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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Thurs-Sat at 8 pm. Through May 18.Dance
This all-male dance company performs gender-queering ballet and modern dance, poking fun at ballet's stiff, traditional hierarchy and "achieving high comedy by incorporating and exaggerating the foibles, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance." $20-$51.
Paradisiacal Rites
Thurs-Sun at 8 pm. Through May 19.Dance
"It’s put up or shut up time for Saint Genet, their detractors, and their defenders. For years, company member Ryan Mitchell has said he wants to make a work not in a theater, but on a city. Now is that time. The company has been working for years on Paradisiacal Rites, an 'opera' in three long acts which just had its trial run in Austria, and promises, Dante-like, to descend into seriously ugly shit in an attempt to find paradise. Their dramaturgy has included ballet, cults, gold leaf, hysteria, leeches, shooting each other with bb guns, nitrous oxide, and an investigation of criminal-artist Jean Genet and his hagiographer Jean-Paul Sartre." (Brendan Kiley) $12-$25.
Gathering Bones
Sat-Sun at 8 pm. Through May 19.Dance
A new dance work created by Maya Soto with original music composed by Paurl Walsh set in an interactive gallery space. $18.
No one to witness #4
Thurs-Fri at 12 pm. Through May 24.Dance
zoe|juniper presents an open performance where the audience experiences the show from a new perspective: the floor. Free.
Ashani Dances
Fri-Sun at 7 pm. Through June 9.Dance
Choreographer Iyun Ashani Harrison (Julliard, National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Ailey II) presents four new dances, two of which were created in collaboration with Seattle composers Ben Morrow and William Hayes. $15-$20.
A Cruel New World/the new normal
Wed-Sun at 8 pm. Through June 9.Dance
An encore of the 10-year anniversary performance of artistic director Donald Byrd's first Spectrum Dance Theater's creation, a rumination on the post–9/11 American landscape. $20-$25.
Director's Choice
Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through June 9.Dance
A tribute to George Balanchine curated by artistic director Peter Boal, this triple bill features a world premiere from Christopher Wheeldon, the return of Agon (a 1957 avant-garde ballet by “Mr. B,” now staged by Francia Russell), and the last third of Balanchine’s Jewels series, entitled Diamonds. $28-$173.
Autopsy of Love
Thurs-Sat at 8 pm. Through June 29.Dance
A world premiere work developed with Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Black Swan Lab featuring live musical renditions of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe-settings of poet Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo. $20-$25.
Strictly Seattle: Maximum Velocity
Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm. Through July 27.Dance
Dancers from Seattle and the rest of the country perform new work by well-known choreographers. $12-$18.
Can Can Castaways
Wed at 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. Open-ended run.Dance
"The Can Can Castaways, as we've often said in The Stranger, are like a gateway drug for modern dance. People show up at the subterranean, red-lit bar, order a few drinks, expect to see some hardbodies dancing—and they get that. But what they also get is the expert choreographer by Rainbow Fletcher and her team of dancers and designers (often the dancers are the designers) who create dreamscapes from the Moulin Rouge to a bondage club in Tokyo. Fletcher and her team have also performed at On the Boards and other, more august venues, and their marriage of artistry and sensuality is excellent." (Brendan Kiley) $10-$45.
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