Velocity Dance Center

Velocity will present d. Sabela Grimes’ Parable of KinOptics as a one-night-only performance on August 9, 2025, during the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. The evening will open with a performance by a developing work by local artist Fox Whitney, encouraging cross-regional artist connections. Sabela will also lead a five-day intensive and a drop-in class during the festival. Parable of KinOptics is an audio-visual movement manuscript inspired by the Afrofuturist insights of Octavia Butler. The work threads together embodied movement, text, and sound to meditate on Butler’s prophetic vision, blending themes from Parable of the Sower with personal writings and speculative futurism. Through this work, Sabela channels collective dreamscapes and meditations on destiny, space, and transformation.