Join Zaccho AiR Resident, Chafin Seymour for an open rehearsal and work-in-progress showing of his new piece, BRIAR.

BRIAR is a hyperphysical dance theater piece exploring the possibilities (and limitations) of abstracting Blackness and race in American society. Influenced by writers such as Hanif Abdurraqib, bell hooks, & Robin D.G. Kelley this work seeks to physicalize weight and quandary of cultural affiliation. Using personal storytelling, rich physicality, deep humor and soulful music the work takes a non-linear approach to performance that poses questions and delights in ambiguity.

Artist Bio

Chafin Seymour is a native of Brooklyn, NY with an investigative and eclectic experience in dance. He has had the pleasure to perform with Sage Ni’Ja Whitson/The NWA Project and Anneke Hansen Dance among others. As a choreographer, and with his group seymour::dancecollective, Chafin’s work has been presented throughout NYC and nationally at venues such as Center for Performance Research (CPR), Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Livestream Public, Gibney Dance, The Wild Project, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, ODC Theater, The Ohio Dance Festival and The American Dance Festival among many others. The collective works on a project to project basis with a rotating roster of curated artists. Chafin has taught contemporary forms at Gibney Dance in NYC since 2015 and at ODC San Francisco since 2023. He was an inaugural Ann & Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow in 2018 and was commissioned by The American Dance Festival and Limón Foundation to create ‘Suite Donuts’ for the Limón Dance Company in 2020. His most recent commissions ‘At Play’ for the Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) in St. Louis and ‘Glitch’ for the LINES Ballet Training Program (San Francisco) premiered in 2022. He holds a BFA with Distinction in Dance from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa where he was granted an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Currently Chafin resides in the Bay Area, CA and serves as an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance at San Josè State University.

Getting to the Studio Parking
Parking is free around the building. There is parking at the front of the building at Yosemite and at the back of the building at Armstrong. Do not leave any valuables in your vehicle and be sure to lock your car.

Guest Access
When you arrive at the outer gate of the building on Yosemite, please dial 330# on the outside call box and wait for the buzz to open the gate. Once inside the building, you will walk up a stairwell to the 3rd floor. There should be signage to guide you to the stairwell.