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What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For May

Dana Wen — Sat, 10 May 2014 14:55:42 +0000

Though May is already in full swing, there are still plenty of options for classical music fans looking for live music. This month's offerings run the gamut from opera and chamber music to modern dance and ballet.

Lead Bunny, the Pink Door & Modern Dance “devant les gens”

Michael van Baker — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:38:36 +0000

About her work, Barnes says, "I see a lone wolf pup howling juxtaposed with the most complicated and layered human relationships," and as strange as that sounds, you can pick that up from her choreography (and Jme Frank's sci-fi-meets-aborigine costumes with masks by Ret Harrison).

Paul Taylor Dance Company Dazzles at UW’s Meany Hall

Dana Wen — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:22:50 +0000

The Paul Taylor Dance Company brings a dazzling kaleidoscope of movement to the University of Washington this weekend with three performances at Meany Hall. The program features the West Coast premiere of "The Uncommitted," accompanied by live music from the Seattle Modern Orchestra.

Giving It Away With Spectrum’s Miraculous Mandarin in the ID

Michael van Baker — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:25:36 +0000

Have you ever been tempted to take the leap into contemporary dance, but thought at the last moment, Wait, this costs money? Then do we have six free performances for you, featuring one of the Pacific Northwest's most viscerally exciting and intellectually daring dance troupes. Spectrum Dance Theater is taking The Miraculous Mandarin, composer Bela Bartok's one-act ballet about sex and the Mandarin, to Hing Hay Park ("the park for pleasurable gatherings") in Chinatown.

For Whim W’Him’s Olivier Wevers, A New Dance is Life or Death

Michael van Baker — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:52:15 +0000

No one needs to tell choreographer Olivier Wevers that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. On the same bill with his death penalty dance, thrOwn, this weekend at the Intiman, are two lighter works: la langue de l'amour, a "very naughty" solo for Chalnessa Eames; and Flower Festival, with August Bournonville's flirtatious, teasing pas de deux, Flower Festival in Genzano, re-imagined for two men who begin the dance in suits, but then there arises a "jousting" feeling, says Wevers, promising very "kinetic" movement.

Zoe | Juniper Cracks Your Head Open, Non-Linearly

Michael van Baker — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:36:12 +0000

I've had the relative luxury of digesting the proceedings for a few days, and I can tell you that the complexity doesn't go away; there's the idea of examining the "liminal space between action-reaction, cause-effect, and before-after," and talk of "framing," but that doesn't prepare you for your response to the dancer with a red string in her teeth, the extraordinary score from Greg Haines (and sound design by Matt Starritt), or the blasts of light that reset scenes like a circuit breaker.