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The holiday classic, continuing at Keller Auditorium through Christmas Eve, is a smooth and sprightly spectacle, one of OBT’s best renditions of the Balanchine ballet.
The Portland company’s holiday showcase charms with seven short-and-sweet, fresh new dances by established and emerging choreographers connected to BodyVox.
After six months in residence at New Expressive Works, dancemakers Sean Hoskins, Jessica Post, Jaime Belden, Katherine Longstreth, and Jordan Isadore perform the works they created.
The brilliant Japanese American dancer and teacher, who died in October at age 100, left a deep and lasting imprint on the world of dance both nationally and in Oregon.
The season casts its spell on Oregon’s dance scene, with companies from OBT to Ballet Fantastique to Grand Kyiv Ballet to BodyVox and many more joining in on the enchantment.
Teachers at Portland’s five ballet academies bring their distinctive styles and approaches to both technical training and artistic expression, resulting in an array of offerings for budding dancers.
The dancers of Oregon International Ballet Academy, fresh from a tour of China and Japan, return to The Reser with their version of “The Nutcracker” Nov. 23 and 24.
Review: New Zealand’s Õkāreka Dance Company, presented by White Bird, delves deeply and movingly into Māori culture and tradition within a contemporary dance context.
NW Dance Project kicks off its season with Sarah Slipper’s dazzling evocation of Harold Pinter’s time-reversing tale of love and betrayal and Ihsan Rustem’s equally compelling journey into the meanings of meditation.
At Portland’s Performance Works NW, the Seattle choreography duo of Kaitlin McCarthy and Jenny Peterson uses masks, flashes of skin, a ghostly sheet, and comedy to deliver a dreamlike abstraction of society’s values.
A busy month also features Māori dance, traditional and hip-hop Nutcrackers, a Jefferson Dancers extravaganza, Bridge City Dance, the return of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and a double bill of “Firebird” and “Petrushka.”
Review: Portland’s Keylock Company and San Francisco’s FACT/SF share the stage at New Expressive Works with a divergent program of contemporary dance works.
The company’s 2024-25 season will highlight several of the groundbreaking woman ballet leader’s most popular works, including the debut of her new ballet “The Lark Ascending.”
From roller skates to fish in an aquarium to a hole in the bed, Autumn Knight’s dance at PICA suggests a sweeping eventfulness in loss and “the sweetness of doing nothing.”
The small but powerful Los Angeles company hits Portland’s Newmark Theatre stage with four high-energy dances, including Trey McIntyre’s “Blue Until June.”
Review: The ballet company’s season opener, first produced in New Zealand in 2019, digs deep into the story’s long history, complete with demon rabbits and a delicious little cottage.
From a seasonal “BloodyVox” and dancing murder mystery to White Bird’s season opener, jingle dancing, and OBT’s “Hansel and Gretel,” the month’s dance scene is filled with stories.
The Portland-born film festival will feature 27 films over three evenings of diverse screenings at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
Oregon dance meets fall with a flourish of events, from BodyVox’s open floor night to TBA Fest, dance from India, world premieres, the Portland Dance Film Festival and more.
The festival at New Expressive Works was a profoundly satisfying sensory feast of symphonic sound, stunning visuals, superb dancing, and thought-provoking intellectual stimuli.
The Portland dance company and its sister troupe LED Boise stir up a kettle of contemporary dance, spicing the broth with a fog machine, a splash of milk, street dance, gender play and more.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, hip-hop’s b-boys and b-girls join the crowd of competitors. A few Portland breakers have some things to say about that.
Greater Portland’s August dance schedule is busy — and a lot of it’s happening in the great outdoors in parks and squares and other public spaces.
Sitka’s success has inspired a new dance program in the Knappa School District to be taught by Astoria Arts and Movement Center instructors.
After 13 sterling years with Oregon Ballet Theatre, the 38-year-old character dancer finishes his career to a shower of bouquets, balloons, and cheering applause. He earned every bit of it.
With the sun shining, Oregon’s dance scene skips happily into the great outdoors (and a few indoor performances, too).
Featuring three world premieres by guest choreographers and a special performance by the Jefferson Dancers, this second iteration of ‘Made in Portland’ demonstrates OBT continues as, under Dani Rowe’s leadership, a creative force in the Portland dance community.
As summer approaches, Oregon’s dance scene brings a broad array of statements and styles to the party.
A heady program of dances and dance films created by women is a vibrant and successful beginning for what should become an annual event.
An exhilarating, if unconventional, look at the rise and fall of empires – historical, contemporary, urban, political, and even our own personal domains – through dance theater.
More than 90,000 votes helped the nonprofit gain funds to restore the long-neglected building, where the majestic ballroom now hosts classes ranging from ballet to Zumba.
A new four-day showcase of talented and innovative women choreographers from Oregon and Washington features both live dance performances and films.
Choreographers Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Ashley A. Friend premiere pieces in which movement intuition and nuance guide the work.
BodyVox’s collaboration with Imani Winds is a whimsical and visual spectacle that delighted fans, but missed synergistic opportunities amid the fun.
A busy bloom of storybook ballets, world premieres, film festivals and experimental dance is highlighted by a festival featuring the work of women choreographers.
The acclaimed high school dance company surprises and delights with a packed program of original choreography performed with energy, versatility, and joy.
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The Australian dance company closed White Bird’s season with a bold performance, as the powerful and confident dancers brilliantly executed Rafael Bonachela’s technically demanding choreography.
Portland’s longest running dance company celebrates their 48th season at their annual performance, as artistic director Steve Gonzales marks his 25th year leading the nationally recognized high school dance program.
The 10th cohort of Alembic Resident Artists presented their new experimental dance pieces to a sold out crowd of fans, friends, and family at Performance Works NW.
The premiere of Dani Rowe’s chorus girl love story joins works by choreographers Ben Stevenson and Yue Yin for a diverse night of classical ballet and modern and theatrical dance.
The contemporary dance company presented the world premiere of works by three internationally recognized guest choreographers, each of whom explored the theme of secrets in distinctly different ways.
Two-time GRAMMY® nominee and New York-based musician Bonham joins EB resident choreographer Suzanne Haag in a collaborative performance of song, sound, and movement, April 6 and 7.
The dance photography of Jingzi Zhao kicks off a busy month that also features contemporary, collaborative, experimental and aerial works and the chance to see elite student performers.
The Keller Auditorium audience was repeatedly brought to their feet as the Ailey company dancers dazzled with exhilarating performances of both contemporary choreography and Ailey’s own iconic “Revelations.”
Presented at the 2024 Portland Jazz Festival, SKC’s latest world premiere promised to transcend artistic boundaries with innovations that take dance and sound in a new dimension, though delivered a more puzzling traditional concert dance experience.
The performance space by the railroad tracks in North Portland and the Butoh-inspired company Water in the Desert whisper their farewell to the Portland scene.
In its enrapturing show, ‘I Didn’t Come to Stay,’ this acclaimed tap and live music company celebrated the depth and virtuosity of tap’s Afro-diasporic roots.
Seven of Portland’s local dancers come together for an evening of solos, duets, trios, quartets, and quintets that reflect love and camaraderie.
As the Oregon dance card fills up for a busy month of movement, a performance space goes away and another springs to life.
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