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This week’s Weekend List is suggested to you in part by Olivier Wevers, a Seattle choreographer who is the founder and artistic director of Whim W’Him. Once a month, The Weekend List will loop in some local creative in town to find out what they’re eager to see, take in and lose themselves in. And, if it happens that they’ve got something going on that week, it’ll give us a chance to get inside their heads.
Here’s a bit more about Wevers:
“There’s not much dancing going on this week,” says Wevers. It’s not that that’s the only thing he does in his free time. But contemporary dance “is what I love. It’s what I do. It’s my passion and I really want more people to have an appreciation for it.”
Wevers’ first career was on stage as a dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and then Pacific Northwest Ballet. He was always the sensitive and good-looking athletic principal who was choreographing on the side. He founded Whim W’Him in 2009 to not only showcase his own dance aesthetic but to also support other choreographers as well as the Seattle dance scene. And what’s emerged since is a company that puts on high-level dynamic productions — “It’s all about the details” — with sets and sometimes elaborate costumes and live music. And, some of the best dancers anywhere.
