Ah, the ballet. The telling of a tale through movement, form, and structure. Add certain costumes and specific music and a full-blown story emerges right on stage. A fairy tale, most often. But what if, rather than an illustrated book of fanciful heroes, heroines, monsters and villains, there is instead a gallery of only a [...]

Coppélia Is Back

There’s just something about a comic love story. You know, a gal-guy romance in which the gal loves the guy and the guy loves her back … as well as a beautiful non-human effigy of a woman. Here, think blow up toy, sexbot, mannequin – Wasn’t there an ’80s movie with that title? – whatever. [...]

A Nod to the Ancient Religions

They used to say that there are three taboo topics: sex, politics, and religion. Perhaps fittingly so, since more often than not they are irrevocably intertwined. Further, given that they seem to make up a large portion of the foundation of what makes this cray cray world of ours go ’round – even in today’s [...]

A PNB Doubleheader

Like all art media, ballet is more than a form of dance, more than an expression of art through the body and its movements; it’s a way to draw out emotive responses in those who not only observe, but become drawn in and an actual part of a given performance. It’s also good to shake [...]

PNB’s Latest Love Story

Some days, we all feel like Don Quixote – that literary figure of the Spanish Golden Age who fantasizes that he is a heroic figure based on his literary entertainment of the moment – in this case, romantic and chivalric books. Hedonism of the mind, that is, dear hedonists. Now, the literary character of Don [...]

Go Crack A Nut

December is here at last, which means the holidaze is clipping along at hyper-speed. Time to relive all of those holiday traditions that make life seem truly worth living and reliving. (Well, most of them at least.) Enter the Nutcracker by the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). Like last year’s Nutcracker, your Hedonista attended as media [...]

Love Ballet’s Love Stories

Ah, love … one of the most necessary of humanity’s emotions (right up there with compassion). Love is a year-round celebration, not something manufactured for Valentine’s Day. Romantic love and its spark (also known as attraction) comes in many different forms. And can – and often is, in fact – expressed in many different ways. [...]

Ghostly, Graceful, Giselle

Imagine being wooed by someone who just wanted to sow some wild oats, as it were. Then imagine yourself falling hopelessly in love with that person – only to find out that the object of your affection really sought you out simply as an object of desire to be quenched with carnal love. Would you [...]

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