ilvs strauss appears to be having a silent conversation with someone off-stage, professional and friendly. But something is distracting her—she takes a quick check over… Read More »strauss’ MANIFESTO: Creation and Cucumbers
It started as a solo skit for a sea cucumber. The roots of ilvs strauss’s MANIFESTO are simple enough, but the past two years have… Read More »Creating a New MANIFESTO
Dance parties are an elusive thing to facilitate. There’s usually that awkward moment when only a few people are dancing and everyone else is sitting… Read More »The Dance Cartel Delivers
Double Vision’s title reflects the show’s dual choreographers, Ashleigh Miller and Tara Dyberg, who showed work this past weekend at Velocity. It could also easily… Read More »Stuck in the Middle at Double Vision
Velocity’s annual Fall Kick-Off ushered in a promising new season of dance with three different nightly performance showcases, September 5-7, 2014. Sixteen dance artists donated… Read More »Velocity FKO Teases and Pleases
Opening night of On The Board’s annual Northwest New Works Festival brought a studio theater showcase with a lot of wit, wisdom, and women with… Read More »Variations on a Theme at NWNW
Shifting from live music to spoken word to dance to theater, Genre Bender showcased Seattle artists of every order, each highly lauded in their own… Read More »Genre Bender A Melting Pot of Performing Arts
12 Minutes Max at On the Boards is one of the treasures of the Seattle performance scene. By removing the high stakes and risk for… Read More »12MM Shines in Season Opener