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Photo by Jennifer Richard.
For a reason why Donald Byrd is receiving a Mayor’s Arts Award this year, one need only to look at the fall arts calendar.
Not only is the artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater staging a performance of The...
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The staff of On the Boards. Photo by Jennifer Richard.
On the Boards is Seattle’s home for the strange, provocative, stunning and avant-garde. A platform for experimentation and risk. A presenter, producer and incubator for innovative...
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Local experimental dance, video and performance installation duo zoe | juniper are gearing up for the world premiere of their latest work, A Crack in Everything. The new piece will debut in late July at the Jacob's Pillow festival in...
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Demetrius Tabron and Amber Weiss.
Sonia Dawkins has a strong background in classical ballet, yet her choreography is anything but traditional. Drawing on elements of theatre, hip hop, and contemporary dance, the snippets of work...
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Lucien Postlewaite and Kaori Nakamura as Giselle and Albrecht.
The staging may be new, but the magic of Giselle hasn’t changed a bit. Last Friday at McCaw Hall Pacific Northwest Ballet opened its run of Peter Boal’s highly anticipated...
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The Second String Superheroes.
In the very open and experimental world of contemporary dance, pretty much anything goes. Embracing this idea, Kristen Legg, Artistic Director of Redd Legg Dance, organized a show with only one...
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Corrie Befort in Titan Arum.
Most nightmares frighten, and to wake up is sweet relief. In Salt Horse’s Titan Arum however (at Washington Hall through May 21), choreographers Beth Graczyk and Corrie Befort create a nightmarish world...
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Celebrating the visually abstract, Catherine Cabeen’s world premiere of Into the Void at On the Boards last weekend investigated the intersection of various art forms (dance, music, video, sculpture) while numerous elements in costuming and...
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Kylie Lewallen, Michael Bagne, Vincent Lopez and Ty Cheng in Donald Byrd's Lola.
A night of playful performance and slapstick humor, The Variety Show is the solution for those who find themselves on the cusp of dance appreciation. A...
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Chalnessa Eames and Josh Spell in Paul Gibson’s The Piano Dance
Over the weekend, Pacific Northwest Ballet opened Contemporary 4, giving audiences a look at work from four current big-name choreographers shaping the future of dance,...
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Last Friday at Seattle Art Museum, Chicago-based artist Nick Cave (not to be confused with the musician) showed his latest work: "Soundsuits" made of cast-off materials like buttons, purses, and sandwich bags. Accompanying aisles of...
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Sarah Michelson's Devotion, playing this weekend at On the Boards, puts Western religion under extremely bright Klieg lights with a loaded cast of characters: Jesus and Mary, Adam and Eve and even someone called the Spirit of Religion.
The...
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Over the weekend Spectrum Dance Theatre premiered The Mother of Us All, a Donald Byrd choreographed piece concerning the weighty topic of geopolitical concerns in Africa. Steering clear from the view that Africa is merely a continent that...
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The 28th annual NW New Works Festival at On the Boards is scheduled for mid-June, and the lineup has finally been announced.
THE 2011 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS:
WEEKEND 1
Studio Theater Showcase
June 10 at 8pm & June 11 – 12 at 5pm
Kyle...
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Karin Stevens at Fremont Abbey.
Fremont Abbey, well known for its monthly musical-artistic collaboration The Round, is treading into new territory this weekend with its first annual movement arts event. The two-performance show, A...
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Astronomers can't describe the cosmological phenomenon of "dark matter," but that hasn't deterred choreographer Crystal Pite. In her work Dark Matters the Vancouver BC-based choreographer explores the concept of “dark matter” and...
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Ten Tiny Dances founder Mike Barber.
When put under artistic constraints creative minds usually think outside the box for resourceful solutions. This weekend Velocity Dance Center turns that idea on its head as a group of...
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Principal dancers Seth Orza and Maria Chapman with company dancers
Tonight marks the opening of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Cinderella, the whimsical tour de force choreographed by Kent Stowell. After nine years in the dark, the...
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Portland-based dance group tEEth. Image by Patrick Weishampel + Aaron Rogosin.
Three nights of fierce dance competition came down to three 15-minute performances last night, with each audience-chosen group attempting to impress a panel...
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By far the most difficult evening for voting, the third night of the OtB A.W.A.R.D. Show presented four groups of very talented dancers and the choreographers behind them.
Whim W’Him returned for a second year, showcasing Olivier Wevers’...
