SGN June 8, 2018 - Section 2

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Seattle Gay News

Issue 23, Volume 46, June 8, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

Seattle Opera’s O + E PNB’s “Love & Ballet” a thrilling adaption of Gluck’s an exceptional reprise Orpheus and Eurydice of great contemporary dance works and music

Magda Gartner as O and Tess Altiveros as E in Seattle Opera's O + E – Photo by Philip Newton

by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer SEATTLE OPERA O+E AN ADAPTATION OF GLUCK’S ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE SEATTLE OPERA SOUTH LAKE UNION STUDIO Through June 10

Gluck’s heart-rending opera, Orpheus and Eurydice, has been a big hit ever since its first performance in Vienna in 1762. It tells the mythological story of Orpheus, whose trip into the underworld to rescue his dead wife, Eurydice, is helped along by Amore, the god of Love. In the Seattle Opera’s current chamber version, performed in their rehearsal studios on Terry Avenue, the myth is brilliantly transposed to the present, where Orpheus is

see O + E page 5

Wild Horses tells a 13 year-old’s tale

Wild Horses – Photo by Naomi Ishisaka for Intiman Theatre

by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer WILD HORSES INTIMAN THEATRE (AT 12TH AVENUE ARTS) Through June 24

Allison Gregory has created a play that turns the idea of a short story, told around a campfire, into a visceral experience and a solo performance. She crafts a memoir told from the point of view of a woman

see WILD HORSES page 5

Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Justin Peck’s “Year of the Rabbit” as a part of “Love & Ballet” – Photo by Angela Sterling

by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET “LOVE & BALLET” MCCAW HALL Through June 10 This program is a wonderful reprise of four recent works by contemporary choreographers that we’ve seen at PNB over the

last two years – Christopher Wheeldon, Benjamin Millepied, and Justin Peck. It’s important to bring contemporary works back within a year or two because a onetime viewing of new creations is not enough for audiences to learn and remember what was distinctive about an emerging artist. We don’t need to see “Swan Lake” every year, or even every other year. We know

see “LOVE & BALLET” page 4

Bigger conversations:

Truth, lies and the pursuit of immortality all collide in Bart Layton’s American Animals

American Animals – Photo courtesy of The Orchard

by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer AMERICAN ANIMALS Now playing

In 2012 director Bart Layton wowed people with his dynamic, edgily creative documentary The Imposter. The story of a young man who claims to be a grieving Texas family’s 16-year-old son who

see BART LAYTON page 6


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