White Bird Blogs

Read the reviews of Kidd Pivot at Reed College:

Barry Johnson's Review for Art Scatter

Ezra Caraeff's Review for Portland Mercury Blogtown

 Catherine Thomas' Review for Oregonlive

Take a look at the performance images that Chris Roesing took of Kidd Pivot/Lost Action by visiting our online photo gallery.

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Make sure to check out the photos Chris Roesing took at the Tero Saarinen performance on Wednesday night, like this one from HUNT, the solo by Saarinen. You can view them in our photo gallery by clicking here.

“Life is like a snow globe—often it is prettiest after it’s been turned upside-down” —Unknown

Shake It Up
by Austin Buchholtz

What is life like in a snow globe? For Inbal Pinto Dance Company, it is a swirling, dream-like burlesque with a man in a pinstripe suit, his dutiful wife, a handful of long-haired maidens in white, a handful of mini-umbrellas, three tiny moving houses, faceless human-like figures in formfitting multi-colored body suits, and snow.

In their unique dance-theater work called Shaker, beginning with the sound of winter wind and the serene sadness of clarinet and recorder, choreographers Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak take us on a tour of their deftly crafted micro-cosmos.

Rasta Thomas and his young company Bad Boys of Dance have been busy. Check out YouTube for video of all their latest work.

Read Marty Hughley's review about the North American debut of Shaker by the Inbal Pinto Dance Company. Leave your own review on our performance page by posting a comment!

“The body is the arrow, the spirit is the bow. You must learn to use the strength of the spirit.”
—Caine, Episode No. 52, Kung Fu, ABC 1972-75

King of Kings
by Austin Buchholtz

Alonzo King is a rare bird: part wizard, part guru, part diplomat. Not many choreographers possess the patience, perseverance, or interest to work in collaborative partnerships, much less with artists as different as earthly possible. With his series of exchanges with groups from backgrounds as varied as (among many others) the BaAka tribe from Africa, a top tabla player from India, and now Shaolin monks from China, King is quietly and methodically teaching us something.

White Bird hosted our annual volunteer appreciation party on Wednesday, October 1st with a pizza party at the NW Academy dance studio at the German House in downtown Portland. It was a chance for White Bird to thank all of our wonderful volunteers, and to fill them in on the upcoming season and various volunteer opportunities we will have this season, especially with the launch of our new series White Bird Uncaged. We are going to need more volunteers than ever this year, so if you are interested in helping out please get in touch, we always welcome new volunteers.

 We held the event at the NW Academy Dance Studio. Thanks to our great intern Theodora Traines, a student
at NW Academy, for connecting us with the space.

Walter and Paul gave the volunteers an inside scoop on all of the companies White Bird is presenting
this season.

Some of our wonderful volunteers smile for the camera.

Check out Tero's own photos from the 2008 Lyon Dance Biennial, "one of the most ambitious and important dance festivals in the world" (NYTimes) http://www.flickr.com/photos/terosaarinen/ where he performed Carolyn Carlson's 1983 solo "Blue Lady".  For the NYTimes review of the festival, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/dance/01bien.html?ref=dance .