Marcie Sillman

2 months ago | pointemagazine.com | Marcie Sillman

Seattle native Doug Fullington has built an international reputation for resurrecting and restaging classical ballets from the 19th century, including a 2011 Pacific Northwest Ballet production of Giselle, created in collaboration with Marian Smith, professor emerita of music at the University of Oregon, and PNB artistic director Peter Boal.

2 months ago | dancemagazine.com | Marcie Sillman

Seattle native Doug Fullington has built an international reputation for resurrecting and restaging classical ballets from the 19th century, including a 2011 Pacific Northwest Ballet production of Giselle, created in collaboration with Marian Smith, professor emerita of music at the University of Oregon, and PNB artistic director Peter Boal.

2 months ago | cascadepbs.org | Marcie Sillman

With costumes by Wicked designer Paul Tazewell and sets by artist Preston Singletary, PNB hopes to breathe new life into the 19th-century classic. Principal dancer Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan (center) dances during a rehearsal of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s upcoming performance of “The Sleeping Beauty” at McCaw Hall in Seattle on Thu., Jan. 23, 2025.

Jan 20, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Marcie Sillman

Seattle contemporary dance company Whim W’Him heads into its 16th year this month with a busy new home on Queen Anne Hill, five new company dancers, and a program called Winter ‘25 running through Jan. 25 at Seattle’s Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, with one show at Vashon Center for the Arts on Jan. 23. Founder and Artistic Director Olivier Wevers has come a long way since he started out as a ballet dancer working on making contemporary dances and dreaming about starting his own company.

Aug 15, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Marcie Sillman

It's still summer, when many performing arts groups are on hiatus, but Seattle's contemporary dance company is busy rehearsing for a series of free pop-up park shows at the end of August. Whim W'Him's citywide mini-tour is an annual event, but next spring, Artistic Director Olivier Wevers will take his dancers beyond the West Coast for the first time since he started the company in 2009.