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X-POSED – Black Heart onstage
"That's the black heart!" I heard more than one audience member pronounce at intermission of Whim W'Him's X-POSED last weekend. They referred to a tangled mass of light that had—significantly or pointlessly, portentously or ironically [...]
layering – in the studio with Kate Wallich
Dissonant and harmonious in equal measure, a cacophony of choreography in 4 parts. That is the program note for Kate Wallich's ♥ (rendered on paper by a black emoji heart on a white ground and pronounced [...]
costuming X-POSED
This Friday night, May 29, 2015, 8 pm, at the Cornish Playhouse in Seattle Center, Whim W'Him presents X-POSED. This is the first time each of the three offerings in a show (all premieres this [...]
dancer feature – Justin Reiter
Justin Reiter is friendly, energetic and highly motivated, as adroit and flexible of mind as he is of body. Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, he didn’t start dance training until relatively late (16), then [...]
traveling – Manuel Vignoulle 2
Manuel Vignoulle first heard of Whim W'Him from Annabelle Lopez Ochoa—who has made several acclaimed pieces for the company and whom he knows very well. They met when she made a piece on the Geneva [...]
changing levels – Manuel Vignoulle 1
First impressions of Manuel Vignoulle in the studio with Whim W'Him: strongly articulated movement and irrepressible, infectious energy. He's a living exclamation point who wonders "about spacing, physical challenges—what more can be done here? or [...]
dancer feature – Thomas Phelan
Thomas Phelan is a problem solver, for fun, to learn, and in handling situations in or out of the studio and on or offstage. He takes a pragmatic, figure-it-out stance toward to life and art. [...]
dancer feature – Mia Monteabaro
Mia Monteabaro is adventuresome. Seeking out circumstances that demand a lot and offer profound rewards is a constant theme in her life. When asked what motivates her, Mia notes that she and Drew Tabke, her [...]
inventing – Kate Wallich
An empty studio in which she can dance, write, think, nap, play music is Kate Wallich’s cave, womb, gestation space, lab, home. It’s where the ideas well up that inform her choreography. Kate, one of [...]
dancer feature – Lara Seefeldt
As I was thinking about how to introduce Lara Seefeldt's Dancer Feature, I came across this tribute to her by fellow Whim W'Him dancer Justin Reiter: "Lara Seefeldt is a classic beauty. And don’t let [...]
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.