Seattle International Dance Festival - Beyond the Threshold

June 10 - 19, 2011

This festival fills the South Lake Union neighborhood and the Seattle Streetcar with a multitude of international, national and local dancers.

For 10 days performers from around the globe take over the streets and Cornish College's Raisbeck Performance Hall with shows, site-specific works, installations and workshops highlighting contemporary artists from Iraq, Japan, Netherlands, Mexico and all over the United States including many Seattle artists.
In addition to the featured International Artists Series, there are dozens of outdoor family friendly "Art on the Fly" dance events and the highly anticipated performance series Spotlight on Seattle.

For this year's Spotlight on Seattle, four dance icons curate their take on the Seattle dance scene. New and old pieces are performed by both emerging dancers and established choreographers such as Donald Byrd, who see SIDF as an opportunity to step back on stage for a rare solo dance performance. Selected curators are Erin Boberg Doughton (Time Based Arts Festival), Molissa Fenley (Bessie award-winner), Julie Tobaison and Timothy Lynch (Seattle Dance Project).

Outdoor and kid-friendly park activities include the fantastical 14-foot Nincompoopiana puppets, hoola hoop dance, Capoeira dance, a circus sideshow, Balloon-dress dance, acro and roving stilts, a dance on the new SLU Park footbridge and spontaneous flash mob dance lessons. The first 100 participants at McGraw Square at 12 noon on June 11th get a day pass to ride the streetcar for FREE all day!.

The Seattle International Dance Festival has grown enormously. In just over five years it has presented over 250 different local, national and international artists from 20 countries. The public/private partnerships that SIDF nurtures allow the festival to consolidate its activities in the South Lake Union neighborhood and infuse this growing community with art and dance for 10 special days a year. And the wildly popular Art on the Fly activities have expanded to include dance events at three streetcar stops as well as inside the new Lake Union Park. The Seattle Streetcar will transform into an art ride like nothing Seattlites have seen before!

Tickets to all other indoor events are $17 in advance, $20 at the door (Students/Seniors are $15 in advance $17 at the door). All details, including performance times, locations and ticketing information are available at www.thresholdfestival.org.

HIGHLIGHTS (complete schedule at www.thresholdfestival.org)

ART ON THE FLY - June 11; 12 noon - 6pm - KID-FRIENDLY!
Take a Fantasy Art Adventure on the Seattle Streetcar
Dozens of FREE kid-friendly events centered around three streetcar stops stretching from South Lake Union to Downtown: McGraw Square Stop, 2200 Westlake Plaza Stop and Lake Union Park Stop.

Complete schedule http://phffft.org/documents/ArtOnTheFly_schedule2011.pdf

INTER|NATIONAL ARTISTS SERIES WEEKEND 1 - June 10-12
Iraqi Bodies (Iraq/Netherlands) - performing "The Crying of My Mother" a metaphor of religious conflict in Iraq.
Katsura Kan (Japan) performs "Voyagers" a duet with Butoh and Javanese influences.
Ciudad Interior (Mexico) this eight member company performs "Homooidal."
Agnieszka Laska Dancers(Portland OR) five etudes about the turbulence of love and all its facets.
Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle WA) performs "(fay ce que vouldras)" as commissioned by the Guggenheim.

INTER|NATIONAL ARTISTS SERIES WEEKEND 2 - June 17-19
Scott Wells and Dancers (San Francisco CA) action-packed Contact Partnering infused with contemporary and classical dance.
Khambatta Dance (Seattle WA) performs two new works; the fast and furious "Rush" that highlights this company's athleticism and split-second timing, and "Centrifugal Force" a portrait of the feminine connecting the earth's momentum with the forces that command our lives.

SPOTLIGHT ON SEATTLE - June 14-16
Four dance icons take on the Seattle dance scene.
June 14 - curated by Erin Boberg Doughton featuring Lizzy Melton collaborating with Nina Vallon, Kate Wallich, Jurg Koch and Khambatta Dance Company.
June 15 - curated by Molissa Fenley featuring Karin Stevens Dance, bad marmar dance / Marlo Martin, Penny Hutchinson and Khambatta Dance Company.
June 16 - curated by Julie Tobiason and Timothy Lynch featuring Stacy Lowenberg, Gabrielle Schutz, Kate Wallich, Maureen Whiting Company, Donald Byrd, Kiyon Gaines and Khambatta Dance Company.

Indoor Event Tickets $15 - $20 / All Outdoor Events are FREE
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/105672

General Info: 206-935-0459; Ticket Info: 1-800-838-3006

Art on the Fly Press Preview: June 10, 11:30 - 1:00pm at The New Amazon Plaza.
Inaugural Plaza Event. Outdoors rain or shine. 410 Terry Ave

Art on the Fly: June 11, 12-6 pm;
At Streetcar Stops: McGraw Square (5th & Westlake Ave), 2200 Plaza (Westlake & Denny) and Lake Union Park (860 Terry Ave. N.)

Inter|National Series: June 10-12 & June 17-19; Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 7:30pm
Raisbeck Hall, 2015 Boren Ave.

Spotlight on Seattle: June 14-16; Tue-Thur 7:30 pm
Raisbeck Hall, 2015 Boren Ave.


About Khambatta Dance Company: The Khambatta Dance Company whose Artistic Director is of Indian/biracial origins, highlights and celebrates the international influences on his work. As the founder of Beyond the Threshold Festival, Mr. Khambatta and his company perform original works informed by his extensive artistic formation abroad, keeping a finger on the international artistic pulse and maintaining relationships with counterparts abroad, bringing the creative spoils of this international mindset to local audiences. Mr. Khambatta's work fuses complex athletic partnering and split-second timing with theatrical nuance.