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Happy Birthday, Jeff Forbes!
Jeff Forbes—PWNW Co-Founder & Technical Director, Lighting Designer for tons of dance artists & companies around town, and proud papa of Delaney & Delilah—is turning 60 on August 23rd! All Jeff wants for his birthday (ok, yeah, besides some birthday drinks and toasts) is for you to donate to PWNW.
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Aug. 25-Sept. 11 || Alembic Visiting Artist Margit Galanter
For her Alembic Residency, Margit will be expanding and explicating her work with her current project Cave Forms and will offer a chance for us experience this practice: Darkness, no creativity, togetherness, star-gazing, reciprocity, perceptual vibrancy, gathering, seeing and being scene, transducing, hermeticism, constellating, fecundity, channeling.
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July Events at PWNW
Drop-in classes with TransformOtion + a film showing by Antero Alli of Zero Lab Paratheatrical Research
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June 25 || Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past & Present
PWNW is excited to host this video project by Eric Nordstrom that begins to trace the multiple interconnecting trajectories of Portland dance of the past and present. What is the history of modern dance in Portland? How do today’s dancers stand on the shoulders of decades of Portland dancers and choreographers who established this community?…
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June 18-July 2 || Procedures for Saying No
PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin is thrilled to be working with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble in Procedures For Saying No, opening June 18 at Shaking the Tree Theatre. The show is a prequel (of sorts) for PETE’s Journey Play project, an examination of toil in the workplace, and what conditions might make a person choose the roaring chaos of…
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May 20-21 || The Holding Project
The Holding Project presents HAVA | חוה, an experimental evening-length debut of dance for film and live movement exploring the ideas of nostalgia, heritage, and human relationship. HAVA| חוה inspects the boundaries between emotional struggle and physical interaction through mediums of video and live dance in order to examine interwoven personal connections within a universal…
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Help us make our Miller Match!
New and increased donations will be matched by Miller up to $5000! Please help us make the Miller Match by giving what you can!
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2016 Alembic Resident Artists
Introducing PWNW 2016 Alembic Resident Artists: claire barrera, Katie Scherman & Noelle Stiles
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April 22-24 || A head of time (solo version)
Linda Austin offers an expanded version of a recent solo based on her 2012 ensemble work, A head of time, churning up movement, visuals, props, text and sound in a tragi-comic meditation on time and loss. April 22-24 at PWNW.
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March 13 | Dance Film Day at PWNW
Jamuna Chiarini is hosting a Dance Film Day at Performance Works NorthWest, sharing films screened at the 2015 Outlet Dance Project in New Jersey (including Waking the Green Sound by Wobbly Dance) as well as offering a discussion with local filmmakers. The event is FREE. SCHEDULE 3-4pm Q & A with Portland filmmakers, Karl Lind, Wobbly Dance, SubRosa…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 