Tag: Sowelu

  • Linda Austin Dance has a new padlet

    Here is a collection of images, video and links related to Linda Austin Dance & Performance!

  • 7/1/13 || Todd Ayoung || WE: Only the Party Will Save the People

    7/1/13 || Todd Ayoung || WE: Only the Party Will Save the People

    Visiting artist Todd Ayoung will be in residence at PWNW June 22-July 3 to re-create his role in Linda Austin’s 1983 work  An Atrocity Exhibition in Two Parts. As part of his residency, Todd, along with Linda Austin, Melanie Lockert and Robert Tyree, will host WE: only the PARTY will save the PEOPLE, a potluck/discussion/ sticker-making…

  • 6/6-6/8 || NO EXIT || Christine Bonansea & Danielle Ross

    San Francisco Choreographer Christine Bonansea brings her thrilling, polished and dynamic work No Exit to Portland in support of Danielle Ross‘ latest work, Together We Fall. No Exit and excerpts of Ross’ latest collaboration with dancer Taka Yamamoto and composer Christi Denton will be performed. All proceeds go to the creation of Together We Fall.…

  • 5/12 || Feminist Pop-Up Festival presents “Charming Roulette”

    5/12 || Feminist Pop-Up Festival presents “Charming Roulette”

    Sunday May 12 at PWNW! –>more info here: facebook.com/FeministPopUpFestival

  • 6/27-6/30 || Reach 30 || Linda Austin at PWNW

    6/27-6/30 || Reach 30 || Linda Austin at PWNW

    REACH:30 Two works from Linda Austin marking 30 years of creating dance June 27-30, 2013, Thursday-Sunday at 8pm at Performance Works NW Performance Works NorthWest presents REACH:30, celebrating Linda Austin’s 30-year trajectory as a choreographer with two works that bracket her career thus far: a re/creation of Austin’s first-ever piece from 1983, An Atrocity Exhibition…

  • in order to get a job…

    A teaser. 30 years ago in July, 1983, Linda Austin was part of this weekend of performance by 6 fledgling performance-makers. June 27-30, 2013 she will perform a new version of the piece she made and performed then, “An Atrocity Exhibition in Two Parts.” There will also be a sneak preview of “Three Trick Pony”,…

  • Visiting Alembic Artist Project: Cacophony for 8 Players

    The first week in April PWNW will host Cacophony for 8 Players, our 2013 Visting Alembic Artist Project, for several days of rehearsal in our studio and a chance for the out-of-towners and the Portland-based Alembic Artists Lucy Yim and Emily Stone to share their work with each other. Stay tuned for a more public sharing of…

  • 3/7-3/24 Sowelu Theater Ensemble at PWNW

    Hard Times Come Again No More a play by Martha Boesing March 7-24, 2013 Lorraine Bahr and Jim Davis co-direct Sowelu Theater’s production of Martha Boesing’s Hard Times Come Again No More. The play is based on the 1930s stories, essays, characters of Meridel LeSueur, a prominent “proletarian” writer of the 30s, who was blacklisted…

  • Alembic Resident Artists 2013

    Alembic Resident Artists 2013

    We are happy to announce the inaugural artists in the Alembic Resident Artists Program: Emily Stone & Lucy Yim. EMILY STONE I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work integrates contemporary dance, devised theater, and visual installation. I use body-based research to create layered performances about an underlying question or idea, often using non-traditional spaces and…

  • Happy Solstice

    As we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new (light, year, Mayan era), we thank all who have made the past 13 years so adventurous and nourishing to PWNW and the artists we support. Now, with the stability provided by the recent and generous award of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grant, your…