Arts for All – Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance

PWNW Welcomes the 10th Alembic Resident Artist Cohort!

PWNW welcomes our newest Alembic Resident Artists: JmeJames Antonick, Katherine Longstreth, and Emma Lutz-Higgins
2023 || Spring/Summer Events

Mau, June and July performance at PWNW brings us music, dance, theater, a book signing, and genre-switching!
Support Linda’s artist’s book

Dear friends and fans—Please support the creation of an artist’s book/catalog to be offered in tandem with September performances of 3 miles of possible. I need some bucks to pay for designer fees, contributor fees, printing and binding!
June 3 || Elsewhere/Otherwise || Kristen Yeung and Sadie Leigh

Elsewhere/Otherwise is a dance theatre performance, featuring original choreography and sound co-created by Kristen Yeung and Sadie Leigh. This work is a vehicle and a vessel for processing the deeply personal and universally shared experience of moving from one place to another.
Pieces of Earth We Eat || online

A short form audio-play and experimental opera written and directed by Lu Yim over the course of 2021-2022. It was recorded one performer at a time to create the illusion and possibility of chorality and togetherness. In its 12 minute run time, poetic narratives of care, where they entangle and complicate, create an erotics of…
Sept 25 || Shannon Mockli open showing

4pm—FREE—An indulgent series of collaborative duets facilitated by Eugene-based choreographer Shannon Mockli featuring sound artist Jon Bellona, and dancers Dakota Bouher, Karen Daly, Sarah Ebert, and Carlos Rassmussen, exploring our movement identities and histories, and how differences meld into distinct syntheses.
Aug 27 || touch system ✿✿✿ – open studio showing || Blue McCall + Jamondria Harris + ensemble

Touch system ✿✿✿ is an emerging choreographic work by Alembic Resident Blue McCall, taking place within a custom sound installation by Jamondria Harris (meroitic). Touch system explores the tension between image making and embodiment, shifting between high-impact physicality and moments of sculptural stillness. Join them for an informal open studio showing, to celebrate the end…
2022 Summer & Fall Events

Performances, showings, residencies by old friends and new: Allie Hankins, LIMITS, Linda Austin, Alembic Resident Artists, and more!
August 5-7 || Allie Hankins || GHOSTING

By My Own Hand, Part 1: GHOSTING, is the first in a five-part series of performances that leverage the performer/audience relationship to question attempts we make at containment; at naming; at establishing lines and boundaries. Toying with the perceived power of systems we use to define ourselves, such as astrology, psychotherapy, and dream interpretation, the…
August 8-20 || LIMITS: Corrie Beffort + Jason Anderson || Alembic Parent Residency

PWNW welcomes Corrie Befort and Jason E. Anderson of LIMITS for our inaugural Alembic Parent Residency. The duo draw upon their extensive involvement with improvisation, film, video art, installation and experimental performance to investigate psychological experiences of time, memory and perception. Corrie and Jason are using this residency opportunity to invite other artists to play/improvise…
June 14 || Derek Jarman’s Blue + Plant Exchange

All are welcome to come and enjoy a special free screening of Derek Jarman’s final film, Blue, with an ongoing plant trade to celebrate life this Spring! In the spirit of Jarman’s garden, we encourage you to participate in an open plant exchange. Plant trade starts at 7pm, and the film at 8pm. FREE!
Oct 15 || Linda Austin: 3 miles of possible (the second mile)

PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin presents Mile 2 of her ongoing project “3 miles of possible.” animating and traveling along a series of spatial paths envisioned as giant drawings, spells,and/or runes. These paths are threaded through with a variety of movement scores, choreographies, tasks, interactions with objects, guest artists, texts, songs, and sound compositions.
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.
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.
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.