Women dominated my music last week, but the sounds were all over the place. The music swung between the cheeky and sublime. But whether I was listening to Sofi Tukker, Thunderpussy, Arvo Pärt or Christoph Gluck, it was all good music. Read More
ByGD
Music I Liked – Sofi Tukker, Thunderpussy, Pärt, Gluck
ByGD
Kaleidoscope 101
Last Saturday was all about dance. In the afternoon I went Pacific Northwest Ballet’s final Ballet 101 presentation of the season. That evening I finally got to see Kaleidoscope Dance perform their annual spring concert in the Broadway Performance Hall. Pairing the two events worked out very well.
ByGD
(Re) Emergence at Pacific Northwest Ballet
PNB dancers in Crystal Pite’s Emergence, 2018. Photo © Angela Sterling.
Emergence, the ballet by Crystal Pite that lends its name to the mixed rep program wrapping up at Pacific Northwest Ballet this weekend, is one of my favorite ballets of all time. Like everyone else who saw its premiere at PNB in 2013, I fell in love with immediately. I was surprised when I rewatched it last weekend that it seemed almost completely different from what I remembered. But I still loved every minute of it. Read More
ByGD
Little Mortal Jump at Pacific Northwest Ballet
PNB soloist Price Suddarth in Alejandro Cerrudo’s Little mortal jump, 2018. Photo © Angela Sterling.
It’s been a few days now and I’m still thinking about Little mortal jump, the opening piece in the Emergence mixed-rep ballet I saw at Pacific Northwest Ballet last weekend. That’s odd, because it wasn’t the first time I’ve seen it. When I look back at what I wrote then, it’s obvious that I liked it. But somehow that first viewing faded in my memory and I completely had the wrong idea about it going in for the second view. Read More
ByGD
Emergence Mixed Rep at Pacific Northwest Ballet
The ballet has left me breathless before, but breathless and speechless? That’s new. There is so much to say about the current mixed rep at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Emergence, that I’m paralyzed before I begin. The title comes from the final piece in the rep, Crystal Pite’s Emergence. It’s an audience favorite capping off Little Mortal Jump and the Seattle premiere of RakU. I always go on about how Director’s Choice is the best rep of the season, but this one is so powerful. I wanted to go to the artist Q&A after the performance, but I was too wiped out and had to go straight home. Emergence left me exhausted and wrung out, like I had been through something. But in a good way. Mostly. Anyway, it felt more like an experience than a performance. Read More