Please join us at Base on Saturday, March 23 at 4pm for Akoiya Harris' informal showing and community gathering. 

As a part of her practice, Akoiya engages with memory work as an impetus for creation. This looks like collection of oral histories, archival research, sitting with photos and other ephemera, and visiting spaces that hold familial or communal significance. In this residency, she will be investigating ways these processes can further inform her movement. Akoiya will be exploring physical responses to both external memories and the ones that only the body holds.

Space is limited– please reserve a free ticket in advance. Masks are encouraged, but not required at Base.

Akoiya Harris is a movement artist based in Seattle Washington.  Her work uses a queer Black gaze to explore how art holds personal and communal histories. Akoiya's practice is rooted in finding ways oral history, archival research, and poetry can be interwoven into dance works. She has collected oral histories on  behalf of the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, a community story training program through Wa Na Wari, and Black Collectivity. Akoiya has also participated in the Black Embodiments Studio Arts Writing Incubator.  As a choreographer, she has shown work at the Seattle Art Museum, Wa Na Wari, On The Boards, Friends of the Waterfront, Velocity Dance Center, The Moore Theater, and more. Akoiya is a founding member of Black Collectivity, a group that explores memory and culture through embodied responses. Following a matriarchal lineage of teachers, Akoiya is a dance educator working with youth at Ailey Camp and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She has also performed with Spectrum Dance Theater, Will Rawls, Zoe|Juniper, Third Rail Projects, and SoloMagic. 

Accessibility at Base:

The Factory has a ramped entrance located at the north end of the building (through the orange door); the southern entrance of the building is only accessible by stairs. The building has limited outside lighting and can be difficult to navigate and locate when its dark out.

Once inside, Base is accessible by ramp through our front doors. Please note that Base is not a scent-free space. The Factory has two gender neutral multi-stall restrooms and two single stall restrooms that are wheelchair accessible.

Because we share a building with other studios, there are often industrial noises throughout the building and heavy machinery operated such as forklifts.

Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to shann@thisisbase.org

Photo provided by Bruce Tom

[Image Description: Akoiya is in a green top and pleated blue and green skirt made by Le'Ecia Farmer. Her hands are opened, and she is looking up.]