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AUG 13-14 ║ ALEMBIC ARTIST SERIES ║ MAURA CAMPBELL-BALKITS

An absurdist slapstick work-in-progress featuring Mo, a silent clown character, tasked with creating a performance for other humans to laugh at. Set in motion by sound, lights, props, and comedic expectation, Mo finds herself in a performative cycle of achievement and failure, tension and release, fast and slow, connection and disconnection, and so on and…
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JULY 16 + 17 ║ ALEMBIC ARTIST SERIES ║ maximiliano || SOLD OUT

PATER_CIDA performance (™) a multimedia mythos Moons Break Orbits Engineered, Yet Illegitimate Displays Terraforming Legacy Assumption Denied Heat Death Of The Universe Soon We’ll All Be ———
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JULY 23 + 24 ║ ALEMBIC ARTIST SERIES ║ MARISSA RAE NIEDERHAUSER

In ‘Here nor There’ a limited capacity audience is given the choice to observe the artist “Here”, dancing in the theater space live while casting sharp shadows on the wall behind her, or “there” in the back garden where the shadow play is projected from a live feed in an intimate open air cinema. The…
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JULY 30 + 31 ║ APOGEE ║ HANNAH KRAFCIK + EMILY JONES || SOLD OUT

“apogee” is a sci-fi inspired multi-sensory stim—a personal reflection on the ways our own sensitive systems intertwine with surroundings, how they collapse time, find order, glitch and regulate. It was developed holding neurodiverse experiences in mind and includes video, sound, text, and movement collected and arranged over the course of the pandemic.
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June 28 || Savannah Fuentes Flamenco || Flores de Verano

Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes brings her fundraising and recovery tour to Portland. This will be a concert with live music by Diego Amador, Jr. Two Shows!Monday June 28 | 6:30 & 8:30pm$35-$60 Buy tickets 6:30 showBuy tickets 8:30 show (canceled) Savannah Fuentes, Flamenco dancer, and producer, is one of the only touring artists in the…
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APRIL 24 | DYAD: Dance & Music Duos

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble and Performance Works NW team up to present “Dyad: Dance & Music Duos.” Performance Works NW, along with assistance from the Creative Music Guild, has co-curated the next installment of Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s (PJCE) Online livestream series: Dyad: Dance and Music Improvisations, DYAD: Dance & Music DuosSaturday, April 24th, 2021,…
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MAY 20 ║ PWNW HAPPY HOUR ║ WENDY HAMBIDGE + JORGE SAMUEL FARIA║ RACHEL KESSLER + MATT FIELDER

PLEASE JOIN US ON ZOOM FOR PWNW HAPPY HOURTHURSDAY MAY 20, 5-6:20 PMWITH WORK BY WENDY HAMBIDGE + JORGE SAMUEL FARIA/RACHEL KESSLER + MATT FIELDER Our time together begins with a welcome and a toast, followed by artists presenting work, segueing into lively discussion, and finishing off with a chance to win a T-shirt or other prize! At PWNW…
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APRIL 15 ║ PWNW Happy Hour ║ Stephanie Lavon Trotter & IXNAY

PLEASE JOIN US ON ZOOM FOR PWNW HAPPY HOUR THURSDAY APRIL 15, 5-6:20 PM WITH WORK BY STEPHANIE LAVON TROTTER & IXNAY
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March 26-28 || Austin + Hankins: /ə ˈsiŋgəl piŋk klɑʊd/

Linda Austin & Allie Hankins/ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɪŋk klɑʊd/Fri-Sun, March 26-287:30 pm Pacific TimeTickets—pay what you will: HERE Sunday’s performance is Closed Captioned.Sunday also features a post-show talk-back with Linda and Allie on Zoom, open to all who attended any performance. Links for the performance on Vimeo and Sunday talk-back provided upon registration. In this virtual…
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Jan 31 || Poets’ Benefit for PWNW

Poet’s Benefit for PWNW—The dance moves on and prose limps hopelessly behindSunday January 31 4pm Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a virtual reading & performance to benefit Performance Works Northwest. Celebrating 20 years of Portland’s most inspiring independent movement and performance venue, Performance Works NW (and 19 years of Spare Room), past and present…
