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

April 23-25, 2027, Meydenbauer Theater, Bellevue, WA

CHOP SHOP is a contemporary dance festival founded in 2008 and produced by Inlet Arts. Our 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.

Fourteen festivals. 410+ artists. 76 dance companies.

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.

"…one of the region's most important dance events." — Dean Speer, Critical Dance, 2016

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