By Tessa Perkins Deneault The curtain rises to reveal the silhouette of a woman atop a giant full skirt. As the lights come up, the skirt transforms into a huge orange scarf that billows above Jerome Tisserand and his partner Laura Tisserand, who is perched on his shoulders. It’s a beautiful image to punctuate the
Beauty unfolded in a series of enveloping embraces between dancers Jonathan Jordan and Francesca Dugarte in Diane Coburn Bruning’s Journey (2003). The duet opened Chamber Dance Project’s New Works + program in June. A summer-only project-based company founded by Coburn Bruning in New York in 2000 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 2014, CDP’s modus
by Kaitlin McCarthy In a city renowned for its futuristic tech industries, the dance scene in Seattle has been looking to the past this season. Pacific Northwest Ballet opened its season with a Jerome Robbins Festival, choreographer Dayna Hanson reprised an early 33 Fainting Spells work, and Hypernova Contemporary Dance Company presented a nostalgic look