NOT-SO-STRICTLY SEATTLE
Velocity Dance Center reworks its summer programing–Strictly Seattle and SFDI–in response to the needs of 2020.
Lavinia Vago
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.
INDULGENT FANTASY
The collaboration between Kate Wallich and musician Perfume Genius is a pretentious fantasy that glorifies questionable values.
SPLIT REALITIES AT SPLIT BILL
Technology connects us, and still leaves us isolated. We are told that we can “have it all” and are fed idealized images of what our… Read More »SPLIT REALITIES AT SPLIT BILL
HARD AND SOFT
“Split Bill” featured two new works by MADBOOTS DANCE and Kate Wallich + The YC, both of which will be expanded later this year.
Subtle Humor in Industrial Ballet
Kate Wallich’s one-night-only dance and music extravaganza Industrial Ballet took over the Moore Theatre on Saturday, March 26. The experience was designed to begin upon… Read More »Subtle Humor in Industrial Ballet
Wallich Splurges on Pop Culture
Beers, fake plants, and sweaty bodies made their way to Instagram as Kate Wallich and dancers of The YC thrusted, slinked, and glided across the… Read More »Wallich Splurges on Pop Culture
Super Eagle Comes Close
Pelvis forward, chest recessed, chin prominent, heels striking, clean lines—these signature postures belong, of course, to the starlet of Seattle’s contemporary dance scene, Kate Wallich.… Read More »Super Eagle Comes Close
The YC Poised to Soar
Kate Wallich may be the main choreographer of Super Eagle, set to premiere at Velocity this Thursday evening, but the work would not have become… Read More »The YC Poised to Soar
Weekend Preview
MOVE! a fundraiser for MLKBallet Photo by Scott Haydon MOVE! #20 June 1, 7:00 PM, Theatre on the Square, Tacoma, WA In it’s… Read More »Weekend Preview