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    Articles by Sandra Kurtz
    The Precise ‘an attic, an exit’ Pulls the Audience in Through Objects
    The Precise ‘an attic, an exit’ Pulls the...
    By Sandra Kurtz • November 2, 2016 1:30 am

    Dance with props can feel incoherent, but Lincoln and Seiters make it feel vital.

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    ‘Men in Dance’ Showcases the Spectrum of Male Dancing Prowess
    ‘Men in Dance’ Showcases the Spectrum of Male...
    By Sandra Kurtz • October 5, 2016 1:30 am

    The local festival’s varied bill proves dance isn’t just for women.

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    Ballet Returns to Its French Origins at PNB’s Excellent ‘Tricolore’
    Ballet Returns to Its French Origins at PNB’s...
    By Sandra Kurtz • September 28, 2016 1:30 am

    Including two pieces by famed choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

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    Seattle Dance Companies Struggle to Find Room to Move
    Seattle Dance Companies Struggle to Find Room to...
    By Sandra Kurtz • August 31, 2016 1:27 am

    For those trying to survive in booming Seattle, it’s all about time and space … and money.

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    In Seattle, June Is the Month of Dance
    In Seattle, June Is the Month of Dance
    By Sandra Kurtz • June 15, 2016 1:30 am

    With Northwest New Works and the Seattle International Dance Festival, the options are overwhelming.

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    Good Men Are Easy to Find at PNB’s American Stories
    Good Men Are Easy to Find at PNB’s...
    By Sandra Kurtz • June 8, 2016 1:30 am

    The program is jam-packed with juicy male roles.

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    Donald Byrd Choreographs a Conversation on Race to Consider the State of the Present Day
    Donald Byrd Choreographs a Conversation on Race to...
    By Sandra Kurtz • May 11, 2016 1:30 am

    As part of Spectrum Dance Theater’s #RACEish season, Byrd is using Baldwin and Mead’s past encounter to consider the state of the present day.

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    Lesley Rausch plays a sweet Swanilda. Photo by Angela Sterling courtesy Pacific Northwest Ballet
    The Dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet Masterfully Play...
    By Sandra Kurtz • April 20, 2016 1:30 am

    A village boy loves a village girl, but is also infatuated with what he thinks is the lovely daughter of a crotchety toymaker. Swanilda, our village girl and a plucky lass, manages to discover that the lovely daughter is actually a lovely doll.

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    Pacific Northwest Ballet Refreshes Past Works in the Latest ‘Director’s Choice’
    Pacific Northwest Ballet Refreshes Past Works in the...
    By Sandra Kurtz • March 23, 2016 4:30 am

    Pacific Northwest Ballet director Peter Boal often uses the annual “Director’s Choice” program to introduce local audiences to new works by new choreographers. But this time, with a mix of revivals and restagings, we’re getting a new view of dancemakers we’ve already seen.

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    Gaining experience: Tisserand as Odette.
    There’s something about the 19th-century ballets choreographed by...
    By Sandra Kurtz • April 12, 2015 8:52 pm

    There’s something about the 19th-century ballets choreographed by Marius Petipa (1818–1910) that calls for excess. The old stories handed down…

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    Porretta and Imler egg each other on.Angela Sterling
    William Forsythe may be a choreographer, but he...
    By Sandra Kurtz • March 16, 2015 2:53 pm

    William Forsythe may be a choreographer, but he sounded a bit like an engineer during a Pacific Northwest Ballet lecture-demonstration…

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    Peck studies his dancers.Magnolia Pictures
    Jody Lee Lipes’ documentary isn’t so much about...
    By Sandra Kurtz • March 10, 2015 2:05 pm

    Jody Lee Lipes’ documentary isn’t so much about a dance as about the process of making one. We follow choreographer…

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    Gosti pictured with musician Hanna Benn (left). Photo by Nate Watters.
    For 36 years, On the Boards ran a...
    By Sandra Kurtz • February 10, 2015 6:57 pm

    For 36 years, On the Boards ran a new works showcase called 12 Minutes Max—the title determining the runtime. Annex…

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    For 36 years, On the Boards ran a new works showcase called
    For 36 years, On the Boards ran a...
    By Sandra Kurtz • February 3, 2015 3:57 pm

    For 36 years, On the Boards ran a new works showcase called 12 Minutes Max—the title determining the runtime. Annex…

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    Ozra and Murphy as Cervantes-inspired lovers.c Angela Sterling
    There is nothing subtle about Don Quixote. The...
    By Sandra Kurtz • February 3, 2015 10:35 am

    There is nothing subtle about Don Quixote. The Spanish-inflected dancing (full of big virtuoso tricks), the thumping rhythms in the…

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    Korbes with Batkhurel Bold in Diamonds. Angela Sterling
    The last time Pacific Northwest Ballet danced all...
    By Sandra Kurtz • September 30, 2014 10:41 am

    The last time Pacific Northwest Ballet danced all of George Balanchine’s neoclassical masterwork, in 2009, Lesley Rausch didn’t appear at…

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    One of Saura's dancers.Dada Films
    One of the first films director Carlos Saura...
    By Sandra Kurtz • September 16, 2014 2:58 pm

    One of the first films director Carlos Saura made was a short about flamenco, in 1955, and throughout his long…

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    Experienced choreographer and breakdancer Amy O'Neal. Photo by Nate Waters
    When Amy O’Neal came to Seattle to study...
    By Sandra Kurtz • September 12, 2014 1:10 pm

    When Amy O’Neal came to Seattle to study dance at Cornish in the ’90s, she arrived with a polyglot movement…

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    Illustration by Kelly Thompson
    Salt Horse’s Color Field filled odd corners and...
    By Sandra Kurtz • August 2, 2014 9:17 pm

    Salt Horse’s Color Field filled odd corners and back hallways at Northwest Film Forum in March with eccentric moments, but…

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    Illustration by Kelly Thompson
    Two of the works that Mark Morris Dance...
    By Sandra Kurtz • August 2, 2014 9:16 pm

    Two of the works that Mark Morris Dance Group brought home to Seattle at the Paramount over Valentine’s Day weekend—Love…

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