MOTEL #1

From: The Stranger | Date: September 13, 2007| Author: Kiley, Brendan | Copyright information

THEATER NEWS

The Bridge Motel is just a few steps from the Aurora Bridge, Seattle's most popular suicide jump, and it is seedy-needles in the sheets, crushed crack pipes beneath the beds, a steady stream of twitchy clients, a history of murder. The manager says it's haunted: "There's something in these walls-human drama seems heightened here somehow."

That manager is dk pan, a butoh dancer, performance artist, and impresario who moved into the Bridge Motel last November, when fr...

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