A conversation with Seattle
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new repertory program at McCaw Hall turns out to be a fascinating and varied group of four … Continue reading Unutterable Originality: Pite’s ‘Emergence’ and Lang’s ‘The Calling’ at PNB
Friday night saw the opening of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s latest repertory program, works by two unusually creative choreographers, Jiri Kylian … Continue reading PNB Has Creative Imagination in Spades
After the many musical treats (no tricks!) of October, the classical music season is in full swing here in Seattle. November’s calendar abounds with visits from touring ensembles and soloists, as well as exciting performances by local groups. Head to a concert hall and take advantage of this month’s diverse musical offerings, especially before the holiday music deluge blankets the concert calendar for December. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For November
Mark Morris recently said in The Stranger that “world class” is a “horrible term” to apply to the arts. I agree with him. Somehow the phrase cheapens art.
Still, I like world-class art. Continue reading Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, “World-Class” & Dance in Seattle
To bring this back down to earth, consider choreographer Donald Byrd’s statement that, with The Theater of Needless Talents, he wanted to get into how particular humans keep finding ways to commit atrocities against humanity. Rather than totalizing Nazi power, buying into the Reich’s myth, his work, iconoclastic as ever, breaks it into pieces. Continue reading At Spectrum, Donald Byrd Gives “Needless Talents” Human Faces
The audience learns the vocabulary as Prospero teaches it to the minions of the story, which aids in communicating the more fluid and extrapolated storytelling of the second half. Continue reading Kidd Pivot’s The Tempest Replica & the Art of Physical Storytelling