Benita Bike's DanceArt – In Concert at Erickson Theatre in Seattle

From Los Angeles ‒ considered by many to be the “cradle of modern dance” ‒ comes chamber modern dance company Benita Bike’s DanceArt ‒ to perform at Seattle Central College’s intimate Erickson Theatre on March 9 & 10, 2024. The Erickson is located at 1524 Harvard Ave., Seattle with convenient parking at the Harvard Street Garage, corner of Harvard and Pine. Show time is 8pm on Saturday, March 9 and 2pm on Sunday, March 10. Tickets are $35 general admission and $25 students at https://BenitaBikeSeattle.eventbrite.com. For information:818-470-5734 or DanceArt.org.

Considered by critics to be both modern and contemporary, Benita Bike’s DanceArt brings a program of original concert dance works to the Erickson Theatre. Known for its “beautifully evocative choreography and lovely company of dancers,” the Company looks forward to share its own brand of musicality, architectural choreography, and elegant dancing with Seattle audiences. The Erickson shows will feature:

▪ Premiere of a New Dance – Still in development, this dance uses fabric to carve the stage space and connect the personalities onstage.

▪ For Rose – about the passing of choreographer Benita Bike's mother Rose. Stark and poignant, this dance touches on complicated feelings of love, discordance, and death.

▪ Aspects of Me – a celebration of the complexity of self with solos and duets titled “Me and Myself,” “Me and the Branch,” and “Me and Her”

▪ Griot Songs – 3 stages of womanhood: child into woman, young womanhood, and maturity

▪ Plugged – explores our relationships to the machines that occupy our world and how these machines affect our sensitivity to nature, quiet, and the earth

▪ Schoenfield Dances – features a rag, fughetta, shuffle, and boogie, melding early 20th century popular dance with a classical movement sensibility 

Tickets/Info: https://benitabikeseattle.eventbrite.com/ or (818) 470-5734.