December DanceWatch: Cupcakes, Nutcrackers, and more
December 1, 2021
After a long year of mostly virtual performances, the dance world celebrates the season by throwing the doors open to live shows again.
After a long year of mostly virtual performances, the dance world celebrates the season by throwing the doors open to live shows again.
As the holiday hip hop tour heads to Portland, rap pioneer and show MC Kurtis Blow talks about his career, his faith, and his heart transplant.
From “Hip Hop Nutcracker” to “Cinderella,” Keylock & Bielemeier to Linda Austin’s explorations, dance is live and on the move again.
After a long layoff, dance is getting back in performance halls. Celebrate its return – if you’ve been vaccinated.
PICA’s Time-Based Art Fest highlights a month that also shows many dancers emerging from isolation.
In the wake of the ballet’s reshuffle, the philanthropist talks about perceptions, funding, and the duties of boards.
In the wake of the ballet company’s abrupt split with artistic leader Kevin Irving, much remains unexplained.
Resident Choreographer Nicolo Fonte also declares he’s leaving the ballet company.
Oregon Ballet Theatre unveils two world premieres in its first concert since the pandemic. And there’s lots more live performance to cheer on, too.
Oregon dance leaders talk about the long- and short-term future of dance. A little exasperation is involved.
How have dancers and choreographers negotiated the pandemic? Jamuna Chiarini tells her particular story.
Though we long for the Olden Times, when dancers occupied the same rooms we did, we’re still counting our blessings: 1) Spring awaits; 2) Dance online.
We are still dancing, but mostly we are watching dance on screens. And we are getting better at it, too.
A look back at a year of closures, crises, streamings and reimaginings, and ahead to a more cheerful 2021.
December dance bustles with a stocking full of Nutcrackers, Christmas Carols, and the odd Happy Hour.
Dance is cooking: solo concerts from NW Dance Project, Franco Nieto’s new studio, comic dance film from BodyVox.
The veteran artists are exemplars of independent dance artists making successful careers in Portland.
The Portland actor-writer moves briskly into his tale of Black Americans and the violence they face.
Dance starts to heat up after a slow pandemic summer. Jamuna Chiarini collects the fall colors for you.
DanceWatch discovers that dancers are dancing. Still. They’re not likely to stop. We have the calendar to prove it!
August is a busy dance month, with festivals galore. It just happens to be online – which has its advantages.
Local dance companies and choreographers are adapting to the new normal with determination and creativity, though everyone’s anxious about the future.
The rest of its season canceled by the health crisis, the venerable dance presenter faces acute money woes.
Oregon’s dance month marches in like a lion, a tango, ballet, butoh, funk, fish, bootleggers and more.
All you need is love: Oregon’s February dance calendar reflects on the many ways humans love.
Dancemaker Linda Austin concludes her four-year experiment with the way we remember, forget, re-imagine and recreate art.
DanceWatch Monthly is hoping that Marquee TV will fill the void in performing arts on your devices, whatever they may be.
December dance in Portland and the rest of the state gets its holiday on, and we’ve got the guide to all those Sugar Plum Fairies.
A dancer’s injury at BodyVox leads to a cascade of role changes in the company’s Shakespeare double bill.
As a new season settles in, Oregon’s dance calendar overflows with opportunities.
A new work by circus duo Kate Law and Amaya Alvarado reveals great skill—and a story of a sexual assault.
Dance to haunt the senses and call on spirits, from OBT to White Bird and beyond—way beyond.
Union PDX – Festival:19 is a new dance festival, started by Samuel Hobbs, that attempts to address some of the problems in the city’s dance community.
This year’s Time-Based Art Festival is loaded with dance events. The rest of September’s leaping with dance, too.
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