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  • Feb 19-Apr 16 || Spring Fieldwork with Sadie Leigh

    Feb 19-Apr 16 || Spring Fieldwork with Sadie Leigh

    8 week session, Wednesdays Feb 19-Apr 16, 7:15-9:15pm –>NOTE: *NO SESSION* on March 19 or 26.Sliding scale, suggested range of $105 – $175, no one turned away for lack of funds, payment plans availableTo register, email sadieleighdance@gmail.com Fieldwork is a framework for artists of any and every discipline to play, experiment, fail, collaborate, and most importantly, give…

  • Alembic Parent Residencies 2025: Deadline extended: Jan 25

    Alembic Parent Residencies 2025: Deadline extended: Jan 25

    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 2025 Alembic Parent Residencies providing studio time and financial support. DEADLINE Jan. 20. 2024

  • 2025 | Winter Events

    2025 | Winter Events

    Performance and workshop by visiting artists and a premiere by PWNW’s Artistic Director Linda Austin.

  • Jan 18-19 || Faking it With Gravity || a workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson

    Jan 18-19 || Faking it With Gravity || a workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson

    Faking it With Gravity creates a space of inquiry to study and research Contact Improvisation* (CI), including Tuning Scores* and Material for the Spine* (MFS.) In CI we dance with gravity. That sensation, our first handshake-touch with the earth, dances us through its field for our whole lifetime. “small dance,” the quiet inner sensation of our…

  • Jan 17 || SMALLER || Nica Portavia, Karen Nelson, Evan Strauss

    Jan 17 || SMALLER || Nica Portavia, Karen Nelson, Evan Strauss

    Visiting artists Karen (Chuki) Nelson and Nica Portavia, with musician Evan Strauss, perform SMALLER. A small touch carries the vibration dance of inside life and inside music. We give dance where a tangible touch can equal an intangible result. And invisible communications touch and clarify, confuse, and discover the already there.

  • Oct 19-Nov 23 | Fall Fieldwork with Jen Mitas & Katherine Longstreth

    Oct 19-Nov 23 | Fall Fieldwork with Jen Mitas & Katherine Longstreth

    Join experience Fieldwork facilitators Jen Mitas and Katherine Longstreth for Fall Fieldwork at PWNW. Learn about your work, develop your feedback skills, and build creative community. Fieldwork feedback is supportive, honest and non-directorial. ALL DISCIPLINES WELCOME!

  • Sept-Nov | Awareness Through Movement® | dee bustos

    Sept-Nov | Awareness Through Movement® | dee bustos

    dee bustos is offering three free Awareness Through Movement® lessons this fall at PWWNW that will explore some classic Feldenkrais® sequences/ Awareness Through Movement® lessons guide students through gentle, mindful movement sequences that cultivate awareness of habitual movement patterns and create new pathways for easeful, functional movements for everyday living.

  • 2024 | Fall Events

    2024 | Fall Events

    music and performance art events,, a vocal workshop, a festival, and more!

  • Introducing the 2024-25 Alembic Residency Cohort

    Introducing the 2024-25 Alembic Residency Cohort

    It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new cohort of Alembic Resident Artists and this year is no exception. Before introducing the artists, we want thank this year’s dedicated panelists: claire barrera, K.T. Kusmaul and Tere Mathern. As we had a larger pool of very deserving applicants this year, the panelist’s job was especially difficult,…

  • Sept 22 | PASTfuture | Linda K. Johnson in Conversation with Joan Findlay

    Sept 22 | PASTfuture | Linda K. Johnson in Conversation with Joan Findlay

    Linda K. Johnson interviews Joan Findlay as part of the PASTfuture series of conversations during TBA:2024, creating an inclusive, nonhierarchical oral record of the stories of artists in the Portland community who have committed their live’s work to the field of dance.