Almost all of the dance works at the Next NW 2012 festival (at Velocity Dance Center through December 9) feature a movement or a tableau that seem to lodge themselves in you, like a good short story will. The six pieces are limited to 12 minutes each, so there’s a similar constraint, though you never see the same thing twice. Continue reading At Velocity’s Next NW, Dance Runs the Gamut
A cold November rain had the Kawasaki studio’s skylight sounding like a snare drum, and that and a 4 p.m. twilight conspired to bring back in a rush what was so eerie about Twin Peaks, as Stewart and her dancers took on the characters of FBI agents drinking coffee, stern and glaring older women, a traumatized high school girl. Continue reading This Weekend, Velocity Dance Has Got Next
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). Continue reading Lead Bunny, the Pink Door & Modern Dance “devant les gens”
