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October 21, 2019 Dance, the most (literally) touching of arts, especially contemporary dance as practiced by Whim W'Him before the virus, is hard to imagine without physical dancer interaction, not to speak [...]

What is essential work? Official definitions change every few days and differently in different places. But beyond the basic physical requirements for sustenance and rudimentary health, some needs—like art; love in its widest meanings of connection with others; a sense of play—are primal, necessary to the sustaining of human culture and life worth living.

“The dancers are incredible, kind and humble. They don’t look down their noses, arrogance doesn’t exist. That’s so obvious, and so rare,” says Melody O'Neill, Whim W'Him's patron services manager. It's certainly been my experience [...]

Half a dozen starts to this post. Each draft overtaken or interrupted by events. Just now I spent over an hour on the phone with an old friend we hadn't heard from in years, pouring [...]

Hayley Buckbee & Ian Campbell ...are the people behind RSVR Visual Research. The name, a condensing of 'reservoir,' they told me, "describes our interdisciplinary studio environment and our approach to project work. We champion collaboration; [...]

"The world feels so divided now," says Whim W’Him artistic director Olivier Wevers. Each of us, no matter how kind or compassionate we consider ourselves to be, has blind spots, moments of selective empathy, insidious [...]

Born and raised in London of Turkish Cypriot parents, residing in Zurich when he’s not on the road, the peripatetic and prolific Ihsan Rustem has become a favorite with Whim W’Him audiences and critics alike. [...]

Hers was a remarkably rich childhood. Sidra Bell, whose first piece for Whim W’Him will open on January 17 as part of the XPRESS program*, grew up in New York City. Both parents were practicing [...]

Kyra Jean Green, whose own smile is quite genuine, was born in Paris, where her parents had gone to spend 4 or 5 years. They decided to have a baby while there, but once she [...]

Growing up in Aomori, Japan. Yoshito Sakuraba saw barely any dance performance—"maybe one musical.” In Japan the eclectic mix of academics and learning to practice an art customary in the US is practically unknown. Only [...]