October dance performances are eclectic, starting from thought-provoking cultural dialogue to severe experimentation, campy, spooky Halloween enjoyable, and every thing between. October additionally says goodbye to White Bird co-founders Walter Jaffe and Paul King as they retire after 25 years and move the baton to govt director Graham Cole. You can celebrate their accomplishments and contributions to bounce with them on the Portland Art Museum on Oct. 4, simply earlier than White Bird’s season-opening efficiency by Pilobolus on the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, the place they are going to revive the White Bird Awards, which acknowledge distinctive dance artists and supporters.
If you wish to develop a deeper understanding of the weather of dance, choreography, and efficiency, Dance Wire and White Bird at the moment are providing a Dance Appreciation Course (Oct. 3-Nov. 7) taught by Eric Nordstrom, Portlan dance performer, instructor, and filmmaker. You’ll see two reside dance performances as a gaggle and meet 4 occasions at Dance Wire, a hub for dance info in Portland within the Old Moody Building at Zidell Yards. In the courses, you should have the possibility to speak about upcoming performances and different points of dance, corresponding to its historical past, gender portrayals, and situations of plagiarism and appropriation. The course additionally contains thought-provoking articles and dance movies that may assist information the discussions. For extra info and to register, click on above and revel in!
Lastly, please don’t let ticket costs dissuade you from seeing a efficiency. Many organizations provide reductions to teams, college students, seniors, working artists, and recipients of the Oregon Trail Card or SNAP advantages. Thanks to the Regional Arts & Culture Council (which is at present on the chopping block by the City of Portland), anybody who receives meals stamps via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and has the Oregon Trail Card should purchase $5 tickets to many performances via the Arts for All program. See you within the theater!
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- Choreographed by Meshi Chavez with a sound rating by Lisa DeGrace
- Sept. 28-Oct. 1
- New Expressive Works, 810 SE Belmont, Studio 2, Portland
- [In the WYSE Building. Use building doors located on the South side of the building.]
- Timed entrance for every night – 7:00 pm, 7:30 pm, 8:00 pm, and eight:30 pm (Max 8 folks per session)
- To reserve and buy tickets, please e-mail [email protected] with the date, time slot most well-liked, variety of tickets requested, and ticket worth desire. You will obtain fee particulars and affirmation.
“Look Beyond” is a dance efficiency that invitations individuals to develop into the dancers themselves. By transferring in the dead of night, individuals discover the interconnected and slippery nature of dance. The efficiency bridges the hole between analysis and efficiency, working to uncover the hidden actions that join dance and the lived experiences of dancers. This occasion relies on viewers participation, and everybody current is concerned within the activation of the occasion.
“Look Beyond” takes place almost solely in the dead of night, so individuals will want to have the ability to navigate via an unlit area in and round others. If you’re involved about your means to take part, please contact Subashini Ganesan-Forbes at [email protected] to debate.
Chavez believes fostering creativity, deepening curiosity, and embracing the unknown are very important to dwelling a creative life. An artist in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont, he has taught and offered work nationally and internationally and is co-founder of Momentum Conscious Movement, based mostly in Portland, the place he has created motion training programming for greater than 20 years.
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- Presented by White Bird
- 5-7 p.m. Oct. 4
- Portland Art Museum, The Fields Sunken Ballroom, 1119 SW Park Avenue, Portland
Co-hosted by entertainers Dale Johannes and Poison Waters on the Portland Art Museum’s Fields Sunken Ballroom, this ticketed occasion will function a tribute to the White Bird co-founders Walter Jaffe and Paul King as they retire after 25 years and move the baton to govt director Graham Cole. The fête may also function the return of the White Bird Awards, which acknowledge distinctive dance artists and supporters.
