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merde, Olivier & Kaori…
...this afternoon, your final performance together We'll all be there!!!
from looking in to looking out…
Olivier Wevers is retiring this spring as principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet to become Whim W’Him’s full time artistic director, principal choreographer, ex officio board member, fund raiser, and all the other myriad jobs [...]
illuminating – Michael Mazzola
Honest, down-to-earth, sensible, dryly witty, Michael Mazzola again struck me, on meeting him after a year, as being full of the light he deals in. I talked to him after a day largely devoted to [...]
out of the comfort zone – RA Scion
Strange bedfellows. Poetry with a strong hip hop beat and dance by a prince of ballet princes, on subjects not for children. RA Scion is an anomaly. A white rapper from small town Kentucky, he [...]
performing!
this is not a raincoat monster/society monster/addiction monster/relationship cylindrical shadows Photos by Kim & Adam Bamberg: LaViePhoto.com
dyeing – Christine Joly de Lotbiniere
Christine Joly de Lotbiniere, lifts and dips a pair of men’s trousers from an 80-gallon stainless steel vat in the tiny hot dyeing room at Pacific Northwest Ballet. The vat is the kind of big [...]
opening
congratulations wh immmers!
home stretch
Whimmers back in town, rehearsing at Intiman Theatre. A perfect space for Whim W’Him, and the staff couldn't be more helpful. So much to write up by the end of this weekend! So this is [...]
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.