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PNB's Coppélia Goes Couture

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Published June 9, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
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Coppélia's wedding gown ... Coppélia (running through this Sunday, June 13), a charming 19th century ballet about an inventor, a beautiful life-size doll, love and of course, a little magic, is going back to its Italian roots with di Bagno. Locally-based PNB costume designers like Victoria McFall and Mark Zappone design a good amount of PNB’s costumes, but this version of Coppélia is different— it’s making its debut in Seattle for the first time ever (Balanchine recreated the

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Northwest Film Forum Premieres La Danse

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Published Dec. 4, 2009 at 4:46 p.m.

The film portrays the company as a unit, instead of recognizing the individual parts to the whole. Names of dancers or choreographers or administrators are only gleaned through the course of conversation--there is certainly no narrative or titles to ease the viewer into this strange world. As it happens, the stress of not knowing soon fades, and we are free to listen, learn, and watch some outrageously beautiful, beautiful dancing ... There are extended choreography sequences, plenty of ballet

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ARC Dance Takes Over Seattle Rep

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Published July 15, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

What the five disparate pieces seem to have in common is a desire to present the dancers in the company with discrete physical challenges, from the intense "Wood, Metal, and Air," which incorporates stomping and clapping, providing physical, rhythmic element to the score by Stravinsky, to "Torches," a creative approach to staging a smattering of Cole Porter torch songs as reinterpreted by k.d. lang and Annie Lennox ... But the most visually arresting we saw, at least in their rehearsal form,

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Tres Tristes Tigres Serves Up Three Smart Solo Shows

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Published July 10, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.

"Shoulder," by ballet accompanist (among other things) Dayton Allemann shifts gears on you. You're herded into another space, one with a movie screen next to a keyboard. You don't realize until Allemann comes in and sits down that the box he's sitting on is a homemade electronic drum, capable of a variety of percussive textures. You also don't realize until he starts smacking the box around that the beats also drive the video footage of his bicycle ride from Seattle to the Eastside. Same thing

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Louise Nadeau Leaves on a Very High Note

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Published June 11, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Louise Nadeau in Emeralds, part of George Balanchine's Jewels™, 2009. Photo © Angela Sterling. Photograph from Emeralds, Choreography by George Balanchine, © 1967 The George Balanchine Trust ... Last Sunday night ballerina Louise Nadeau said goodbye to her PNB audiences, and the echoes of the event have shown up in the London Financial Times : ... The Seattle dance community filled McCaw Hall on June 7 for the farewell performance of Louise Nadeau,

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SIFF Brings Humpday Home for the Festival

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Published April 23, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

SIFF 2009 Northwest Connections Features ... Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle, directed by Kevin Tomlinson (USA, 2009) WORLD PREMIERE ... Twenty years ago, local filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson interviewed hippies at a "healing gathering" in Eastern Washington. Now he tracks the same folks to see what became of their environmental utopias. Today, in the midst of global warming, the voices of these flower children are prophetic ... Dancing Across Borders, directed by Anne H. Bass

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Can't Miss It: Thursday

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Published April 23, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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"Art Is All Around Us" by Seattlest Flickr pool superstar Grundlepuck ... ELECTIONEERING : Do you make all your voting decisions based on the enthusiastic support of aging rock musicians? If so, tonight's your night, with the likes of Krist Novoselic, Dave Dederer, and Kim Thayil turning out at the Croc to support the electoral efforts of Dow Constantine to become the new King County Exec. Music will be provided, and there's a special VIP treatment if you can cough up $100 for a donation ... 7

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