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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 [...]

June 25th, 2011|

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 [...]

June 24th, 2011|

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 [...]

June 23rd, 2011|

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 [...]

June 19th, 2011|

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, [...]

June 7th, 2011|

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 [...]

May 30th, 2011|

laughing

So often dance, even if meant to be funny, is performed by dancers with serious faces. Dancers’ stern demeanor can be part of the joke. The brilliant smiles of classical ballet sometimes seem pasted on, [...]

May 16th, 2011|

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: [...]

April 29th, 2011|

farewell…

Yesterday afternoon—it already seems so long ago—Olivier Wevers danced his last pas de deux, the exquisite Divertissement in Act II of George Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream, with his long-time partner Kaori Nakamura. Emotional and classically [...]

April 18th, 2011|

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.

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