Washington Ensemble Theatre presents

reSET
featuring Au Collective and Gender Tender

Original dance works inspired by and presented on the set of Revolt. She said. Revolt again.

TWO NIGHTS ONLY
October 13 & 14 at 10:00pm

Choreographers and dancers don’t often have opportunities to utilize complex or fully-realized sets. With this in mind, The Ensemble provides opportunities for dancers to make pieces on its elaborate theatrical sets. Curated by Mark Haim, Babette Pendleton, Alice Gosti and Ensemble alum Ali Mohamed el-Gasseir, The Ensemble will continue this program in tandem with its future 12th Avenue Arts mainstage productions.

AU COLLECTIVE
Au Collective develops relatable and engaging dance art that reflects our multi-faceted family of dancers. We highlight the creative perspective of all our members including people of color, queer people, and women.

GENDER TENDER
SYNIVA WHITNEY (choreographer, lead performer, collaborator) and WILL COURTNEY (lead performer, collaborator) are the duo behind Gender Tender, a performance project that centers transgender, non-binary and multiracial points of view in a process that combines dance and acting techniques, cinematic devices and visual art practices. They’ve shown work in duet and ensemble mode in Seattle at Velocity Dance Center, On the Boards, the Seattle International Dance Festival, Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival, Gay City Arts, Studio Current and more and have performed in Minneapolis produced by 20% Theatre Co. Twin Cities, 9×22 Dance Lab, Patrick’s Cabaret and Pleasure Rebel, and at Future Interstates curated by HIJACK. They have worked as performers and collaborators with Aniccha Arts (MPLS) and Vanessa DeWolf (SEA) and have had their short films screened nationally as a part of Malic Amalya’s project Infrared: New Visions from the Queer Underground. They have also experimented with co-writing and most recently were invited by the Walker Art Center to respond to the 2016 Out There performance art festival . Syniva holds an MFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited their visual art nationally. Syniva has also performed with Maureen Whiting Dance Co, kt shores and Paris Hurley (all SEA) and has studied performance and dance with BeBe Miller, Kris Wheeler, Vanessa DeWolf and Stephanie Skura. Will and Syniva met at Shakespeare camp as teenagers and have been a collaborative in love and work for over a decade.

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Washington Ensemble Theatre is generously supported by 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, K&L Gates, The Stranger, KUOW FM, Seattle PI, The Studios, and STOUT.