Witness the budding talent of our music students as they take the stage to deliver captivating performances.

By Naomi Iizuka

Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls investigates our search for identity, meaning and home.
Naomi Iizuka’s non-linear, comedy explores the multitudes we individually contain  - human and otherwise - and the endless possibilities for how our lives might intersect as we evolve towards and apart from one another. Both the literal and allegorical  jungle loom large throughout the play, providing a backdrop for our fears that exist in the unknown, and how we run towards or away from them. 

Music by Daniel Messé
Lyrics by Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen
Book by Craig Lucas

The world of Amèlie teems with people helping each other in a quest to find joy in the little things in life. Each character seems stuck halfway, unable to take a leap and step into their unknown...but Amélie finds a way to crack each personal roadblock.

Based on the motion picture Amélie written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant”

Two Seattle Dance visionaries, Heather Kravas and Tonya Lockyer, are in residence with Cornish Dance Theater students this fall experimenting with patterns of movement and energy in Cornish's 9th Avenue Gallery. 

Composition as Explanation / This Will Have Been by Tonya Locker in co-creation with the performers. Original sound by BC Cambell. A web of interconnectedness reflects performance histories and how a small change can make a world of difference. Energetic patterns meet ghosts of Beckett, Bruce Nauman, hip hop and performance dance.

Be Sides by Heather Kravas in collaboration with the dancers. Original sound by Dana Wachs/Vorheestwo.

Discreet dances unfold in time and space, to be contemplated simultaneously by the performers and audience. Like weather systems across a vast expanse, the improvised and choreographed structures feature anomalous shapes, and ecstatic pony prances. Choreographed by Heather Kravis in collaboration with the dancers.

New Moves is a concert of student choreography produced annually by the Dance Department at Cornish. Witness original dance works crafted by our students, highlighting their explorations in choreography and movement research developed throughout the semester.  

This semester, New Moves will be a department wide collaboration with the following courses presenting work: Creative & Movement Foundations, Improvisation Techniques, Advanced Choreography and Digital Dance. The instructors for each course will create a framework for students to present material cultivated throughout the semester.  

Two Seattle Dance visionaries, Heather Kravas and Tonya Lockyer, are in residence with Cornish Dance Theater students this fall experimenting with patterns of movement and energy in Cornish's 9th Avenue Gallery. 

In Kravas’s Be Sides, three discreet dances unfold in time and space, to be contemplated simultaneously by the performers and audience. Like weather systems across a vast expanse, the improvised and choreographed structures feature morphing lunges, anomalous shapes, and ecstatic pony prances.

In Lockyer's performance, co-created with Cornish Dance students, a web of interconnectedness reflects performance histories and how a small change can make a world of difference. Energetic patterns meet ghosts of Beckett, Bruce Nauman, hip hop and performance dance.

ALICE BY HEART

Book by Steven Sater and Jessie Nelson

Music by Duncan Sheik

Lyrics by Steven Sater