After fourteen festivals and a pause, the Eastside's contemporary dance festival comes back for its fifteenth year. Meydenbauer Center Theatre, Bellevue, WA.

CHOP SHOP: Bodies of Work is a contemporary dance festival founded in 2008 by StoneDance Productions and now produced by Inlet Arts. We bring choreographers from the Eastside, across the country, and around the world to Bellevue — with master classes, post-show conversations, and free community classes open to every age and ability.

Omar Román De Jesús at CHOP SHOP 2020, Photo by Bret Doss
…one of the region’s most important dance events.
— Dean Speer, Critical Dance, 2016

410+

artists presented

76

dance companies

1,000+

in free classes


Apply

Applications open September 15

Javier Padilla performing at CHOP SHOP

The 2027 Festival

Artists announced in January

Bryn Cohn and Dancers performing at CHOP SHOP

The first fourteen years

Every artist we’ve presented since 2008