Contemporary artists have a lot on their plate. Not only has the current economic meltdown made their lives more precarious than ever, they have also been faced with an increasingly apocalyptic world as a looming, correlative subject. If there were any lingering doubts that today’s performance...
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Mark Morris Dance Company
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the Paramount Theater
Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Tudor Choir
To write about the most recent Seattle appearance of the Mark Morris Dance Company, I have to start at the end of the program. Before the final strains of Antonio Viv...
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In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, Geoffrey Rush does a lovely turn as a befuddled theater owner who commissioned William Shakespeare to write a comedy but instead finds himself with The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Lingo Dance Theater’s new evening length segment of the triptych A ...
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Pacific Northwest Ballet All Balanchine
Not long after Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Three by Dove program had closed, one of the dancers confided to me his relief that the company had moved on to George Balanchine’s dances. “I feel like a netted fish that’s been ...
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For the second show in its "Live at the Film Forum" series, the Northwest Film Forum commissioned choreographer/dancer Amy O’Neal to create a live performance for its modest movie screen theater. O’Neal, whose dance company locust regularly incorporates the medium of video, proved a pe...
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