire
9:00pm till late - More Music! More Fire! Shenanigans!
6555 5th Ave S, Seattle, WA
Poster and social media designs by Josh Harriman
Join us at Base on December 8 + 9 2024 for the first 12 Minutes Max of our 2024-2025 season! This edition is curated by 12 Minutes Max alumni Alisa Popova and Eva Crystal and features Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Evelyn Morrison and Aubra Heller of Midnight Sky Dance, Jackie An, Rhea Keller, and Adriana Hillas.
12 Minutes Max Fall Edition at Base
December 8 at 5pm
December 9 at 7pm
Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to aaron@thisisbase.org.
About 12 Minutes Max
12 Minutes Max is a performance lab for new and experimental works that was first developed by On the Boards in 1981. In this series, artists present 12 minutes of material, while audiences get an opportunity to be the first to see works-in-progress; some of which will go on to become full-length pieces. 12 Minutes Max has inspired similar programs in Vancouver, B.C., Bellingham, Salt Lake City, Chicago and Houston. Works presented range from performance art to dance, from experimental theater to sound art, from spoken word to comedy, and more.
Photo by Jim Coleman of Bryon Carr from 12 Minutes Max: Edition Two (2023).
Are you working on a new dance, monologue, song or something in between? Show your work in a casual, low pressure setting during the annual Equinox Very Open House (VOH) on Saturday, December 14 between 6-9pm!
At VOH, Equinox tenants open their doors and attendees get a chance to wander through our studios. There’s music, demonstrations, art displays and more. Their year at Base, we’ll open our doors to showcase local performers.
We’ll handle the lighting and you’ll provide any recorded sound. In addition to performing, you’ll receive four hours of free rehearsal space at Base. There is no tech or dress rehearsal for this performance.
Apply here to show work at Base at the Equinox Very Open House on Saturday, December 14. Applications will be accepted until 5pm on November 20.
María Dolores A. Matienzo: she's buoyant (World Premiere)
she's buoyant is a 75-minute post-minimalist aleatoric composition for violin, synthesizers, percussion, piano, tape, and voice by Seattle composer María Dolores A. Matienzo. Informed by 20th-century avant-garde chamber music, the work focuses on the exploration of changes in memory of queer sensory experiences. The work leverages ritual practices and video projections to guide its performers and audience in navigating between individual and shared experience.
Jackie An (violin, voice)
Raqa Down (synthesizer, percussion, voice)
María Dolores A. Matienzo (synthesizer, percussion, voice, piano, tape)
Jesse Roth (Director)
Showtimes:
Saturday 10/26 at 7:30PM
Sunday 10/27 at 7:30 PM
All attendees must wear a face mask. Complimentary face masks will be available at the door.
Purchase tickets: https://shesbuoyant.eventbrite.com/
Learn more about she's buoyant and María Dolores A. Matienzo: https://imprecision.art/
Performance and Artist Lunch with UJDC and Mouthwater Team
For the second day of Urban Jazz Dance Company’s participation in Mouthwater Festival, we offer our first artist social. There will be lunch, refreshments and a sign up sheet for an open stage session. Bring a finished drag, a work-in-progress, an idea in movement form, a new burlesque piece, your latest b-boy move. This is the Disabled dance show-and-tell of your dreams.
Purchase Sliding Scale Ticket here or the Mouthwater Performance Package here.
Mouthwater: Disabled Arts Festival
All events will be ASL interpreted. All venues have step-free access to the bathrooms and performance spaces. There will be a variety of seating and ear plugs available in venue spaces. Please reach out to cripdancedoula@gmail.com
Crip Open Stage is produced by Mouthwater Festival in partnership with Base.
The Infinite Loop tells a cyclical tale of two characters’ journey through connection, betrayal, and the haunting dance between fate and free will, set against the backdrop of a single, enigmatic room containing a mysterious door which can transport the key holder across space and time.
Featuring Derek Crescenti and Lara Seefeldt
Concept and Direction by Kyrin Grey
Choreography by Kyrin Grey and Rhea Keller
Lighting Design and Technical Direction by Catriona Urquhart
Showtimes:
Friday 9/20 at 7PM
Saturday 9/21 at 5PM
Saturday 9/21 at 7PM
Purchase your tickets here.
Learn more about Kyrin Grey here
Applications are open for the fall edition of 12 Minutes Max for our 2024-2025 season! Audition applications are open until October 14 2024 at 5pm for the October 20 audition. Performance takes place December 8 & 9 2024.
Applications slots are limited and accepted on a first come, first served basis. You must fill out an application to audition on October 20, 2024.
