Entertainment should be no problem this weekend as Choochokam Arts gathers its stars for two full days of summer delights.
It came to her in a dream, and now it’s her main pursuit.
Some company members and junior company members from the Whidbey Island Dance Theatre were interviewed recently by The Record.
Two soloists from the company demonstrated a bit of their fancy footwork for the film.
Some of the dancers are getting ready to leave for the summer dance intensives in various parts of the country, where they will spend two to five weeks honing their dance skills with different teachers.
The Clinton company performs two major dance concerts per season, along with various regional dance competitions.
As the summer of 1969’s Kris Kristofferson-Fred Foster song “Me and Bobby McGee” sings, “Freedom’s just another word…” And what a word it is when put in action.
When was the last time you found yourself in the middle of a rhubarb?
Island movie lovers can make history this weekend by attending the very first short film festival at Choochokam.
One day last August, after snorkeling off our Holmes Harbor beach, my son stood dripping on the lawn. “What happened…
It’s a bit of Americana at its best.
While some kids start the early summer days testing the waters with their toes before that first swim in the surf, other island kids are busy wrapping the blistered toes of their well-trained feet.
Whatever her dreams, every dancer knows those dreams will never come to fruition without hours and hours of deep practice. And a pair of ravaged feet become symbols of her certain dedication.
There is, on Whidbey, a contingent of fleet-footed girls who keep that dream alive and dance every day during the concert season at the Whidbey Island Dance Theatre.
Now that the weather is nicer, many of us are trying to get more things done.
Fun, family, fireworks and food; that’s what it’s all about on the Fourth of July, our uniquely American annual holiday.
In its native Sanskrit, the word “Dharma” is literally translated as that which holds up or supports.
In the world of eastern philosophy, Dharma as a central concept is meant to guide a person to do the right thing; to accept a higher truth that is revealed in the laws of the universe.
The “Dharmic Engineers” were a group of Northwest artists who met to find not only the spiritual truth in their painting, but combined it with the practical supportive side of collaboration that helped to “hold each other up” in the true sense of what engineers are meant to do.
