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Fertile Ground Festival AT PWNW
PWNW is happy to host 2 staged readings as part of Fertile Ground: A City-Wide Festival of New Works. Damaris Webb-Rich Rubin in association with PassinArt present Cottonwood in the Flood By Rich Rubin Directed by Damaris Webb Jan 22, 23 @ 7:30pm; Jan 24 @ 2:30pm Tickets: $5 at the door Manage your pass at…
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Bringing Light for 15 Years!
Happy Solstice! Celebrate the return of the light by lighting our way into the next 15 years! https://pwnw-pdx.org/support/ Dear PWNW family, 15 YEARS OLD! With awe and gratitude, we at Performance Works NorthWest || Linda Austin Dance cherish the moments of inspiration, awkwardness, hilarity, confusion, illumination, frustration, relief, doggedness, and joy that have infused rehearsals, workshops, parties and performances since we opened…
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2015 Alembic Resident Artists
Meet our 2015 Alembic Resident Artists: Nancy Ellis, Dora Gaskill and Stephanie Trotter! Thanks to our 2015 Panel: Luke Gutgsell, Mizu Desierto, Julie Hammond and Danielle Ross Nancy Ellis began dancing professionally in 1994, when she joined the musical theater chorus of the St. Louis Muny Opera and became a member of Gash Voigt Dance…
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DANCE/PLAY/MOVE in 2015!
Photos by Nateesh Podolske DANCE/PLAY/MOVE in 2015! Jan. 10 – Feb. 21 || Saturdays 12:30-1:30 NO CLASS JAN. 24 CLASS JAN. 31 is 1/2 hour earlier: 12-1:00 Performance Works NorthWest || 4625 SE 67th Ave. $25-$50 sliding scale for the 6-class series Ages: 7-11 (flexible) REGISTER: info@pwnw-pdx.org or 503-777-1907 Dance/Play/Move is a creative movement dance…
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2015 Visiting Alembic Artist Meg Wolfe
PWNW is happy to welcome LA-based choreographer Meg Wolfe for a residency February 9-March 9, 2015 as she continues developing her current project, New Faithful DIsco. ABOUT NEW FAITHFUL DISCO In New Faithful Disco, a dance work by Los Angeles choreographer Meg Wolfe, belief is made manifest as energy. A trio of dancers—taisha paggett, Rae…
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Nov. 14 & 15 || Cabaret Boris & Natasha
Cabaret Boris & Natasha returns with a assemblage of unruly, unconventional entertainment, salon-style, by some of Portland’s most inventive performing artists. Featuring a reprise of “Hummingbird,” PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin‘s new solo, warmly received at Northwest New Works in Seattle earlier this year, the Cabaret also presents a duet with Jen Hackworth by promising…
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2015 Alembic Residency: Call for proposals
photos of 2014 Alembic Artists by Chelsea Petrakis Request for Proposals 2015 Alembic Resident Artist Program Deadline Dec. 5, 2014 Alembic = apparatus used in alchemy or distilling. The word “alembic” is also used metaphorically for anything that refines or transmutes, as if by distillation (as in “the alembic of creative thought”). PWNW || LAD is proud…
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Oct. 23-26 || The Word Hand || Austin, Boas & Hutchins
Performance Works NW || Alembic Co-Production Series presents The Word Hand Created and performed by Linda Austin, Pat Boas and Linda Hutchins Performances: October 23-25, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm Drawings on view: October 24-26, Friday-Sunday 2-5pm (free) Performance Works NW * 4625 SE 67th Ave Tickets: $10-$25 at the door or in advance HERE Dancer Linda Austin…
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Linda Austin awarded RACC Performing Arts Fellowship
The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) has selected two performing artists to receive this year’s fellowship awards: Linda Austin and Anita Menon. RACC’s fellowship program is designed to help local artists of high merit sustain or enhance their creative process, and each fellowship includes a cash award of $20,000. Linda Austin, co-founder & director of Performance Works Northwest in Portland,…
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Sept. 26-28 || Alchemy :: Alembic Artists Showcase + New Expressive Works = PDX A.I.R.
ALCHEMY + New Expressive Works = PDX A.I.R. The culminating performances by 7 artists-in-residence at 2 venues Performance Works NW presents ALCHEMY : : : : alembic artists showcase: Celebrating the inspired outcomes of months of studio practice by Portland-based Alembic Resident Artists Luke Gutgsell & Grace Hwang and a shorter but more intensive month by Visiting Artist Blake Beckham. Alchemy ::…
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