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compassion, empathy & love – Ihsan Rustem returns
After a much-acclaimed creation for the company's first Choreographic Shindig in 2015, Ihsan Rustem returns to Whim W'Him with the CONFIGURATE program, Jan. 9-27, 2018. Ihsan lives in Switzerland but works with companies across the world, [...]
remembering Shindig III
On arriving back from several months on the east coast, I intended to start a new series of posts with Ihasan Rustem's new piece, now being created for the January show. But then Molly Magee [...]
cutting loose – Bruno Roque
How The Background Hum of Stimuli came to fruition shows once again the way unexpected setbacks or a new source of inspiration can lead in surprising directions. Originally, when Bruno Roque received his CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III commission [...]
summoning – Adam Barruch
“I’ve never done anything like it,” exclaims dancer Tory Peil of Adam Barruch’s Summoning, which debuts tonight as part of Whim W'Him's CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III on Capitol Hill. “Having been raised by hippies,” as she [...]
choreographer profile – Banning Bouldin
"I love a good challenge," says Banning Bouldin whose Limitation Etudes 7-10 premieres this Friday, September 8, as part of Whim W'Him's CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III at the Erickson Theatre off Broadway on Seattle's Capitol Hill. [...]
choreographer profile – Bruno Roque
Growing up in Portugal, Bruno Roque "wasn't in a dance world." Though he went to "a traditional summer camp where they would host occasional dance/ball/prom kind of evenings," did 4 years of martial arts, and [...]
dancer feature – Cameron Birts
If you're young, romantic and naïve, it may seem that talent, starry-eyed desire and dedication are all you need to become a successful professional dancer. But there's a lot of luck involved too—being born in [...]
dancer feature – Adrian Hoffman
One of the things that always strikes me most about dancers in general, and Whim W'Him dancers in particular, is how hard-working, resilient and ingenious they are in dealing with the peculiar complications of a [...]
choreographer profile – Adam Barruch
Adam Barruch, one of 3 choreographers chosen by the Whim W'Him dancers from over 100 entries to create a new piece for the 2017 Choreographic Shindig, is a soft-spoken, polite, and intense presence. His professional life [...]
watching ecstasy
"Approaching Ecstasy is not a light, happy ballet," writes Melody Datz Hansen, for City Arts, in a review entitled 'The Delicate Balance of Beauty and Pain': "The music is slow and haunting, the dancers’ movements are [...]
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.