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Tomorrow, September 18, 2021, dancer Jim Kent will perform for the last time in the theater with Whim W’Him,* the company he helped from its inception to shape.* At the very start, just before for [...]

Rena Butler exudes warmth, strength and boundless energy and ideas. She is direct, lithe as a cat and avidly curious about other people and places. Growing up, Rena’s was the only black family in their [...]

Sitting down to write this post, I realized that I had a wealth of material in hand—two websites, choreographer conversations, my notes from a studio rehearsal (dancers masked) and parts of two filming sessions (unmasked), [...]

They begin in a V. The dancers cluster together, bursting into individual flurries and back together, then wheel out across the room like a flock of birds. It's a striking sequence in a new work [...]

The particular flavor, interest, and originality of Whim W’Him’s This Is Not The Little Prince—among the multitudinous versions of this beloved classic—is choreographer Olivier Wevers's decision to delve into relations between art and life in [...]

The dancers' whimwhim.org pages each feature a statement they have made about dance. Andrew McShea's reads: “There’s something so paradoxical about dance. Using opposition is something we, as dancers, are taught early on in our [...]

 Michael Arellano, Whim W'Him's newest dancer, has been active, inquisitive and physically fearless from the very beginning. Born and raised in Rochester, MI, a pleasant suburb about 20 miles north of Detroit, Whim W’Him’s newest [...]

Ashley Green smiles when she talks of "a strange love affair, me and dance" that has lasted her whole life. "It was meant to be." In the first week of March, just before the country [...]

“It’s amazing! Six hours all together in the studio, big space, big movements, in socks. It almost felt like a normal day,” said Olivier Wevers, Whim W’Him’s artistic director and the choreographer of This Is [...]

In these shifting, distanced, untethered times, we hunger for anchor points to hold on to. We crave juicy, thirst-quenching thoughts, feelings and ideas to engage with. But reality—the solid, the substantive, whatever actually exists—seems out [...]