UGGGHNNNHHH!! Why are you STUPID babies so fucking stupid?!? We give you one thing to do… ONE THING! And you fuck it up. Just stand there, look adorable in your stupid fucking tutus, and dance. And you can’t even do that righ… wait. OMG! The babies are fighting! YES! YES! YES! Beat the stupid out […]
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Tonight: The Cutting Room
David Krebs BodyVox goes intergalactic, and brings their exercise bands with them. BodyVox is trying something different. And, as usual, it’s joyful, clever, and pretty irresistible. Their new show, The Cutting Room, debuted last week; it takes the contemporary genre of dance-theater and stretches it into dance-cinema. The Cutting Room is a cinephile’s dream; it […]
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Uncaged Season Wraps Up: Get Your Cheap(er) Tickets, Here
Rounding out their exciting 2011/12 season tomorrow, dance organization White Bird offers you this: The hip-hop troupe Compagnie Käfig. Hailing from France and Brazil—their choreographer is based in Lyon, and its 10 young dancers from Rio de Janeiro—choreographer Mourad Merzouki will present two pieces, Agwa and Correria, for a mix of acrobatics, samba, electronic, and, […]
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The Lost Dance
Yesterday evening was the opening night of Oregon Ballet Theatre‘s Chromatic Quartet, a four-part program that featured the world premiere of visiting (from Montreal) choreographer Matjash Mrozewski’s The Lost Dance. As I’ve written about in this week’s paper, OBT enlisted Adam Arnold to costume the performance, making the ballet, in effect, the designer’s spring collection […]
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Win Box Tickets to Chromatic Quartet!
The Adam Arnold-costumed Oregon Ballet Theatre debut of Chromatic Quartet premiers on Thursday at the Newmark, and OBT is currently running a contest giveaway for two box seats to the opening night performance. You can do this: The contest asks you to answer three questions, the answers to which are “hidden” somewhere on the OBT […]
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Glimpses of Adam Arnold’s The Lost Dance Costumes
As previously mentioned, Adam Arnold‘s spring fashion show this year will take the form of the costumes he been designing for OBT’s premiere of choreographer Matjash Mrozewski’s The Lost Dance, one of four short pieces that make up Chromatic Quartet, which debuts on April 19 at the Newmark. Personally I’m really looking forward to seeing […]
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The Weekend in Dance
Linda Austin mid-dance in A head of time Last week Linda Austin premiered her hybrid dance/installation/performance piece A head of time, and it is proceeded this weekend with an incredible mishmash of shows, including, although not limited to: a maturely pregnant woman (Tahni Holt) dancing to music by the Decemberist’s bassist (Nate Query); a BodyVox […]
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Adam Arnold and Chromatic Quartet
Never one to let things get predictable for too long, Portland designer Adam Arnold‘s spring show this year will be, in effect, his collaboration with the Oregon Ballet Theater. The piece is a world premiere from Canadian choreographer Matjash Mrozewski called Chromatic Quartet, set to music by Owen Belton (who also created music for WhiteBird’s […]
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Kidd Pivot: Making Improv and Puppets Look Good
Ruby Washington When dolls attack It’s been a few days, but I still can’t get that malevolent cardboard puppet out of my head. Last weekend White Bird brought an insanely talented company called Kidd Pivot (and their marionette) to the Newmark Theater. The dance troupe, originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, are currently based in Germany, […]
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NW Dance Project: at the Olympics, at Newmark Theatre, and on Your Interwebs
Soon they’ll be headed to the London Olympics; in the meantime, the NWDP performed The Best of Now this past Friday and Saturday. It was three world premieres: one piece by their artistic director, Sarah Slipper, and two others by Patrick Delcroix and Wen Wei Wang. Never ones to disappoint, all the works were striking […]
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The Miracles Club Needs Dancers
Hey dancin’ machine, this could be your big break. The Miracles Club needs dancers for their video of “U&ME,” and you are invited. They’re making the video out of user submissions, so check out the beat and dust off your finest moves. You can get the lowdown on their Youtube or Soundcloud pages. Good luck, […]
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Gaiety and Tragedy in the Rhineland
Plus, OBT in 2012
Giselle (Haiyan Wu) and Albrecht (Chauncey Parsons): It’s all fun and games…’til the dead and vengeful virgins stop by Last Saturday OBT began their first show of 2012 with the iconic Giselle. Set in the Rhineland in the Middle Ages, the dancers, garbed as peasants, jeté and brise across the scene like balls whizzing inside […]