Arts & Entertainment, Dance

For a Weekend, Chop Shop Makes Bellevue a Modern Dance Destination

It must also be thrilling for Stone to look out from the Meydenbauer stage at a full house, as she did last Saturday night. For the audience’s modern dance fans, I suspect, part of the fun is in discovering new faces. I found an early favorite in Adam Barruch Dance, whose fast, fluid Folie à deux (danced by Barruch and Chelsea Bonosky) was plainspoken enough to incorporate a post-argument fetal curl, along with some flat-on-the-back inventiveness. Continue reading For a Weekend, Chop Shop Makes Bellevue a Modern Dance Destination

Arts & Entertainment, Dance

Seattle International Dance Festival Finds the International in Seattle

Overwhelmed by the Seattle International Film Festival, I got a late start at the Seattle International Dance Festival, which closes this weekend with works from Scott Wells and Dancers and the Khambatta Dance Company formerly known as Phffft (June 18, 8 p.m.; June 19, 7:30 p.m.). Luckily Michael Upchurch has been all over it.

Scott Wells and Dancers, from San Francisco are presenting Call of the Wild and Ball-is-tic, while Khambatta gives you Rush, Centrifugal Force, and Interview with the American Dream. Here’s a taste of the Scott Wells troupe’s contact-partnering style, followed by an excerpt from American Dream. Continue reading Seattle International Dance Festival Finds the International in Seattle