Kiyon Gaines – Seattle Dances

A SPACE FOR UNAPOLOGETIC BLACKNESS IN BALLET

Theresa Ruth Howard, Kiyon Gaines, and Donald Byrd preview the upcoming MobBallet digital symposium centering Blackness in ballet.

On a warm and sunny late afternoon, Olympic Sculpture Park was packed in a way I have never seen it

Seattleites love getting outside during those few summer months when the sun shines. There are outdoor concerts, festivals, movie screenings,

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Emergence program (November 6-14 at McCaw Hall) brings together four wildly different works of contemporary ballet. On

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s final rep of the season opened Friday, May 29, with a study in density and depth. Alexei

“If we shadows have offended / Think but this, and all is mended / That you have but slumber’d here

American choreographer Alvin Ailey is often quoted stating that his dancers needed a “ballet bottom” and a “modern top,” and

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

Coriolis Dance Photo by Ernie Sapiro In an evening curated by innovative PNB soloist and choreographer, Kiyon Gaines, it

Written by Steve Ha Choreographer Kiyon Gaines (right) rehearses a section of his ballet, Sum Stravinsky, with Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist