“Bringing together dancers who share a common interest in real-time composition.”
SEABUS IS…
A vehicle for exploring improvisation in dance making and performance. SeaBus is a container for folks interested in researching improvisational dance practices. This group of movers is fluid and always shifting allowing dancers to come and go and for collaboration to be at the heart of the process. Their work involves coming together to share, play and dig deeper.
Our ROOTS
"SeaBus began as a cross-country collaboration between dancers in Seattle, Washington, and Columbus, Ohio. In the summer of 2016, Seattle dancers, Kori Martodam and Jonathan Lilly, met Columbus dancer, Josh Hines at a week long workshop at Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachusetts. The three discovered a mutual interest in physical movement as an art form, with an emphasis on dance improvisation in performance—and SeaBus (SEAttle + ColumBUS) was born. Since, each city has developed a core group of movers and in June and October of 2017, the parallel groups from each city collided to rehearse intensively and perform their research. The first performance debuted in Seattle in a work called, Indigo and the second manifestation, Loom, was brought to Columbus, Ohio."