CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work is back in January & February 2021, bringing you our signature sampling of stellar contemporary dance in a new and expanded online format!

The centerpiece of the 2021 online festival is a series of seven world premiere dance films created by leading local and national artists. Drawn from diverse backgrounds and possessing strong individual voices, the artists are united through the language of dance and its power to stir the senses. In 2021 CHOP SHOP proudly presents dance films by:

As a complement to the dance films, CHOP SHOP 2021 invites you to join us for no experience necessary dance classes, live Q&As with festival choreographers, master classes for experienced dancers, and an arts journalism intensive offered in partnership with our friends at TeenTix!

All our 2021 festival programming is offered on a free or pay-what-you-can sliding scale, with all proceeds shared by the festival artists.

We wish we could gather together in person to experience the work of these brilliant artists, but we're so excited to explore this new format with you - we'll see you at the online festival!

 
 
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CHOP SHOP is proud to participate in the Northwest Arts Streaming Hub (NASH)! With a mission “to serve as a channel guide and digital venue for multidisciplinary artists and their content,” NASH is a central online location where you can
We're here with deep gratitude: thank you to everyone who powered CHOP SHOP through GiveBIG by donating generously, sharing your personal CHOP SHOP stories, & helping cheerlead! Your generosity propelled us past our original $3,500 goal to a tot
We’re almost there thanks to your amazing generosity + support! 👏 . We’re only $974 away from reaching our overall stretch goal for GiveBIG! Can you help us cross the finish line? Every dollar donated increases the accessibility of conte
Thanks to your generosity we reached our initial GiveBIG goal of $3,500 to power CHOP SHOP in the coming year. To everyone who donated yesterday: thank you for your support, it means the world to us! . Our work is not done, so we've set a stretch goa

About the Festival.

CHOP SHOP’s mission is to offer insight on contemporary dance and its creative process, in order to forge deeper connections between artists and audiences through presentation, education, dialogue, and experience. The festival is committed to promoting work that is accessible to a diverse audience, comprising both new and experienced dance viewers, and providing free, fun, and open to all ages and abilities dance classes through our innovative Experience Dance Program.

Since its founding in 2008, CHOP SHOP has shared and championed the work of 410+ individual artists from 76 dance companies, welcomed over 1,000 Experience Dance Program participants to free and open to all ages and abilities dance classes, and invited numerous dance students to engage directly with professional artists in more than 70 master classes.

Banner Photo: Javier Padilla & The Movement Playground performing Javier Padilla’s until innocence at CHOP SHOP 2019, photo by Bret Doss.