Jan
13
to Jan 14

KSD & Kin—January 13 at 8pm, and January 14 at 5pm

KSD & Kin: January 13 at 8pm, and January 14 at 5pm.

An evening of dances by Karin Stevens and two KSD company dancers, with commissioned music by Seattle composer Heather Bentley, and other regional and national music artists.

“This is a community of dancers for whom movement means something.” - Sandra Kurtz, SeattleDances

“Karin’s works are a magnicent blend of innovation, elegance, and flowing power. Please keep them coming.” - James Leonard, KSD board member

(Seattle) – A fixture of the Seattle dance scene, Karin Stevens Dance presents KSD & Kin with three works by Karin Stevens and two works by KSD company dancers, Sara Caplan and Anja Kellner-Rogers, as part of KSD’s commitment to support the development of dance artists in the Seattle dance ecosystem, January 13 at 8pm and January 14 at 5pm, at Nod Theater on Capitol Hill.

Parts of the Whole 2023 (World Premiere: Seattle International Dance Festival, as a James Ray Residency and Touring recipient, June 15, 2023), with music by John Luther Adams, explores the internal parts within us that make or divide the whole of ourselves and our relationships; the waves and undercurrents of our emotions upon and under the surface of our lives; and the spiritual concept of individuation and wholeness.

Created and presented in 2019/2020, A Small Space of Wildness, featuring original music by Seattle composer Heather Bentley, was choreographed from Stevens’ improvisational practice with her backyard landscape in winter and summer. This work is an extension of Stevens’ ongoing interest in the human body in relationship with the greater ecology. Stevens’ breadth of work moves within the stream of philosopher Dr. Bayo Akomolafe: “Decoloniality if it means anything, it must mean coming down to earth. It must mean returning to a body. Not to the bodies of the Euro-American Enlightenment; not that body. But to a body that is now dancing; always performatively entangled with the world around it.” (This work, as part of a body of place-based dances, developed into a writing and video-essay project. The first video in a series of four was premiered in the KSD November 2022 performances. You can view the first video-essay HERE.) The 2023 iteration of A Small Space of Wildness is performed with a recreation of the music by Bentley and new costuming by Sarah Mosher.

Remember River 2023, a solo choreographed and performed by Karin Stevens, will premiere in the January performances. The solo is an embodied empathic and spiritual response to a line from the poet Mary Oliver: “Who can imagine in what heaviness the rivers remember their original clarity.” The electro-acoustic music, by Jeff Grienke, from his album A Thousand Year Flood, is composed with one instrumentalist–cellist/violinist Heather Bentley.

Two new works by KSD company dancers will also premiere in the January performances. Sara Caplan (2022-present) and Anja Kellner-Rogers (2015-2017 & 2019-2023) were in the choreographic process throughout the summer. KSD is committed to the development of the Seattle dance ecosystem by providing opportunities for KSD company dancers and their dance-making practice. Measured Reflections, choreographed by Caplan, will explore how we fit into our daily lives. Through playful exchanges, solo contemplations, and unison struggle we discover how we exist in our own bodies among others and within a community. Solitary Rhythms, choreographed by Kellner-Rogers, is a solo that explores themes of aloneness, touch, repetition, and ritual. The choreography weaves together a tapestry of soft, smooth, right, and sharp touches, evoking a symphony of sensations that explore the spectrum of human emotion.

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KSD & Kin
Oct
20
to Oct 21

KSD & Kin

An evening of dances by Karin Stevens and two KSD company dancers, with commissioned music by Seattle composer Heather Bentley, and other regional and national music artists.

“This is a community of dancers for whom movement means something.” - Sandra Kurtz, SeattleDances

“Karin’s works are a magnificent blend of innovation, elegance, and flowing power. Please keep them coming.” - James Leonard, KSD board member

(Seattle) – A fixture of the Seattle dance scene, Karin Stevens Dance presents KSD & Kin with three works by Karin Stevens and two works by KSD company dancers, Sara Caplan and Anja Kellner-Rogers, as part of KSD’s commitment to support the development of dance artists in the Seattle dance ecosystem, October 20-21, 8pm at Nod Theater on Capitol Hill.

Parts of the Whole 2023 (World Premiere: Seattle International Dance Festival, as a James Ray Residency and Touring recipient, June 15, 2023), with music by John Luther Adams, explores the internal parts within us that make or divide the whole of ourselves and our relationships; the waves and undercurrents of our emotions upon and under the surface of our lives; and the spiritual concept of individuation and wholeness.

