Festival History.
CHOP SHOP was founded in 2008 on a mission to offer insight on contemporary dance and its creative process, forging deeper connections between artists and audiences through presentation, education, dialogue, and experience. The festival promotes work accessible to a diverse audience - comprising both new and experienced dance viewers - and provides free, fun, and open to all ages and abilities dance classes through our innovative Experience Dance Program.
Since its founding in 2008, CHOP SHOP has shared and championed the work of 410+ individual artists from 76 dance companies, welcomed over 1,000 Experience Dance Program participants to free and open to all ages and abilities dance classes, and invited numerous dance students to engage directly with professional artists in more than 70 master classes.
Past Festival Artists.
2020
Chien-Ying Wang & Paul Ocampo / OcampoWang Dance (New Jersey)
Nicole von Arx / NVA & Guests (New York City / Switzerland)
Adam Barruch (Brooklyn) / Daniel Costa Dance (Seattle)
Eva Stone / The Stone Dance Collective (The Eastside)
Omar Román De Jesús / Boca Tuya (New York City)
Seda Aybay / Kybele Dance Theater (Los Angeles)
Donald Byrd / Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle)
Ramona Sekulovic (Brooklyn)
2019
Lauren Horn//Subira vs. Movement Dance Company (Windsor, CT)
Javier Padilla & The Movement Playground (New York)
The Stone Dance Collective (The Eastside)
Margot Gelber & Dancers (New York)
natalya shoaf (San Francisco)
Lydia Relle (Phoenix/Seattle)
Julia Antinozzi (New York)
Julie Crothers (Oakland)
2018
Alicia Mullikin|MORENA // Alicia Mullikin (Seattle)
Bellingham Repertory Dance // Mark Haim (Bellingham)
Courtney Mazeika in collaboration with Marlie Couto (Berkeley)
Kyle Davis (Seattle)
Mari Meade Dance Collective // Mari Meade (Brooklyn)
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Stewart/Owen Dance // Vanessa Owen (Asheville, NC)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (Eastside)
2017
New Zealand School of Dance // Christina Chan (Wellington)
MOVETHECOMPANY // Joshua Beamish (Vancouver, BC)
Anatomiae Occultii // Adam Barruch (New York City)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Bryn Cohn + Artists // Bryn Cohn (New York City)
Project20 // Donald Sales (Vancouver, BC)
The Foundry // Alex Ketley (San Francisco)
Mark Haim (Seattle)
2016
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Catapult Dance // Michele Miller (Seattle)
Kyra Jean Green (Montreal)
//TECTONIC MARROW SOCIETY // Colemxn Pester (Seattle)
LED // Lauren Edson (Boise)
Anna Conner + CO // Anna Conner (Seattle)
SubRosa Dance Collective // Carlyn Hudson (Portland, OR)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Alexander Pham (Seattle)
Liz Houlton (Seattle)
2015
The Foundry // Alex Ketley (San Francisco)
Alana O Rogers Dance Company // Alana O’Farrell Rogers (Seattle)
Asher Lev (Israel / Belgium)
Coriolis Dance // Joshua Beamish (Seattle / Vancouver, BC)
Gabrielle Revlock (Philadelphia / New York City)
Jamie Karlovich (Seattle)
Lindsey Matheis (Portland, OR)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Project20 // Donald Sales (Vancouver, BC)
2014
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Grand Rapids Ballet // Mário Radačovský (Grand Rapids, MI)
Adam Barruch (New York City)
Gerard Regot (Barcelona / Portland, OR)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Bryn Cohn + Artists // Bryn Cohn (New York City)
Pocket INC // Vincent Michael Lopez (Seattle)
Price Suddarth (Seattle )
Anna Conner + CO // Anna Conner (Seattle)
Ballet Arkansas // Shayla Bott (Little Rock)
2013
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Kiyon Gaines (Seattle)
Heather Dotto (Vancouver, BC)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Mid-Columbia Ballet // Georg Cantor (Richland, WA)
Shayla Bott & Company (Provo, UT)
Andrew Bartee (Seattle)
Pocket INC // Vincent Michael Lopez (Seattle)
Bennyroyce Royon (New York City)
MOVETHECOMPANY // Joshua Beamish (Vancouver, BC)
2012
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Adam Barruch (New York City)
Northwest Dance Project // André Mesquita (Portland, OR)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (Seattle)
SANDSTROMMOVEMENT // Ellie Sandstrom (Seattle)
MOVETHECOMPANY // Joshua Beamish (Vancouver, BC)
Jason Ohlberg (Seattle)
Khambatta Dance Company // Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle)
Penny Hutchinson (Bellingham, WA)
Bellingham Repertory Dance // Daniel Stark (Bellingham, WA)
2011
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Zoe Scofield (Seattle)
Bellingham Repertory Dance // Joshua Beamish (Bellingham, WA / Vancouver, BC)
Tonya Lockyer (Seattle)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Wade Madsen (Seattle)
SD/Prism Dance Theatre // Sonia Dawkins (Seattle)
The Sho // Michael Rioux (Seattle)
Catherine Cabeen and Company // Catherine Cabeen (Seattle)
Quark Contemporary Dance Theatre // David Lorence Schleiffers (Seattle)
2010
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Mark Haim (Seattle)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (Seattle)
Seattle Dance Project // James Canfield (Seattle)
Whim W'Him // Olivier Wevers (Seattle)
SD Prism Dance Theatre // Sonia Dawkins (Seattle)
acornDance // Aiko Kinoshita (Seattle)
Khambatta Dance Company // Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle)
The Sho // Michael Rioux (Seattle)
Peninsula Dance Theatre // Lara Littlefield (Bremerton, WA)
Quark Contemporary Dance Theatre // David Lorence Schleiffers (Seattle)
Coriolis Dance Collective // Natascha Greenwalt (Seattle)
2009
Spectrum Dance Theater // Donald Byrd (Seattle)
Wade Madsen (Seattle)
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside))
Mark Haim (Seattle)
Seattle Dance Project // Heidi Vierthaler (Seattle)
Olivier Wevers (Seattle)
Khambatta Dance Company // Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle)
Coriolis Dance Collective // Hannah Lagerway (Seattle)
2008
The Stone Dance Collective // Eva Stone (The Eastside)
Mark Haim (Seattle)
Seattle Dance Project // Edwaard Liang (Seattle)
Khambatta Dance Company // Cyrus Khambatta (Seattle)
Jason Ohlberg (Seattle)
DASSdance // Daniel Wilkins (Seattle)
Banner Photo: Bryn Cohn + Artists performing Bryn Cohn’s If you sink at CHOP SHOP 2014, photo by Rex Tranter.