Reviews

Dance review: Reggie Wilson's got the POWER

White Bird brought Reggie Wilson to town and he brought a lesson about black Shakers NOVEMBER 10, 2019 // CULTURE, DANCE, FEATURED // NIM...

Sasha Waltz’s KÖRPER: Bodies meet wall, artfully

White Bird's first foray into contemporary German choreography runs into a wall—and the bodies that run into it OCTOBER 12, 2019 //...

Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s sublime dance with the surreal

MARCH 8, 2019 // DANCE // NIM WUNNAN “Man not by abdomen and buttock plates or vertebrae but through his currents, his weakness what...

Beijing Dance Theater thinks big

Choreographer Wang Yuanyuan, a creative force behind the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, now runs her own show FEBRUARY 18, 2019 //...

Clarity, simplicity power Guerin’s “Split”

OCTOBER 19, 2018 // DANCE // NIM WUNNAN Acclaimed Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin has returned to Portland for the West Coast debut...

Finding humanity at the intersection of contemporary dance and circus

Circa stages West Coast debut of Humans in Portland OCTOBER 12, 2018 // DANCE // NIM WUNNAN Circa, Australia’s leading contemporary...

Stephen Petronio: Past and present

The choreographer has recovered and re-staged several postmodern classics, which inform his own current work APRIL 7, 2018 // DANCE //...

Jessica Lang Dance: Classically modern

White Bird gave us a good survey of the work of forward-leaning ballet choreographer Jessica Lang this weekend MARCH 11, 2018 // DANCE //...

Urban Bush Women: ‘We’re going on a journey’

Urban Bush Women brought 'Hair and Other Stories' to town and a lot more than just talk MARCH 4, 2018 // CULTURE, DANCE // NIM WUNNAN...