Created and presented in 2019/2020, A Small Space of Wildness, featuring original music by Seattle composer Heather Bentley, was choreographed from Steven’s improvisational practice with her backyard landscape in winter and summer. This work is an extension of Steven’s ongoing interest in the human body in relationship with the greater ecology. Stevens’ breadth of work moves within the stream of philosopher Dr. Bayo Akomolafe: “Decoloniality if it means anything, it must mean coming down to earth. It must mean returning to a body. Not to the bodies of the Euro-American Enlightenment; not that body. But to a body that is now dancing; always performatively entangled with the world around it.” (This work, as part of a body of place-based dances, developed into a writing and video-essay project. The first video in a series of four was premiered in the KSD November 2022 performances. You can view the first video-essay HERE.) The 2023 iteration of A Small Space of Wildness is performed with a recreation of the music by Bentley and new costuming by Sarah Mosher.

Remember River 2023, a solo choreographed and performed by Karin Stevens, will premiere in the October performances. The solo is an embodied empathic and spiritual response to a line from the poet Mary Oliver: “Who can imagine in what heaviness the rivers remember their original clarity.” The electro-acoustic music, by Jeff Grienke, from his album A Thousand Year Flood, is composed with one instrumentalist–cellist/violinist Heather Bentley.

Two new works by KSD company dancers will also premiere in the October performances. Sara Caplan (2022-present) and Anja Kellner-Rogers (2015-2017 & 2019-2023) are currently in the choreographic process throughout this summer. KSD is committed to the development of the Seattle dance ecosystem by providing opportunities for KSD company dancers and their dance-making practice. We hope to expand this vision, beginning in the fall of 2024, and the subsequent years, by incorporating live new music, with a collaborative process between composers, Stevens and KSD company dancers; with a hope to open our doors for more dancers to audition to dance in these new works for this yearly fall project, KSD & Kin.

Karin Stevens Dance believes that dance is a radical, vital art key to our future in this 21st century. KSD aims to re/connect us to our bodily selves, to each other and to the greater ecologies of our collective dance. Encapsulating the breadth of the moving human experience, our contemporary dance artworks strive for beauty through richly textured patterns that embody the complex, turbulent layers of our time, our cultural spaces, and our relationship to environments. Our work embraces the mystery, suffering, wonder, and bewilderment in our interdependent existence through re/imagination, transformation, and healing for our collective well-being.

Karin Stevens Dance and this project is partially funded by 4Culture Sustained Support, Glenn Kawasaki Foundation, and Seattle International Dance Festival’s James Ray Residency and Touring Support 2023.

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KSD Online Event Premiere WATCH PARTY ~ Four Dance Films!
Dec
12
5:00 PM17:00

KSD Online Event Premiere WATCH PARTY ~ Four Dance Films!

Receive the private WATCH PARTY event link by donation: HERE


Date: Saturday, December 12 

Time: 5pm PST ~ Pre-show live music begins at 4:45pm PST (Duration of event: 1.5hrs)

Join the KSD artists for the premiere of four new dance films created during the last seven months through the boundaries and new found creative freedoms in the era of Covid 19. 


Streamed by the Northwest Arts Streaming Hub.

Receive the private WATCH PARTY event link by donation: HERE

Meet the collaborating artists:

Movement ~

Ahven Firth

Micaela Gonzales

Anja Kellner-Rogers

Emma Klein

Robert Moore

Hazel Morris

Caroline Schmidt

Mary Sigward

Ben Swenson-Klatt

Composers/Musicians ~

Kaley Lane Eaton

Beth Fleener aka Crystal Beth

Dio Jean-Baptiste 

Poet ~

Omar Willey

Videographers ~

Michael Goude/Vibe Vision

Daniel Husser 

Artistic Imaginer, Choreographer, Director, Producer ~

Karin Stevens

www.karinstevensdance.com 


All films were created and filmed following strict adherence to the CDC, WHO, and WA State guidelines for physical distancing and safety protocols.

