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Portland Dance Weekend: Festival City

By Jamuna Chiarini
July 9, 2015
Dance, News & Notes

You will need a weekend to recover from your weekend and someone to schedule your itinerary if you plan to see everything that’s being offered. I wish I could lay out statistics on how many pieces and how many performers were performing this weekend, but I really can’t, I’ll just say it’s a lot. So get a babysitter and get going.

Dance + looks pretty good. I got a sneak peak the other night and Barry Johnson did too, and he wrote about it. The Reed theater is beautiful and the dances are fresh. Actually, almost all of the work being performed this weekend is new work. Wouldn’t you like to say you were there when so and so artist did that amazing thing? Yes, is the answer. See you there.

Conduit Dance + Festival
July 8-11
Reed College, Performing Arts Building, Massee Performance Lab, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Conduit Dance Inc. presents its 4th Annual DANCE+ Performance Festival. They may be without a building to call their own at the moment, but they have found other accommodations. Dance+ is a four-day festival with performances, workshops and artists’ talks. Each evening includes two performances with two different groups of dancers, program A and B, with site-specific performances by POV in the Atrium in between performances at 8:45pm.

Program A artists: Takahiro Yamamoto and CHOIR/Jesse Mejía, Portland; Catherine Egan, Jenny Ampersand, Lisa DeGrace, Stephen A. Miller, Portland; Anya Cloud and Eric Geiger, San Diego.

Program B artists: Heather Stewart and Marc Bartissol, Toronto; Samuel Hobbs push/FOLD, Portland; Eliza Larson, Portland; Lauren Edson and Andrew Stensaas, Boise.

POV has a site-specific dance in this year's Dance+ Festival.

POV has a site-specific dance in this year’s Dance+ Festival..

(Un)Made Solo Relay Leg #5: Jen Hackworth & Tahni Holt
July 10-11
Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave.
(Un)Made, a solo relay performance series, conceived and originally performed by Linda Austin, has tracked six performers (After Austin) as they perfectly and imperfectly learn from each other and perform what they think they saw. This weekend is the last of the solo performances—Jen Hackwork and Tahni Holt will dance. Up next in August will be the “Dream Team” of Claire Barrera, Danielle Ross, Noelle Stiles and Takahiro Yamamoto, who will be performing a reprise of this weekend. If you think you have a water tight memory, remembering what you saw from performance to performance and comparing that against what the performers saw is a fun brain twister.

Eowyn Emerald & Dancers are part of this weekend's Risk/Reward Festival.

Eowyn Emerald & Dancers are part of this weekend’s Risk/Reward Festival.

Risk/Reward
Festival of New Performance
July 10-19
Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St.
Featuring eight artists in two weekends, Risk/Reward is interested in blurring the boundaries between independent theater, music, dance, and performance art and encouraging creative risks, experimentation and bold investigation. Expect the unexpected.

Week one:  Markeith Wiley, dance, Seattle; Faith Helma, theater, Portland; Nancy Ellis, dance and theater, Portland;  Eowyn Emerald & Dancers, Portland .

Week two: Dani Tirrell, dance/Vogue, Seattle; Katie Piatt, improv comedy/performance art, Portland; Tim Smith-Stewart, theater, Seattle; Jessica Jobaris & General Magic, performance art/dance, Seattle.

Dancing With The Stars: Live!
Perfect Ten Tour
8 pm, July 10
Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St.
Following the 10th Anniversary Season of ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars, Dancing with the Stars: Live! is back on the road. Season 20 Dancing with the Stars champion Rumer Willis, will join the cast of all-star champions Melissa Rycroft, Witney Carson, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Artem Chigvintsev, Keo Motsepe, Pete Murgatroyd and Emma Slater for a rousing evening of competitive dance.

Ten Tiny Dances @ Beaverton
10 am, July 11
Farmers Market at City Park Beaverton, 12375 SW 5th St.Beaverton
Ten Tiny Dances, which is all about the creativity a dancer can bring to a 4 x4-foot stage, is celebrating its 7th year at the Farmers Market in Beaverton’s City Park. There are five stages scattered around town.

The stages locations and performer lineups:  Ava Roasteria, Painted Sky Northstar and Oluyinka Akinjiola;  City Park under trees, Rachael Belling and Huitzilopochtli;  Library lawn, Cydney Wilkes and Nartana School of Kuchipudi Dance;  Book Corner, Addam Stell & TJ Yale,  sub.set dance theatre; Community Center, Def Con 5 and NW Dragon and Lion Dance Association.

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