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- Presented by White Bird
- 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4
- Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland
Formed in 1971 by athletes and dancers from New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College, Pilobolus – named for a fungus that may shoot off its prime quicker than a dashing bullet – returns to Portland with a dynamic collection of its most iconic items from the previous and current, together with “On The Nature of Things,” “Behind the Shadows,” and the corporate’s latest work: “Sweet Purgatory.” Pilobolus’s choreography is a various mixture of comedian, otherworldly, and weird actions. Sometimes the actions are swish and fluid. At different occasions, they’re extra athletic and highly effective. The choreography typically defies logic and gravity, and typically it contorts the human type in ways in which appear inconceivable. It is consistently evolving and shocking, by no means failing to amaze and delight audiences.
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- Presented by NW Dance Project
- Oct. 6-7
- Newmark Theater, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland
To commemorate its twentieth anniversary and the creation of greater than 350 works, the night will function new up to date dance items from founding Artistic Director Sarah Slipper, the latest creation from famend worldwide choreographer Bryan Arias, and multi-disciplinary French/Canadian artist Serge Bennathan.
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- Oregon Ballet Theater, creative director Dani Rowe
- Featuring the OBT Orchestra led by Guest Conductor Enrique Carreón-Robledo
- Oct. 6-14
- Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay Street, Portland
A cursed princess seeks redemption within the arms of a loving prince. A kaleidoscope of swans dance to music that makes the guts soar. An evil villain ruins a once-in-a-lifetime romance. This just isn’t your typical classical ballet: It’s Christopher Stowell’s extremely acclaimed adaptation of Swan Lake (after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performed reside by the OBT orchestra.
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Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance
- 7 p.m. Oct. 7
- Hult Center, One Eugene Center, Eugene
Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance
- Presented by Portland’5
- 7 pm Oct. 8
- Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway, Portland
If you’re a fan of Dancing with the Stars champion Derek Hough, that is your likelihood to see him in individual, reside! Hough is an American skilled Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, Emmy Award winner, and New York Times bestselling creator. The fast-paced reside present will function a medley of dance kinds and a reside band offering the pumping, heart-pounding soundtrack.
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- Presented by White Bird
- Oct. 12-14
- Newmark Theater, 1111 S.W. Broadway, Portland
Camille A. Brown & Dancers presents “Ink,” the third a part of creative director Brown’s trilogy on race, tradition, and identification, inspecting Black life that’s typically appropriated, rewritten, or silenced. “Ink” celebrates the rituals, gestural vocabulary, and traditions that stay ingrained inside the lineage of the African diaspora.
The present’s reside music, developed in collaboration with Music Director Allison Miller, percussionist Wilson Torres, violinist Juliette Jones, and composer/pianist Scott Patterson, makes use of the rhythms and sounds of conventional African and handmade devices as its heart. The work travels via time with components of blues, hip hop, jazz, and swing.
Camille A. Brown & Dancers was based in 2006 by four-time Princess Grace and Bessie Award-winning choreographer Camille A. Brown. It is a New York City-based dance firm advancing the creative imaginative and prescient of its founder that makes use of theatricality and the aesthetics of recent dance, hip-hop, African dance, ballet, and faucet to inform tales that join historical past with up to date tradition. It is strongly character-based and expresses every subject by building from small moments, modeling a cinematic sensibility. To inject every efficiency with power and urgency, Brown makes use of theater, poetry, visible artwork, and music of all genres as instruments.
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- Presented by Eugene Ballet, creative director Toni Pimble
- Oct. 27-29
- Hult Center, One Eugene Center, Eugene
In this darkish and fantastical retelling with a up to date twist of the traditional hero’s quest by Hans Christian Anderson, childhood buddies Gerda and Kay are separated when Kay turns into blinded to the goodness on the earth by shards of glass from a frozen mirror created by evil. This story of affection and friendship triumphing over evil is advised via elaborate costumes, units, projections, puppetry, and a commissioned rating by Portland composer Kenji Bunch.
