A MILESTONE BIRTHDAY!
This summer, PWNW celebrates 25 years of avid experimentation, sublime mayhem, tender intimacy, community-building, rigorous play, and dedicated art-marking. This is the perfect occasion, thanks to the dedication and generosity of our artist and audience friends to raise money for the coming season!
Please join us August 1-3 for any or all of 25 hours of performances, classes, karaoke, a dance party and a closing Sunday brunch!
25 HOURS! SCHEDULE
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FRIDAY AUGUST 1
3–5:30p — Contact Improvisation Workshop led by Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik
In this class, we will consider how contact improvisation can support our self-knowing—awareness of our desires, capacity, and sensory fantasies—and how it can illuminate what we don’t know we know. We will practice with a queered lens, staying curious about one another’s experiences. We will stay accountable to our individual behavior as well as community safety by keeping active channels of communication and consent open. We will also explore various ways of identifying and asking one another for what we want. This class will include soloing, movement in partnership and group composition. We will play with some mechanically specific material, while emphasizing its adaptability.
5–6:30p — Outdoor Happy Hour (FREE)
No host bar, games, and more!
7–9p — Foreman Fest Redux
Bringing back one of PWNW’s signature series in honor of avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman (1937-2025). With Linda Austin, Early Worms (John Berendzen, Ero Gray, Alex Reagan, Tamara Lynne, Jeff Simmons & Liz Costello) Long Drive Theatre (Kaitlyn Petrik, Richie Greene, et al), Erin Boberg Doughton, Allie Hankins + keyon gaskin, David Abel + Mark Owens, James Yeary, Lois Leveen, & Pepper Pepper.
Artists create mini-performances in 12 days based on a selection drawn from Foreman’s online notebooks, the raw material from which he himself fashioned his plays.
9:30 — Karaoke Party
Practice up for a night of joyous, raucous, and/or sweet, tender vocalizing.
SATURDAY AUGUST 2
10a — AEROBICOURAGE class led by Allie Hankins
Taught by Allie Hankins, AEROBICOURAGE classes are for all levels of experience and will combine dance aerobics with your favorite sweaty dance party! We will breathe, bounce, sweat, push, rest, go across the floor, DANCE, to access the pleasure of effort and musicality.
11:30a — Holy Goats! Dance & Music Improvisations curated by stephanie lavon trotter
Featuring dance and music improvisations by Daniel Addy, Linda K Johnson + Tim DuRoche || Danielle Ross and Maxx Katz || KT Kusmaul and stephanie lavon trotter.
Many of you may remember the Holy Goats! years (2001-2008) in which many Sunday afternoons were spent enjoying dance and or music improvisations accompanied by bagels and coffee.
1:30p — Moose & Squirrel Poets’ Cabaret Spare Room Poets Collective
David Abel, Chris Ashby, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Tom De Beauchamp, Sam Lohmann, Nate Orton, Danielle Ross, Maryrose Larkin, James Yeary, and a cast of ashcans will perform short plays by Gertrude Stein, Alice Notley, Ruth Krauss, and Paul Ableman, poetry by James Yeary, and amateur Foley.
3p — PASTfuture conversation: Linda K. Johnson & Linda Austin
The latest in Linda K’s series of conversations with Portland dance elders and part of her Mycelium Dreams project.
6:00p — Public Nature (movement, sound, text) curated by Danielle Ross
This latest edition of Danielle Ross’s nomadic multi-disciplinary series features interdisciplinary performance collective Midnight Variety Hour, composer and sound artist Juniana Lanning with dancer Linda Austin, and wordsmith Tom DeBeauchamp.
8p — It’s a Fucking Miracle led by Tahni Holt with Luke Wyland
This class comes out of many years of movement study, curiosity and play. It weaves together my somatic leanings, movement improvisational scores, contact improv, authentic movement, contemplative dance, dance boot camp and fiercely dancing-my-ass-off-in-the-club.Original music compositions, pop-culture songs, and abstract sound weaves through each class. It is a mash up encouraging entanglement. It moves you and the class is moved by you.
9:30p–12a — Dance Party with DJ lolo haha
We want to dance with you!!
SUNDAY AUGUST 3
11:30a–2:30p — Closing Brunch with performances, auction, and more!
Music by Becky Miller, performance by Linda Austin, video by Seth Nehil
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 