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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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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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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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Imposter/switch—New Date: February 10
Imposter/switch, co-curated by liz HOWLS and Marissa Rae Niederhauser, celebrates the imposter syndrome living in each of us, inviting artists to courageously ‘fake it’ wearing the [creative] mask of another artist. With Hannah Krafcik, Yaara Valey, Joe John Sanchez III, Sarah Eaton, The Bone Goddess, and Stephanie Leet
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January 6-7 | Ama, the Diver | Katiana Rangel, Jim Fletcher, Lori Goldston
Directed and performed by NYC theater artists Katiana Gonçales Rangel and Jim Fletcher, with original live music by cellist Lori Goldston, “Ama, the Diver” is an adaption of a Noh play.
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Imposter/switch new co-curator
Imposter/switch is delighted to announce that liz HOWLS (puppetry) will be joining Marissa Rae Niederhauser (dance, video, performance art) as co-curator. Stay tuned for the next Imposter/switch coming Saturday, January 13, 2024 8pm at Performance Works Northwest.
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Alembic Parent Residencies 2024: Deadline January 15
PWNW || LAD invites one local and one visiting parent artist whose work engages a strong movement, body or dance-based component, to apply for one of our 2024 Alembic Parent Residencies providing studio time and financial support. DEADLINE Jan. 15, 2024
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High Water || Thursday Night Improvisation Series at Building 5
AUXART has invited dance and music artists (including PWNW’s Linda Austin & Stephanie Lavon Trotter) to be in response and conversation with AUXART’s installation, High Water. High Water will deepen AUXART’s exploration of themes related to the resiliency and meditative recovery of humans collectively from unanticipated catastrophic events like floods, quakes and fire through focus, organization…
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10/5-8 || Coming Up for Air
“Coming Up for Air” by playwright Nancy Wilson, is a non-linear exploration following one woman’s search for a diagnosis about her mental health challenges set over the time-period of 40 years. Talented local artists Claire E. Aldridge, Alyson Ayn Osborn and Ariel Puls portray the central character at ages 20, 40, and 60 years old.
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Imposter/switch Co-Curator Call
Imposter/switch seeks a new co-curator! Join Marissa Rae Niederhauser in co-curating the quarterly performance series Imposter/Switch at Performance Works NW! Help bring lively and supportive low stakes art making, community building togetherness and interdisciplinary wildness back to post pandemic Portland. Split admin and organizing duties with Marissa and recruit 3 of the 6 artists performing…
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8/24 || Kaitlin McCarthy
Please join Kaitlin and PWNW for a free showing of work being developed during Kaitlin’s residency at PWNW as this year’s visiting Alembic Parent Artist.
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8/9 || Maccabee/Mitas/Trotter
Join us at Performance Works NW for an evening of song experiments by composers Dina Maccabee, Jacob Mitas and stephanie lavon trotter.
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9/14-24 || 3 miles of possible || Linda Austin
3 miles of possible is a long-form performance by PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin that wanders among the poetic and practical associations of “the possible” in a world of fluctuating personal, material, political and artistic contingencies. In this work, Linda animates and wanders along a series of spatial paths totaling 3 miles, envisioned as giant drawings,…
Performance Works NW ||Linda Austin Dance 