The 15th annual Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation is in full swing, and let's be honest, most of us had no idea. We are not studying dance at Cornish or Velocity, and we're out of the loop.

This will be our first year knowing of and attending the festival, so we'll report back. But we're anticipating some On-the-Boards-ish unexpectedness from a show called Off the Cuff. Tonight and Saturday night there are two different faculty lineups you can see (tickets $14) at Erickson Theatre (1524 Harvard Ave, on the west side of the Egyptian block):

Friday 7pm: Bianca Cabrera, Anna Dixon, John Dixon, Nate Dryden, Sarah Gamblin, Mary Ganzon, Mark Haim, Nora Hajos, Tonya Lockyer, Barbara Mahler, Nancy Stark Smith, Aaron Swartzman, Mike Vargas, Andrew Wass, and more TBA

Saturday 9pm: Jyl Shinjo Brewer, Michael Chorney, Scott Davis, Jordan Fuchs, Sarah Gamblin, Patrick Gracewood, Amii LeGendre, Mary-Clare McKenna, Andrea Olsen, Carolyn Stuart, Nala Walla, and more TBA

Photo: Sarah Gamblin, by Rachel Bruce Johnson.