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The city of Olympia's Ethnic Celebration features music and dance on two stages, crafts and plenty of opportunities to learn about cultures from Hawaiian to Finnish.
‘The Wrestling Season’
Disney, Lasseter, Miyazaki and … Norstein? His name might not be on the tip of your tongue when you think of famous film animators, but Yuri Norstein is up there with the greats, and he’s coming to the Northwest next week. In a one-evening engagement at The Evergreen State College, the famed Russian animator will speak about his unusual techniques and the Russian stories that inspire him, as well as showing a number of his films.
On Saturday at The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, a group of top-notch athletes will take the stage. They're not dancers or acrobats. They're drummers.
Eva Gheorghiu of Olympia fell in love with opera when she was 12 years old.
When Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded 40 years ago as a response to the life of Martin Luther King Jr., things in American dance (and American society) were a lot different than they are now for African-American dancers.
The minds behind Tacoma's Speakeasy Arts Cooperative envision their new space - open downtown since October - as a one-stop destination for concerts, painting, sculpture, Tarot card readings, acting classes, locally handcrafted furniture and jewelry, massage and more.
There doesn't seem to be much danger of actor-director Robert McConkey getting typecast.
If it seems like a lot of the shows in town have religious inspiration - and if that seems strange in a state where relatively few people attend church - there might be a logical reason.
Olympia Little Theatre's latest production is "Murderers," one of many unique plays from the prolific pen of Jeffrey Hatcher, who has given us memorable plays such as "Three Viewings," "Murder by Poe," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "Compleat Female Stage Beauty," and the stage adaptation of "Tuesdays With Morrie."