Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University’s Dance Department is proud to present our Fall 2025 showcase, Cornish Dance Theater. This special showcase features performances by Cornish dance students choreographed by esteemed dance artists, Keyes Wiley and Joseph Hernandez.

CHOREOGRAPHER: Joseph Hernandez
TITLE: Rhinoceros
DESCRIPTION: Rhinoceros is a dance made for 5 young people. Loosely based on the Ionesco play of the same name, the dance leans, hurls, barrels, creeps, and gyrates toward the idea of "now" and wherever else the cast sees fit
PERFORMERS:  Maya Gonzalez, Bri Holmes, Becca Plummer, Glen Norris, Estelle Bolier

CHOREOGRAPHER: Keyes Wiley (with Associate Choreographer,  Olivia Anderson)
TITLE: (Future) Ancestors
DESCRIPTION: This work explores the landscapes of shared and individual grief, the moments when loss isolates us, and the quiet spaces where it connects us. Through movement, it traces how grief inhabits the body, how we carry it, and how it reshapes our way of being in the world. It asks what it means to be seen, to hold space for others, and to find ourselves again after being forever changed.
PERFORMERS: Bri Holmes, Bryce Elazier, Gabi St. Luce, Leila Estrada, Lucy Blair, Marlo Nettel, Maya Hernandez

November 21st - 8pm
November 22nd - 2pm and 8pm

Keyes Wiley (they/them), also known behind the decks as DJ dark_wiley, is a multi-hyphenated performing artist, DJ, light/sound designer, and educator based in Seattle. Their work spans the worlds of performance, nightlife, and sound, with a practice rooted in collaboration, community, and queer expression.

By day, Keyes serves as a dance faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts and is the artistic director of the experimental performance group The NoGoodDoers. By night, as DJ dark_wiley, they are the resident DJ for TUSH—Seattle’s premier destination for drag and queer performance at the Clock-Out Lounge.

Known for genre-blending, mood-shifting sets, DJ dark_wiley has played at some of Seattle’s most beloved venues and events, including Bad Idea, Pride in the Park, Peekaboo, White Center Pride, The SAM Remix, Rapture at The Timbre Room, Legendary, Pony, Heels at The Cha Cha Lounge, and Dance Floor Feelings at Vermillion. Whether on underground dance floors or main stages, their sets are designed to move bodies and build connection within queer and allied communities.

Previously, Keyes served as the Managing Artistic Director of the DIY arts hub Studio Current and was the founder/director of the dance company The New Animals. They’ve collaborated with artists including Keith Hennessy, Keyon Gaskin, Alice Gosti, BenDeLaCreme, Jinkx Monsoon, dani tirrell, and Kitten n Lou, and their performance work has been presented at venues such as On the Boards, Gibney (NYC), Velocity Dance Center, Risk/Reward (PDX), Bumbershoot, and the Seattle International Dance Festival.

Keyes also designs original soundscapes for dance, theatre, and fashion—including for Janelle Abbott’s New York Fashion Week collections. A natural-born collaborator, they thrive in spaces that center shared vision, experimentation, and radical joy.

Joseph Hernandez is a choreographer and writer based in Seattle, Washington. His work as a choreographer has been presented by The Joyce NYC, Festspielhaus Hellerau, The Semperoper Dresden, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Theatre St. Gallen, and Whim W’Him Contemporary Dance Seattle, Staatstheater Nürnberg among others. His work The Lavender Follies was filmed for European Television by ZDF Deutschland and has now been disseminated worldwide. He has taught at SUNY Purchase College, Dance Arts Faculty (Rome), and Cornish College of the Arts, well as the Royal Danish Ballet, and Artof (Zurich) summer courses. He served as a founder and jury member for Tanznetz Dresden’s STUDIO ROUND, curating showings and performances/discussions by creators from all over Europe. His installation series Nielsson Conversations was hosted by S T O R E Contemporary in Dresden, Germany. In addition to his freelance work, he was appointed Associate Choreographer at the Northwest Dance Project from 2022-2024.  He left Portland in 2024 to work at Velocity Dance Center full time and to advocate for off-the-wall performance in the PNW.

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