Woman Dancing Statue
This eight-foot-tall, 450-pound bronze statue of a woman posed in mid-twirl was created by Seattle artist Phillip Levine at a cost of $17,000.
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About Woman Dancing Statue
The Woman Dancing Statue, as well as most other artwork nearby, was purchased with a 1% allocation from the total construction cost of East Capitol Campus (constructed between 1961 and 1976). Woman Dancing was among the last sculptures added through the Art on the East Capitol Campus Project, joining pieces such as James Washington Jr.’s Mysteries of Life and James Lee Hansen’s The Shaman, both installed several years earlier.
Other examples of Levine's work can be seen near Schmitz Hall on the University of Washington campus, as well as outside Burien’s Southwestern District Courthouse. Levine’s works have also been displayed in the homes of former King Hassan of Morocco, former Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, and many other commercial and private locations.
Woman Dancing took Levine nearly a year to complete and was cast at Fort Worden, WA. In creating the piece, Levine expressed his desire for the statue to “counteract the tall, vertical force of the [surrounding] buildings without getting lost in the open spaces between them.” The artist also hoped his dancer would fit in with the large scale of the East Campus grounds around her, but still remain small enough for you to connect to on a personal level.
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Woman Dancing, 1976, Phillip Levine
