Performance What awaits us when Oregon Ballet Theatre’s globally themed Grand Tour season stops in France? Only one of the country’s best known—and most heavily freighted—compositions: Rav ... More
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Grand Tour
Liberté, Egalité, Tour Jeté: OBT’s French accent
Performance What awaits us when Oregon Ballet Theatre’s globally themed Grand Tour season stops in France? Only one of the country’s best known—and most heavily freighted—compositions: Rav ... More
Josie Moseley Dance
Moseley takes a chance and lets the pieces fall where they may.
Performance The love-hate divide over Julie Taymor’s new musical Across the Universe —which builds a hippie-era narrative from bits of Beatles’ tunes—illustrates the inherent dilemma of us ... More
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Hip-hop for the mind—and body.
Performance Hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris apparently dislikes interviews—dislikes them enough, in fact, to suggest doing one at 4 am before vanishing into a phone and email void, never to be heard fro ... More
Let’s Get This Party Started
News Tahni Holt would like to invite you to a small, unusual party.
Unusual because you'll be performing at it. Holt, founder of the contemporary dance group Monster Squad, is So... More
Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
O Canada! Compagnie debuts dance from the Great White North.
Performance Is there a Canadian dance aesthetic? I put the question to Laurence Lemieux, co-founder (with her husband, Bill Coleman) of Montreal-based Coleman Lemieux&Compagnie, which makes its Portland debut Wed ... More
Linda Austin/Performance Works NorthWest
Invitation to an urban circus
Performance How often have you seen, from the window of a moving bus, some silent interaction between people that begged for a back story? The Linda Austin/Performance Works NorthWest show Circus Me Around works ... More
Forty zombies walk into a Portland bar....
News Everyone has a "Thriller" memory, and mine is painfully New Wave: around 1984, my ballet-school partner and I broke curfew to see the video's midnight debut at Portland's old Metro dance club. Our high-school troupe was dancing it, and seeing it stomp across the big screen totally, totally made up for ... More
Oregon Ballet Theatre The Germanic Lands
A dreamy opening for Oregon Ballet Theatre’s yearlong Grand Tour.
Performance Ballet titans George Balanchine and Sir Frederick Ashton both famously adapted Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream : Balanchine in 1962 for New York City Ballet (casting himself ... More
Paul Taylor Dance Company, Wednesday, Oct. 3
White Bird marks a milestone with the company that started it all.
Performance It’s improbable that local dance presenter White Bird exists at all, never mind existing for 10 years. Founders Paul King and Walter Jaffe could have stayed in New York, where they first fell fo ... More
TBA DIARY: Zoe Scofield
News 8:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 16
Lincoln Hall, Portland State University
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey, The devil you know is better than the devil you don't
This is TBA's last stage show, and what fest head Mark Russell calls ... More
Top Articles from HEATHER WISNER
Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. The Stravinsky Project (Oregon Ballet Theatre)
The Russian composer gets a contemporary movement update. OBT Exposed (Oregon Ballet Theatre)
Lunch in the sun with a side of toe shoes. Northwest Dance Project
A Portland dance company snags a Frenchie debut. In Good Company (Northwest Dance Project)
A premise designed to make you feel old. Galaxy Dance Festival
A park full of arts nuggets. Groovin’ Greenhouse
A primer to Portland’s unheralded dance scene. Bad Boys Of Dance (White Bird Dance)
In this boy band, Rasta is the dangerous one. BloodyVox (BodyVox)
Things that go jump in the night. Make/Believe (Teeth)
Ten million channels and nothing but noise.
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. The Stravinsky Project (Oregon Ballet Theatre)
The Russian composer gets a contemporary movement update. OBT Exposed (Oregon Ballet Theatre)
Lunch in the sun with a side of toe shoes. Northwest Dance Project
A Portland dance company snags a Frenchie debut. In Good Company (Northwest Dance Project)
A premise designed to make you feel old. Galaxy Dance Festival
A park full of arts nuggets. Groovin’ Greenhouse
A primer to Portland’s unheralded dance scene. Bad Boys Of Dance (White Bird Dance)
In this boy band, Rasta is the dangerous one. BloodyVox (BodyVox)
Things that go jump in the night. Make/Believe (Teeth)
Ten million channels and nothing but noise.
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