Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University’s Dance Department is proud to the present the Spring 2026 Cornish Dance Theater, on April 10 - 11 at the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University.

Cornish Dance Theater is a bi-annual production where guest choreographers are invited to devise pieces in collaboration with Cornish student dancers. This Spring, we are pleased to announce that our two guest choreographers are Cornish Faculty members, Nia-Amina Minor and Cameo Lethem. 

Showtimes:
April 10th, 2026 - 8pm
April 11th, 2026 - 2pm
April 11th, 2026 - 8pm

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Lee Center for the Arts
905 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

About Nia-Amina Minor

Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist, choreographer, curator, and educator originally from Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the body and what it carries using physical and archival research to converse with memory. She approaches her practice as an imaginative space grounded in rhythm where improvisation and choreography meet. Nia-Amina has received regional and national commissions for her choreographic and film work and has a working background as a performer and dramaturg. She is co-founder of Black Collectivity, a collaborative project that curates and creates movement-based experiences that celebrate memory and culture. 

As a performer, Nia-Amina has worked with artists such as dani tirrell, Zoe Juniper, Will Rawls, Alice Gosti, Keyes Wiley, and Amy O’Neal. From 2016-2021 she was a Company Artist at Spectrum Dance Theater under the direction of Donald Byrd. Nia-Amina has also provided dramaturgical assistance to choreographers Jade Solomon-Curtis and Donald Byrd. In her work as a curator, she has developed programming at On the Boards, Wa Na Wari, Velocity, and Base, and Friends of the Waterfront Park. From 2014-2016, she was a co-founder and curator of Los Angeles based collective, No)one Art House. As an educator, she has taught, guest lectured, and been a visiting artist at Cornish College, University of Minnesota, CalArts, University of Washington, Western Washington University, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine. Nia-Amina received her MFA in Dance from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University.  She was Dance Magazine's 25 Artists to Watch in 2021, and one of Seattle Magazine's Most Influential People in 2025. Nia-Amina is currently on faculty at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University and is the Curating Artist in Residence at Velocity Dance Theater. 

About Cameo Lethem

Cameo is a choreographer and performer based in Seattle. Her work has been shown at On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Erickson Theater, 12th Ave Arts, Kirkland Performance Center, Base: Experimental Arts + Space, Yaw Theater, Electric Lodge, and more. She has performed works by Alice Gosti, Annie Franklin, Bebe Miller, Beth Twigs, Chartreuse Coleman, Doug Varone, Kate Wallich, Robert Moses, and others. Her mentors from Ellenore Scott’s The Breaking Glass Project were Nia-Amina Minor and Sidra Bell. Cameo is a recipient of SeattleDances’ 2017 DanceCrush award. She received her MFA from the University of Washington.