Creating, collaborating, teaching and presenting. acornDance

• PROFILE • CALENDAR • CLASSES • SITE SERIES • CONTACT/SUPPORT
• UMAMI Performance

photo by Laurent Ziegler/lingo dancetheater

Based in Bellevue, WA just outside of Seattle, acornDance supports the creative work of movement artist, Aiko Kinoshita and her Company of performers. Projects include solo and group performance, creation of traditional and site-specific choreography; creative collaborations with other artists, teaching in community, professional and collegiate settings; and the production of shared performances with regional and visiting artists.

As a production company, acornDance encourages networking and collaboration between independent dance artists through shared ventures of formal and informal concerts of work, lecture-demonstrations, teaching, site-specific improvisational performances, and lecture demonstrations. Previous collaborators have included artists from Washington, Illinois, New York, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Projects have also toured to Illinois, Wisconsin, Korea and Japan.

acornDance also produces the SITE SERIES:: Dance on Common Ground, a summer series of site-specific contemporary dance performances, based in improvisation, staged in public spaces and offered free of charge. Please visit the SITE SERIES page for more information. Current creative collaborations include UMAMI Performance with dance artist, Aaron Swartzman.

Class opportunities include on-going classes at Velocity Dance Center a(Seattle) as well as at summer workshops. Please visit the CLASSES page for details.

acornDance has received support from the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation, 4Culture, City of Issaquah, City of Bellevue, and Allied Arts, among others.

photo by Jim Clymer 2008

To read more about the company, please click here.