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cutting loose – Bruno Roque
How The Background Hum of Stimuli came to fruition shows once again the way unexpected setbacks or a new source of inspiration can lead in surprising directions. Originally, when Bruno Roque received his CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III commission [...]
summoning – Adam Barruch
“I’ve never done anything like it,” exclaims dancer Tory Peil of Adam Barruch’s Summoning, which debuts tonight as part of Whim W'Him's CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III on Capitol Hill. “Having been raised by hippies,” as she [...]
choreographer profile – Banning Bouldin
"I love a good challenge," says Banning Bouldin whose Limitation Etudes 7-10 premieres this Friday, September 8, as part of Whim W'Him's CHOREOGRAPHIC SHINDIG III at the Erickson Theatre off Broadway on Seattle's Capitol Hill. [...]
choreographer profile – Bruno Roque
Growing up in Portugal, Bruno Roque "wasn't in a dance world." Though he went to "a traditional summer camp where they would host occasional dance/ball/prom kind of evenings," did 4 years of martial arts, and [...]
dancer feature – Cameron Birts
If you're young, romantic and naïve, it may seem that talent, starry-eyed desire and dedication are all you need to become a successful professional dancer. But there's a lot of luck involved too—being born in [...]
dancer feature – Adrian Hoffman
One of the things that always strikes me most about dancers in general, and Whim W'Him dancers in particular, is how hard-working, resilient and ingenious they are in dealing with the peculiar complications of a [...]
choreographer profile – Adam Barruch
Adam Barruch, one of 3 choreographers chosen by the Whim W'Him dancers from over 100 entries to create a new piece for the 2017 Choreographic Shindig, is a soft-spoken, polite, and intense presence. His professional life [...]
watching ecstasy
"Approaching Ecstasy is not a light, happy ballet," writes Melody Datz Hansen, for City Arts, in a review entitled 'The Delicate Balance of Beauty and Pain': "The music is slow and haunting, the dancers’ movements are [...]
combining Ecstasy – music meets dance
It’s interesting and rather amusing that, of the two Approaching Ecstasy collaborators, the expansive and gregarious composer Eric Banks, is strongly committed to a balanced and symmetric musical undergirding , while the choreographer, long time [...]
Approaching Ecstasy redux – Eric Banks
Although I'm loath to repeat myself with regard to Whim W'Him—as is the company in the work it presents—it makes sense to reintroduce composer Eric Banks, The Esoterics, and the music for the new Approaching [...]
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.