Farewell / Spectrum Dance Theater / Donald Byrd
Thursday, February 1, 2010
Farewell, Donald Byrd’s new piece for Spectrum Dance theater, is described as “a Fantastical Contemplation on America’s Relationship with China”. That’s an ambitious theme for the second perfor...
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Whim W’him
On The Boards/January 15-17, 2010
Yes, Virginia, that really was ballet at On the Boards January 15-17th.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer and choreographer Olivier Wevers’ new company Whim W’him made its debut Friday, January 15th, with a bill of t...
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As a sometime dance critic, I frequently find my opinions wildly at odds with those of individuals talking in the lobby after the show, writing reviews in the paper the next day, or posting on blogs waiting for me when I get home later that night. I often wonder whether everyone but me was complet...
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When Peter Boal came to Pacific Northwest Ballet, he brought along a solo dance he’d commissioned from a young German choreographer named Marco Goecke. When Boal put that solo on the bill here for the first time in 2005, he sat back in aisle seat at McCaw Hall and prayed the Seattle ...
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When we use the word “contemporary” to describe a work of dance we are usually talking about two things. First are the formal elements of movement employed in conveying the meaning; elements that are of the moment and constitute a kind of recognizable global vernacular. Second is the vag...
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