The Kirkland Performance Center will host “Reading Dance” lecture with Choreographer and Curator Eva Stone on at 7 p.m. Jan. 22.

Reading Dance is an engaging lecture/demonstration format with dancers from The Stone Dance Collective and Artistic Director Eva Stone. This lecture demystifies and reveals the creative process of how contemporary dance is made. Audience members will discover the type of movement language contemporary dance uses, learn how a dance piece is formed, and be able to ask questions of the choreographer and dancers about the artistic process. This lecture serves as a companion event to Chop Shop: Bodies of Work, an annual contemporary dance festival, February 14–15, 2014, held specifically for the Eastside.

The lecture is free to the public.

For more information visit www.kpcenter.org.