Reviews – Seattle Dances

February 16, 2021 Reviews

NOT THE LITTLE PRINCE

Whim W’him’s 2019 piece This is Not the Little Prince finds new life through a film adaptation for streaming platform IN-With-WHIM.

February 11, 2021 Reviews

SEARCH(LIGHT) CONNECTS COASTS

Kinesis Project Dance Theatre joins Puget Sound and NYC into a single, experimental, livestream performance.

January 10, 2021 Reviews

LA BEFANA LOOKS TO 2021

MALACARNE’s La Befana opens the new year with a live collection of dance films inspired by the Italian folk witch.

December 14, 2020 Reviews

LEGENDARY CHILDREN

The world got a behind-the-scenes look into Seattle’s ballroom culture with a dazzling 5th anniversary edition of Legendary Children, including two dozen creatives and six houses.

December 3, 2020 Reviews

REFLECTIONS DANCE FESTIVAL

Reflections Dance Festival marks the new Pier 62 space with art as celebration, mourning, education, activism, and inspiration.

October 16, 2020 Reviews

Washington Ensemble Theatre’s VOTE ART VOTE, directed by Raja Feather Kelly and co-curated by Dani Tirrell, strings together ten new performances with the goal of reminding audiences how powerful one vote can be.

October 13, 2020 Reviews

LENS AS WITNESS

Kiana Harris’ four-part dance film AJE IJO is featured at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Festival.

July 15, 2020 Previews / Reviews

CONTINUUM CONTINUES

Seattle Dance Collective releases five new dance films over the month of July. Lynn Tofil finds commonality in the first two works, and previews the upcoming films.

July 6, 2020 Reviews

ROMANCE TOLD THROUGH DANCE

Boaz Yakin’s narrative dance film shows the complication of love in stunning use of choreography (Bobbi Jene Smith). Online through July 17.

June 4, 2020 Reviews

MULTIDISCIPLINARY GOLDEN THREAD

The Golden Thread is an online interdisciplinary arts experience, with the goal of allowing Seattle-based artists from multiple genres to create work and be compensated through ticket sales.