2026 Jan 27
Seattle dance organization CO- helps connect artists with audiences
Local dance organization CO- is dreaming up new ways to connect Seattle-based dancers and choreographers with audiences in the city.
by Jas Keimig
press
2025 Dec 3
CO- Show 12
Under the scream of an airplane above, I am beckoned by two stories of floor-to-ceiling windows, glowing electric violet. I start to feel the bass low in my ribs as I get closer to the crowd. I see mesh, leather, platforms, animal print, and lots of black. The atmosphere is peak chic, and I would expect nothing less: I am at CO- Presents’ 12th iteration of their popular Performance + Party series.
by Leah Crosby
2025 Feb 19
Performance/party: Seattle-based collaborative CO- launches Show 9 in Los Angeles
After a long week — and as all of Los Angeles can attest, a long January — I was relieved to discover that finding the venue entrance was the hardest part of attending CO-’s Show 9.
by Celine Kiner
2023 May 31
Dance Steps Out
When the double-wide doors of Mutuus Studio swing open, we know the next performer is about to begin. Drinks in hand, the crowd gathers around doors and windows, peering out as a car pulls up, its headlights illuminating the courtyard. Tariq Mitri steps from the vehicle and headstands in a bucket of water, emerging to shake his sopping head wildly side to side, glistening droplets spraying into the night.
by Kaitlin McCarthy
2024 Sept 5
Immersive experiences and more Seattle art trends to try
To change up the couch-reminiscent “sit and watch” energy of much live art, groups like the collaborative dance outfit CO–, run by dancers Emma Lawes and Maya Tacon, are bringing a party element to their performances.
by Margo Vansynghel
2025 Oct 30
CO- Show 11 brings us back together
It’s a treat when CO- brings their performance party format to Los Angeles. Their charged two-show evenings at Pink Box Studios platform dance for playing, sharing, experiencing.
by Celine Kiner
2024 June15
CO- Show 7
Gooey, supportive partnering emerges in the middle of a DJ set. Dancers Maia Melene D’urfé and Althea Alexander rotate like two planets that have just engulfed each other. The audience forms a semicircle around them as they merge. These converged dancers build spatially, maintaining shared weight through widespread lunges and expanded arms. Deep, ambient drones and crumbling rock sounds begin to infiltrate the soundtrack.
by Meredith Pellon
2025 Apr 23
thousands of Seeds
Of Us, a new dance piece created and performed by local performers Jenna Eady and Tariq Mitri, is a deceptively simple and honest evening that is in turns moving, heartfelt, vigorous and delicate, but often all at once. Both Eady and Mitri have deep familial connections to the Palestinian region—a region that has been very much in the news since October 2023, and that still weighs heavily on the collective imagination...
by José Amador
2023 Dec 22
Antidote for Apathy
Everyone working to create a more humane world is what is keeping me going right now. The grief and fatigue is very real for me as I assume it is for you, too. The infographic “Callings and Roles for Collective Liberation” from social justice organization The Slow Factory motivated me to consider the contributions of performing artists in this moment of cultural upheaval.
by Fox Whitney