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Aug 18-29 || The Last Five Years
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: The inaugural production of Colorful Collective! This unorthodox and touching modern musical chronicles the five-year-long relationship between Jamie and Cathy, two twenty-somethings in New York City, from meeting to breakup and from breakup to meeting. Jamie moves forward in time while Cathy tells her story in reverse.
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Aug. 3-5 || Guenevere of States
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: “Guenevere of States” is a NU-DADA pseudo-Shakespeare play about a fictional queen and her struggles in the shadow of her predecessor. Written and directed by Jake Gonnella.
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June 30-July 1 || Andrea Kleine + Linda Austin @ CMG Improvisation Summit
PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin joins the multifaceted writer/artist/wayward dancer Andrea Kleine in two works at the upcoming edition of the Creative Music Guild (CMG) Improvisation Summit of Portland (ISP). Friday, June 30, 2017. 7pm Andrea Kleine & Linda Austin w/ Fabian Rucker & Mike Gamble Saturday, July 1, 2017. 8:15pm Andrea Kleine: “Ships” w/ dancers…
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July 17-19 || Bob Eisen Open Workshop
Visiting artist Bob Eisen, after performing in Rantum Scoot, July 14 & 15, offers interested dancers a chance to join him in his studio process in our air-conditioned studio! Through the use of various improvisational structures and choreographic tools, these three days of open workshops will deal with aspects of performing and creating work. Open…
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July 14-15 || Rantum Scoot
Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by a visit to Portland by the peripatetic and amazing Bob Eisen, PWNW puts together a mid-summer dance outing comprising three solos by veterans Eisen, Gregg Bielemeier, and PWNW director Linda Austin, plus a duet by the Leah Wilmoth and Sada Naegelin.
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June 8-18 || Good with People
Our Shoes Are Red / The Performance Lab Presents David Harrower’s Good With People Two strangers attempt to overcome a divisive event from their past. All that stands in their way are their upbringings, their outlooks, their long-harbored conclusions and their conflicting versions of what exactly happened. Directed by and featuring Devon Allen and Matt…
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June Performances || Linda Austin Dance
Linda Austin Dance is performing in two June Festivals, sharing a work-in-progress excerpt of her current project, “a world, a world.” In this excerpt, five dancers channel and splice moments of heterogeneous movement and text in a performative interrogation of a world saturated with image and language. They dance, hum, mutter, and mumble; deploy sandbags,…
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May 12-14 || Bardoville
ParaTheatrical ReSearch presents BARDOVILLE. A place between places, the old world collapsing behind us, the new world nowhere in sight, a drunken poet bangs out a torrent of poems unleashing spirits, demons, angels of the era. Fri/Sat/Sunday May 12, 13, & 14. 8pm sharp (doors open 7:45pm) Performance Works NW * 4625 SE 67th Ave.…
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May 5 || Alice Gosti showing & reception
Seattle artist Alice Gosti, who shared her work Protecting the Herd with us in December 2015, returns to PWNW for a 9-day residency to work on her newest project, Material Deviance In Contemporary American Culture (MDICAC). We are extremely pleased that Alice will be offering a glimpse into her work on May 5 with an informal showing, talk and reception here at…
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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,…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 