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. Continue reading What We’re Hearing This Month: Classical Music Picks For May
The power of Autopsy of Love is in how close it slices to the bone, to use the evident metaphor. Byrd isn’t one to take Heine’s often florid protestations of what love is at face value. Continue reading Reviews: Spectrum’s “Autopsy of Love” & a Spotlight on Shannon Stewart
More dances should put people in jumpsuits, or better said, find a good reason to. In Spectrum Dance Theater’s revival of Donald Byrd’s A Cruel New World/the new normal (at Emerald City Trapeze Arts from April 11 to 13), this blistering, anguished, and tender work seats its audiences in front of a wire fence topped with razor-wire. Continue reading Spectrum Dance’s Revival of “A Cruel New World” is Explosive
Each piece spoke to common themes found in different contexts in each: relationship, power, identity, and intersubjectivity, if you want to get into a whole Merleau-Ponty line of investigation. […] For the audience, it’s a bit of a Rorschach — which couple did you like? Who did you want to see stick together? Continue reading Wevers / Spaeth / Byrd Dance Bill Closes a Sold-Out Run at Spectrum
This weekend and next, Spectrum Dance Theater hosts in its Lake Washington studio fellow choreographers Olivier Wevers (founder of Whim W’Him) and Crispin Spaeth. The Fall Studio Series also includes a world premiere from Spectrum’s Donald Byrd. Opening night is already sold out.
The Stranger suggests you make time to see it. Actually, everyone does, including us. Continue reading At Spectrum, Works from Wevers, Spaeth & Byrd
Get your calendars and planners ready! Here’s a rundown of the best Seattle classical music events of the upcoming 2012-13 season, including highlights from the major local ensembles, notable events, and groups to watch in the coming year. Continue reading 2012-13 Season Preview: The Year Ahead in Seattle Classical Music
If there’s a narrative thread to LOVE, I think it’s in its furious attempt to make art from love, and more specifically, from love that’s gone missing. Set to Benjamin Britten’s three Cello Suites, played with an almost inhuman dynamic variety by Wendy Sutter, the work begins with the soulful Vincent Michael Lopez stepping into it–stepping through his clasped hands, a move he’ll repeat at the finish. Continue reading Byrd’s LOVE May Not be Supreme, but It is Full Spectrum
