Our Mission: To create and make freely available an online resource of the diverse dance history of individuals, organizations and venues in the greater Seattle and King County region, from 1900 to the present day.

We invite contributions to show the broad spectrum of genres and styles of dance artists, organizations, institutions, and studios through events, venues, and personal stories.
We welcome tributes for individual members of the community who are no longer with us.

Submit your personal or your organization’s history and a photo at
GreaterSeattleDanceHistory.Omeka.net 
Submissions subject to editing for style, accuracy and clarity.

We are an all-volunteer crew of individuals who are passionate about dance, and want our ephemeral history to be documented and accessible to all.

Sandra Kurtz

Sandra has been watching dance in Seattle and elsewhere and writing about it for over 40 years, starting with the Seattle Sun, and including Dance Magazine, DanceViewTimes, and the Seattle Weekly. She helped to found the Northwest Dance Coalition (1981-89), editing their newsletter and working on many dance service projects.  She’s taught dance history, Labanotation, and technique at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts.  Alongside that she’s worked in arts administration, technical theater, and served on the boards of the Dance Critics’ Association, the Society of Dance History Scholars, and SeattleDances.

Lodi McClellan

Lodi has performed, taught, and written about dance since 1980. Her criticism and articles have been published by Teaching Artist Journal, Dance Teacher Magazine, Contact Quarterly, the International Dictionary of Modern Dance, Dance International, Seattle Weekly, DanceNet, SenseAbility, and Curve. She has presented pre-performance lectures for the Chamber Dance Company, Seattle Theater Group, The Orcas Center, and Meany Theater, and served as a panelist/facilitator for the Dance Critics Association, SeattleDances.com, and the University of Washington Dance Program. Since 2020 she has been Professor Emerita at Cornish College of the Arts where she taught writing, history, teaching methods, and ballet for 25 years.

AC Petersen

AC (she/her) is a founding co-editor of DanceNet print publication from 1990 - 2000. She has a B.A in Architecture from the UW and apprenticed with Richard McCann, FAIA on theatre renovations including 5th Avenue Theatre, Tacoma Pantages and Pasadena Playhouse.
She ran On the Boards' 12 Minutes Max in the 1990s, and helped inaugurate the International Artists’ Program at Northwest Asian American Theatre (NWAAT).
Her choreography has been shown at, or commissioned by, On the Boards NW New Works; Bumbershoot, Men in Dance, D-9 Dance Collective, and Sumatra International Dance Festival. She has received support from Seattle Arts, King County 4Culture, and the Bossak Heilbron Foundation.