Velocity Dance Center

FREE performance alert!

Presented in collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum

JUL 19 | 1 PM 
Olympic Sculpture Park | 2901 Western Ave | free admission
BRKFST
for now, but not for long

Featuring participants of the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation Professional Performance Cohort

About the work:

for now, but not for long | About the work
for now, but not for long investigates the restoration and habitat complexity of the once contaminated, post-industrial landscape of Olympic Sculpture Park. This work explores how our individual lives are woven into and affected by reinvention, and it will highlight the diverse landscape by using moving bodies as sculptural entities. Regeneration, decay, attraction, and repulsion will emerge through sustained duration, partnering, and non-codified movement, guiding audiences through the meadows and groves native to the Pacific Northwest. Subtle sounds of the natural environment in combination with a set score will emphasize the ever-changing ecosystem using the human body as a visual guide.

Bridge Project 2027 Applications Are Open

DUE SEPT 1 2026 | Velocity invites Seattle-based choreographers to apply for Bridge Project 2027
Velocity adopts an expansive definition of the word emerging. For us the word encapsulates emerging relationships between artist and institution, new choreographic partnerships, re-emerging into the scene, emerging into their first choreographic work in their professional career, and more. Whether you are new to Seattle, new to dance making, or are a well known or seasoned Seattle artist who wants to explore a new idea and connect with new audiences, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out if you’d like to talk about how this program reframe could mean Bridge is for you!

Velocity’s Emerging Creative Incubator, Bridge Project, is a platform where Seattle based choreographers are able to build or re-establish a relationship with Velocity and its audiences. Every year, this five week residency offers three choreographers up to 50 hours of rehearsal space each to research and present a new 20 minute dance work at 12th Ave Arts. Velocity provides each choreographer with an artist stipend, rehearsal space, creative mentorship, and administrative support during the research and presentation processes. 

We will be selecting three movement-based artists who have not made choreographic work in Velocity’s incubator programs (Bridge Project, OUT THERE, Co-Productions, Made in Seattle, CAiR) in the last five years. Ideal applicants are interested in connection, mentorship (both as mentor and mentee), and challenging/deepening their choreographic process towards local emergence or re-emergence. One of the three positions in the cohort is reserved for an Emerging Artist who has been making choreographic work for three years or less. 

Visit velocitydancecenter.org to find out more and to apply, navigate to the Bridge Project Section of the Artist programs page