Receive the private WATCH PARTY event link by donation: HERE


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The Transformation of Fear
Oct
14
7:00 PM19:00

The Transformation of Fear

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

I would like to see you living 

In better conditions…” -Hafiz

Life is complex, as are our fears.  Often we experience patterns of immobilization in fear. We become stagnant in stuffy-old familiar rooms inside ourselves.  The good news is that moving with and through our fears is a process of becoming and evolving into more well-being and more spacious-being!  

In the complexity of our fears, can we build body-based self-awareness toward understanding how our BODY-BEING needs to move for transformation through the fears?:  A resounding, yes!

Join Transformationalists, Freya Kennedy and Karin Stevens, for a series of 3 online workshops.* Through Freya’s teaching on the beauty of the Enneagram, a psychology from sacred tradition, we will learn about the complex nature of human fear. Karin’s facilitation of The Art & Practice of Movement will offer us body-based practices for cultivating embodied awareness of our inner patterns/narratives of fear and how to transform fear through movement toward a healthier ground of being for which we can grow from beyond these workshops. 

*You do not need any previous experience with the Enneagram.  On some level every human experiences an expression of every pattern of fear.  The 9 pattern-types will be shared in a three-part series workshop.  Take one workshop or all three!  

ONLINE Wednesdays, September 30th, October 7th and 14th, 7-8:30pm PST

Single Workshop Fee: 

$30-$60 sliding scale

A portion of your payment will go toward a fund to support individuals in financial need who are seeking our transformationalist support in this challenging time of Covid. 


To Register: karinstevens@gmail.com for payment and zoom link. 

Freya Kennedy is a Transformationalist and Enneagram Advisor, who helps individuals, couples, and professional teams looking to deepen and expand their unique potential by understanding their internal motivations and learning how to move beyond them. For as long as she can remember she has been curious about why we act the way we do. She has always loved observing herself and others in a myriad of situations. Once described as a Wrecking Ball and Balm, she is a seeker, continually searching for meaning, beauty, and how to bring more love into the world.

Before deciding to start her own business, Freya has been caring for people, creating beauty, and encouraging personal growth in a variety of ways. She has nannied, facilitated yearly art markets, hosted monthly discussions on thoughtful living, worked several jobs with an emphasis on guest experience and hospitality, and most recently led the hospitality team in the dining room at the experiential Inn at Langley, for seven years. 

Freya enjoys time with her husband, two teenage sons, and dog. She loves hearing people’s stories, dancing, smiling, eating amazing food, and paddle boarding on Lake Crescent. 


Karin Stevens is a facilitator in The Art & Practice of Movement. For six year she has been assisting others on their own evolutionary and healing journeys through movement in individual and group sessions. With over 25 years in embodied movement and spiritual practices she brings robust wisdom and deep sensitivity to the needs of every unique session.  As a Seattle based Choreographer, Dance Artist and Transformationalist she believes in the power of movement to bring us back into health and spiritual ecology within ourselves, with each other, and through our natural and built environments. 

In spite of being a life-long vocational dancer, Karin had to learn to move in new ways to overcome her personal pain and challenges.  She believes that if every individual began this same journey back into the body, each one of us will become a great force for collective healing and transformation, particularly in the area of dismantling white supremacy.  

Through her dance company, Karin Stevens Dance (2009-present), she creates imaginative, visionary, collaborative, immersive performer and audience experiences at the interchange of movement, art, ecology and social issues. She believes we must commune, collaborate and converse through movement, sound and ideas for an equitable and sustainable future for all. 

Her personal journey and vocational mission regarding the body, spirit and transformation owes much gratitude for the life-lessons in moving in relationship with her husband of 21 years and three powerhouse daughters (10,12,19 yrs).

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The Transformation of Fear
Oct
7
7:00 PM19:00

The Transformation of Fear

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

I would like to see you living 

In better conditions…” -Hafiz

Life is complex, as are our fears.  Often we experience patterns of immobilization in fear. We become stagnant in stuffy-old familiar rooms inside ourselves.  The good news is that moving with and through our fears is a process of becoming and evolving into more well-being and more spacious-being!  

In the complexity of our fears, can we build body-based self-awareness toward understanding how our BODY-BEING needs to move for transformation through the fears?:  A resounding, yes!

Join Transformationalists, Freya Kennedy and Karin Stevens, for a series of 3 online workshops.* Through Freya’s teaching on the beauty of the Enneagram, a psychology from sacred tradition, we will learn about the complex nature of human fear. Karin’s facilitation of The Art & Practice of Movement will offer us body-based practices for cultivating embodied awareness of our inner patterns/narratives of fear and how to transform fear through movement toward a healthier ground of being for which we can grow from beyond these workshops. 

