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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.
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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.
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