Borrowing a huge sum of money—the equivalent of one private jet—from the bank is a big decision for anyone. For
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Tag: Dayna Hanson
Base: New Dance Space Arrives in Georgetown
Off an old industrial alleyway in Georgetown something new is just beginning. Seattle dance fixtures Dayna Hanson and Peggy Piacenza,
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Ten Tiny Dances: The Beauty of Restrictions
“Ten tiny dancers on a platform” is how my companion referred to the show in a slip of the tongue.
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Ten Tiny Dances: Small Stage, Big Idea
If “art is limitation, and the essence of every picture is the frame,” as the writer G.K. Chesterton once said,
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New Frontiers of Dance Cinema
The sister art forms of dance and film have much in common. At its core, cinema is about movement, light,
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Piacenza Gets Personal
Peggy Piacenza’s new solo work, Touch Me Here, opens this Thursday, November 20, under the crumbling balconies of Seattle’s Washington
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Velocity FKO Teases and Pleases
Velocity’s annual Fall Kick-Off ushered in a promising new season of dance with three different nightly performance showcases, September 5-7,
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An Intelligent and Intuitive American Parable
The premise of Dayna Hanson’s The Clay Duke is a 2010 shooting at a Florida school board meeting subsequently made
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A Cinematic Movement
Film is not a new medium. The nexus of dance and film is not particularly new either, but this week’s
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Velocity Kicks Off into a New Season
If you ever start fearing that contemporary dance in Seattle all looks the same, the Velocity Fall Kick Off is
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