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.
Spectrum Dance Theater
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: MIKHAIL CALLISTE
Mikhail Calliste speaks on his time with Spectrum, dancing in complexity, and the racial discomfort of Seattle. Catch his solo this weekend in Lyric Suite.
A SPACE FOR UNAPOLOGETIC BLACKNESS IN BALLET
Theresa Ruth Howard, Kiyon Gaines, and Donald Byrd preview the upcoming MobBallet digital symposium centering Blackness in ballet.
NEWLY FORMED: SEATTLE DANCE ALLIANCE
The Seattle Dance Alliance was established to collectively navigate a new era of dance teaching informed by COVID-19.
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.
ALTER-NUT
A historical and comparative look at three alternative Nutcrackers this season from choreographers Mark Morris, Donald Byrd, and Lily Verlaine.
BYRD AT THE FRYE
Frye Art Museum’s America That Is To Be features live performance and a historical look into Donald Byrd’s illustrious career.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: CHERYL DELOSTRINOS & FAUSTO RIVERA
DanceCrushes Delostrinos and Rivera talk how friendship, community, and commonalities in background influence their working relationship.
DANCECRUSH SPOTLIGHT: NIA-AMINA MINOR
Nia-Amina minor talks about showing up, building together, and how her dance work interfaces with displacement and home.
DONALD BYRD NAMED DORIS DUKE ARTIST
Seattle choreographer Donald Byrd receives prestigious award and $275,000 to foster creativity.