33 Fainting Spells pushes boundaries of conventional dance.(ENTERTAINMENT)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: January 10, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Telling stories through movement has been paramount for Gaelen and Dayna Hanson from the beginning, which for our purposes was about six years ago in Seattle.

There, the two unrelated Hansons, who make up the nucleus of a performance group called 33 Fainting Spells, met in a choreography workshop where they discovered they were both interested in communicating emotional narratives through movement.

Gaelen had studied theater at Oberlin College. Dayna had majored in literature and fiction writing at the University of Washington. Both had something to say and found dance a ...

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