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endlessly inspiring thought – Alice Klock
"Densely dimensional, unpredictable, strangely graceful and wild, Alice Klock's dances are like elegant ribbons caught in hopelessly tangled knots," wrote Dance Magazine, in this year's '25 to watch' feature. One of the three choreographers [...]
always dancing – Omar Román de Jesús
Collaboration by Cameras & Dancers—photo by Jacob Jonas Omar Román de Jesús doesn't really remember a time when he didn't dance. "Mostly I felt like doing it—it was natural." So was creating dances. [...]
changing places – Jane Cracovaner
"I like to be surprised," says Jane Cracovaner, Whim W'Him's newest dancer. She is much taken by the big trees in some of Seattle's neighborhoods, not just in parks but on ordinary city streets. Jane [...]
parting snapshots – the Bambergs & Molly Magee
In the beginning, right at the founding of of Whim W'Him, were the Bambergs, Kim and Adam. From their original encounters with Olivier and the dancers at work on the new company's premiere in January [...]
Pascal’s wager – Pascal Touzeau & Whim W’Him
As its core mission Whim W’Him is dedicated to high quality, original creations, bringing into being half a dozen or more new works each season, many from choreographers who have not worked with the company [...]
goodbye to all that -Tory Peil’s farewell Whim 2
Dancer Tory Peil, whose final Whim W'Him run starts with the opening June 8 of TRANSFIGURATE, has been with the company since rehearsals started for the January 2012 show. Here, mostly in her own wise [...]
goodbye to all that -Tory Peil’s farewell Whim 1
There’s a long list of things that Whimmers, onstage or off, will miss about Tory Peil when, after her final performance June 16, she retires from Whim W’Him. Tory is a marvelous dancer whose technical [...]
ducks sitting & Danielle Agami
Rehearsal takes place facing sideways in the studio, not toward the mirror. The choreographer is Danielle Agami. Her intensity is embodied in her small stature, compact body, concentrated presence, deep (in both senses) brown eyes, [...]
a complex character – Charlie Chaplin/Silent Scream
In mid-April started on Whim W’Him’s final program of the 2017-18 season, TRANSFIGURATE with performances June 8-16 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center. Artistic director Olivier Wevers and the Whim W’Him dancers began rehearsing [...]
picturing Configurate 2 – ‘Joinery’
In these complex times, with so much threatening to break us apart — as a world, as a society, as individuals and in personal relationships — we need also to remember the things that bring [...]
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.