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From Pinterest to Stage

For Silver Spoon we've taken certain inspirational images quite literally while others have been manipulated to better suite the characters we are trying to portray.

It's always so exciting...

Coriolis in Springshot!

We're excited to share with you first that Coriolis will be presenting a new work in Springshot festival at 18th and Union in Capitol Hill.

This new work features a family of three and their...

SHUT

We are excited to share the performance footage of SHUT choreographed by Meredith Pellon and performed by Eva Crystal for Wielding Forms Dance Festival. The magic of this piece was how embodied Eva...

Lack- 5 Minute Cut

This video shows the in process solo Lack which will be build into an evening length work. A diptych, this work will be shown alongside a group piece, the solo exploring desire followed by the grou...

Inside look into Wielding Forms Dance Festival

How Kyrin Grey will be playing with chance for the upcoming festival!

Inside look into Wielding Forms Dance Festival!

Learn more about the piece Nicole Cardona will be creating for Wielding Forms Dance Festival

Meet Shenandoah Harris

Shenandoah will be choreographing a quartet for Wielding Forms Dance Festival, she is also the Artistic Director of Psychopomp Dance Theater in LA. Psychopomp Dance Theater is grou...

Wielding Forms Curators!

We are excited to share with you first the Wielding Forms Curatorial team consisting of Prasti Purdum, Stacy Brenner, Madeleine Gregor, and Robbi Moore. As Coriolis moves into it's 15th season we'r...

New Collaborations Underway

This past month we have been meeting and collaborating with Stella Kuntz of Yaw Theater to build a new dance festival, Wielding Forms. The creation of this festival helps us further our mission of ...

A Thank You and A Toast!

Happy August, and with August comes Season 15 for Coriolis Dance! The biggest things on our mind for this season are sustainability and growth, and we have some exciting ideas and programs planned ...

Endangered

We're excited to share the video footage taken of Endangered at Seattle International Dance Festival!

Choreographed by Natascha Greenwalt and Jason Ohlberg

Endangered- Premiers June 12th

Happy June! We've been in pressure cooker mode this month for the creation and premiere of Endangered. Co-choreographed by Natascha Greenwalt and Jason Ohlberg it has been amazing to see them work ...

Happy May!

We're already into May! This past weekend we opened The Art of Seafaring at Yaw Theater, the show has been called dreamy, soulful, and masterful. But a successful opening didn't come without a moun...

Happy April!

Last month Endangered Species started it's rehearsal process with Jason and Matt flying in from NY. Jason has fully set the Quartet portion of the work to be shown at SIDF, a recreation of a work h...

Endangered Species

Endangered Species

Just a few beautiful moments from our residency for Endangered Species, we're returning back to rehearsals come May for our performance at SIDF this June!

Soon to be around town!

Posters are ready to start marketing The Art of Seafaring! With just about a month and a half until opening night we are going to start posting posters around town, plus tickets are live! You can b...

Through Our Eyes

So many different artists have dove into how and where they seek inspiration to share with you, however, we all missed a big one. And that's watching/viewing other art. While trying to dissect and ...

The Art of Seafaring in-process

We had the privilege to show our in process work of The Art Of Seafaring this past Saturday at The Shed last Friday. So many fresh perspectives and new ideas are floating around helping inform next...

Meet the cast!

The Art of Seafaring is full of fresh faces new to Coriolis! In order of pictures we have Nicole Cardona, Shayley Timm, Tess Neil, Daria Fisher, Grace Garrett and Madeleine Gregor. We are just over...

Search Party in Process

This video clip is from our rehearsal this past Wednesday where we introduced the paper boats into the Search Party Trio. This section still needs some clarification, finesse, and detail work but y...

The Notebook

As for most choreographers my notebook holds all my little thoughts and ideas surrounding The Art Of Seafaring. I like to use sticky notes for sections that are color coded based off of group or in...

Tickets Live for In-Process Showing

The Art of Seafaring choreographed by Madeleine Gregor and Co-Directed by Lauren Hlubny and Madeleine Gregor deftly weaves illustrative poetry, ballet tropes, contemporary movement, and theater int...

Happy February!

Photos above are taken from a section of The Art Of Seafaring titled "moon gazing" which juxtaposes the softness and vulnerability of gazing at the moon with a deliberate tossing of unwanted ideas ...

Shayley Timm

Apprentice Grace Garrett set this phrase on Shay based off of this phrase in King Lear's monologue "Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters."...

Sea Violet- Tess Neil

A moment from last week's rehearsal investigating each dancer's solo poem. Here Tess is improvising to Sea Violet by Hilda Doolittle, this is her first interpretation of the words as well as first ...

Building a ritual

This week started the rehearsal process for The Art of Seafaring. I'm thankful to have Co-Director Lauren Hlubny at my side to start the creative process and world building for the cast. Last night...

From a Big Bruise to The Art of Seafaring

How inspiration from a close friend's beautiful artwork started the idea of The Art of Seafaring. Photos of Christin Call's work Big Bruise, taken by Christin Call. This work is available for purch...

January Update!

Happy New Year! And Thank You

Taking a quick moment to thank our wonderful Patreon community, this platform and your support has had a huge impact on Coriolis the year. The monthly support allows us to operate with less fear an...