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beaming – INAT$
Before dancers or music, all you are first aware of is light, palpable light, beamed through fog, diagonally through the air across the stage. A sense of three-dimensionality to the air is, one almost might [...]
partnering 2 – Monster
If you’re a painter or sculptor, your viewer responds directly to the object you have made. If you're a writer, reader reaction, despite the intervention of the printed word, is still largely to your ideas [...]
shaping up-3Seasons
It’s exhilarating to see things coming together. I don’t think I’ll ever get over the thrill of watching the final shape come to a show, like an old fashioned photograph appearing out of developer. Extra [...]
inventing – Casey Curran
Casey Curran is a master of ingenuity, a prince of the imagination. His kinetic art takes the form of intricate sculptural mechanisms that resemble and fascinate like the marvels in a children’s fairy tale. For [...]
stretching
Since he retired from Pacific Northwest Ballet with his recent performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Olivier Wevers and Whim W'Him have been far from idle. Already two different shows have been slated for Seattle, [...]
sizzling! – Coquette
Twice a night last Friday and Saturday, May 27-28, the seductive Kylie Lewallen and her smoldering swain, Ty Cheng, performed Coquette by Olivier Wevers, part of La Danse! Le Burlesque! L'Edition Francaise! at Seattle's Triple [...]
memorizing
A few weeks back, Melody Herrera spent three days in Seattle, learning the 3Seasons choreography for the ReSet performances June 24 and 25 (8 pm) at Intiman Theatre. After she left town, I emailed her: [...]
merde, Olivier & Kaori…
...this afternoon, your final performance together We'll all be there!!!
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.