About Us

At Seeing Through, we're dedicated to seeing ballet becoming an accessible and vibrant part of our community's fabric. Adult dancers deserve more opportunities to engage with ballet outside of of technique classes. As an art form steeped in such a rich and long history, ballet has often been hesitant to adapt or update, but we think that everyone deserves to see ballet in a more modern context. To reach this lofty goal, Seeing Through will host workshops, class series, and produce company video projects, all with dancers from our community in the Greater Seattle Area.

Our dance community in Seattle has so many wonderful opportunities to dance and grow as an adult dancer, but ballet is one area where the ability to explore balletic choreography is limited for adult dancers and those that do exist often require a lot of commitment, both monetarily and time. Seeing Through will seek to only supplement upon existing opportunities that are provided to our ballet community by our beloved studios.

Seeing Through was borne from founder Riley McGaff's desire to be able to dance classical ballet choreography beyond the short combinations offered in traditional ballet classes. The mission to create a community ballet company that creates dance videos also came from a lack of Riley being able to find that type of content when seeking inspiration. In almost every other style of dance, if you search YouTube or Instagram you can find a plethora of choreographed videos to be inspired by, but there is nowhere near as many ballet videos being created and shared. This is largely because most ballet takes place in large companies that are dependent on ticket sales, or institutions that aren't as well versed in media production. It can also be very intimidating to try and partake in programs at ballet centric schools as an adult non-professional dancer, so it is Seeing Through's hope that we can foster an environment to encourage people to explore ballet!