*You do not need any previous experience with the Enneagram.  On some level every human experiences an expression of every pattern of fear.  The 9 pattern-types will be shared in a three-part series workshop.  Take one workshop or all three!  

ONLINE Wednesdays, September 30th, October 7th and 14th, 7-8:30pm PST

Single Workshop Fee: 

$30-$60 sliding scale

A portion of your payment will go toward a fund to support individuals in financial need who are seeking our transformationalist support in this challenging time of Covid. 


To Register: karinstevens@gmail.com for payment and zoom link. 

Freya Kennedy is a Transformationalist and Enneagram Advisor, who helps individuals, couples, and professional teams looking to deepen and expand their unique potential by understanding their internal motivations and learning how to move beyond them. For as long as she can remember she has been curious about why we act the way we do. She has always loved observing herself and others in a myriad of situations. Once described as a Wrecking Ball and Balm, she is a seeker, continually searching for meaning, beauty, and how to bring more love into the world.

Before deciding to start her own business, Freya has been caring for people, creating beauty, and encouraging personal growth in a variety of ways. She has nannied, facilitated yearly art markets, hosted monthly discussions on thoughtful living, worked several jobs with an emphasis on guest experience and hospitality, and most recently led the hospitality team in the dining room at the experiential Inn at Langley, for seven years. 

Freya enjoys time with her husband, two teenage sons, and dog. She loves hearing people’s stories, dancing, smiling, eating amazing food, and paddle boarding on Lake Crescent. 


Karin Stevens is a facilitator in The Art & Practice of Movement. For six year she has been assisting others on their own evolutionary and healing journeys through movement in individual and group sessions. With over 25 years in embodied movement and spiritual practices she brings robust wisdom and deep sensitivity to the needs of every unique session.  As a Seattle based Choreographer, Dance Artist and Transformationalist she believes in the power of movement to bring us back into health and spiritual ecology within ourselves, with each other, and through our natural and built environments. 

In spite of being a life-long vocational dancer, Karin had to learn to move in new ways to overcome her personal pain and challenges.  She believes that if every individual began this same journey back into the body, each one of us will become a great force for collective healing and transformation, particularly in the area of dismantling white supremacy.  

Through her dance company, Karin Stevens Dance (2009-present), she creates imaginative, visionary, collaborative, immersive performer and audience experiences at the interchange of movement, art, ecology and social issues. She believes we must commune, collaborate and converse through movement, sound and ideas for an equitable and sustainable future for all. 

Her personal journey and vocational mission regarding the body, spirit and transformation owes much gratitude for the life-lessons in moving in relationship with her husband of 21 years and three powerhouse daughters (10,12,19 yrs).

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The Transformation of Fear
Sep
30
7:00 PM19:00

The Transformation of Fear

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

I would like to see you living 

In better conditions…” -Hafiz

Life is complex, as are our fears.  Often we experience patterns of immobilization in fear. We become stagnant in stuffy-old familiar rooms inside ourselves.  The good news is that moving with and through our fears is a process of becoming and evolving into more well-being and more spacious-being!  

In the complexity of our fears, can we build body-based self-awareness toward understanding how our BODY-BEING needs to move for transformation through the fears?:  A resounding, yes!

Join Transformationalists, Freya Kennedy and Karin Stevens, for a series of 3 online workshops.* Through Freya’s teaching on the beauty of the Enneagram, a psychology from sacred tradition, we will learn about the complex nature of human fear. Karin’s facilitation of The Art & Practice of Movement will offer us body-based practices for cultivating embodied awareness of our inner patterns/narratives of fear and how to transform fear through movement toward a healthier ground of being for which we can grow from beyond these workshops. 

*You do not need any previous experience with the Enneagram.  On some level every human experiences an expression of every pattern of fear.  The 9 pattern-types will be shared in a three-part series workshop.  Take one workshop or all three!  

ONLINE Wednesdays, September 30th, October 7th and 14th, 7-8:30pm PST

Single Workshop Fee: 

$30-$60 sliding scale

A portion of your payment will go toward a fund to support individuals in financial need who are seeking our transformationalist support in this challenging time of Covid. 


To Register: karinstevens@gmail.com for payment and zoom link. 

