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SAM Performs: Sea Change Within Us

Sun Oct 19 2025

11:30 am–6 pm

Olympic Sculpture Park

PACCAR Pavilion

Sea Change Within Us is a 60-minute performance addressing local Washington state water concerns and climate change consequences through the voices of real people, combined with moving rigid structures of water images by dancing human bodies.

Ten dancers move four panels into dynamic configurations to express concerns about rivers and dams, endangered species, ice, ocean and sea-level rise, flooding, migration, Indigenous fishing rights injustice, divisive politics, and human dis/re/connection. Within these turbulent thematic layers, grief is addressed through the real sounds of mother orca Tahlequah’s cries in the “Rivers, Dams, Salmon, Orca” section. Collective awareness is awakened in the section “Descending Pressure” with the repeated phrase from a climate activist-artist, “Our bodies are a source of wisdom.” The performance encourages unification with our ecosystems and throughout difficult content there is contemplation and beauty to support the felt-urgency of our crises.

Program

Showing #1
11:30 am | Doors open
Noon–1 pm | Performance
1:30 pm | Doors close

Showing #2
4 pm | Doors open
4:30–5:30 pm | Performance
6 pm | Doors close

Since 2009, Karin Stevens Dance has produced over twenty-five concerts and dance-activism community events, toured inter/nationally and collaborated with award winning composers and music groups. Karin Stevens Dance captures the breadth of the moving human experience through diverse performance works that investigate the complex layers of our cultural spaces, time, and relationship to Earth and the spiritual.

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