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.

Pairings: Collaborations in Movement and Music

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

Base is excited to introduce Pairings: Collaborations in Movement and Music, a new pilot program for our  2025–2026 season. This program brings together musicians and movement artists to explore the boundaries of form, range, experimentalism, and context.

Curated by Bebe Miller and Lori Goldston, Pairings offers a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration and inquiry, supporting artists in incubating connections that are exploratory, present, and rigorous.
These collaborations culminate in an informal showing at Base on Saturday, March 14, at 7 PM.

This edition will feature collaborations between:
Nia Amina Minor x Nicolle Swims
Una Ludviksen x Kole Galbraith

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Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist, choreographer, curator, and educator originally from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the body and what it carries using physical and archival research  to converse with memory. She approaches her practice as an imaginative space grounded in rhythm where improvisation and choreography meet. Nia-Amina has received regional and national commissions for her choreographic and film work and has a working background as a performer and dramaturg. She is co-founder of Black Collectivity, a collaborative project that curates and creates movement-based experiences that celebrate memory and culture. 
As a performer, Nia-Amina has worked with artists such as dani tirrell, Zoe Juniper, Will Rawls, Alice Gosti, Keyes Wiley, and Amy O’Neal. From 2016-2021 she was a Company Artist at Spectrum Dance Theater under the direction of Donald Byrd. Nia-Amina has also provided dramaturgical assistance to choreographers Jade Solomon-Curtis and Donald Byrd. In her work as a curator, she has developed programming at On the Boards, Wa Na Wari, Velocity, and Base, and Friends of the Waterfront Park. From 2014-2016, she was a co-founder and curator of Los Angeles based collective, No)one Art House. As an educator, she has taught, guest lectured, and been a visiting artist at Cornish College, University of Minnesota, CalArts, University of Washington, Western Washington University, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine. Nia-Amina received her MFA in Dance from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University.  She was Dance Magazine's 25 Artists to Watch in 2021, and one of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential People in 2025. Nia-Amina is currently on faculty at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University and is the Curating Artist in Residence at Velocity Dance Theater. 

Black Ends is Nicolle Swims (guitar, vocals), Ben Swanson (bass). The trio hail from Seattle, which is obvious once you hear their music: a heady mixture of gnarled guitar chords, bombastic volumes, slimy textures, and Swims' unique guttural croon. They call it gunk pop, an evolution of grunge that's filtered through a modern lens, perfectly at home in the era's panopticon of paranoia and overstimulation. It's Black at the core but resonant within all hearts.
In 2020 Black Ends broke out via Stay Evil, an EP engineered by legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino that earned high praise from both influential outlets (KEXP, The Alternative, Post-Trash) and individual voices (Anthony Fantano, early grunge proponent Everett True). Their debut LP Psychotic Spew achieved the #1 spot on Seattle Times' Best Washington Albums 2024 list. In its wake, the band have shared high-profile bills with the likes of Bikini Kill, Otoboke Beaver, Shonen Knife, Skating Polly, Living Colour, English Teacher, and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Whether at home or abroad, they make converts out of whoever finds them.

Una Ludviksen is a freelance dance artist based in Seattle. She has performed in New York, LA, and Toronto with the Merce Cunningham Trust, and is an authorized Cunningham Technique® teacher. Una has worked and performed with groups including GREYZONE, Dylan Crossman Dance, Emily Schoen Branch, AnA Collaborations and POGO Dance in New York, Berlin, and Seattle. She recently presented her own improvisation-based works at Clemente Ciarrocca's Berlin exhibition, The Joys, and for Show 8 of the CO- performance series in Seattle. She is on faculty at Bainbridge Dance Center, and teaches Cunningham Technique® for DANCE CLASS which she leads with Tariq Mitri. Una holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance with further study at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Kole Galbraith is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found-object installation. Based in both Seattle, Washington, Kole Galbraith has been active in the underground experimental music community for the past decade performing throughout the West Coast of the United States and Europe. Sonically his sonic studio compositions are informed by early 20th century French musique-concrète, metal, jazz and contemporary composition. Thematically, the compositions are influenced by interior Salish folklore, and contemporary indigenous experience. Galbraith mixes using materials found in nature with electronic techniques to uncover both latent sonic capabilities and to uncover latent histories. Galbraith has released albums on his own label, Obscure & Terrible, and other labels such as SIGE, Titania Tapes, Peyote Tapes and Krim Kram. The live sonic performances privilege immediate creation and spontaneous collaboration between the performers, and the existing landscape and/or architecture. Galbraith's solo performances can range from short, frenetic harsh noise improvisations to long-form narratives collaged out of sustained tones and field recordings. Beyond solo performances Galbraith regularly performs together with Jason Lazar in the psy-jazz duo named "Coyote Teeth". Additionally, Galbraith has worked with musicians including Lori Goldston, Greg Kelley, Cigvë, Jessika Kenney, Zach Rowden, Warren Realrider, Nathan Young, AF Jones, Casey Adams, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Patrick Wurzwallner, Maja Osojnik, morher and Noel Kennon. Galbraith is a member of the indigenous film collective COUSIN, Descendant of Sinixt Band of Indians, and an enrolled member of the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma.

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, Naked Blue by Mati Diop & Manon Lutanie

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 Lightning 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.