Learn more about the upcoming edition here. Want to audition on October 20, 2024? Apply here. Questions? Email cat@thisisbase.org.
12 Minutes Max: Fall Edition at Base
December 8, 5pm + December 9, 7pm
Photo by Stephen Anunson of the 2023-2024 12 Minutes Max performance by Eva Crystal and Ieva Bračiulytė
MS+A is excited to announce its next production: Semblance of a Loop. Join us for an evening of contemporary dance exploring humanity's connection to time, environment, and each other. Semblance of a Loop includes four choreographic works by MS+A founder/director Mary Sigward, along with a new digital art piece.
Tickets are $20-40 and can be purchased here.
Approximate run time is 75 minutes.
Photo by Jim Coleman
Please join us at Base on Saturday, August 17 at 7:30 PM for a work-in-progress showing and community gathering to close out Amy O'Neal's Base Residency.
For this residency, Amy is researching her next evening length work Again, There is No Other: The Remix, which samples and reimagines concepts, movement, and experimental performance tropes from her body of work exploring societal constructs of race and gender. Merging practices from Black social dance culture and contemporary dance, she will explore with a multi racial and generational cast of femme identified dance artists to revisit and reinvent from her long history of performance making. She will spend the first week exploring new solo ideas sampling from previous solos and reconnecting with Ellie Sandstrom, who danced in her work with locust and AmyO/tinyrage 2000-2010. The second week, physically multi lingual movement artists Amaria Stern (LA), Nia-Amina Minor (Seattle), Annie Franklin (Chicago), and Tracey Wong (Seattle) will explore ideas from Amy's previous works In the Fray (2010), The Most Innovative, Daring, and Original Dance/Performance You Will See this Decade (2012), Opposing Forces (2014), There is No Other (2015), Again, there is No Other (2016), A Trio (2019), and There is No Other (The Remix) (2021). What feels relevant now? What needs to stay in the past? Where do we go from here?
Space is limited– please reserve a free ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Base Residency Entry Point: Amy O’Neal
Saturday, August 17 2024 at 7:30 PM
Reserve FREE Tickets Here
Photo by Erin O'Reilly of Amy O'Neal, Nia-Amina Minor and Amaria Stern in "A Trio" (2023).
Join us on July 27, 2024 for an evening of Tiny Dance Performances. Part show, part fundraiser for a new evening-length performance created by Amy J Lambert | RicketySticks Dance-Theater. This event will support production costs and artist fees for "This Is A Drama Comedy" premiering at 12th Ave Arts in March 2025.
Doors at 6:30pm
Show at 7pm
Featuring Performing Acts By:
Alyza DelPan-Monley
Bridget Kirk
Christin Call
Jenny Peterson
Kaitlin McCarthy
Kara Beadle
Nikolai Lesnikov
Rosemary Adams
Tyra Rose
and more
Purchase Tickets Here
Can't make this event? You can still show support here.
Find out more at www.AmyJLmabert.com
Ten Tiny Dances® was created in Portland, Oregon in 2002 and continues to be produced by founder Mike Barber and others, with permission. Please see www.tentinydances.org for more information.
Please join us at Base on Saturday, June 15 at 6:30pm for a community activation, facilitated by Naomi Macalalad Bragin and Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra in collaboration with local artists Akoiya Harris, Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Iris Viveros, jas moultrie, and Nia-Amina Minor.
For this residency, Milvia and Naomi will explore their collaborative process in dialogue with working artists. They will design a creative lab for interdisciplinary artists whose mediums include movement, voice, sound and writing. They will facilitate the three-day lab for a group of invited artists, during which participants will build collaborative practices and generate experimental forms.
Space is limited– please reserve a free ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.
Base Residency Entry Point: Naomi Macalalad Bragin and Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra
Saturday June 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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To Be Honest is created by Zoe Wilson of Neutral Beat Productions involving poetry, movement and visual art.
An exploration of love and our perception of romantic love; the ways in which we love, expectations, heart break, and letting go. Self understanding through all the things we would have said; expressing our desires and feelings through words and movement. Continuously delving deeper for understanding and redefining what romantic love is.
Showtimes:
Friday, May 31 at 8 PM
Saturday, June 1 at 8 PM
Learn more about Zoe Wilson here.
Base is having a moment. There's not only huger-than-ever demand for what we provide, but fast-growing national awareness of Base's commitment to address artists' needs for space and resources. Our community is expanding, and that's exciting.
