LOCATION: Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR 97206 unless otherwise noted.
COVID SAFETY POLICY: Masks are welcome, and we encourage full COVID and flue vaccinations. Masks available at the door.
TICKETS: PWNW-produced events can usually be found at https://buytickets.at/pwnw. This does not include PWNW Public Access Performances, which do their own ticketing.
April 3-June 5 | Tai Chi Beginning Class
Offered by Red Cedar Tai Chi, and led by Linda Hutchins, Angie Holland, and Linda Austin.
April 3 – June 6, 10 weekly classes
Thursdays 11am – noon
April-June | PASTfuture Archival Conversations | Linda K. Johnson’s Mycelium Dreams Project
The PASTfuture interviews are intent on creating an inclusive, nonhierarchical oral record of the stories of dance artists and professionals in the Portland community
Sundays 11am-1pm—FREE
➤ April 13 Pat Wong
➤ May 4 Chisao Hata
➤ June 8 Barry Johnson
March 21-23 | FLOOR | Emma Lutz-Higgins
Emma Lutz-Higgins presents her evening-length work with dancers Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, and John Niekrasz.
Friday & Saturday March 21–22 || doors 6:30pm, show 7pm
Sunday March 23 || doors at 1:30pm, show at 2pm
ALEMBIC CO-PRODUCTION
March 27 | Tom’s Movie Night
Released in 1995, Underground is a Yugoslavian historical epic, at once hilarious and tragic, fantastical and totally real.
Thursday, March 27th, 2025
6pm-9:30pm (Film starts at 6:30pm, en punto)
FREE: donations for the space cheerfully accepted!
April 6 | UNDOING | Deep Play PDX Performance Troupe
A durational performance led by Aaron Finbloom.
UNDOING is a 4-hour durational performance that blends ritual, play, and deep inquiry, as we explore what happens when we let the boundaries between selves, structures, language, and nonsense fall apart.
Sunday April 6, 1-5pm
Come and go as you please
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS
April 12-13 | AGAIN and AGAIN | Kathryn Claire
In this multi-media piece, musician and performer Kathryn Claire uses improvised looping on the violin, synthesizer and voice, pieces of poetry and song, dance and spoken word to explore the cyclical nature of time, what we leave behind, and the way our creativity can lead us back to ourselves.
Saturday April 12 || doors 7pm, show at 7:30pm
Sunday April 13 || doors 3pm, show at 3:30pm
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS | FERTILE GROUND FESTIVAL
April 16 | Spring Fieldwork Showing
Public showing Wednesday April 16 @ 7p
Sliding Scale $0-$25
Fieldwork, facilitated by Sadie Leigh is a framework for artists of any and every discipline to play, experiment, fail, collaborate, and most importantly, give and receive structured peer feedback. This showing at the end of their sessions is a way to share their works-in-process with the larger community!
April 18-20 | The Redemption Show
Sam Cimino, Nikki Flinn, Kat Freya, and Lauren Frey unite to present The Redemption Show, an evening of ritualistic performance examining power, desire, and institutional control. Through dance, sound, and storytelling, four solos interweave to challenge established systems and reclaim feminine power.
Friday and Saturday April 18-19 at 7:30
Sunday April 20 at 2:30
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS | FERTILE GROUND FESTIVAL
April 26 | workshop #4
Saturday April 26
Doors 7:00 pm | Show 7:30
workshop #4 features new and in-process sound works
Becky Miller, Alim Ringgold, and Yaara Valey.
WORKSHOP SERIES
May 19 | noise night
Monday May 19
Doors 7:00 pm | Show 7:30
noise night returns to PWNW with Wilson Shook (LA), Shao Way Wu and slip shimmer (stephanie lavon trotter/Anthony J Stillabower).
NOISE NIGHT SERIES
May 23 | Public Nature
Friday May 23
Doors 7:00 pm | Show 7:30
Emmi Greer (text)
Helen Spencer-Wallace (sound)
Hannah Krafcik + Emily Jones (movement)
Public Nature is a nomadic performance series curated by Danielle Ross
May 30 | Tom’s Movie Night
Friday May 30 at 7pm—FREE
We will gather to watch two short, fabulously incongruent films.
La Jetée (1962), directed by Chris Marker.
Lover’s Rock (2020), directed by Steve McQueen, second in the series of five films that make up McQueen’s Small Axe anthology.
Will the stark stillness of the former prime us for the luscious sound and movement of the latter? Let’s find out together!
June 10 | When the Earth Sings | Brittany Loewen
Join singer and sound artist Brittany Loewen as she travels through Portland for a special one-night-only meditative event, celebrating the release of her album When the Earth Sings as part of her west coast tour. www.celestesoundalchemy.com
Tuesday, June 10 at 7pm
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS
June 26-29 | Alembic Artists in Performance | Sophia Tweed Ahmad, Kye Grant, & Kai Hynes
Our current Alembic Residents share the results of their process!
Thur*–Sat at 7:30pm *Thursday is a reduced-price dress rehearsal
Sun at 2pm
ALEMBIC CORE RESIDENCY
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 