Melody Datz Hansen
Recent Articles
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Fun is at the forefront of PNB’s ‘Jerome Robbins Festival’
Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrates the famous American choreographer with a joyful, two-program tribute.
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2018 Fall Arts Guide
Our picks for more than two dozen of the season's most compelling shows, plus Q&As with five leading local artists.
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Explore your grubby, envious self in Rachel Mars’ ‘Our Carnal Hearts’
Rachel Mars’ show coming to On the Boards uses song and satire to investigate how pervasive, yet taboo, emotions like envy and competition affect our everyday choices.
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festival:festival disrupts audience-driven art
A new, free performing and visual arts festival coming to Capitol Hill on Aug. 10 and 11 celebrates intersectionality and elevates accessibility.
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Coriolis Dance and Tectonic Marrow Society at SIDF
Colemxn Pester's 'PYLON III' and Natascha Greenwalt’s 'Danses de Cygnes' showed at the intimate Erickson Theater off Broadway.
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Grief, Joy, Identity, Community: Britt Karhoff’s ‘Still Wonder Full’
The artist's ambitious, genre-blending solo work premieres this weekend at Georgetown's BASE: Experimental Art & Space.
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The Problematic Mixed Bill of PNB’s ‘Emergence’
Two brilliant dance works are marred by the presence of one that is shockingly and offensively behind our cultural times.
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A ‘Swan Lake’ of Rare Beauty at PNB
Pacific Northwest Ballet opened its latest 'Swan Lake' with a performance so inspired that it felt like watching a brand-new production.
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Coleman Pester: Choreographer, Convention-Breaker
Coleman Pester is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Marrow Society.
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Timely Collaboration and Faustian Disaster in ‘Saci & The Greater Trumps’
Karin Stevens Dance and Universal Language Project present two stories of apocalypse and human redemption.
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360 Degrees of Dance
You don’t have to “get” zoe | juniper’s 'Clear and Sweet.' It will get you.
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Whim W’Him: A New Season Begins
The strengths and weaknesses of the dance company's latest, 'Choreographic Shindig III.'
