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out on a whim
You walk into a cavernous warehouse space. Huge, strong, dramatic carved-wood panels, obelisks, and metal sculptures with sweeping curves dominate the large space. Images of boats are everywhere... The building at 1424 10th Avenue was [...]
Annabelle-2
"The first day is always hard. The steps are an excuse," says Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, who is choreographing the main work of Whim W'Him's next full program. Yet with time and maturity as a choreographer, [...]
Vive la France!
And then there’s Bastille Day, July 14......celebrated this year, at The Triple Door in Nightcap: L’Edition Francaise. Billed as “Sophisticated entertainment for Seattle’s Francophiles,” it will be “a provocative evening of Francophilia not to be [...]
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa-1
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa is warm, intense, precise. Quick and brimming with energy in the studio, she is a very physical, literally hands-on choreographer, sometimes composing one knee-twist at a time, sometimes proposing a whole sweep [...]
A quick note…
No, Whim W’Him hasn’t disappeared off the face of the earth, just gone underground for a time... After the huge outpouring of praise—and some lively controversy—surrounding the 3Seasons performances, followed by a crazy party [...]
art, life, gender
Some thoughts after reading a series posts about Whim W’Him’s first program—by Donald Byrd on his Spectrum blog, Jen Graves on The Stranger‘s blog, SLOG, and Jeremy M. Barker on The SunBreak, as well as various [...]
composing—Byron 2
And then there is the new music... For each 3Seasons performance, one Vivaldi season is dropped and the corresponding section of Byron Au Yong's just minted suite of the same name is substituted. The new [...]
lighting – Michael Mazzola
Michael is a master of light. He is hesitant to talk about how he uses "photons to evoke feelings both emotional and physical—which then perhaps these might be articulated into intellectual constructs—but as it’s so [...]
timing/performing
The question of time—how there never seemed to be enough of it—was brought up by many of the collaborators on 3Seasons, Olivier as well. Since all the dancers were busy with many other commitments, it [...]
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.