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2022 Spring/Summer Events
Check out a jam-packed spring and early summer lineup, including the long-awaited premiere of a visually stunning collaboration, a work exploring the radical Jewish female sacred, a dance based on children’s games with an intergenerational cast, an improvised play about choice, and a weekend featuring three collaborating teams of a poet, dancer, and musician.
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May 20-22 || claire barrera || Grammar of the Imagination
An intergenerational cast uses traditional children’s games as a platform to explore how play can be a site of imagining radically new social relations, or of disciplining and re-enforcing social norms.
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June 10-12 || CROSSINGS
Performance Works NorthWest joins Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and Buckmxn Journal to present an evening of dance, music and poetry—a grand confluence focused deliberately on collaboration—with dancers Sophia Tweed Ahmad, Danielle Ross, and Akela Jaffi; musicians Michael Gamble, Machado Mijiga, and Cyrus Nabipoor; and poets Rich Perin, Emmi Greer, and Carolyn Supinka.
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April 28-May 1 || Jennifer Gwirtz || Kol b’Isha/Voice Within Woman
“Kol b’Isha” is a choreographic meditation on female voice, visibility and silence. It is a dance about the radical Jewish female sacred, and how the silences and sounds of a woman’s voice establishes her presence.
COVID SAFETY POLICY
All attendees at performances will need to show proof of full COVID vaccination, or negative results from a PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours or from a rapid antigen test taken the earlier that day. Please get boosted if eligible. Face masks completely covering nose and mouth are required to be worn while in the studio theater. Please wear a high-filtration mask with a tight fit to the face, such as a KN95 or N95.
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 