Freya Kennedy is a Transformationalist and Enneagram Advisor, who helps individuals, couples, and professional teams looking to deepen and expand their unique potential by understanding their internal motivations and learning how to move beyond them. For as long as she can remember she has been curious about why we act the way we do. She has always loved observing herself and others in a myriad of situations. Once described as a Wrecking Ball and Balm, she is a seeker, continually searching for meaning, beauty, and how to bring more love into the world.

Before deciding to start her own business, Freya has been caring for people, creating beauty, and encouraging personal growth in a variety of ways. She has nannied, facilitated yearly art markets, hosted monthly discussions on thoughtful living, worked several jobs with an emphasis on guest experience and hospitality, and most recently led the hospitality team in the dining room at the experiential Inn at Langley, for seven years. 

Freya enjoys time with her husband, two teenage sons, and dog. She loves hearing people’s stories, dancing, smiling, eating amazing food, and paddle boarding on Lake Crescent. 

Karin Stevens is a facilitator in The Art & Practice of Movement. For six year she has been assisting others on their own evolutionary and healing journeys through movement in individual and group sessions. With over 25 years in embodied movement and spiritual practices she brings robust wisdom and deep sensitivity to the needs of every unique session.  As a Seattle based Choreographer, Dance Artist and Transformationalist she believes in the power of movement to bring us back into health and spiritual ecology within ourselves, with each other, and through our natural and built environments. 

In spite of being a life-long vocational dancer, Karin had to learn to move in new ways to overcome her personal pain and challenges.  She believes that if every individual began this same journey back into the body, each one of us will become a great force for collective healing and transformation, particularly in the area of dismantling white supremacy.  

Through her dance company, Karin Stevens Dance (2009-present), she creates imaginative, visionary, collaborative, immersive performer and audience experiences at the interchange of movement, art, ecology and social issues. She believes we must commune, collaborate and converse through movement, sound and ideas for an equitable and sustainable future for all. 

Her personal journey and vocational mission regarding the body, spirit and transformation owes much gratitude for the life-lessons in moving in relationship with her husband of 21 years and three powerhouse daughters (10,12,19 yrs).

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VIRTUAL National Water Dance 2020
Apr
18
1:00 PM13:00

VIRTUAL National Water Dance 2020

We are reorganizing this event into a virtual community performance so that we can continue to encourage each other even as we are physically distant. Where are we dancing? In our living rooms, backyards, porches, or a nearby body of water.

Wherever we are, we’ll be live streaming our dances on social media on April 18th at 1PM PST.

Now more than ever, it is clear that our bodily selves matter.

National Water Dance brings together dance artists and community members in site-specific movement solos to create a virtual choir to encourage awareness, education, and action on critical water issues. This year’s event has taken on a special importance amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, and our dances are our collective invocation for healing.

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN DANCE WITH KARIN STEVENS DANCE IN THE SEATTLE AREA:

  1. Email us and connect with us on social media to let us know you'll be dancing with us, so we can announce your Seattle Area livestream and follow you back!

    IG: @nationalwater_dance @karinstevensdance

    FB: @nationalwaterdance @karinstevensdance

    Email: karinstevensdance@gmail.com

  2. Learn the movement! We will email you the opening and closing movement phrases. You can make up whatever you would like to do in the middle.

  3. Go live on your social media account along with thousands of other dancers on April 18th at 1PM PST.

  4. Upload and share your video. When you’re done with your live stream, save it and upload it to your social media account on Instagram or Facebook. In the post or story include our hashtags: #nationalwaterdance #nationalwaterdance2020 #dancingforourlives #seattlewaterdance and tag Karin Stevens Dance when you post so we can reshare your dances!

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Why All This Music?
Jan
10
to Jan 11

Why All This Music?

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Why All This Music?

Friday, January 10 | 8PM

Saturday, January 11 | 8PM

Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Ave, Seattle 

Karin Stevens Dance is delighted to present Why All This Music?, an evening of four new dance works exploring the human body in relationship to the outer world, January 10 + 11 at Velocity Dance Center. These works mark a return to Artistic Director and Choreographer Karin Stevens’ roots as a dance-maker interested in the pure expression and design of the body in movement. 

“Following the belief that all of life is movement––inherent with moving shapes; rhythmic changes that include felt tempo and meter––I was interested in how the animate, “more than human”* world would influence my improvisational voice in four different outdoor locations,” says Stevens. 

