By Marcie Sillman Seattle’s dance scene has been sizzling. From world premieres that tackled topical subjects like immigration and the pandemic shutdown to a site-specific work created for the city’s historic monorail, artists and their presenters served up an array of intriguing new dances over the last few months. Olivier Wevers’ contemporary company Whim W’Him
By Celeste Nazeli Snowber Borderlands between water and land inspire my body to move. In my site-specific dance, I am invited into a linguistics of creation where the slowing down of time provokes a somatic response. As a landscape dancer and writer, I am caught in the poetics of the natural world, drawn to call
By Holly Harris NAfro Dance Productions presented one of the precious few live dance performances in Western Canada this fall: Matope (“mud” translated from Swahili), choreographed by artistic director Casimiro Nhussi. The site-specific production performed at sunset on the leafy banks of the La Salle River against a larger backdrop of the St. Norbert Arts