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-Allison Van Dyck is a dance performer, choreographer, and teacher
interested in creating performance where movement converses with light,sound, and design. She has created dance for theater, installation, and film, and has created costumes for dance and theater companies. From 2000-2006, she was choreographer and co-director of SOM performance. The company focused on dance and video collaboration and was awarded a year long artist residency/performance at Consolidated Works in 2005. SOM was featured at On The Boards, Seattle Art Museum, Bumbershoot Arts Festival,and Velocity Dance Center and was awarded numerous grants for their innovative collaboration. Allison's choreography has been commissioned by Gamelan Pacifica, Cornish College of the Arts, and Smoke Farm. Allison also dances with Zoe/Juniper Dance Company, was a core-member of Mary Sheldon Scott/Jarrad Powell Performance from 2000-2007, and was awarded the 2001 International Dance Web Scholarship to study in Vienna at the ImpulsTanz Festival.


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-Recently returned to Seattle from Tokyo/Yokohama (dancer) Corrie Befort (1978) has been creating dance works for ten years in the Northwest, Minneapolis and Belgium, and in Japan since 2005. She engages in energetic collaborations with composers, musicians, videographers/animators and dancers including Tom Baker, Jason Anderson, Sheri Cohen, Emily Stone, Hisao Ihara, Anne Adachi, Tim Olive, Takahiro Kawaguchi, and many others. In June 2008 she presented the Seattle premiere of evening-length work Salt Horse with collaborators Beth Graczyk and Angelina Baldoz.

Studying ballet, music and fine art from an early age, Corrie attended the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Minneapolis and received her BFA in Dance from Cornish College in 1999. She has also been the recipient of the danceWEB scholarship to Vienna's ImPulsTanz Festival and a choreographic residency at the Rosas/P.A.R.T.S. school. She has danced for Scott/Powell Performance (1998-2005), Sheri Cohen Ensemble (2001-2004) and as a guest with Natsuko Tezuka (2005-2007).

The naturally cinematic nature of Corrie's choreography led her to the dance film genre in 2000. Since then she has produced three dance films soon to be joined by a fourth, Sagamihara, in late 2008. Her films have screened in festivals in the US, Belgium and Japan, and are currently distributed by IndieFlix.com. In 2007 her film Rota was awarded a Choreography Media Honor by Dance Camera West at the Directors Guild of America, Hollywood.
Corrie teaches contemporary modern, improvisation, and dancers' conditioning classes in Japan and the US. In Japan she also worked in the commercial entertainment industry, modeling and dancing for music videos and television.

Corrie's Website: www.cBefort.com


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Jim Kent (dancer) started dancing in 2000 and has worked professionally with a number of local choreographers since moving to Seattle in 2002. He graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. A classically trained musician, he accompanies ballet class for Ellie Sandstrom and Violette Tucker at Velocity Dance Center. Currently entering his third season with Scott/Powell Performance, he danced in the world premiere of Geography at On the Boards in 2007. He has performed excerpts of the work at the Southern Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, and at the Myrna Loy Center for Performing Arts in Helena, MT.

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-Jody Kuehner (dancer) has been living in Seattle and dancing with d9 Dance Collective since 2004. She also dances with LAUNCH Dance Theater and continues to do as many side projects as she can with dancer/choreographer Ricki Mason and the Century Ballroom. Jody co-founded Left Field Revival with Heather Budd, they will be doing an evening length show in March 2009 at the Joyce SoHo in NYC. She was the dance intern for the Pat Graney prison project Keeping The Faith 2007 series. Jody will be dancing for the Pat Graney Company starting this year with the project House of Mind set to debut in Seattle November 2008 and then touring throughout the country. During the day Jody works as Velocity Dance Center's Operations Manager.


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-Kamran Sadeghi is a Seattle based sound artist, composer, and mixed media artist focusing on digital audio and visual presentations of works for live performance and installations. Sadeghi's background in music and art is a mixture of self taught, private lessons, and academia in music theory, composition, and audio engineering. Since 2003 he has been an integral part of Seattle's electronic arts community through his extensive live performance schedule under the stage name Son of Rose, and as a producer collaborating with local and national artists. Sadeghi has released recordings of compositions that have received critical acclaim in U.S. and European publications while helping to establish an international reputation for Seattle based record label Dragons Eye Recordings.
His solo performances using prepared grand piano, live electronics, and video have been highlights during gallery exhibitions and festivals. Sadeghi’s compositions have been selected to premier in the WPA\C's Experimental Media series Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art / Armand Hammer Auditorium in DC. Sadeghi’s current series of audio video works entitled "Kha Variations" are a live transposition of sound into color, shape, and motion that aim to externalize sound’s embedded information through a visual mapping and construction.

Websites: www.kamransadeghi.com || www.sonofrose.com

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