Please join us Saturday, March 21, at 4 PM for NYC-based Choreographer Juliana F. May’s Movement Workshop!

You can learn more about Juliana here.
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Juliana F. May Movement Workshop:
March 26 at 10 AM - 12 PM

Join NY choreographer for her movement class, Choreographic Idiom. Developed over the past 10 years, this improvisation-based class where you can work on dancing, performing, and choreographic process all within the same framework. In class, we upend typical structural strongholds by moving away from a mode of doing and a mode of processing. Can we do an improvisation or a series of exercises that are not about development or the "culminating idea"? Exercises, dancing/performing, and conversation are permitted to co-exist without having to constantly make sense of each other. Can this shift away from the notion of "culminating ideas" lead us deeper into radicalizing our choreographic and performative habits? This is an opportunity to come work on your work in a supportive and experimental setting. This is essentially an open score improvisation class.

About the Base Residency:
The Base Residency is a unique, artist-curated program offering unrestricted space, the opportunity to publicly share work, technical, marketing, and administrative support, travel and lodging for out-of-town artists, and a fee of $1,000 per residency week. The ‘25-’26 Residency Season was curated by Parisa Ghaderi, Joseph Hernandez, and Keyes Wiley. This year, the Base Residency offers six artists—three from the Seattle area and three from beyond—two weeks of immersive creative time at Base between January and July 2026. Since 2016, more than 30 artists have completed Base Residencies as the program continues to evolve and grow within a national context. Meet Base Residency Alumni here.

Accessibility + Directions
Base is an ADA-compliant, accessible space on the ground floor, with all-gender and wheelchair-accessible restrooms. More on accessibility at Base here. Have any questions? Email aaron@thisisbase.org.

Flourish:
In 2024, Base launched Flourish—a three-year fundraising effort to support residencies, organizational capacity, and new community-facing programs. Now, as Base celebrates its 10th anniversary, we’re entering Year Two of Flourish—building on momentum as we acknowledge the realities artists face today. If you’re unable to attend this event, but would like to support Base, please consider donating to our campaign.