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fusing & refusing – MADBOOTS
“…a dance style that is a once nakedly exposed and yet curiously wrapped in an enigma,” writes the ‘Oberon’s Grove’ music and dance blog about the work of MADBOOTS, the dance company of Austin Diaz [...]
dancer feature – Karl Watson
Karl Watson, new to Whim W’Him this season, started dancing “pretty young” in a suburb outside Cleveland called Russell. “At 4 or 5, my mom took me to A Christmas Carol. I had a melt-down [...]
dancer feature – Liane Aung
Liane Aung, who just joined Whim W'Him late this spring, has been involved with dance for virtually her whole life. Growing up in Southern California, Liane did competitive dance, jazz, ballet, tap. “I was not,” [...]
sculpting dance – Kate Wallich at SAM outdoors
Last October, choreographer Kate Wallich got an email from Peter Boal, artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet, asking her to be part of an initiative for summer of 2016 supported by the Wallace Foundation. At [...]
‘feeling like a meerkat’ – Lauren Edson in the studio
Lauren Edson at work is nimble, flexible, quick, buoyant and precise. She says she’s honored to be one of the three chosen by the dancers to make a new piece for Whim W’Him’s second Choreographic [...]
always exploring – choreographer Lauren Edson
Lauren Edson "has luminous eyes, a pixie-like smile and a flair for choreography that stretches her already supple body to the limit," says the Idaho Statesman. That appears to have been true since earliest childhood [...]
OUT-spoken – photo gallery
In the week after a show is over, I like to showcase some of the wonderful Bamberg Fine Art Photography photos that are taken by Molly Magee and Kim & Adam Bamberg during each run [...]
after the opening – OUT-spoken
Tory Peil is the soul and center of A Disagreeable Tale of Duplicity by artistic director Olivier Wevers, the first piece in OUT-spoken, which opened at at Cornish Playhouse last Friday night, June 3.* The role of belaguered and betrayed heroine in this intensely [...]
the language of bodies – OUT-spoken opens
Three radically divergent pieces. Some surprising common threads. A Disagreeable Tale of Duplicity CHOREOGRAPHY: Olivier Wevers MUSIC: Sergei Prokofiev | SOUND DESIGN: Dylan Ward COSTUMES: Ronalee Wear | WIG: Shelby Adele Rogers | HORN FABRICATOR: ANDOR STUDIO “Art can be healing for [...]
connecting – choreographer James Gregg
When you ask James Gregg where he’s based these days, Montreal or Los Angeles, he says, “That’s a good question.” He pauses before deciding, “LA I guess,” though he still has a base up north [...]
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.