These locations include her backyard during winter and summer where the grass has grown wild, the cliffs, beaches, and forests of Kauai Island, Seattle’s Llandover Woods, and Cortes Island, British Columbia.

Utilizing video recordings of Stevens’ improvisational practices as source material, each dance, although reflective of her unique movement signature, has revealed its own design, rhythm, texture, and feel. 

To capture even more of the magic of the animacy arising in all of life, the performance features live spontaneous sound creation played in real time response. Small ensembles of some of Seattle’s finest improvisational musicians have been curated by beloved collaborators Kin of the Moon. While the musicians will be given a video tape of the dances prior to the performance, they will not actually perform with the dancers until the premiere event on January 10 + 11th.

*Term coined by the Philosopher and Cultural Ecologist David Abram.

Featuring Seattle Dancers:
Robert Moore (he/him)
Maeve Haselton (they/them)

Ben Swenson-Klatt (they/them)
Hazel Morris (she/her)
Micaela Gonzales (she/her)

Emma Klein (she/her)
Anja Kellner-Rogers (she/her)

Small Ensembles of Seattle Improvisational Musicians, Curated by Kin of the Moon:

Crows at a Crosswalk:
Leanna Keith, flutes; Daniel Husser, bouzouki, guitar

CHA:
Carol J. Levin, electric harp; Heather Bentley, electric 7 string violin; Amelia Love Clearheart, spontaneous poet, vocals, percussion, electronics

Heather/Dio Duo:
Heather Bentley, viola; Dio Jean-Baptiste, drums

Kin of the Moon:
Leanna Keith, flutes; Heather Bentley, viola; Kaley Lane Eaton, keyboard 

……………………………………………………………………………………………...


To Be Alive

By Gregory Orr

To be alive: not just the carcass

But the spark.

That's crudely put, but…

If we're not supposed to dance,

Why all this music?

From Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved
(Copper Canyon Press, 2005)

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Global Water Dances
Jun
15
3:00 PM15:00

Global Water Dances

Location: South Lake Union Park

KSD's Ongoing Water & Climate Change Project

A movement through our water concerns and climate change consequences.

To learn about this project that is part of our ongoing work with water and climate: https://www.karinstevensdance.com/currentwork/2018/6/23/ongoing-water-climate-change-project

To learn more about the global event: https://globalwaterdances.org/

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Sea Change Within Us
May
10
to May 12

Sea Change Within Us

Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4089567

Location: BASE

Performances:

Friday May 10 - 8pm

Saturday May 11 - 4pm & 8pm

Sunday May 12 - 2pm & 6pm

Saturday June 15 - 3pm, Free Event at South Lake Union Park

http://globalwaterdances.org/

A Base Independent Production

To learn about this project that is part of our ongoing work with water and climate: https://www.karinstevensdance.com/currentwork/2018/6/23/ongoing-water-climate-change-project

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AUDITION - Sea Change Within Us
Feb
16
2:00 PM14:00

AUDITION - Sea Change Within Us

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CALL FOR PROFESSIONAL DANCERS

8 week Project from March 17 - May 12

& June 15th


With: KARIN STEVENS DANCE (KSD)


What: May 10 - 12 World Premier of Sea Change Within Us at BASE: Experimental Arts +Space; June 15 Global Water Dances at South Lake Union Park

MORE INFORMATION about this new work: https://www.karinstevensdance.com/currentwork/2018/6/23/ongoing-water-climate-change-project We are looking for 10 professional dancers. Stipend: $800-$1000 (app. 40-50 hrs rehearsal and 6 performances)


Performances:

Friday May 10 - 8pm

Saturday May 11 - 4pm & 8pm

Sunday May 12 - 2pm & 6pm

Saturday June 15 - 3pm


Mandatory Rehearsal For EVERYONE (includes breaks and tech/dress):

May 6 - 9

Monday May 6 - 12 - 6:30

Tuesday May 7 - 10 -7

Wednesday May 8 - 12 - 6:30

Thursday May 9 10 - 7


Additional Rehearsals:

March 17 - May 5 (App. 15 - 22 hrs spread over these weeks)

*see below


AUDITION:

Saturday February 16, 2-4 (Let us know if you desire to be considered, but can’t make this audition.)

