Dance review: Deep dives into the NEW
After six months in residence at New Expressive Works, dancemakers Sean Hoskins, Jessica Post, Jaime Belden, Katherine Longstreth, and Jordan Isadore perform the works they created.
Dance Review: Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater’s ‘Rites of Passage’
Exploring life’s transitions and one’s quest for self-actualization through an Afrocentric lens, new and re-staged works by Oluyinka Akinjiola, Derrel Sekou Walker and others find fellowship along the way.
Dance Review: NW Dance Project’s ‘New Stories – In Good Company’
The Portland dance company continues their 20th anniversary season with a winter showcase of new works by five Portland-based women choreographers, including Carla Mann and Andrea Parson.
Review: Bringing Dance to the Table: The Potluck of Union PDX’s Festival:22
Fourth annual festival draws dance artists from around the world together for masterclasses, workshops, and to share their work.
Solo Trips: Graham Cole’s dances beyond isolation
The native Portland choreographer returned to his home town as the pandemic hit. He's emerged with a fresh vision and three new works at A-WOL.
Dance review: A Union PDX festival to match the season
It all begins with an idea.push/FOLD's festival drew national and international contemporary-dance ideas from Brooklyn to New Jersey to Portland to L.A. to the Dominican Republic and Taiwan.
TBA Fest: ‘Move You: Intervention’
A dance form born in majorette lines and adopted by queer dance clubs hits the streets in Portland's Boise neighborhood.
Samuel Hobbs’ push/FOLD dance company prepares for a Mexico City festival
push/FOLD gets back to performing with a rethinking of a recent dance, "Early," for a Mexico City festival.
For houseless women, a fresh Momentum
Dance workshops aid houseless women, children and nonbinary people at the Rose Haven shelter.
Shaun Keylock Company: Dancing the past into the future
A dance troupe navigates Covid-19 shutdowns in a new studio and looks to Portland’s modern dance elders for direction.
Pandemic Ed: Dancing remotely and well
With studio dance classes on hold for the pandemic, dance teachers and their students have begun to adapt to the new reality: Zoom dance classes. It's working.
How Portland’s big dance organizations responded to Black Lives Matter
After some online tension from the dance community, Portland's Big Four dance companies agreed to change in response to Black Lives Matter.
The Show Must Go On(line)!
COVID-19 and Portland dance: spaces close, shows are delayed, classes shift online, financial crises loom.
Declassified Memory Fragment: A Victorious Outpour of the Soul Amidst Tension in Burkina Faso
A country in the throes of ongoing military coups since 1966, a band lacing together traditional ancestral music with jazz, blues, and reggae, and a man with a dance to share. This past weekend, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project—dually based in Philadelphia and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso—stopped by the FringeArts Theatre during the company’s five city US tour for three outstanding shows.