The Gray The Midsummer (2018)

Seattle International Dance Festival (excerpt) - Erickson Theatre - Seattle WA - 2019 Velocity Dance Center - Seattle WA - 2018

Choreography/Direction: Beth Terwilleger

Produced by: Velocity Dance Center

Performance: Corbin Hall, Jim Kent, Sumaya Mulla-Carillo, Leah Russell, Melissa Sanderson, Hannah Simmons, Sean Tomerlin

Music: Julia Kent

Photo: Stephano Altamura, Devin Jenkins

CityArts Review

“Terwilleger’s choreography has a balletic sensibility, and the formal, affected manner—gliding footwork and sweeping legs—feels organic to these characters, a vocabulary well-matched to the antiquated and fanciful qualities we associate with Shakespeare. Animalistic qualities—fawn-like leaping and crawling on tiptoes—give a wild edge that suggests the play’s forest setting on the bare stage. Gestural details like grasping at the face and rapid shaking of fingertips by the throat reveals high tensions and continue the dark, humorless interpretation of the story.”

Kaitlin McCarthy, October 2018