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improvising life – Ronalee Wear
Ronalee Wear. An intriguing combination. A highly skilled, detail-oriented dressmaker/ designer and crazy-free spirit who can turn the most surprising ingredients into something magical. Ronalee is constructing the costumes for Whim W'Him artistic director Olivier [...]
at play with Brahms – Olivier Wevers in the studio
For the second time in exactly a year Olivier Wevers, Whim W’Him’s artistic director, is choreographing to the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. “It’s a beautiful piece,” is all that he will say about [...]
let’s try something – Mark Haim in the studio
When I came in, a little late, to the first rehearsal of Mark Haim's new piece for IN-Spired, Whim W'Him's January program at Cornish, the dancers were scattered about the studio with pens and paper, [...]
keep moving – choreographer Mark Haim
I've always been partial to the word "protean," from Proteus, a Greek sea or river god, who is versatile, flexible, mutable, adaptable, and capable of assuming many forms. It's the perfect adjective to describe Mark [...]
dancer feature – Patrick Kilbane
"I was a theater kid," says Patrick Kilbane, Whim W'Him's newest dancer. "When I was little I sang in the Seattle Opera Children's Chorus and fell in love with the big stage," from all accounts early [...]
IN-spired – in the studio with Dominic Walsh
I felt as if I had slipped into the lair of a magician, not the sort to do mere sleight of hand or clever card tricks, but the real thing, who knows how to turn [...]
IN-spired – Dominic Walsh 1
"My sister danced and my mother was a dancer. I would hang out in the studio. It was around me all the time." From his father, a pilot and athlete, he also got an easy [...]
laughing – Music of Remembrance 2
"My first rule is: Let's have fun," says Whim W'Him artistic director Olivier Wevers of his choreography for Bohuslav Martinů's ballet music, La Revue de Cuisine, which will have a single showing this coming Sunday, [...]
remembering – Music of Remembrance 1
"What happens when the Pot, engaged to the Lid, is tempted away by the seductive Whisk, while the Dishcloth’s treacherous attempts to console the Lid are thwarted by the orderly Broom? You’ll find out in [...]
moving forward – GRB’s MOVEMEDIA in Seattle
Last week Grand Rapids Ballet—whose artistic director is former Pacific Northwest Ballet star ballerina Patricia Barker—had its début in Seattle with a double bill. After dancing the Seattle premiere of Whim W'Him artistic director/choreographer Olivier Wevers's witty evening-long [...]
About the writer
Victoria Farr Brown is a former historian, a writer, now mostly of fiction, and a long-time lover of dance. She has written about Whim W’Him from its first steps in 2009.