Taylor Mac’s impish subversion of right-wing music
Performance artist Taylor Mac brings his “Songs of the American Right” — which reinvents and subverts songs with what he calls “a conservative root” —...
Alice Kaderlan
Alice Kaderlan has been a reporter and critic longer than many Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers have been alive. She started her career at NPR and WAMU-FM in D.C., then became a journalistic nomad as she moved around the U.S. working in TV, radio and print before arriving in Seattle in 1997. Her passions are travel and architecture and she is a tour guide for Seattle Architecture Foundation.
Play and brooding from the Mark Morris Dance Group | Dance review
The Mark Morris Dance Group, which regularly comes to Seattle, returns with “A Wooden Tree” — set to the loopy songs of Scottish humorist Ivor...
Frenzy, then meditation — the dramatic choreography of Akram Khan | Dance review
Akram Khan blends contemporary dance with the quick rhythms of kathak, a classical form from northern India. This weekend, his company brings “Kaash,” designed by...
The meticulous musicality of Mark Morris VIEW
Choreographer Mark Morris is legendary for insisting on live musical accompaniment. One rare exception: “A Wooden Tree,” set to ditties by the late Scottish humorist...
KT Niehoff’s ‘Glimmer’ a fantasy of silky skin, rippling muscles
The Seattle choreographer remounts her sensual dance spectacle — with furs, flesh and a stuffed crow — in ACT’s basement cabaret theater.
20 years of ‘Riverdance’ by the numbers
Over the past two decades, the “Riverdance” company has consumed 400,000 gallons of water, burned through 6 million pounds of dry ice and celebrated 60...
‘Tide Harmonic’ still wows at PNB | Dance review
A review of PNB’s “See the Music” program, which gathers Christopher Wheeldon’s “Tide Harmonic,” Jerome Robbins’ “The Concert” and George Balanchine’s “The Prodigal Son” on...
Sankai Juku to bring ‘Umusuna’ to UW
Every production of this world-renowned butoh troupe contains mesmerizing images of extraordinary beauty in which the physical body is transformed into an element of the...