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dancing lives – Andrew Bartee
After a ‘mini-sabbatical’ to finish revising a few chapters of a novel, I’m back on the job with a series of posts on Whim W’Him dancers’ dancing lives, starting with Andrew Bartee, whose day job [...]
illuminated – Michael Mazzola
Michael Mazzola lit all three premieres, by Olivier Wevers, of the Casting the First Rock in Twenty-Twelve program, as he has each Whim W’Him production to date. The lighting conception for the witty and playful [...]
commentary
A sampling of comments sent to Whim W'Him on Casting the First Rock in Twenty-Twelve (Intiman Theatre, January 20-22, 2012), three new works by Olivier Wevers— La Langue de l'amour, Flower Festival, and thrOwn ... [...]
questioning 3 – can violence be waning?
What a chimera then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sewer of uncertainty and error, [...]
through rain and snow and sleet and dark of night…
...you can't keep whimmers from their appointed turns. All day and well into the evening at Intiman Theatre, Whim W'Him Artistic director Olivier Wevers, lighting designer Michael Mazzola, stage crew and dancers worked at getting [...]
designing – Mark Zappone
An adventuresome soul, Mark Zappone, creator of the costumes for Olivier Wever's new Flower Festival, has traveled the world over in pursuit of his craft. One opportunity leads to another, an interest in everything around [...]
testing-first steps on thrOwn set
Today was an exciting rehearsal. Everyone was "on," in an upbeat mood, both making jokes and ready to work hard. The first time in the house for this production. And then there was the lovely [...]
teasing – la langue de l’amour
La Langue de l'amour is a frothy, sassy, provocative little solo in the tradition of last year's hit Coquette. Choreographed last fall by Whim W'Him's Olivier Wevers, it premiered in November 2011 as part of [...]
questioning 2 – death by thrOwn rocks
The stoning of St. Stephen, from Dante's Inferno by Gustav Doré 'Lapidation,' or stoning to death, is one of those words like 'defenestration' (throwing someone out a window) that cloaks a nasty action [...]
costuming – ThrOwn
Swaths of earthy tones seem to swirl where the dancers will move. Dark zigzags slash wide spaces. A heavy diagonal 'sky' weighs down the scene currently being created by painter/sculptor Steve Jensen, with the able [...]
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.