Dance a Shamanic Dance, this Weekend at Velocity

Dance a Shamanic Dance, this Weekend at Velocity

Wade, American-born but living now in Berlin, graduated from Amsterdam’s School for New Dance Development in 2000, and ever since has been experimenting not simply with the hoary notion of “audience participation,” but with what amounts to live choreography. That is, there’s not a dance event that the audience, on the periphery, participates in; the audience performs the event. Continue reading Dance a Shamanic Dance, this Weekend at Velocity

Intiman Patio Haunted by OCD Ghosts?

Intiman Patio Haunted by OCD Ghosts?

Alert reader Brian Sully just emailed this photograph of all the chairs on the patio outside Intiman Theatre, carefully arranged in the water at the fountain’s perimeter. “The fountain furniture rearranger struck last night,” writes Sully. “Maybe expecting a very warm day today.” If that is the case, they’re not using my AccuWeather app, which only forecasts a high of 70 degrees.

I happen to disagree with the chair placement in general, as you’re not facing the cast bronze “Fountain of the Northwest,” by James FitzGerald. Continue reading Intiman Patio Haunted by OCD Ghosts?