by seattledance | Aug 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Angine de Poitrine at the 2026 KEXP BBQ (photos Mackenzie McAninch) Do a loony-goony dance’Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain’t been there before— Shel Silverstein My partner Erika and I found dancing joy in a most unlikely...
by seattledance | Aug 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. —Carlos Gavito “The most sought-after leads have a very special quality,” suggests Laura Riva in her...
by seattledance | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Image from the article “Shake Rattle and Roll” by Big Joe Turner Now flip, flop and flyI don’t care if I die— Big Joe Turner Big Joe Turner, dubbed the “Boss of the Blues”, hailed from Kansas City, Missouri and was a master across multiple...
by seattledance | Aug 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Dancing til Dusk, Hing Hay Park July 30, 2026 (Constance Brinkley photo) Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. —Ludwig van Beethoven Using half a dozen metal singing bowls, our family friend, Trevor, performed a sound bath last Monday...
by seattledance | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Dancing til Dusk, Hing Hay Park (Constance Brinkley photo) What we need to do is convince people that every single body is a dancing body. —Peter Lovatt, dance psychologist and former professional dancer Back in 2025, my post — Warning: Dance may be...
by seattledance | Jul 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Isadora Duncan and Mata Hari The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music…Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. —Charles Baudelaire “The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” So said Mata Hari who, in the early 1900s,...
