2023 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL

We are delighted to begin once again reaching out across the globe to artists who bring creativity and vitality to our community, as well as engage in intercultural exchange with our own Seattle-based, Khambatta Dance Company (KDC). Collaborating together over a ten-day residency, KDC and international guest artists choreograph new works in under a week, and Seattle residents are invited to experience this creative hotbed of dance-making in the process.

As the only Seattle-based dance company that tours abroad every year, KDC continuously engages with artists across the globe, bringing back to Seattle different aesthetics anchored in diverse cultural contexts. With over 25 years of this dance-focused globe-trotting, KDC’s work is infused with international influences as well, which can be felt both in its artistic gestalt and the presence of its traveled dancer’s.

Walking into a show at SIDF, produced by Khambatta Dance Company since 2006, is like walking into an embassy, where everyone speaks international dance. The thrill of different languages being bandied about, artists working to bridge cultural and aesthetic gaps, and dancers physically sharing their personal intimate space using only the language of the body to guide them – this is the flair of the SIDF experience. Join us for a spin around the world of dance.