Dance

Arts & Life

This Seattle b-boy helped select Team USA's first Olympic breakdancers

Thirty-two b-boys and b-girls will vie for Gold in Paris as break dancing makes its debut as a sport in the Summer Olympics. Meet a Seattle break dancing judge who helped select Team USA’s top breakers.

From Vegas to Waitsburg, classroom a new stage for former showgirl

If you went to Las Vegas in the 1980s, you might have seen dancers covered in feathers and rhinestones. A former Tropicana showgirl now lives in Waitsburg – and she’s bringing her life’s story and the lessons she’s learned to a Walla Walla classroom.

Arts & Life

For these young ballerinas, getting 'en pointe' is the ultimate milestone

A look behind the curtain at the first in-person pointe shoe fitting for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School since 2019.

Arts & Life

After pandemic lapse, Japanese folk dancing returns to Seattle's streets

Seattle’s Bon-Odori, the Japanese Folk dancing festival returned for the first time since the pandemic. Organizers say about 3,000 people attended the 91st annual summer festival.

Arts & Life

How one kumu keeps her hula lineage

When you think of hula, you might picture dances you’ve seen in Disney movies, or on a summer trip to Hawaiʻi. But that’s just scratching the surface of what hula is. There’s so much more. And RadioActive Youth Media’s Terina Papatu is here to show you.

Health

'Hold That Pose' offers queer and trans youth a place to dance, build community, and find resources

Arts & Life

Pacific Northwest Ballet's first Black principal dancer will not be its last

Dancer Jonathan Batista made history this fall as the first Black principal dancer in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s fifty-year history.

Arts & Life

After two long years, contemporary dance looks for a comeback

Dance is an intimate artform. When the pandemic hit, and in person interaction dwindled, choreographers, dancers, and producers went in search of what they could do without a dance floor, a stage, or an audience.