On the Boards – Page 4 – Seattle Dances

Variations on a Theme at NWNW

Opening night of On The Board’s annual Northwest New Works Festival brought a studio theater showcase with a lot of

French choreographer Alain Buffard’s Baron Samedi (On the Boards, May 8-11) was an engrossing meditation on—what, exactly? Taking its name

The person standing next to you begins melting to the floor. The crowd tries not to step on dancers slithering

There’s already been plenty written about zoe | juniper’s latest work, BeginAgain, but it’s a show that sparks the written

Chances are good that many in the Seattle audiences have heard the buzz surrounding the upcoming zoe | juniper performance,

End… End… End… Miguel Gutierrez sits facing Ishmael Houston-Jones, verbally cueing the length of each semaphoric movement they perform in

Frédérick Gravel teeters between worlds. His show, Usually Beauty Fails, was half dance performance and half music concert, without the

The premise of Dayna Hanson’s The Clay Duke is a 2010 shooting at a Florida school board meeting subsequently made

Film is not a new medium. The nexus of dance and film is not particularly new either, but this week’s

On the Boards’ second 12 Minutes Max of the season, curated by Jim Kent and Kia Pierce, offered another full,