Mission

The mission of the Pat Graney Company is to create and perform new dance/performance works and to conduct arts education programming. The Pat Graney Company commits itself to performing original dance works regionally, nationally, and internationally, as well as creating programs that work with students, incarcerated women/girls and other special populations.

Company Programs

The creation and performance of new works is one the primary activity of the Company. The works are created in Seattle, the Company's home base, and toured throughout the United States and abroad. Since 1979, Pat Graney has created over 40 original pieces while living in the Pacific Northwest, including Seven/Uneven, Sax House, Faith, Vivaldi, Sleep, and the Movement Meditation Project. Pat Graney's most recent piece, Tattoo, toured to 11 US cities in the 2000/2001 season, as well as going to Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile. Tattoo completed the triptych that includes Faith and Sleep, which over ten years to create. Pat Graney’s current piece ‘the Vivian girls,’ is based on the visuals of ‘outsider’ artist Henry Darger. ‘The Vivian girls’ premiered in Seattle in January 2004 and will tour to six US cities in the 2004/2005 season.

Works in Progress showings are presented in an informal, studio setting. Through these unique "Pay-what-you-can" demonstrations, audience members gain insight into the creative process and can ask questions of the choreographer, collaborating artists and performers.

The Schools Touring and Residency Program includes workshops and performances in schools throughout Washington State. The emphasis is on working directly with students to increase self esteem and an awareness of their own power through movement.


Keeping the Faith Prison Project consists of workshops that are designed to provide positive, life-affirming experiences for women and girls who are currently incarcerated, or are in pre-release programs. Keeping the Faith uses movement, writing, visual art and performance activities as transformational tools to build the women and girls' self-esteem and life-skills, thus challenging the revolving door of the penal system. Created by Artistic Director Pat Graney, the Company has facilitated the residency at the Washington Correctional Center for Women in Gig Harbor since 1994. In 2001, the Company embarked upon the National Model of the program. Supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pat Graney and the Artistic Team will conduct a condensed, two-week version of the residency at correctional facilities for women in four US cities from 2001-2005.