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Author: Mariko Nagashima

Mariko tries to engage with dance in as many ways as possible. She is a writer, performer, teacher, and general enthusiast of the art form. She began writing for SeattleDances in the fall of 2010 and became the site’s Editor and Manager in 2011. Mariko received the Gary Parks Scholarship for emerging writers from the Dance Critics Association in 2012 and has attended multiple DCA conferences and writing workshops. She holds a BFA in Ballet and BS in Biology from the University of Utah, where she was also a contributing writer to the Daily Utah Chronicle. As a dancer she has performed with Coriolis Dance, Alana O Rogers Dance Company, and Lotus Body among others in and around the Seattle area.
October 20, 2013 Interviews

Lynch Weaves Together Passion and Education

Tim Lynch has many roles. He’s the Artistic Director of and a dancer with Seattle Dance Project, he’s an instructor

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October 10, 2013 Reviews

Toward A New Jazz Age With CJDP

While American jazz dance has been around since the early 1900’s, there are few concert dance companies today that specialize

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October 6, 2013 Reviews

TRE is Raw and Real

For fans of Markeith Wiley and his company The New Animals, TRE (one for the homie), has been a long

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September 30, 2013 Reviews

Dancing on AIR with PNB

Pacific Northwest Ballet has many Twyla Tharp works in their repertory, and they’ve even performed an all-Tharp bill before, but

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September 25, 2013 Editorials

Letter From the Editor

I moved to Seattle to dance. I stayed in Seattle because I was not only dancing, but because I found

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September 23, 2013 Interviews

Mod Carousel’s At It Again

When their gender-reversing parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video went viral, Mod Carousel realized they’d found a perfect platform

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August 22, 2013 Previews

Preview: Relay Dance Collective

  Jasmine Morgan (left) and Austin Sexton (right) of RDC in Jenny Hillock’s “Shadow Dancing” Photo by Stephanie Nomura-Henley Relay Dance

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July 4, 2013 Editorials

You’re Invited! Help SeattleDances Grow!

Design by Rosie Gaynor of Seattle Scriptorium Noticed our awesome new logo yet? This is just the first of many

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June 13, 2013 Reviews

Chicago Sends, Seattle Receives

Laboratory Dancers in Alexandra Subak’s Iota Photo by Brian Eaves On the Laboratory Dancers’ website, the Chicago-based artist collective bills themselves

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June 4, 2013 Reviews

PNB Awes with New and Old Alike

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Carla Körbes and corps de ballet dancer Joshua Grant in the world premiere of Christopher

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