Review: Bringing Dance to the Table: The Potluck of Union PDX’s Festival:22
November 20, 2022
Fourth annual festival draws dance artists from around the world together for masterclasses, workshops, and to share their work.
Fourth annual festival draws dance artists from around the world together for masterclasses, workshops, and to share their work.
The native Portland choreographer returned to his home town as the pandemic hit. He’s emerged with a fresh vision and three new works at A-WOL.
push/FOLD’s festival drew national and international contemporary-dance ideas from Brooklyn to New Jersey to Portland to L.A. to the Dominican Republic and Taiwan.
A dance form born in majorette lines and adopted by queer dance clubs hits the streets in Portland’s Boise neighborhood.
push/FOLD gets back to performing with a rethinking of a recent dance, “Early,” for a Mexico City festival.
Dance workshops aid houseless women, children and nonbinary people at the Rose Haven shelter.
A dance troupe navigates Covid-19 shutdowns in a new studio and looks to Portland’s modern dance elders for direction.
With studio dance classes on hold for the pandemic, dance teachers and their students have begun to adapt to the new reality: Zoom dance classes. It’s working.
After some online tension from the dance community, Portland’s Big Four dance companies agreed to change in response to Black Lives Matter.
COVID-19 and Portland dance: spaces close, shows are delayed, classes shift online, financial crises loom.
Jess Evans and Lyra Butler-Denman’s “Delicate Fish/BARDO” takes a tender look at grief, pain, and death.
Within the joy of Darvejon Jones’ dances at BodyVox is also the shadow of his social commentary.
It’s Sunday night and I’m at New Expressive Works, watching a few minutes of tech rehearsal for the upcoming Listening to Silence, a dance performance co-created by NEW founder and executive director Subashini Ganesan and Yashaswini Raghuram, the assistant director of Odissi
NW Dance Project’s weekend holiday show, “Winter Wonders,” felt like a sampler plate of grandma’s cookies.
Amy Leona Havin draws on her Israeli dance roots for “mekudeshet,” a dance about how we make things sacred
Samuel Hobbs’ Union PDX dance festival: showcasing dance, confront the problems it faces in Portland.
Across genres of Indian art, rasas—the juice or essence that classifies the aesthetic of the work—play a key role in transporting the audience to a realm of wonder parallel to the one we live in. Though the ancient form of Indian dance,
Portland’s Shaun Keylock Company staged its first evening-length performance this past weekend at New Expressive Works, offering contemporary pieces that demonstrate the emerging company’s aesthetic and interests, as well as founder/artistic director Shaun Keylock’s curatorial practice, which combines technical rigor with historical
Ordinary Devotions, a new contemporary dance work by veteran Portland choreographer and performer Linda Austin, is meant to do two things: find glamour in everyday objects and honor the ordinary—and extraordinary—qualities of the aging body. Now 65 years old, Austin has had
Tap, much like jazz music, has historically been a form of communication in and of itself
Though it includes classical ballet technique, the program has a more forgiving view of failure: its lighthearted antics and vaudevillian sensibility provide a laugh for the audience and make the performers relatable and likeable.
The New Expressive Works tenth residency cycle has just been completed, and according Suba Ganesan, the residency’s founder, “it’s the strongest example of my vision coming to life.” The four choreographers come from all ends of the movement spectrum, but the danced
The Fair-Haired Dumbbell building on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and East Burnside is one of Portland’s newest and funkiest creative office spaces. The New York Times described its exterior as “florentine wallpaper” and the dumbbell-shape design features multiple
When BodyVox’s artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland sat down to consider their 20th season, they knew they were going to go big. Six months later, they’ve accomplished a lot. World premiere of a brand new work? Check. Present evening-length work
In what place in America could it be more necessary to express the black and brown perspective than right here in our organic-kale-kombucha-Subaru-loving, second-generation hippie town of Portland, also known as the city with the fifth highest percentage of white residents in
As the audience entered the dimly lit AWOL Warehouse for push/FOLD’s world premiere of Samuel Hobbs’s Early, our first exposure was Hobbs himself, standing completely nude and still in the space. He remained in his stillness until the audience’s bustle of picking
The title of Katie Scherman’s new dance, the last piece in her retrospective concert at BodyVox this weekend, is To Have It All, and reading through Scherman’s bio, your first thought might be, hey, she does have it all! Multiple degrees, an
One new work, two old works, five men, and ten years between then and now, old work and new. That’s the formula for skinner|kirk Dance Ensemble’s concert at BodyVox (through February 10). The pairing of old and new work isn’t its only
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