Is it possible to be both dancer and mother? This is a question that many dancers will contemplate at a
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Tag: On the Boards
Yellow Towel’s Physical Metaphor
In her baggy black sweats, Dana Michel edges her way into the entirely white space. She is hunched over, arms
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Shore: Performance sets us adrift
The audience is led to a nearby parking lot in the rain, marked by a line of performers singing gentle
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Pat Graney’s Girl Gods: All the Rage
If at any point in life you ever wonder, “Why are women always so damn angry?” Pat Graney has good
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NWNW Weekend 1: Highlights
June marks the return of the NW New Works Festival at On the Boards, where you can catch a variety
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Creating a New MANIFESTO
It started as a solo skit for a sea cucumber. The roots of ilvs strauss’s MANIFESTO are simple enough, but
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Surveillance Playground at Clytigation
If you like absurdity and technology mixed in with your dance and served alongside portions of antiquity and current events,
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Marking Freedom’s Progress Through Dance
Just days before the 50th anniversary of the historic American Civil Rights Movement march in Selma, Alabama, known as “Bloody
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12 Notable Performances of 2014: A Personal Appreciation
Most people in the Seattle dance community know Anne Lawrence. A faithful mega-fan of all things dance, Anne can usually
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Wandering through Abstraction in BLEED
If dance is, as choreographer Tere O’Connor said in a Q&A last weekend, “a journey away from language,” how on
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