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June 1 | workshop #1: new & in-progress sound and music
Join us for a new music series at PWNW featuring new and in-process works by Ashlin Aronin, Junianna Lanning and Catherine Lee. workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. workshop supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even “songs”. it is an…
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RFP || Alembic Residency #11
PWNW || LAD invites artists working in original and contemporary time-based performance, whose work engages a strong movement, body, or dance-based component, to apply for the Alembic Resident Artist Program. Deadline July 1 for a residency beginning Sept 1.
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2024 Alembic Parent Artists!
PWNW enthusiastically introduces our 2024 Alembic Parent Artists, one local and one visiting, each of whom receives studio time plus a stipend to help with childcare and/or any other life expenses. Muffie Delgado Connelly, our Portland-based artist, will be in residence at PWNW from June 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025. Heather Kravas, from Seattle.…
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April 26-28 ||Sharing Dances: Works by Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Ashley A. Friend
Marissa Rae Niederhauser (Portland) and Ashley A. Friend (Port Townsend, WA) share a program of dances at Performance Works NorthWest!
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2024 ||Winter/Spring Events
A visit by celebrated theater and music artists, a birthday roast for Linda, another edition of Imposter/switch, a fantastical show for parents and kids, Alembic Artists Performance, intergenerational dance and storytelling, an installation for Gaza, and a split bill with Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Ashley A. Friend.
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March 28-31 || Alembic Artists in Performance
Celebrating our 10th Alembic Resident Artist cohort, in residence since June 2023, Performance Works NorthWest presents dance and performance by JmeJames Antonick + Patsy Morris, Katherine Longstreth, and Emma Lutz-HIggins.
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April 6 || will you with me? || claire barrera + collaborators
Will you with me? explores the challenges and delights of intergenerational groups. Difference, affinity and the potential for co-creation are teased out via experiments in storytelling and dance improvisation.
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April 17-18 || Targeted / 100+ Kites || an installation
An installation project inspired by academic and poet Refaat Al-Areer’s poem, “If I must Die,” which pays tribute to the many journalists and media workers who have put their lives on the line to report on the horrors unfolding in Gaza. All proceeds will be donated to these charities: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Anera.
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February 24 | Mother Goose’s Advices to Her Young Ones | Matthew Fielder
Told in an inventive and imaginative combination of Clown, Puppetry, Music, and Animation by Matthew Fielder, “Mother Goose’s Advices” are “parables set in motion”, humorous and profound—a playfully touching visionary look at cosmology, ecology, and the poetic spirit of the human heart.
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Farewell to 2023 | Welcome, 2024!
Thank you for yet another art-and-life-affirming year! Feeling the warmth of your attentive energy—witnessing, supporting, creating, performing—is what keeps us vital. Please support PWNW as we continue to support artists and audiences with residencies, performances, rehearsal space, guest artists, and more!
Performance Works NW ||Linda Austin Dance 