Dance news: Creativity is flowing
Jamuna Chiarini
November 13, 2020
Dance is cooking: solo concerts from NW Dance Project, Franco Nieto’s new studio, comic dance film from BodyVox.
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 pandemic has accelerated the movement of dance toward film, where more people can see it.
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.
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.
Voices from the front: Philanthropist Ronni Lacroute says COVID-19 is forcing arts groups to think in new ways.
COVID-19 and Portland dance: spaces close, shows are delayed, classes shift online, financial crises loom.
The rest of its season canceled by the health crisis, the venerable dance presenter faces acute money woes.
The disability-arts champion’s death shocks the community. But the organization she built vows to keep on.
Jess Evans and Lyra Butler-Denman’s “Delicate Fish/BARDO” takes a tender look at grief, pain, and death.
Oregon’s dance month marches in like a lion, a tango, ballet, butoh, funk, fish, bootleggers and more.
Within the joy of Darvejon Jones’ dances at BodyVox is also the shadow of his social commentary.
Laura Onizuka will teach the Spanish dance and art form at an upcoming Lincoln City retreat.
Eugene Ballet creates the new dance “The Large Rock and The Little Yew” and revives “Alice in Wonderland.”
All you need is love: Oregon’s February dance calendar reflects on the many ways humans love.
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