reSET
Spring of 2027 | 12TH AVE ARTS
reSET aims to cross pollinate Seattle’s dance and theater communities by expanding our artists’ audiences and platforms, as well as experiment with resources, inspiration, and unique ways in which choreographers can create new work. The program reSET is centered around a low-stakes, high-risk mentality that encourages experimentation, creativity, and play.
Join us this season in the playful surreal world of H*llo K*tty Syndrome as a new collective of dancers build upon the set of our fall thriller.
BEHIND THE PROGRAM
ALICE GOSTI
CURATOR
NIA-AMINA MINOR
CURATOR
RANA SAN
CURATOR
MARIA MANNESS
LEAD PRODUCER
NIA-AMINA MINOR
Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist, choreographer, curator, and educator originally from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the body and what it carries using physical and archival research to explore memory and history. Nia-Amina is co-founder of Black Collectivity, a collaborative project that explores and celebrates memory and culture through embodied responses. She has received regional and national commissions for her choreographic and film work and has a working background as a performer and dramaturg. In 2021, she was recognized as Dance Magazine’s 25 Artists to Watch. Nia-Amina holds a MFA from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University is currently based in Seattle, WA.
Photo Credit: Tawfiq Abdulaziz
RANA SAN
Rana San is an intermedia artist, cultural arts practitioner, curator, and choreographer pondering hyper visibility, bodily autonomy, and immigrant liminality. Her creative and curatorial practice centers experimental and analog approaches to storytelling through film, writing, and movement presented on screen and stage. Based between Seattle and Istanbul, she co-directs the annual Cadence Video Poetry Festival and is a co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances.
Photo Credit: Anastasia Babenko
MARIA MANNESS
Maria is a facilitator of the performing arts through use of her management, fabrication, and education skills, and love of spreadsheets. She is the Managing Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre, where she started as the Production Manager in 2013. Outside of WET she has worked with institutions such as Velocity Dance Center and On the Boards, but favors working directly with artists such as Emmy Smith-Stewart + Jeffrey Azevedo, Kitten N’ Lou, Alice Gosti, Cherdonna Shinatra, and Drama Tops, many of whom she had the great fortune of meeting through the reSET program, which she has Stage Managed since it’s inception. Sometimes she makes zines under the monicker daisy chain press.
Photo Credit: Kendall Lauren Shea