Community Dance Calendar
BODYVOX OPEN STUDIO
March 4, 6:30-8:00
The BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th
503.229.0627
www.bodyvox.com
Join BodyVox and guest moderator Christopher Mattaliano, general director of The Portland Opera for a free open rehearsal and sneak preview as we prepare our newest production, Smoke Soup, for its world premiere. Watch excerpts of work and interact with BodyVox artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland as they discuss develping new work and the artistic process with their long-time collaborator, Mr. Mattaliano.
POV DANCE
THE FORD BUILDING PROJECT
March 11-21
Thurs - Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM
The Ford Building, 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland
Admission: $15 Order tickets HERE
POV Dance will premiere its first evening length work March 11-21 at the historic Ford Building at SE 11th Ave and Division. The Ford Building Project will transform the ground floor of the builidng into a moving landscape of architecture, bodies, light and sound as nine dancers gracefully guide a roving audience from one end of the building to the other. Audience members will be offered intimate and unexpected perspectives on dancers as they glide up and down stairwells, propel off walls and hang from windows and rails.
The Ford Building Project is funded in part by a generous grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT
Friday / March 12 + Saturday / March 13 / 8PM
Newmark Theatre / Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main Street)
Tickets: $20+ (for the best seats, order tickets early. Prices increase as show draws near).
The program includes:
-World premiere by Nederlands Dans Theater's Maurice Causey, winner of the Northwest Dance Project's first annual Pretty Creatives international choreographic competition in 2009.
-Portland premiere of "Flying E," the latest creation from the Northwest Dance Project's own Artistic Director, Sarah Slipper, inspired by the company's residency in the Arizona desert.
-"Ensemble for Somnambulists," (below right) created especially for the Northwest Dance Project in 2006, marks the return of international choreographer Luca Veggetti, whose choreographic works are in the repertoire of leading companies such as New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet.
-Sarah Slipper's "A Fine Balance" finalist for the prestigious Benois de la Danse choreographic award and performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
SMOKE SOUP
March 25 April 10
The BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th
503.229.0627
www.bodyvox.com
Don¹t miss this BodyVox world premier show set to the haunting, propulsive music of vaunted songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. A richly layered companion piece to the company¹s 2009 hit, The Foot Opera Files, Smoke Soup uses movement, imagery and Henry¹s deeply personal, distinctly American music to accompany a cast of characters through an intensely physical dance theater cycle.
BodyVox Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland collaborate with a team of choreographers including company members Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk and Matt Hope. Henry¹s smoky music is performed live by an all-star house band comprised of some of Portland¹s finest indy rock, opera and jazz artists, all led by Michael Papillo.
DEATH & TAXES
Choreography by Paige McKinney
April 15-17 at 8:00 PM
April 18 at 3:00 PM
(Running time approximately 45 minutes)
Performance Works Northwest, 4625 SE 67th, Portland OR, 97206
Tickets: $12-$15, available through Brown Paper Tickets
Contemporary choreographer Paige McKinney’s new work examines, in kinetic terms, how we confront uncertainty and negotiate the fraying edges of the things we hold dear. McKinney combines gestural abstractions and propulsive dance vocabulary to give the audience a fresh experience of space, line and momentum. Hovering between recklessness and precision, the dancers rely on each other in delicate balances, are discarded when their living support structure collapses, and propel themselves and each other through space, sometimes coming to rest, sometimes rushing away.
Joining McKinney are dancers Esther LaPointe, Beth Rankin Loy, Catherine Palmier, Bonni Stover, Leah Wilmoth, Taylor Young, and Erin Zintek. This performance features original music by Ian Ferguson and Chad Langford, with lighting design by Jeff Forbes.
2010 ARTIST DINNER SERIES: A FUNDRAISER
· 6 DINNERS FEATURING CONVERSATIONS WITH 12 DIFFERENT ARTISTS
· FOOD + WINE + CONVERSATION CRAFTED BY LINDA AND TAHNI TO SUPPORT THEIR 2010 PROJECTS
Each dinner will host two Portland performers, artists or writers in discussion with each other and the dinner guests. Join these artists in their love for communal eating, desire for more discourse that touches upon performance as an art among other arts, and curiosity about other people's processes: what, how and why they make what they make and do what they do.
Dinner Series schedule---all dinners at 7pm:
Feb 27 Angelle Hebert (tEEth)+ Angela Fair---see below for bios
March 20 Linda Austin+ Kristan Kennedy
April 24 Tahni Holt+ Ethan Rose*
May 22 Cydney Wilkes + Lisa Radon*
June 26 David Eckard + Linda K. Johnson
July 24 Tiffany Lee Brown (New Oregon Arts & Letters) + Joshua Berger (Plazm)
Each dinner has room for 20 guests. Every dinner is at a different, secret, location that will be given upon reservations. Email hello@tahniholt.com for reservations. 30-$100 (sliding scale) for one dinner / $100-$200 for four dinners
