About Coriolis Dance Collective

our mission

Coriolis Dance is a postballet company that forwards the artistic voices and artistic leadership of womxn by supporting the creation and presentation of stories about the strength and resilience of womxn’s vulnerability.

our vision

provide a platform for our Founders and Co-artistic Directors Christin Call and Natascha Greenwalt to create new Postballet work
provide space, time, and resources for the development of new performance work
maintain a practice of equal pay for womxn
are committed to creating an environment for artists to communicate openly and safely
contribute to the vitality of the community through rigorous technical standards and high-quality presentation of our productions

our story

Coriolis Dance is a women-led contemporary ballet company founded by creative partners Natascha Greenwalt and Christin Call. We work together to create stories of strength and resilience through vulnerability. Formed in 2008, we are the originators of Postballet, an approach that expands the rigors of ballet technique with the contemporary practices of improvisation, embodiment, and interdisciplinary conceptualism.

Our works are complex, emotionally raw, and highly stylized experiences designed to immerse our audiences and renew perception around themes such as mental illness, grief, the feminist lens, and homelessness. Coriolis has been a seven-year recipient of 4Culture Sustained Support, as well as receiving grant support from the 4Culture GAP Award, ArtsWA, National Endowment for the Arts, and Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Coriolis and the Co-artistic Directors have received numerous creative residencies, including: Velocity Creative Residency, Flight Deck Residency at Open Flight Studio, the James Ray Residency from Seattle International Dance Festival, eXit Space Creative Residency, Studio Current residencies, and the Propellor Residency at Yaw Theater. In 2017 Coriolis attended the La Figlia House Artist Retreat in Fraine, Italy. We have also partnered with organizations such as Axis Gallery, Facing Homelessness, Seattle Demo Project, and Tuya Vale Artist Collective.

In our repertoire we have the acclaimed works of our Co-artistic Directors as well as internationally renowned choreographers such as Zoe Scofield and Joshua Beamish. With over 35 works in our repertoire, we create annual works to sold-out audiences in Seattle. We have been presented by Velocity Dance Center and Northwest Film Forum, and we have been selected for festivals such as the A.W.A.R.D. Show at On the Boards in conjunction with Joyce Theater, Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, Seattle International Dance Festival’s Contemporary Ballet Spotlight, Chop Shop: Festival of Dance, and many others.

Coriolis is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

from the press

Coriolis’ egalitarian, female-forward sensibility is no coincidence, but the fruit of collaborative female leadership, and that is radical in the often male-led, hierarchical ballet world. If you love ballet, go to Coriolis for the gorgeous dancing, stay to support independent women artists.

CityArts Magazine

William Blake-esque in their contradictory qualities of innocence and insanity ... layers of meticulously planned detail, meaning, and exquisite dancing.” SeattleDances

SeattleDances

Graceful, airy movement mixes effortlessly with grounded floor work—the dancers seem just as comfortable balanced in a suspended arabesque as they do tumbling creature-like across the floor. Partnered flips and contemporary lifts add an acrobatic element, while liquid spines add emotional nuance.

CityArts Magazine

co-artistic directors

NATASCHA GREENWALT

is a Walla Walla native. She left the rolling hills to pursue a dance degree, and in 2005 graduated magna cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts as a Kreielsheimer Scholarship recipient. Natascha spent her summers training with the Joffery Ballet, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre in New York, as well as the Northwest Professional Dance Project in Portland, OR. She has had the pleasure of performing with many local companies including Ballet Bellevue, DASSdance, Spectrum Dance Theater and currently with House of Verlaine. It’s been her honor to perform works by Donald Byrd, Zoe Scofield, Jason Ohlberg, Michael Rioux, Sarah Slipper, Twyla Tharp, among many others. In addition to her work for Coriolis Natascha has been commissioned to create works on Ballet Bellevue, Whitman College, Western Washington University, and as a guest for the Cornish College of the Arts BFA performances. She has been awarded residencies at Studio Current, Open Flight Studios a Creative Residency at Velocity Dance Center and eXit Space School of Dance. Natascha is a certified GYROTONIC® instructor at the GYROTONIC® Movement Center, teaches ballet at Exit Space School of Dance and has served as a guest instructor for Whitman College SDL and the Montana Dance Arts Association, DANCE This and Velocity Dance Center’s Strictly Seattle.

CHRISTIN CALL

is an assemblage artist living in Seattle, WA and making work primarily at the cross-section of dance, film, installation, and poetry. She received her BA in Painting and Art History from Wichita State University in 2004 while interning at Project Gallery and began exhibiting visual work in the Midwest, then later in the Seattle area with representation from Ryan James Gallery. Her collection of visual poems made from her own constructed language was featured in Boston Review with a personal foreword from Albert Goldbarth, and she has self-published two collections of poetry as well as been published in literary journals such as KNOCK journal and the Seattle Star. As Co-founder and Co-artistic Director of Coriolis, she has created numerous roles, including in new works by Zoe Scofield, Joshua Beamish, and Natascha Greenwalt. In over 20 works made for the company, from site-specific installations to films to traditional theater pieces, she has received support through creative residencies such as Project: Space Available, eXit Space Creative Residency, Studio Current, Open Flight Studio’s Flight Deck Residency, Velocity Dance Center’s Creative Residency, and Yaw Theater’s inaugural Propeller Residency. She was most recently the recipient of OneReel’s Art Saves Me grant. Her work as also been featured in many festivals, such as On the Board’s NW New Works Festival 2011 and the Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival 2016, where her debut directorial film Voluntary Caesura received the Best Dance Film award. Her dance films have been also selected for such festivals as the Port Orchard Film Festival and Fuselage Film Festival. The large-scale installation and dance work What is Home an Obscure Kingdom an Opera Buffa It’s You Always You was presented by Northwest Film Forum in 2016. She works with New York-based director Lauren Hlubny, most recently touring in Florence, Italy. She is also the founder of The Shed, a performance installation space that facilitates residencies for artists with complex practices.