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let’s try something – Mark Haim in the studio
When I came in, a little late, to the first rehearsal of Mark Haim's new piece for IN-Spired, Whim W'Him's January program at Cornish, the dancers were scattered about the studio with pens and paper, [...]
keep moving – choreographer Mark Haim
I've always been partial to the word "protean," from Proteus, a Greek sea or river god, who is versatile, flexible, mutable, adaptable, and capable of assuming many forms. It's the perfect adjective to describe Mark [...]
dancer feature – Patrick Kilbane
"I was a theater kid," says Patrick Kilbane, Whim W'Him's newest dancer. "When I was little I sang in the Seattle Opera Children's Chorus and fell in love with the big stage," from all accounts early [...]
IN-spired – in the studio with Dominic Walsh
I felt as if I had slipped into the lair of a magician, not the sort to do mere sleight of hand or clever card tricks, but the real thing, who knows how to turn [...]
IN-spired – Dominic Walsh 1
"My sister danced and my mother was a dancer. I would hang out in the studio. It was around me all the time." From his father, a pilot and athlete, he also got an easy [...]
laughing – Music of Remembrance 2
"My first rule is: Let's have fun," says Whim W'Him artistic director Olivier Wevers of his choreography for Bohuslav Martinů's ballet music, La Revue de Cuisine, which will have a single showing this coming Sunday, [...]
remembering – Music of Remembrance 1
"What happens when the Pot, engaged to the Lid, is tempted away by the seductive Whisk, while the Dishcloth’s treacherous attempts to console the Lid are thwarted by the orderly Broom? You’ll find out in [...]
moving forward – GRB’s MOVEMEDIA in Seattle
Last week Grand Rapids Ballet—whose artistic director is former Pacific Northwest Ballet star ballerina Patricia Barker—had its début in Seattle with a double bill. After dancing the Seattle premiere of Whim W'Him artistic director/choreographer Olivier Wevers's witty evening-long [...]
Midsummer thoughts
Things are seldom what they seem. Even—or perhaps especially—fairy tales, with their happy-ever-after endings, are riddled with plot holes and layered with ambiguity. I’ve always wondered, for example, about the significance of the little [...]
touring – Midsummer in Seattle
In recent years, Olivier Wevers, Whim W’Him’s artistic director and founder, has been known or a sort of counter-ballet, or at least for incorporating shapes and unballetic movements like the ‘sickle-pickle’ turned-in foot and highly [...]
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.