Doors open 7:30; Performance starts 8 PM sharp.
bloodsugar is an event series full of connection & desire, an experiment in community through sound and movement that showcases multidisciplinary artists while prioritizing quality and accessibility. in each event, the audience is able to witness the incredible talents & artistic practices blooming within our community. when we see dance, music, & literature highlighted individually, it is impactful — but when we use different artistic mediums to highlight each other, it creates an experience only attainable when you allow multiple genres to heighten each other. Seattle overflows with talent in every inch of our community, from the harsh noise musicians to the contemporary dancers to the confessional poets, etc., and we are stronger when we play into each other’s unique abilities.
Till the Teeth is an interdisciplinary art collective founded by Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj. Grounded in the cultural and contested landscapes of the U.S.-Mexico border and southern India, Till the Teeth serves as a lens for framing sonic and spatial ecologies, using improvisation, ritual, and metamorphosis as central methodologies. Their practice embraces a rasquachismo ethic — making do with available resources — alongside experimental approaches that interrogate the boundaries of music, performance, and art-making. By activating found objects, field recordings, and re-imagined instruments, Till the Teeth explores sound as an unpredictable, ephemeral, and communal medium for resistance and renewal
Alethea is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. Community, sensuality, care, effort and collaboration are central tenets of her creative work with dance partners human, object and sonic. She performs her own improvised, choreographed and installation-based works in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists in Seattle and nationally. Recurrent collaborators include Hannah Simmons, Dance Undercurrent, Adele Nickel, Rachael Lincoln, maia melene d’urfé and others. Her recent works have been supported by 4Culture, City of Seattle, the Kreielsheimer Foundation, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Cornish College of the Arts, and Sam Houston State University. Alethea is Co-Founder and Teaching Artist for Ballet Rituals, a Seattle-based community practice initiative. She additionally teaches community floorwork classes with Dance Undercurrent, and is is a Teacher as well as the Director of Training and Teacher Relations with Dance Church.®
maia melene d’urfé is a dancer and choreographer who creates movement as an expression of their sensations, convictions, and doubts. They dance with Seattle contemporary dance and House communities and their choreography has been presented internationally in Mexico City and Almada, Portugal, nationally in New York City, North Carolina, Maine, and in Seattle through Velocity Dance Center, Amy O’Neal, eXit Space, Seattle International Dance Festival, and their own independent productions. They find their voice through quality of movement, their language through physical facility, and flow through melody and rhythm, all to investigate facets of the human condition and how we respond to change within the self, our relationships, and wider culture.
Lydia Jewel Gerard is a Tacoma-based artist specializing in immersive ink painting and dance. As both a performer and visual artist Gerard is deeply interested in the creation of immersive environments. She draws inspiration from the spaces she works in, their proportions and energies influencing the ways her work is presented. Over the last few years, this interest in space has moved Gerard into working on a larger and larger scale. Her work often evokes feelings of being transported or looking into another world, one where ideas are undefined and malleable. Gerard hopes that her viewers will find in her work a space to examine their own thoughts and feelings with gentleness and empathy
Birdy Adler (they/them) was born in Colorado and began their dance training at the age of three at Canyon Concert Ballet. During high school, they developed a special interest in contemporary styles and attended summer intensives with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, NW Dance Project, and Countertechnique. In 2021, they moved to Israel to study in the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s 10-Month Dance Journey Program, performing works by Rami Be’er and Mats Ek. In June 2022, they joined Kibbutz’s main company as an apprentice under Be’er’s direction. In 2023, they relocated to Seattle and joined Spectrum Dance Theater under the direction of Donald Byrd. In fall 2024, they performed with the Chamber Dance Company at the University of Washington. In spring 2025, they co-founded the duo Now That We’re Alone and premiered their first full-length show that July. They are currently in their third season with Spectrum. Keep up with their work @wigglyboy420.
Tshedzom is a Tibetan-American body-based artist working between dance, theater, durational performance, installation, and music. Her work has been presented by The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Marina Abramović Institute, On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, CO-, Northwest Film Forum, Yakpo Collective, and Tibet Film Festival. She has performed with artists and companies including Alice Gosti, Fox Whitney, Sara Markovic, Boston Early Music Festival, The Merce Cunningham Trust, and HYBRIDMOTION Dance Theatre.
Lou Chow holds a BA in Dance and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Washington. Tracing transnational translations of culture, they untangle histories of coloniality to bring embodied knowledge to the surface of artistic practice. Researching the intersections of dance, community, care, and health, they cultivate community amongst Queer BIPOC populations. Working in mediums like dance, textiles, painting, photography, and writing, they endlessly seek new ways to expand their artistic practice. Aiming to pour knowledge back into their local communities to make the arts accessible to all. In 2025, they received the Husky 100 and Herring Phelps Scholarly Activism Award. Lou currently writes for Seattle Dances and teaches dance to kids and adults at the Miller and Montelake Community Centers.
raised in tennessee but rooted in seattle, sullivan forderhase works in the spine of poetry through word and movement. they are interested in desire, shame, dream spaces, the knife of grief, and the resistance of joy. they choose the question over the answer every time, allowing curiosity and tenderness to move them. you can connect with them on social media via @softservesully
a multi-disciplinary artist based in the northwest, rawivati is a forest of sound personified — the unknown made joyous and familiar.