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dancing forever – Jakevis Thomason
Jakevis Thomason says he has been dancing “forever.” He started at the tender age of 3 with a competitive dance school, Dianne's School of Dance, l in Greenville, SC, taking classes and competing with them [...]
taking root – Nell Josephine
As a young child in beautiful, bucolic Garden Valley, Idaho Nell Josephine took one single dance class from a visiting teacher. In the 4th grade her family moved to Boise and she began taking gymnastics [...]
trusting the dancer – Mark Caserta
“I’ve always wanted to dance, and I figured the only way to do it is to do it!” Mark Caserta said to VoyageDallas in 2018. It didn’t start out too well. As a small boy [...]
a defining presence – Jim Kent
Tomorrow, September 18, 2021, dancer Jim Kent will perform for the last time in the theater with Whim W’Him,* the company he helped from its inception to shape.* At the very start, just before for [...]
going places – Rena Butler
Rena Butler exudes warmth, strength and boundless energy and ideas. She is direct, lithe as a cat and avidly curious about other people and places. Growing up, Rena’s was the only black family in their [...]
mulling & making – the fertile mind of Joseph Hernandez
Sitting down to write this post, I realized that I had a wealth of material in hand—two websites, choreographer conversations, my notes from a studio rehearsal (dancers masked) and parts of two filming sessions (unmasked), [...]
FLOCK – Florian Lochner & Alice Klock
They begin in a V. The dancers cluster together, bursting into individual flurries and back together, then wheel out across the room like a flock of birds. It's a striking sequence in a new work [...]
from the dancers’ point of view – TINTLP
The particular flavor, interest, and originality of Whim W’Him’s This Is Not The Little Prince—among the multitudinous versions of this beloved classic—is choreographer Olivier Wevers's decision to delve into relations between art and life in [...]
rooting down, growing upward – Andrew McShea
The dancers' mys.iqs.temporary.site pages each feature a statement they have made about dance. Andrew McShea's reads: “There’s something so paradoxical about dance. Using opposition is something we, as dancers, are taught early on in our [...]
reveling in the journey – Michael Arellano
Michael Arellano, Whim W'Him's newest dancer, has been active, inquisitive and physically fearless from the very beginning. Born and raised in Rochester, MI, a pleasant suburb about 20 miles north of Detroit, Whim W’Him’s newest [...]
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.