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Whim W’Him: QA’s newest dance company

October 7th, 2009 · 15 Comments

Olivier Wevers, principal dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, has announced he is forming a new dance company on Queen Anne. It’s called Whim W’Him (the “him” standing for Wevers himself) according to company volunteer Rosie Gaynor, who emailed us about the organization this morning.

(Photo by Marc von Borstel, courtesy of Rosie Gaynor and Whim W’Him).

Three of the nine other “whimming” dancers in the company are also Queen Anne residents and dancers with the Pacific Northwest Ballet: Chalnessa Eames, Jonathan Porretta and Lucien Postlewaite. There are a total of five PNB dancers who will be working with the new company. All will continue to dance with PNB, performing with Whim W’Him on their vacations.

To raise money for Whim W’Him’s first season, which begins on January 15 at On the Boards in Lower Queen Anne, the company is hosting two events this month:

Dance Party, where guests are invited to drink, mingle, and yes, dance, with members of the company at the Sole Repair Shop in Capitol Hill on Friday, October 16 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.

There is also a Dinner/Silent Auction at the Steve Jensen Studios on Saturday, October 16 at 6 p.m. where original pieces by Mark Zappone, Casey Curran, Michael Liang, Mary Crane, Catherina Lepoutre, Jared Rue, D. Kleck and Margo Spellman will be auctioned off. Tickets are $125.

There’s been a lot of news surrounding the Pacific Northwest Ballet this week. Yesterday Monica Guzman at the PI reported that PNB’s music director and conductor, Stewart Kershaw, unexpectedly resigned.

Welcome to Queen Anne, Whim W’Him! For more information, check out their website.

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