Tickets are flying fast for the first official, full-length concert by Whim W'Him, Olivier Wevers' brand new supergroup Seattle dance company -- so please get over to the OTB site now! Besides being a superstar performer, Belgian-born Wevers has true choreographic talent -- his phrases are never arbitrary; always probing at matters physical or … [Read more...]
2009: Five Best Moments in Dance
In Seattle and otherwise... 1) "Esplanade" at the UW Meany Hall World Dance series. The dance that I saw as a young child that hooked me forever. It looked a little off-balance with a full-size woman in the jumping-over-bodies role (Lila York, for whom it was created, told me once that it indicated Paul Taylor's belief that the meek shall … [Read more...]
Buster Moves
On Sunday December 13 at On the Boards, independent choreographer Amelia Reeber was chosen the winner of Seattle's first-ever A.W.A.R.D. dance competition -- a strange, high-stakes way to watch dance. The purse of 10K for the winning choreographer had imbibed the sold-out houses with a kind of giddy disorientation at first. But as the weekend … [Read more...]
“La Danse” is Palatial
Even before I sat down to watch Frederick Wiseman's "La Danse," I asked NWFF executive director Lyall Bush if I might have the movie poster when the run was done. A few days later, Lyall said "Yes" (for a small contribution, natch). I love the poster, but it's misleading. Wiseman framed shots of isolated body parts less than a handful of times … [Read more...]