Tere Mathern Dance / Minh Tran & Company

Tere Mathern: "Lucid, limpid and smart." -Dance Magazine

Minh Tran: "A tour-de-force that left the audience gasping." -Dance Magazine

Commissioned by White Bird

AS OF JAN. 20, ALL FIVE PERFORMANCES ARE NOW SOLD OUT!

PROGRAM: (total running time 2 hours)
"PIVOT," Choreographed by Tere Mathern, 35 minutes
Intermission
"Twine," Duet Choreographed by Tere Mathern and Minh Tran, 17 minutes
Pause
"KISS," Choreographed by Minh Tran, 42 minutes

Tere Mathern and Minh Tran are two of the Pacific Northwest's finest choreographers. Known for precision kinetics and lush choreographic patterns, Mathern creates work that is distinctive for its elegant marriage of razor-sharp, spare abstraction with fluid, spatial form. Minh Tran has created a body of work celebrated for its singular fusion of traditional Asian and contemporary western techniques. In a shared program, Tere Mathern Dance and Minh Tran & Company will perform two new works commissioned by White Bird and performed in the round. With a live score by Tim DuRoche and a set by visual artist David Eckard, Mathern's "PIVOT"  explores the instance of transfer - the fulcrum between balance and risk. Minh Tran will team up with composer Heather Perkins and and visual film designer David Bryant to create a a new work "KISS" on the subject of sexual identity, based on the personal and emotional history of Tran's coming-out experience. A special highlight of the program will be a duet "Twine" created by the two choreographers who have long danced for and with each other.

Contains partial nudity.

www.conduit-pdx.org/mathern

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