The world premiere of Caroline Finn's "Don't Forget to Panic" and the return of Ihsan Rustem's "Carmen" with original stars Andrea Parson and Franco Nieto create a pleasurably riveting evening.
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October 29, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
The month's dance calendar also includes Balinese dance, a "Sleeping Beauty" with lights, Barcelona's RUNA, push/FOLD's "Catalysts," "Enchanted Toyshop" and more.
October 29, 2025Jean Zondervan
Suzanne Haag’s full-length world-premiere reimagines Dracula with a film noir theme, multi-media scenery, and gravity-defying choreography.
October 8, 2025Hannah Krafcik
In a three-night run at Portland's Keller Auditorium, the contemporary ballet troupe reflected growth, change, humor, and a welcome energy of joy.
October 3, 2025Hannah Krafcik
At the end of a weeklong residency in Portland, the legendary dance minimalist talks onstage about her artistic process and thinking at a cellular level.
September 28, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
From OBT's "Dracula" and White Bird's Complexions and Limon troupes to a seasonal "BloodyVox," dance from Korea, India and the Philippines, and small-scale contemporary works, October dance opens its doors to all.
September 24, 2025Lucy Cotter
"tba: to be diasporic un determined," in PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival, feels like "a co-creation of a world in the making; a portal to (Black) possibility."
September 13, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The dancer and choreographer, whose work blends the precision of ballet with contemporary impulses and a dash of comedy, continues through Sept. 14 at Boyvox.
September 9, 2025Bobby Bermea
Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater's newest work, debuting Sept. 12-21 at Reed College, dives into the soul of the tradition-keeping griot from past to present and future.
September 1, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Playing with the words of theater experimentalist Richard Foreman, Austin and a host of fellow performers celebrate a quarter-century of cutting-edge dance in Portland.
August 31, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
From the Time-Based Art Festival to Griot, flamenco, classic dance of India, the legendary Deborah Hay, the Portland Dance Film Fest, Grand Kyiv Ballet's "Swan Lake" and much more, the fall dance season gets off with a bang.
August 23, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Dark whimsy, electronica, flashing lights, slow stoicism and a certain softness mark the debut of the troupe Trash Babe Productions at Performance Works Northwest.
August 20, 2025Amy Wang
The three-day festival includes workshops in Vancouver, Wash., as well as dance, music, and food across the river in Fairview’s Blue Lake Regional Park.
August 13, 2025Lincoln Chronicle
The annual event, held last week, is both an act of commemoration and resilience. "For me these steps aren’t just a dance, it’s reconnecting with Mother Earth, with water and air,” says one dancer.
July 28, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
High summer brings a swelter of dance performances, including a Vancouver arts festival, Summer Soup, NW Dance Project, and more.
July 9, 2025Amy Leona Havin
Lewis's nonprofit is a home for developing adventurous new performance ranging from dance to physical theater, femme storytelling, clowning, and more.
July 6, 2025Lori Tobias
Children’s Repertory of Oregon Workshops — C.R.O.W. — offers low-cost classes in dance, musical theater, and performance — not to mention The Tutu Dads.
June 29, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
From Ten Tiny Dances to dancing in the trees, July's lineup bubbles with well-seasoned complexity and frisky flavors.
June 21, 2025Amy Leona Havin
The Portland and global dance artist creates "a landscape in which there is room for glimpses of everyone’s stories."
June 11, 2025Subashini Ganesan-Forbes and Sarah Jane Hardy
The much-loved advocate of the Bharatanatyam dance of her native India, who established Portland's Anjali School of Dance and also worked on Western theater projects, is praised for her openness and collaborative approach to art.
June 11, 2025Hannah Krafcik
In the face of a federal war on the arts and queer expression, the Portland company closes its season with a pair of shows that range from robust parody to pandemonium to Pride.
June 8, 2025Martha Ullman West
After 46 years as artistic director of Eugene Ballet, Pimble is handing leadership to longtime company members Jennifer Martin and Suzanne Haag. For Pimble and Eugene, it's been a rich and rewarding near-half-century – and more to come.
June 3, 2025Hannah Krafcik
In her hometown of Hillsboro, the dancer and choreographer's evolving one-woman show about her younger sister's death from cancer goes through grief and pain and "the mess of loving."
May 29, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
Plus: Shining the Light at The Reser, NW Dance Project's student showcase, OIBA's 10th anniversary show, Alembic Artists' new work, a Ballet Folklorico debut.
May 24, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
The dance company's trademark humor (and Champagne for the audience) bring some welcome fizz to reimaginings of "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
May 13, 2025Jean Zondervan
The two dances, both choreographed by Toni Pimble, mark the end of Pimble's almost half-century as the Eugene company's co-founder, artistic director, and creative force.
May 7, 2025Beth Sorensen
The Brazilian dance company, renowned for its precise synchronized dancing and Afro-Brazilian movement, provided a joyful night that transfixed and transported its Portland audience.
May 1, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
Oregon's busy May dance calendar ranges from world premieres to personal solo work, rock operas, Indian dance, African dance, Shakespearean remixes and more.
April 30, 2025Amy Leona Havin
In its White Bird performances at The Reser in Beaverton, the company brilliantly blends hip-hop, contemporary and classical elements into a fused whole.
April 30, 2025Elizabeth Whelan
Subashini Ganesan-Forbes' new work, performed with Angela Mazziotta and Jordan Isadore, embraces Buddhist concepts and blends Bharatanatyam and contemporary movement.
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