DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: NOELLE PRICE
Noelle Price talks dance in Seattle and Detroit, and how her history and family inform her artistic practices and ambitions.
Risa Nagel
Risa Nagel (she/her) has been dancing since the age of 4, when a pediatrician recommended ballet as way to fix her pigeon-toed walk. She grew up dancing with Glen Dance Company in New York for 15 years. Risa uses writing as a medium to express her values and perspectives, she currently works as a grant writer for a statewide civil rights organization, whose mission is to revolutionize public education so that a child’s race does not predict their success. Her writing has been published in the Seattle Times and Huffington Post, and her activism has been featured in the New York Times. In 2017, a year after moving to Seattle, Risa joined 3rd Shift Dance Company, and continues to blend her passions for dancing and writing as a critic with SeattleDances.
PRIORITIZING THE PEDESTRIAN
Triple bill PILOT includes new works from emerging artists who met as part of Kate Wallich’s YC2.
A TASTE OF SIDF
Two of Seattle International Dance Festival’s James Ray Residency recipients show what they’ve been working on this year.
DANCING AWAKE
The second weekend of Spectrum’s WOKENESS festival takes a subtler approach to the theme in Dance, Dance, Dance #2.
A SOULFUL SHAKEUP
PNB’s Director’s Choice featured the standout work The Trees The Trees, choreographed by Robyn Mineko Williams.
BRILLIANT TINT
TINT Dance Festival celebrates choreographers and dancers of color, with brilliant results.
