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April 28 & 29 ✧ Appalachian Spring Break
SCOTTY HERON & BRENDAN CONNELLY play with the iconic, confused and clichéd relationship of choreographer and composer, glancing sideways at Martha Graham and Aaron Copland’s only collaboration and its sepia toned Americana. This “hilarious junkshop tribute to Martha Graham and Aaron Copeland…seems like mayhem, and then beauty asserts itself—classic and anarchic and enlivening at once,…
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jin camou ✧ Episode III
POSTPONED UNTIL LATE SEPTEMBER!
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2017 Alembic Artists
One of our favorite moments each year is the announcement of the latest cohort of PWNW’s Alembic Resident Artists, along with thanks to the panel and all the applicants. So here goes: Our 2017 Alembic Artists are Susanne Chi, Catherine Egan, and Matthew Fielder/Grind Group. Our deep thanks for a thoughtful and thorough panel process…
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March 24-25 || claire barrera + Noelle Stiles
PWNW presents “This one is” by Noelle Stiles and “Fifth Sun” by claire barrera, works created during their 2016 Alembic Artist Residency at Performance Works. “This one is”—a work in progress by Noelle Stiles that expresses concepts explored in residency such as family intimacy, generational cycles of misogyny, and perseverance. In Fifth Sun, claire barrera,…
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Linda Austin receives FCA Cunningham Award
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit arts organization founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, has announced the recipients of its annual awards. Fourteen unrestricted grants of $40,000 each will be given to individual artists in the United States. Along with this cycle of grant awardees, Linda Austin has been named winner of the second…
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Feb. 20 || UnPresidented Acts
Along with other artists, citizens, and spaces around the country, PWNW joins the Bad and Nasty movement with a marathon evening of performance featuring acts of protest, resistance, resilience and community building by 25-30 artists. Artist slate—currently in formation—includes Anthony Hudson, Button Will, claire barrera, Kiel Moton, Linda Austin,Tamara Lynne, Tere Mathern). All funds raised…
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Feb. 10 & 11 || Cabaret Boris & Natasha
An assemblage of imaginative and unconventional entertainment, presented salon-style, by some of the most inventive performing artists from the region. This edition features a collaboration between dancers Mike Barber and Subashini Ganesan, work by Seattle’s Syniva Whitney/Gender Tender, music by oboist Catherine Lee, performance by Amber Whitehall, dance by Button Will, and as well as…
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January 29 || The Greater Circulation
“The Greater Circulation” (2005; 93 min. USA) is Antero Alli’s cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s epic lament, “Requiem For a Friend”, where an actress, a dancer, and a visual artist stage Rilke’s work as a paratheatrical performance in present time as the film intercuts to flashbacks of the poet composing his “Requiem” a…
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RFP 2017 Alembic Resident Artist Program
2017 Alembic Resident Artist Program. Deadline: Feb. 11, 2017. Residency Period: April 1, 2016-Feb 28, 2017. 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 year 5 of our Alembic Resident Artist Program.
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We are standing with you, dancing with you, making art with you
The last bell rings for you: photo by Chelsea Petrakis Dear friend of Performance Works NorthWest & Linda Austin Dance, Last year at this time I wrote that we “tingle with excitement and confidence as we embark into another 15 years of avid experimentation in the live arts.” One year later, it is difficult, as…
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