TICKETS
>>Purchase tickets here for the 2026 Seattle International Dance Festival, featuring over 125 artists from South Korea, Burkina Faso, India, Finland, and the Pacific Northwest. Celebrate more than 20 years of bringing the world of contemporary dance to Seattle's doorstep!
Seattle International Dance Festival 2026
Purchase a Festival Pass
Flexible and convenient – Good for all shows during the festival
Details:
Bypass the lines and see what you want and when – with two pass options available. The Premium Festival Pass offers entry to all shows with a wide array of free drinks and snacks at every show and helps support the festival. The All Access pass offers entry to all performances for under $12 a show.
Inter|National Series - Opening Night
Saturday, June 6th at 8pm – Weekend One, Program A
Artists:
To celebrate opening night, all tickets are free! Special thanks to 4Culture’s Public Free Access program for making this possible. Performances include MYOWNMOVE (S. Korea), whose work Constructed Selves asks the question, “Am I shaped by my own choices, or by the gaze of others and societal expectations?”, and Khambatta Dance Company (Seattle, WA) with 404: Human Not Found, where fascination with machines erodes identity through a creation made in our likeness, plus a brand-new collaboration featuring both companies, created in just a matter of days before the performance.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Up and Coming Education Series
Sunday June 7 at 2pm – Education Programming and Performance Series
What:
Dance studios across the region share the diverse creative approaches that represent the city’s creative juggernaut. Experience the next wave of Seattle dance artists before they hit the big stages.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Inter|National Series
Sunday, June 7th at 7:30pm – Weekend One, Program B
Artists:
NUA (S. Korea) shares a visceral dance-theatre work tracing a fallen being’s search for redemption through human connection in Salvation, and Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle, WA) returns to the SIDF stage.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Spotlight on Seattle
Tuesday, June 9th at 7:30pm
Artists:
Dive into the Seattle dance scene with the artists selected by this year’s panel: Hana Carlson, Lucille Jun & Co., Rodrick Barnes, Wade Madsen, and Zihao Yuan.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
James Ray Residency & Touring
Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30pm – Program A
Artists:
Witness the work of artists selected for this year-long program. Davianna Griffin explores generational grief through collective healing and joy in Seeds Of Mourning, and Tatkaar y Taconeo present Panchaboota, a cross-cultural exploration of life through music, dance, and the five elements.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
James Ray Residency & Touring
Thursday, June 11th at 7:30pm – Program B
Artists:
Witness the work of artists selected for this year-long program. Maisy Neill’s work, To The Breaking Point, searches for lasting contentment—and why we sabotage it, and Soapy Towell Productions says NO to BS (and pulp) in No Pulp. Plus CollabArt Creations’ What if that Thread were Braided? looks at strength in connection when we’re barely hanging on.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Inter|National Series
Friday, June 12th at 8pm – Weekend Two, Program A
Artists:
Olympic Ballet Theatre (Edmonds, WA) explores the courage to remain vulnerable and connected in a world shaped by pain, finding strength in tenderness and human connection in an original work by Beth Twigs titled Our Tender Distance, and The Guild (Seattle, WA) takes the stage.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Inter|National Series
Saturday, June 13th at 8pm – Weekend Two, Program B
Artists:
Portland-based soothsayer performs soothsayer X S.A.D. (search and destroy), exploring self-imposed boundaries and their impact on relationships; Compagnie Tamadia (Burkina Faso) brings Kounfetaga, an evocative solo blending dance, storytelling, and music to examine resilience, transformation, and cultural roots amid loss, and Grinnell College’s Dance Ensemble Activate presents Errance, a contemporary work using wandering as a metaphor for disorientation, cultural drift, and global crises shaping bodies, identities, and relationships.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill
Inter|National Series
Sunday, June 14th at 7:30pm – Weekend Two, Program C
Artists:
Ethan Pak Rome Dance (Seattle, WA) finds the power in softness, waving and undulating currents course between the sarcomeres, gathering and carving the air around us, and Khambatta Dance Company premieres a new work.
Theater:
Broadway Performance Hall – located at 1625 Broadway on Capitol Hill