Damfino

2026 from 2019: What a long way we've come! Seeing Damfino on the building blueprints reminded me of the very first time I saw our name on the stage plans for Wash of Gray at McCaw Hall! What a strange, meandering, and magical journey - from stage and art shows to a pandemic pivot to film, music, and education, and now... happily forward into a combination of everywhere we've been and everything we yet hope to achieve. Stage, film, shows, classes, workshops, and community events. Thank you for sticking with us; this has been an absolute dream come true, with years of hard work and community support to get us here. We're beyond grateful to each and every one of you ♥︎ Sydney

Happy New Year! Damfino is ringing in this new year with some exciting news - we now have our very own space to host stage productions, community events, classes, and anything we can dream up! We're still about 3 to 6 months from opening our doors, but we're thrilled to announce that we'll be up and running soon. We're one block off Airport Way in Georgetown, so if you're in the area and see us outside working, stop by and say hi! We can't wait to see you in 2026!

Much Love,
Sydney Pertl & Miles Pertl,
Artistic Directors of Damfino Arts

We're back in the swing of things! Our first recording session with the incredibly talented Arden Gonta Arden Gonta Music is in the books for our newest video series, Project Marker! We had such an amazing time, and Arden brought us all to tears with her beautiful singing voice, skillful guitar playing, and brilliant compositions.

Project Marker is an upcoming video series showcasing the talented musicians, dancers, and artists in our area while documenting and drawing attention to the buildings, businesses, and social gathering spaces which are so quickly changing in our area. Using the throughline of Land Use Management signs and Malvina Reynold's lyrics from the 1960's and 70's (whose generational wisdom is as relevant today as it was then), we seek to celebrate and showcase the hidden corners of Seattle that have been forgotten and will soon no longer exist.

Submissions are open for musicians, dancers, and a very limited number of visual artists who feel this project speaks to them: email damfinoarts[@]gmail[.com] for more information or to submit links to your work!

Thank you so much to:
Arden Gonta
John & Anne Tangeman
Karate Garden Studios
Keith Sjoquist
& Rylan Cheeka !

Damfino Arts is under the artistic directorship of Miles Pertl and Sydney M. Pertl , and we would like to thank everyone under whose kind support projects like this flourish ♡

❁Happy Solstice! HOORAY - It's all Spring from here!❁ In honor of the occasion, we're releasing our video Grow to Give, Give to Grow, a piece created with Pacific Northwest Ballet's professional division students at Queen Anne's beautiful UpGarden P-Patch. Take a deep breath, feel the sun on your skin, and imagine yourself in a garden...

This piece is all about the process - we grew together through lessons in movement, creativity, awareness, improvisation, teamwork, deep listening, and even community service! We learned how to express ourselves through our movements, how to hear the bass drum beat of the world, and how to create something genuine with each other.

The video begins with a spoken word piece created from poetry and musings on the world through our eyes. On our filming days, we cleared and weeded 'The Giving Garden,' a plot which grows food for those in need, and infused the soil with our creativity and joy. We channeled the essence of the flowers and basked in the sunshine. On our final day in front of the camera, the garden plot that we had so carefully prepared had grown up lush and green with the fruits of our labor, and we danced among the verdant leaves.

This project is about growing, in more ways than one, and we are thrilled to share this journey with you. Just like the community garden plot, we grow to give, but we must also give in order to grow.

This project was created in collaboration with: Damfino Arts, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Up-Garden P-Patch, the Center for Deep Listening, and Once Upon a Dance.

If you like what you see and would like to support our upcoming video projects, please consider donating to Damfino Arts either through PayPal ( www.paypal.me/damfinoarts ) or by contacting us directly at [email protected] . We are a registered 501c3!

Grow to Give, Give to Grow ❁Happy Solstice! It's all Spring from here!❁ In honor of the occasion, we're releasing our video Grow to Give, Give to Grow, a piece created with ...

Our film, The Only Thing You See Now, has just been chosen as an official selection at the Portland Film Festival! Additionally, our dear friend Jason Webley's music (which he composed specifically for the piece) will be featured in promotions for the festival! What an incredible honor ♡ Thank you so much, Portland Film Festival !

For tickets and for more information on Portland Film Festival, visit https://pdxff21.eventive.org/films/the-only-thing-you-see-now-614ceab91d3c30005527a091

"The Only Thing You See Now"

Directors: (formerly known as SeaPertl Productions): Sydney M. Pertl & Miles Pertl .pertl

Videography: Henry Wurtz

Dancers: Leah Terada & Miles Pertl .pertl

Music by: Jason Webley

Produced by: Seattle Dance Collective Seattle Dance Collective