The Seattle Dance Info blog is live! We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. —Joseph Campbell It's tempting — with a fresh calendar on the wall —...

Hallie Kuperman and Alison Cockrill. Photo Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. —Pablo Picasso "Watching owner Hallie Kuperman and partner Alison Cockrill take center stage under a...

Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire dance for the 1958 Life Magazine Christmas Special One outstanding Christmas for me was when my family lived in Altoona, PA. I was about 5-6 years old and presents included a highly cherished Pittsburgh Steelers helmet, shoulder pads and...

Interview breakout session with Raul Malo at the 2023 Waterfront Blues Festival with Curtis Salgado, produced by Erika Olsen (Peter Dervin photo) If people feel a sense of inclusive joy when they hear the Mavericks' music, then I've done my job. —Raul Malo,...

Photos from Seabeck Dance Camp 2025 (NW Dance) The space theme for NW Dance's Seabeck Camp this past weekend was right up my alley. Friends with telescopes used to take me along to Red Rock Canyon in the California desert, where we'd marvel at planets, galaxies and...

Above: Jon Batiste, photo by Scott Newton (Austin City Limits) With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange. —Jon Batiste Good news: Attending live music shows can...

Each year, at one of my dances around Thanksgiving, we provide strips of paper on which dancers can write what they're grateful for. I'm always deeply moved by what's expressed, and throughout the night I read as many as possible to the crowd. This year people were...

“Indulgence in the turkey trot, the tango and other objectionable modern dances is as much a violation of the seventh commandment as adultery.” So bloviated Rev. Father Wm. A. Brothers, a clergyman from Montclair, NJ around the year 1913. (Library of Congress) The...

When you are dancing...for that two and a half minutes...it's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle,...