About the Dances

Artistic Director Jennifer Bassage Bonfil’s new work is rooted in reflection, drawing from memories of past Annual Concerts and a curiosity about how memory lives in the body and brain. Inspired by shared and individual memory, neural pathways, synapses forming and firing, and the duality of the brain’s hemispheres, the choreography explores patterns of connection and response. Movement sequences are built, altered, and revisited, tracing how memories strengthen and reorganize through time, experience, and relationship. Original music by Brian Wood, featuring flute, piano, voice, and layered textures, unfolds as a living soundscape inspired by the emotional resonance of memory itself.

Choreographer Brit Falcon’s newest work, Moon Tides, is shaped by the dancers’ voices and their fleeting collisions layered through time. The movement is built collaboratively with the dancers, drawn from personal prompts, partnering games, improvisational scores, and gestures created in community. Sweeping group sections travel across the stage with speed, momentum, and grit, while quieter interwoven duets reveal moments of connection, support, and care. Like the moon and the earth to one another, the dancers both shape and are shaped by the shifting pulls between individuality and belonging as they grow alongside one another. The original sound score is developed and composed by Brit Falcon, with contributions from the dancers.

Choreographer Devin Oshiro’s new work brings dancers together in a collaborative exploration of how individual voices shape and strengthen community. Drawing from movement that blends precise angularity with grounded circularity, the choreography unfolds through themes of unity, contrast, support, and independence. Connections form and dissolve in ephemeral moments, creating a shifting architecture of bodies in space. At its core, the work asks: What can we build together that we cannot build alone? An original score by Zaq Kenefick weaves together atmospheric soundscapes, driving beats, and unexpected musical textures, shaped through play and improvisation.

About our Choreographers

Brit Falcon (she/her) 

• New York City based choreographer, educator, and critically acclaimed dancer 

• Earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland and a BFA in Dance from The College at Brockport  

• Teaching credits include Colorado Mesa University, NYU Gallatin, University of Oregon, Nazareth College, American Dance Festival, Gibney Dance Center, University of Hartford, Goucher College, and Performática (Mexico) 

• On faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and makes work with Falcon Dance 

Jennifer Bassage Bonfil (she/her) 

• Started teaching at The Wooden Floor in 2006 and is the current Artistic Director 

• Earned her BFA from Chapman University and MA from the University of Northern Colorado 

• Founding Company Member of Backhausdance 

• Previously taught at Chapman University, California State University Long Beach, and Santa Ana College 

Devin Oshiro (she/her) 

• Japanese–Mexican American dance artist from Diamond Bar, CA, who relocated to Seattle in 2025 

• Earned her BA in Dance, magna cum laude from California State University, Fullerton 

• Danced with Gibney Dance Company and worked as their Deputy Artistic Director of Community Action 

• Has presented work nationally and internationally including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival