A NORTHWEST WONDERLAND
PNB’s enormous new Sleeping Beauty is a visual feast marrying a historic European ballet with an Indigenous Northwest aesthetic. Reviewer Kathryn Hightower interviews Wyly Astley… Read More »A NORTHWEST WONDERLAND
Kathryn Hightower
Kathryn Hightower has been dancing for over twenty years. She has practiced ballet, modern, tap, jazz, West African, Hawaiian Hula, salsa, butoh, and Croatian folkdance. After earning her BA in Dance from the University of Washington, she founded two communities: Steel Grace Dance, a rhythm-based performance group, and ISIS: Women Arts Festival, a grassroots collective designed to support female artists of all disciplines. Hightower’s work has been shown at many events throughout the Puget Sound. She is a member of Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble and Maile’s Hula Sisters, and is a resident at Studio Current. As a versatile dancer and gifted teacher, Hightower has taught students, aged 19 months to 60 years, at IslandWood, World Rhythm Festival, Mountlake Terrace Dance Program, Momentum Music and Dance Academy, and more. Additionally, Hightower is a musician, dance writer, poet, singer, and naturopathic medicine student at Bastyr University.
Witnessing the Ritual at Butoh Festival
Slime molds. Ocean waves. Phosphorescent plankton. All are formed by tiny, individual particles working together. And all were embodied by the five women of DAIPANbutoh… Read More »Witnessing the Ritual at Butoh Festival
Maria Tallchief: First American Prima Ballerina
In a Pacific Northwest forest, a man builds a box. He pries a massive yet thin slice of cedar from a log, then painstakingly carves… Read More »Maria Tallchief: First American Prima Ballerina
Family Portrait in E Flat at Urban Bush Women
Jazz music does not always take the listener from A to Z in alphabetical order. When the ear is plopped down in the middle of… Read More »Family Portrait in E Flat at Urban Bush Women
A Dance Lover’s Guide to Folklife
Some people say smiling is the universal language. Everyone across the world smiles: the message is received no matter where you go. But everyone across… Read More »A Dance Lover’s Guide to Folklife
Cultivating Roots with Abbey Grown
Like a living mound of fertile soil, the Fremont Abbey Arts Center provides the perfect conditions for creativity to sprout. Tiny shoots are watered with… Read More »Cultivating Roots with Abbey Grown
Cult Classics Exposed
Surrounded by silver-grey wallpaper, crumbling art deco sconces, and dusty goldenrod curtains, the women of The Life Erotic transported Seattlites from the JewelBox Theater to… Read More »Cult Classics Exposed
Rich Heritage Reflected in Flamenco Show
Thelonious Monk did not just play the piano when he played the piano. On some of his recordings, he can be heard vocalizing right… Read More »Rich Heritage Reflected in Flamenco Show
Music, Motion, and Mixed Media in Relay Dance Collective’s Debut
The US has a culture in which artists are constantly pushing the envelope, aiming for riskier and crazier heights with every move (just look… Read More »Music, Motion, and Mixed Media in Relay Dance Collective’s Debut
The Enlightened Vulnerability of Nudity in Paige Barnes’ Naked
This is a great piece, that’s really great.