Season
June 25, 2022
Erin Johnson has been a part of Velocity’s leadership for the past three years. There she works to create networks of support for Seattle-based dance artists, emerging through established, by building and sustaining residency and performanc
By My Own Hand, Part 1: GHOSTING
June 24–26, 2022
Allie Hankins’ By My Own Hand, Part 1: GHOSTING dissects the inner monologue of a performer through questioning the boundary lines of the audience-performer relationship.
CORE/US
June 23–26, 2022
Vanessa Goodman (Vancouver) considers the embodiment of sound and how to generate artistic material in real-time that creates a direct correlation between movement and sound. "Core/Us" is a captivating new group work from Action at a Distan
June 23, 2022
dani tirrell, Seattle’s Mayor Arts Award recipient 2019, is a Black, Trans Spectrum, Queer choreographer, dancer, and movement guide. dani has guided people in Detroit and Seattle as well as sharing movement practices in other cities in the
MELTED RIOT: SPECTRA(L)
June 21, 2022
MELTED RIOT: SPECTRA(L) uses tactics rooted in dance, punk music, durational performance, and visual art to investigate the effects peaceful and violent forms of support and sabotage have on the bodies, minds, and spirits of the transgender
June 17, 2022
Following Friday night's performance, award-winning poet and artist Shin Yu Pai will lead a post-show conversation with Haruko Crow Nishimura and Joshua Kohl. Together, they'll engage in conversations about the healing and transformational
June 16–26, 2022
Fragmented Flow is a chance to lose yourself in a world pieced together through exciting experimental performances by PNW artists. This year, OtB brings together four artists for an intimate investigation of different concepts of identity a
Skeleton Flower
June 16–18, 2022
Degenerate Art Ensemble’s (Seattle) richly visual performance playfully considers three fairy tales—The Fitcher’s Bird, The Wild Swans, and The Red Shoes—that were read to the artist as a child, as a ritual for the healing of trauma and the
CUTLASS SPRING
May 19–22, 2022
Canadian artist Dana Michel disrupts audiences’ expectations through improvisation, comedy, hip-hop, and other methods of appropriation and collage. Michel explores physicality and stereotypical identity politics.
Other Rooms
May 5–7, 2022
Pamela Z will perform an evening set of solo works for voice and electronics. Her performance evenings combine live electronic processing, sampled sound, and rear-projected video.
May 4, 2022
This year’s fundraiser, Spectacle Spectacular 17: On The Birds, will include a cocktail hour, a special performance by Pamela Z in the Merrill Theater, a studio supper, and a lively raise the paddle to raise money for On The Boards’ artist
Revival
March 24–28, 2022
A ritual performance descends deep in the belly of the whale, seeking a world of possibility. We are swallowed and reside in the belly of a whale. We seek wonder in this strange collective isolation. Together, we breathe each other in, we a
A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly
March 3–12, 2022
Following a successful run of Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s A THOUSAND WAYS (Parts One and Two), On the Boards is excited to present the culminating installment, A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Three): An Assembly, an intimate return to the act
An Untitled Love
February 10, 2022
Kyle Abraham is one of the most sought-after choreographers and dancers of our time. The bold creator has choreographed for New York City Ballet, NYCB dancer Wendy Whalen, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and more.
Thank You For Coming: SPACE
January 20–23, 2022
Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final performance in Driscoll’s celebrated Thank You For Coming series—which includes Attendance and Play. Driscoll considers theater one of the last secular social spaces, where the vulner
December 2–4, 2021
The Future is 0, presented by On the Boards and Sub Pop, is back for 3 nights — LIVE and in-person at On the Boards! This cult-comedy live game show has artist contestants competing in a dizzying array of mental, physical, and psychologica
Come on In
October 8 – November 6, 2021
In Faye Driscoll’s form-reimagining work Come On In, reframing her acclaimed trilogy Thank You for Coming, audiences will encounter, and engage, choreography as an activated exhibition—built at OtB, following an initial iteration at the Wal
Let ‘im Move You: This is Formation
September 24–25, 2021
This Is a Formation, the Final Work in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You Series of Performance and Visual Works Informed by Black Queer and Black Femme Innovations, Centered Around the Artists’ Explorations with t
Let ‘im Move You: Intervention
September 23, 2021
Let ‘im Move You: Intervention will be on sidewalks and in alleyways, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham draw on J-Sette’s call-and-response structure to reveal the powerfully singular expression that can emerge within this highly re
Reclaimed Timber
September 14–18, 2021
Reclaimed Timber is a Sonic Portrait of Cities’ Unique Housing Histories and Disparities from Chicago-based Ensemble Beyond This Point, September 14 (at Facing Homelessness’ BLOCK Project Shop) and September 16-18 (at On the Boards)
September 14 – November 6, 2021
A FALL FESTIVAL THAT PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF SPACE AND FORM
August 12, 2021
solid objects is a multi-year collaborative project between visual artist Victoria Haven and choreographer Heather Kravas.
August 5–31, 2021
Where do we go for peace of mind? How do we navigate our truths with the truths of others? In a world that shrinks, and blends, and mixes, how can we challenge the divisions that are created for us without our permission? Benjamin Hunter bl
