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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It's fun, and also quite humbling, to compile from time to time a mostly-images post, from the work of Bamberg Fine Art Photography. In the absence of live performance, these beautiful images convey the complex, [...]

It is a fitting and ironic symbol for our times that last Friday, the opening night of Whim W'Him's CONFIGURATE, in the execution of the complex, split-second beginning of Ihsan Rustam’s Seed (which alternates blackouts [...]

Early on in the first rehearsal, last November, for what became Joinery—opening tomorrow as part of Whim W'Him's CONFIGURATE program—choreographer Gabrielle Lamb invoked some arresting images, showing as she told the dancers how to lie along [...]

Happy 2018! May the world this year increase its store of caring, peace and understanding, of empathy, compassion and love. "The commissions keep coming for Gabrielle Lamb," wrote Dance Magazine a few years ago. She [...]

love starts here This tagline, motto and premise of Whim W’Him’s January program, CONFIGURATE, is endorsed in a common statement* by its 3 choreographers, Gabrielle Lamb, Ihsan Rustem and artistic director Olivier Wevers. Nature is [...]

After a much-acclaimed creation for the company's first Choreographic Shindig in 2015, Ihsan Rustem returns to Whim W'Him with the CONFIGURATE program, Jan. 9-27, 2018. Ihsan lives in Switzerland but works with companies across the world, [...]

On arriving back from several months on the east coast, I intended to start a new series of posts with Ihasan Rustem's new piece, now being created for the January show. But then Molly Magee [...]