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‘Before After’ – Alice Klock
It's the hands that draw one in. Telling something about an old world lost and a new one coming into being. In a Q&A session query about yoga influence in her piece, Before After, for [...]
‘Stephanie Knows Some Great People’ – Brendan Duggan
And now for something completely different... The images by Stefano Altamura (see last week's post) of Omar Román de Jesús' Welcome to Barrio Ataxia for Whim W'Him's Choreographic Shindig IV are dark and intense in [...]
‘Welcome to Barrio Ataxia’ – Omar Román Jesús
To give Whim W'Him followers a chance to see more of the beautiful photos taken at full dress rehearsal by the company's photographers, I usually devote a blog post almost entirely to images. This time, [...]
depicting the human form in motion – Stefano Altamura
It is hardly surprising that with an Italian father, a name like Stefano Francesco Altamura and being raised up in a Catholic household surrounded by Renaissance art, Whim W'Him's new photographer, was himself drawn to [...]
engaging the viewer – Brendan Duggan
Photo by Nir Ariel Like many imaginative kids, Brendan Duggan, who grew up in Amherst, New Hampshire, loved dressing up in costumes. But he only came to dance relatively late, in high school [...]
endlessly inspiring thought – Alice Klock
"Densely dimensional, unpredictable, strangely graceful and wild, Alice Klock's dances are like elegant ribbons caught in hopelessly tangled knots," wrote Dance Magazine, in this year's '25 to watch' feature. One of the three choreographers [...]
always dancing – Omar Román de Jesús
Collaboration by Cameras & Dancers—photo by Jacob Jonas Omar Román de Jesús doesn't really remember a time when he didn't dance. "Mostly I felt like doing it—it was natural." So was creating dances. [...]
changing places – Jane Cracovaner
"I like to be surprised," says Jane Cracovaner, Whim W'Him's newest dancer. She is much taken by the big trees in some of Seattle's neighborhoods, not just in parks but on ordinary city streets. Jane [...]
parting snapshots – the Bambergs & Molly Magee
In the beginning, right at the founding of of Whim W'Him, were the Bambergs, Kim and Adam. From their original encounters with Olivier and the dancers at work on the new company's premiere in January [...]
Pascal’s wager – Pascal Touzeau & Whim W’Him
As its core mission Whim W’Him is dedicated to high quality, original creations, bringing into being half a dozen or more new works each season, many from choreographers who have not worked with the company [...]
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.