Seattle International Dance Festival 2022

Inspired by the writings and music of composer John Luther Adams—2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Become Ocean, commissioned by the Seattle Symphony—the dance, Wind of the Vast and Intimate 2022 (World Premiere: Seattle International Dance Festival June 2022), is a soaring and beautiful meditation for three dancers on body and landscape, wind and breath, mountains and earth, intimacy and vastness. The choreography by Karin Stevens, draws many of its ideas from Adams’ writing about the music, The Wind In High Places, recorded by The Jack Quartet, in his autobiography, Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska. The costumes, by Seattle designer Danielle Blackwell, further Karin Stevens’ interest in decentering the human to enhance the more-than-human dance of life.

Dancers: Anja Kellner-Rogers, Mary Sigward, and Sydney Meyer