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dancing—Lucien Postlewaite
Lucien is an elegant classical dancer, the epitome of clarity in motion.I asked him what his role is in the process—aside from dancing and being Olivier's spouse. "To tie up any loose strings," he replied, [...]
dancing—Jonathan Poretta
Jonathan was another one of those who encouraged Olivier to branch out on his own. Jonathan projects a tremendous intensity in his dancing. He's fast and athletic and full of the joy of movement. From [...]
dancing—Chalnessa Eames
Chalnessa is is a wonderful, quirky dancer, who takes to Olivier's style like a bird to air. She's one of those friends of his who urged him to start a company of his own. Not [...]
dancing—Vincent Michael Lopez
Vincent started taking dance classes on a bet, or dare. An uncle, back from a visit to Spain, came bringing gifts—a shawl, a fan, a comb—but not to him. Instead he, like Vincent's mother a [...]
rehearsing-3
On the home stretch (an old but always serviceable phrase!). Last night, again, the dancers rehearsed from mid-afternoon to late evening. The tech crew had been going for multiple hours. A long day, but a [...]
dancing—Kylie Lewallen
Kylie is a happy woman, and she has the wit to recognize it. She is also a beautiful and sensual dancer. An extremely impulsive person, she says, she got to Seattle on impulse. She'd been [...]
dancing—Ty Alexander Cheng
Ty is a fitting member of this company. He started dancing on a whim. He was sitting in a science class, when a friend suggested he go along as moral support to a high school [...]
dancing—Jim Kent
Jim is an independent dancer and an independent man. He dances for several companies, but doesn't invent or conceive of himself inside of any one [...]
dancing—Kaori Nakamura
Kaori is intense, whether she is dancing, eating, sewing on elastic, talking, watching others. She is small but so concentrated, her energy could easily fill someone twice her size.A marvelous technician, she is pure, elegant, [...]
dancing—Hannah Lagerway
Former Spectrum principal dancer, rehearsal director, and a choreographer herself, Hannah has a compact body and wonderful, strong arms, expressive and sinewy. She exudes humor and meets the world in an engagingly straightforward way. At [...]
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.