Velocity Dance Center


*Please send the following to karinstevens@gmail.com:

Resume, photo, video (optional)

Include in email YOUR availability within the following options:

M/W 11:30 - 3:30; T/TH/F 10:30 - 2:30; Evenings/Weekends anytime.

Please do not hesitate to email any questions. I will build small group rehearsals from the dancers and their availability during March-April and bring everyone together the week of May 6th.


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Lily & LUNG | at ArtShare-LA
Jan
19
8:00 PM20:00

Lily & LUNG | at ArtShare-LA

Photo Arthur Allen

Photo Arthur Allen

ArtShare L.A.
Los Angeles, CA

Tickets for $20 will be sold at the door, but can be pre-purchased here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3924971?fbclid=IwAR3iO0BXZl-JIYiIVmrWKJnLqLEyBCDee990_bapJ1ydSX1WnXwfQXhIweg

Karin Stevens and composer/sound artist Kaley Lane Eaton present an evening of two works: a reproduction of the award-winning Lily, and the premiere of LUNG. Together these pieces explore issues of migration, connection, and finding one’s voice in the world today.

Lily [bloom in darkness] is a 35-minute electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, harp, and dance, with an original libretto by poet Felicia Klingenberg. Lily explores the psyche and heart of Lily Isabel Bunny, an orphan who fled England at the start of WWI. Through imagining a dream Lily may have had her first night sleeping in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, this work examines her transformation upon entering a new world, exploring the experience of migration and displacement uniting our species.

LUNG is a collaborative work for dancers, musicians (bass flute, tenor saxophone, concert harp, two violas, and trumpet), six loudspeakers, and audience exploring the process of finding one’s voice as both individuals and communities. Loudspeakers punctuate the space, laid out as a room-sized version of the respiratory system. Musicians and dancers move through the space as breath moves through the body when preparing to speak, and the audience is invited to follow, experiencing sounds from a variety of perspectives.

Stevens and Eaton seek to unlock the voices of the marginalized to tell the true stories of our time for posterity. Through both personal experience and observations of society, they understand that the voice can get caught deep in the lungs, never to escape and proclaim itself.But when the winning breath is taken – with help from those around us – the voice explodes in ecstasy, telling lost stories, and freeing the body.

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lily [bloom in my darkness] & LUNG
Oct
11
to Oct 14

lily [bloom in my darkness] & LUNG

Photo Arthur Allen

Photo Arthur Allen

lily [bloom in my darkness] & LUNG
October 11-13 | 8PM
October 14 | 2PM

Erickson Theatre Off Broadway
Seattle, WA

Karin Stevens Dance presents an evening of two works in collaboration with award-winning composer/sound artist Kaley Lane Eaton: a reproduction of the award-winning lily[bloom in my darkness] and the premiere of LUNG. Together these pieces explore issues of migration, connection, and finding one’s voice in the world today.

Featuring live music composed by Kaley Lane Eaton performed by Kin of the Moon and Strange Interlude, with guest movement & sound artist The Indigo/Amelia Love Clearheart. 
lily [bloom in my darkness] libretto by felicia klingenberg
Costume design by Sarah Mosher
Lighting design by Meg Fox

lily [bloom in my darkness] is a 35-minute electroacoustic opera for voice, live electronic processing, pulse sensors, violas, saxophone doubling clarinet, harp, and dance, with an original libretto by poet Felicia Klingenberg. Lily explores the psyche and heart of Lily Isabel Bunny, an orphan who fled England at the start of WWI. Through imagining a dream Lily may have had her first night sleeping in a cabin in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, this work examines her transformation upon entering a new world, exploring the experience of migration and displacement uniting our species.

LUNG is a collaborative work for dancers, musicians flutes, bass clarinet, concert harp, cello, viola, electronics, six loudspeakers, and audience exploring the process of finding one’s voice as both individuals and communities. Loudspeakers punctuate the space, laid out as a room-sized version of the respiratory system. Musicians and dancers move through the space as breath moves through the body when preparing to speak, and the audience is invited to follow, experiencing sounds from a variety of perspectives.

Stevens and Eaton seek to unlock the voices of the marginalized to tell the true stories of our time for posterity. Through both personal experience and observations of society, they understand that the voice can get caught deep in the lungs, never to escape and proclaim itself.But when the winning breath is taken – with help from those around us – the voice explodes in ecstasy, telling lost stories, and freeing the body.

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