Reviews – Page 55 – Seattle Dances

Minstrel Show Update Revisits Race Conversation

For a good, hard look at race in America, go see Donald Byrd’s The Minstrel Show Revisited this weekend. Opening

Shifting from live music to spoken word to dance to theater, Genre Bender showcased Seattle artists of every order, each

As the Eastside’s biggest—only?—dance festival, the annual Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival provides a wide array of performances each year.

Pelvis forward, chest recessed, chin prominent, heels striking, clean lines—these signature postures belong, of course, to the starlet of Seattle’s

This weekend was homecoming time for Mark Morris. The Seattle-born choreographer and his company, Mark Morris Dance Group, presented three

“What better metaphor for love is there than getting stabbed in the heart by a flying baby?” jokes Ben De

There aren’t too many times you get to watch Giselle with a jumbo bag of popcorn in your lap, but

As often as Vanessa DeWolf’s name appears in program acknowledgements of Seattle-area performances, one might think her some kind of

Kate Wallich may be the main choreographer of Super Eagle, set to premiere at Velocity this Thursday evening, but the

Despite its advertising, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty, which premiered on Friday, January 31, 2014, at McCaw Hall, may not