SPACE SHUFFLE
Dance spaces to come, go, move, and grow. Here’s everything you need to know about dance space openings, closures, and moves from the last few years.
Kaitlin McCarthy
Kaitlin McCarthy is a dance artist and journalist based in Seattle, WA. Over the last decade she has written for City Arts Magazine, Dance International Magazine, PublicDisplay.Art, Seattle Magazine, and SeattleDances.com, where she has been the Editorial Director since 2016. During her leadership she grew SeattleDances from a volunteer site to one that paid its writers and staff, and realigned the organization’s mission to focus on local and independent dance that is often passed over by mainstream press. She also spearheaded the DanceCrush Awards, an annual platform for recognizing the accomplishments of dance artists in Seattle that ran 2016-2020. In 2022 she was awarded a fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Center for Theater, where she studied criticism writing with faculty from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and many others. Kaitlin’s understanding of dance comes from a lifelong dedication to the field, including a degree in dance from Mount Holyoke College and a 15 year professional performance and choreographic career. More at kaitlinmccarthy.com.
Boys! Boys! Boys!
It’s hard to use terms like “event of the season” without sounding cliché, but if you want to be on the pulse of what’s happening in Seattle’s dance (or nightlife) scene, Drama Top’s Boys! Boys! Boys! is not to be missed!
YES, WHAT HAPPENED?
Reflections on Marcie Sillman’s recent article in Crosscut, and how Seattle dance has evolved over the last decade.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: PEGGY PIACENZA
With 30 years experience making dance work in Seattle, Peggy Piacenza talks process, history, working slowly, and the beginnings of something new.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: SHAWN ROBERTS
Shawn Roberts sees dance as a vehicle for healing and becoming—and she’s spent a career bringing that vision to life in Seattle.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: MARKEITH WILEY
A conversation with Markeith Wiley—on their many roles, their remarkable career in art-making, and their hopes for the future.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: MEG FOX
Meg Fox’s journey to lighting design, thoughts on dance, and her plea for all to be better humans.
A FIRST LOOK AT PRICEARTS’ NEW SEASON
Super creatives Noelle Price and Eve Sanford collaborate on a new work for PRICEarts’ upcoming digital season.
FROM THE EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: NOV/DEC
New companies! New research platforms! And why Donald Byrd’s Love and Loss was exactly the kind of work we should be seeing at the ballet.
THE NEW FALL KICK OFF
Velocity Artistic Director Erin Johnson discusses this year’s Fall Kick Off, along with take aways from attending the National Dance Presenter’s Forum at Jacob’s Pillow.