We invite you to join us in celebrating our growth at Bounty, a benefit evening in support of our mission and programs. As a member of our community, you're part of what makes Base indispensable within the cultural landscape—we would love to see you on Sunday, May 19 at 5pm.
In store at this year's Bounty...
An elevated meal prepared by culinary luminaries Brothers & Co
Dance film made at Base and live performance by artists from our community
Surprises and prizes from cherished local businesses
The chance to connect with others who want Seattle to be a haven for creation and experimentation
Seating is limited! Details to come! See you at Bounty!
Don't forget to claim your RSVP to Bounty – purchase your tickets here
Learn more about this season's Base Residency program here.
Why support Base?
Space is often the biggest barrier for artists to create, to invent, and to try something new. Base works to eliminate that barrier. Base is a 2,000 square foot room with a sprung floor, 20-foot-high ceilings, sound systems, natural light, kitchenette, and private bathroom.
Base serves Seattle’s dance community by addressing artists’ need for time, space and experimentation through residencies, performance opportunities and low-cost rehearsal space. In a typical year, Base will host upwards of 500 artists.
Join the movement to elevate risk and invention in dance, performance, and multidisciplinary art.
Photo provided by Jim Coleman of Ben Swenson-Klatt from 12 Minutes Max: Edition One (2022)
Join us at Base for a performance of dhoka/Betrayal/ followed by a short talkback.
dhoka/Betrayal/ entangles Hindu goddess Kali's ultimate power and destruction with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence, using myth to unpack how Hinduism has been shaped into propaganda for ethno-nationalism by Western influence. Tracing Kali's deification, dhoka accompanies her transformation into a colonized, fetishized, destructive image that upholds violence with her bloodied tongue. The work lives at the fringes of reality, letting the epic and human dance together: a physical look at how worship can distort what something stands for and how worship can save.
Base Residency Entry Point: Ankita Sharma
Saturday May 11, 2024
Reserve FREE tickets here
Content Warning: Full nudity, blood effects, sexual and violent content
Catalyst is an evening length dance performance co-produced by Lael Battiste and Margaux Gex, and will be featuring 5 new works choreographed by Lael Battiste, Margaux Gex, and Emily Vazquez featuring Olivia Anderson, Lael Battiste, Carol Davis, Ally Elliott, Margaux Gex, Kate Henderson, Shayley Timm, and Emily Vazquez.
They all take inspiration from their cultural backgrounds, personal experiences, and collective imagination. They are interested in creating works that are intricate, athletic, detailed, musical, and visceral, their work is abstract yet thought provoking.
Showtimes:
Friday, April 26 at 8 PM
Saturday, April 27 at 5:30 PM
Saturday, April 27 at 8 PM
Help us pay and support our collaborators for their work, time, and efforts! Can’t make it to the show? You can donate the price of a ticket and we'll send you the video link! Check out our fundraiser here.
Please feel free to reach out for more information, email Margaux.gex@hotmail.com or dm on instagram @margaux.gex
Join us at Base on April 21 + 22 2024 for the third 12 Minutes Max of our 2023-2024 season! This edition is curated by 12 Minutes Max alumni Samantha Fabrikant and Antonieta Carpio and features Olivia Cesarano, Ieva Bračiulytė and Eva Crystal, Horacio Lopez, Andreya Pro, Shelby Natasha, and Alisa Popova.
12 Minutes Max: Edition Three at Base
April 21 at 5pm
April 22 at 7pm
Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to shann@thisisbase.org.
About 12 Minutes Max
12 Minutes Max is a performance lab for new and experimental works that was first developed by On the Boards in 1981. In this series, artists present 12 minutes of material, while audiences get an opportunity to be the first to see works-in-progress; some of which will go on to become full-length pieces. 12 Minutes Max has inspired similar programs in Vancouver, B.C., Bellingham, Salt Lake City, Chicago and Houston. Works presented range from performance art to dance, from experimental theater to sound art, from spoken word to comedy, and more.
Photo by Jim Coleman of Skye Hughes from 12 Minutes Max: Edition Two (2023).
As a part of her practice, Akoiya engages with memory work as an impetus for creation. This looks like collection of oral histories, archival research, sitting with photos and other ephemera, and visiting spaces that hold familial or communal significance. In this residency, she will be investigating ways these processes can further inform her movement. Akoiya will be exploring physical responses to both external memories and the ones that only the body holds.
Join us for an informal showing and community gathering centered around the exploration of these responses to memory and oral histories.
Base Residency Entry Point: Akoiya Harris
Saturday March 23, 2024
Reserve FREE tickets here
Stay tuned for events in our 10th Anniversary Season!
