Performance - Good For Her Age

Good For Her Age is a multi-disciplinary piece performed by the Seattle-based dance collective, Four on the Floor. The work utilizes dance, live music, and video to explore the challenges, grief, and triumphs of the aging woman, dancer, and artist as she transitions into the realm of middle age.

ARTIST BIOS 

Diana Cardiff is a performer, choreographer and producer. She has created, produced, and performed in the original productions of the Buttrock Suites since its inception in 2003, which eventually led to co-creating the highly successful recurring holiday shows, Buttcracker I-V. Cardiff was a founding member of d9 Dance Collective and a member of Pat Graney Dance Company and Wade Madsen and Dancers. She has set work for Ian Bell’s Rebar Brown Derby Series, Teatro ZinZanni, Seattle Repertory Theater, Live Girls! Theatre, and more. In 2022, she and Sara Jinks co-produced Space 50, an all outer-space themed dance, music, and film concert. Diana is also a member of the band Caudal Peduncle. Her day job is Marine Science Interpreter at the Seattle Aquarium. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. GOOD FOR HER AGE premiered in Seattle (2023), and Diana is grateful to share this Four on the Floor production with the Methow Valley! 

Sara Jinks is a performer, choreographer, producer, and filmmaker. She performed with Crispin Spaeth Dance Group and d9 Dance Collective and was a dancer/collaborator with Pat Graney Company for 18 years. Jinks curated and produced several Ten Tiny Dances and co-produced the raucous and popular Buttcracker for five holiday seasons. She directed Telephone 21, an art rendition of the children's game for twelve artists and has also created films for Four on the Floor and other entities. Jinks co-produced Space 50 in 2022, a space-themed dance, live music and film extravaganza along with Cardiff, and works in Artist Services at Meany Center for the Performing Arts. Sara is thankful to Methow Art for this opportunity and to be dancing on the Merc stage again. 

Karen Garrett de Luna (delunatic.net) is a human being, a human dancing, creating, sitting, and dreaming. An artist of mixed Filipino and European descent, de Luna’s work combines diverse materials and disciplines reflecting the hybridity of her heritage, education, and artistic pursuits. De Luna was the featured aerialist in Buttcrackers II-V and danced with racoco productions in New York City. She has danced, performed, and exhibited in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Sarah Paul Ocampo is a dancer, musician, and writer. She is one of the co-founders of the literary performance group, The Typing Explosion, which toured nationally and internationally. Her multidisciplinary work has been presented at Red Cat Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art,  Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, New York and the Factory and On the Boards in Seattle, WA. She has also performed in the bands Advanced Beginner, Qualitarians, Love Hotel, and currently with SKKS.

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