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Nevermore: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
- Presented by Ballet Fantastique, creative director Donna Marisa Bontrager
- Oct. 19-22
- Hult Center, One Eugene Center, Eugene
Immerse your self within the haunting literary works of Edgar Allan Poe via a theatrical manufacturing by Ballet Fantastique. The Hult Center in Eugene can be remodeled right into a haunted home as you journey via Poe’s most iconic works, together with “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “Cask of Amontillado,” and “Fall of the House of Usher.” The nationally acknowledged Poe specialist-impersonator Alastair Morley Jaques will information you thru every story and poem with chosen excerpts from Poe’s texts. The manufacturing blends new ballet choreography for BFan’s worldwide artists with acrobats, actors, and a spine-tingling reside musical accompaniment carried out by Liz Dorman, Sergei Teleshev, and Dale Bradley that features eerie sound results corresponding to howling wind, hushed whispers, creaking doorways, and lightning strikes designed to scare you to loss of life!
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- Presented by Espacio Flamenco
- 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25
- Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., Portland
Lo Preciso (Spanish for “Exactness”) is a brand new up to date flamenco work by Spanish dancer and choreographer Rafael Ramírez. Ramírez, who has carried out with famend luminaries and on levels worldwide, is from Málaga, Spain, and have become knowledgeable dancer on the age of 11 beneath the tutelage of masters corresponding to “La Lupi,” Rafael Campallo, Oscar de los Reyes, and Javier Barón. His intense solo dance is accompanied by 4 musicians in a dueling quest for creative precision, and is an ecstatic call-and-response supply of the masculine prowess of the style.
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Portland Dance Film Festival (PDFF)
- Oct. 19-21
- Dekum Street Theater, 814 N.E. Dekum St.
- Workshop: Choreography for the Camera with Kailee McMurran-10 a.m.-noon Oct. 21
- Masterclass with Nadav Heyman, Fundamentals of Dance Filmmaking. 1-4 p.m. Oct. 21
Screendance is a strong medium for storytelling that transports viewers to locations they might not usually be capable to go. It permits audiences to expertise the human physique in movement in new methods, bringing the viewer nearer to the dancer and creating intimacy and a shared kinesthetic expertise. Now in its eleventh 12 months, this dance-centric movie competition options 24 movies from eight international locations in three applications, masking the gamut of motion kinds and lived experiences.
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- Troupe Vertigo and the Oregon Symphony
- Oct. 21-22
- Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway, Portland
Cirque Noir, Troupe Vertigo, and the Oregon Symphony invite you to expertise the hidden world of the darkish circus. What is beneath can also be above. When darkness falls, Cirque Noir’s huge prime Caligula begins. Witness the proficient acrobats, dancers, and contortionists of Troupe Vertigo as they defy gravity and glide via the air to the sounds of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra.
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Fright Night-A Halloween Circus
- Presented by Night Flight Aerial and Circus Arts
- Oct. 20-29
- Portland State University, Lincoln Performance Hall, 1620 S.W. Park Ave.
In this spooky, R-rated Halloween spectacle, two video retailer clerks, Nick and Kyle, hope for a quiet Halloween night time however are thwarted when a mysterious guide reveals up with the rental returns, and all hell breaks free. The guide sends them careening via time and into a few of their favourite horror films, old and new. Battling possessed dolls swinging excessive above the viewers, contorting demi gorgons, and a blood-soaked promenade queen on aerial silks, Nick and Kyle should use their wits and horror film knowledge to make it again home alive.
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- Flynn Creek Circus
- Sept. 28- Oct. 1
- The Lot at Zidell Yards — Under the Big Top, 3030 S. Moody Ave., Portland
Under the large prime, down at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront district, you will discover the Flynn Creek Circus flying excessive in an all-human spectacle that options wild stunts, hilarious comedy, and mind-blowing expertise. The present is an acrobatic odyssey that follows a gaggle of nomads separated from their houses by a sudden sandstorm. The viewers will meet colourful characters alongside the best way, such because the Tourist, the Cacti, the Wanderer, and the Sand Spirit. This provocative story speaks to a thirst for fact in a dry land of “misguides.” Acrobats from Ukraine, Canada, and the United States will thrill audiences with this authentic, awe-inspiring visible curler coaster experience. For these , there may be additionally an outrageous, raucous, punk-rock “Adults Only” model of the present at restricted showtimes.
