Made possible through the community support of Base’s Flourish campaign, our 2025-26 pilot programs, Jump / Cut: The Moving Body On Screen, and Pairings: Collaborations in Movement and Music, create much-needed space for the making and experiencing of multidisciplinary art in Seattle.

Arising organically from conversations with members of Seattle’s creative community, these programmatic experiments aim to provide compelling creative opportunities while filling gaps in the local arts landscape.

Jump/Cut: The Moving Body On Screen

January 3, 10, 17, 2026 @ 7 PM | curated by Jay Kuehner

This moving image showcase explores varieties of kinesthetic cinema in historical and contemporary contexts. These works gesture toward new forms—of choreography released from time and space by the camera, of cinema attuned to the exigencies of the body. 

Saturday, January 3 at 7 PM: Program 1, Vers Mathilde by Claire Denis
Saturday, January 10 at 7 PM: Program 2, Essais by Hannes Schüpbach
Saturday, January 17 at 7 PM: Program 3, Early Films by Yvonne Rainer, Cofounder of Judson Dance Theater, 46' Bis and Topic I et II by Pascal Baes, Me gritaron negra (They shouted black at me) video documentation of performance, excerpted from the documentary, Victoria—Black and Woman by Torgeir Wethal, and Lighting Dance by Cecilia Bengolea

Jay Kuehner is an independent film curator, writer, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest. He was curator of Veracity: New Documentary Cinema, a film series dedicated to creative non-fiction cinema from around the world, and Pulsos Latinos: Films From The Frontier of Latin American Cinema, both presented in Seattle at Northwest Film Forum. He has taught classes on the history of documentary practice  and evaluations of 21st century cinema. As a critic, his work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, IndieWire, Sight and Sound, Desist and more. He is currently co-curator, with David Dinnell, of On Site Moving Image at Mini Mart City Park, and TAM Cinema at Tacoma Art Museum. 

Pairings: Collaborations in Movement and Music

March 14 and July 31 @ 7 PM | curated by Bebe Miller and Lori Goldston

This new lab-like series will create collaborations—or pairings—of dance artists and musicians to incubate, play, and experiment with resources provided by Base to culminate in two informal showings.

Stay tuned for more information on our curators and artists for each Pairings program.