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assuming new roles – rehearsing for Tacoma
Still winter, but Whim W'Him is springing into action! The Sofa of Artistic director Olivier Wevers was danced again by Grand Rapids Ballet to good reviews; rehearsal is underway for Whim W'Him's Tacoma debut; and [...]
footing – Olivier Wevers
“Feet aren’t just there to support a body, they're not just a pillar.” So says Whim w’Him artistic director Olivier Wevers. Hands are often used as no more than decoration or extension of a position, [...]
on hands – Olivier Wevers
He finds himself in gesture. A means of translation, of communication with others. The first thing often noticed about the choreography of Olivier Wevers, Whim W’Him’s founder and artistic director, is how he uses hands. [...]
‘the Seattle Roméo’- Lucien Postlewaite
Until this season, Lucien Postlewaite, one of Whim W’Him’s founding members, was a principal at Pacific Northwest Ballet. Now he’s part of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo—plus guesting with Whim W’Him (weekend before last) and [...]
and there was light – Michael Mazzola
In his yesterday’s Seattle Times review of CRAVE More, Michael Upchurch rightfully featured lighting. During and after both shows so far, I also heard audience members marveling at it. The Upchurch review concludes: “Michael Mazzola’s [...]
cross-fertilizing – Grand Rapids Ballet/Whim W’Him
“The web” is a good name—one of the better coined internet terms (unlike the clumsy “blog”). It's an apt metaphor for how threads of association ray out from a center, intersecting on the way with [...]
before after – Annabelle & Lucien
At a pause in a recent theater rehearsal, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa told Lucien Postlewaite that he transforms once he comes on stage. Laughing, she added, "I'm a studio dancer," meaning, she explained later, that "I [...]
dancing lives—Yuka Oba & Nick Schultz
On Monday, the cast of Whim W’Him artistic director Olivier Wevers’s The Sofa welcomed to Seattle Grand Rapids Ballet's Yuka Oba and Nicholas Schultz. This weekend, Nick and Yuka will reprise their roles as The [...]
rehearsing Sunday—brrrr!
How cold it was! The rehearsal was scheduled for a sunny Sunday afternoon at the Dance Fremont studios, but the temperature outside was barely above freezing. Inside, due to a furnace malfunction, it felt scarcely [...]
rehearsing Crave
This week, along with putting Whimmers through their paces in his own More and The Sofa, artistic director Olivier Wevers has presided over rehearsals of Crave, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's second piece for Whim W'Him. Since June [...]
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.