"I admire the Baroque era and want this project to bring its grace and measure back into the public eye and general appreciation, but as a choreographer I also need and thrive on spontaneity, improvisation, not having things all worked out ahead of time. The essence of 3Seasons is to have a continuing conversation between the co-creators/collaborators, cooperating, listening, challenging, bouncing ideas off each other, welcoming the unexpected."
—Whim W'Him founder Olivier Wevers

3Seasons

Premiere, January 15-17, 2010, at On the Boards as part of the Northwest Series.

Inspired by Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," 3Seasons is a radical take on our disposable world. It draws together dancers from PNB, Spectrum Dance Theater, and the Seattle community in a thoughtful reimagining of Vivaldi's music by composer Byron Au Yong.

We humans tend to think we own everything. We dominate the world. Our actions have grave consequences for the earth, if often unintended. How can we be more responsible and aware of the planet we inhabit? By recognizing the primacy of change, variability, unpredictability. By accepting vulnerability, responsibility and loss. By dancing in time with the rhythms of nature. By not forgetting hope. These are the themes of 3Seasons.

Before each show a random drawing...
Whichever of Vivaldi's original seasons is picked will be omitted from that show. In its place, music will be played for the corresponding season from the suite composed by Byron Au Yong. Neither dancers nor audience will know ahead of time which season is going to be replaced.

Which season ends the particular performance determines if it closes on a note of hope or gloom...