Shows } Performances - 2008
NWPDP 2008 SUMMER PERFORMANCES
The PC at PCPA
Friday / July 11 + Saturday / July 12 / 8PM
Newmark Theatre / Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main Street), Portland, OR
Tickets / $28 / $32 JUST A FEW 'BEST SEATS' LEFT!!! BUY TICKETS
GOOD TICKETS still available at the PCPA box office (1111 SW Broadway, 10 am - 5 pm, Monday - Saturday / 503.248.4335) and Ticketmaster 503-790-ARTS (503-790-2787) - service fees apply.
Returning NWPDP dancers, The PC, perform exhilarating dance works created especially for NWPDP by today's leading choreographers. Come see the best of NWPDP as well as four amazing world premieres!
The program includes:
- World premiere from Portland's own founding Artistic Director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, and newly appointed Artistic Director of Nevada Ballet Theatre, James Canfield.
- World premiere from Aszure Barton. Dance Magazine's cover story in April 2008, noted, "With Baryshnikov a fan, and a wealth of new commissions, Aszure Barton is a choreographer to watch."
- World premiere from Alejandro Cerrudo, a Madrid-born rising choreographer, formerly with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 who is currently working as a dancer and choreographer with the remarkable Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
- The beautiful, dramatic duet, The Nuisance of Being, by NWPDP's Artistic Director, Sarah Slipper, created for the 2007 Project.
- World premiere from Lucas Crandall, Associate Artistic Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, whose work has been described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "enchanted and enchanting ... delicacy, clarity and mystery throughout."
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NWPDP's Fifth Annual SHOWING BY DANCE MAKERS
Friday / August 15 + Saturday / August 16 / 2008 / 8PM
Lincoln Hall / School of Fine & Performing Arts / PSU
1620 SW Park Avenue (at Market Street), Portland, OR
Tickets / $25 advance reserved seating / $28 door BUY TICKETS
Tickets also available at PSU box office (inside Smith Hall - $2 fee per ticket) and Ticketmaster (service fees apply).
Our annual performances showcasing our all world premiere program by six extraordinary choreographers. Come experience an evening of innovative, beautiful and thought provoking dance.
NWPDP provides our choreographers the chance to create new works without constraints, restrictions or expectations - an increasing rare working opportunity in the field. All our choreographers come together for two weeks of intense creation and collaborate with our talented 2008 Project dancers, culminating in our incredible Showing By Dance Makers.
This year's esteemed choreographers include:
- A world premiere by beloved choreographer and living dance legend, Donald McKayle, named "One of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures."
- Mark Godden - An acclaimed international choreographer noted for his spectacular full-length "Dracula" and "The Magic Flute" ballets set on leading companies around the world.
- Jamey Hampton - Portland's own adventurous choreographer and Co-Artistic Director of BodyVox.
- Edgar Zendejas - Artistic Director of ezDanza, Associate Choreographer of Les Ballets de Montreal and an artist on the rise.
- Cayetano Soto - Spanish born choreographer, currently working with Ballet Theater Munich whose recent work for the Royal Ballet of Flanders won the Hapag Lloyd prize. Cayetano arrives fresh on the heels of a new creation for the prestigious Stuttgart Ballet.
- Thaddeus Davis - Artistic Director of Wideman Davis Dance in New York and a choreographer who has created numerous works for major companies across the US.
Performances will be followed by a talk-back question-and-answer session with the choreographers.
Our annual Showing By Dance Makers has ushered in the premieres of 27 dance works in its previous four years and our sold-out performances have been called "the dance event of the summer."
Early ticket purchase is recommended.
(subject to change)
Information: 503.828.8285 or boxoffice@nwpdp.com
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FREE PERFORMANCES
Arts on Main Street
July 9 and July 23, 2008 / 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM / Main Street between Broadway and Park Ave.
NWPDP will kick off PCPA's weekly free open-air summer arts performances. The street will be blocked off between PCPA and "The Schnitz" so that our PC dancers can perform new works from James Canfield, Sarah Slipper, Mary Oslund, Gregg Bielemeier, Lane Hunter and Jonathan Sadony. Duck out of work to get some sun, fresh veggies at the Farmer's Market and enjoy some great dance!
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LIVE DANCE LIVE ART LIVE - A Benefit For Dance Moves
Friday / June 13 / 7PM
Lawrence Gallery
903 NW Davis Street (in Portland's Pearl District)
DONE! - THANKS TO ALL WHO MADE IT A GREAT EVENT!!!
Join us for a festive, unique collaboration of dance, music and art. Lawrence Gallery artist Mona Cordell will create "dance gestures" onsite, using NWPDP dancers in live performance as the subject of her drawings. Dancers will perform choreography created specifically for this event by our guest choreographers:
James Canfield
Sarah Slipper
Mary Oslund
Gregg Bielemeier
Lane Hunter
Jonathan Sadony
All original artwork that you see created will be available for purchase.
Special musical guest / Portland jazz piano great Randy Porter.
Proceeds support Dance Moves, NWPDP's community outreach program introducing dance to underserved and challenged young people in our community.
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A Taste of Portland Dance
June 21, 2008 / 5PM / Imago Theatre / 17 SE 8th Ave. - DONE AND A LOT OF FUN
NWPDP's PC dancers helped celebrate the 40th anniversary of Portland's great community radio station, KBOO, not to mention the official arrival of summer, by joining Agnieszka Laska Dancers, Polaris Dance Theatre, Minh Tran & Company, Rumpus Room Dance and Dancing People Company for a celebration of Portland dance.