NW Dance Project presents:
NEW STORIES – IN GOOD COMPANY

5 NEW CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKS FROM 5 PDX WOMEN CHOREOGRAPHERS
DECEMBER 8+9 @ 7:30PM + DECEMBER 10 @ 4PM AT NW DANCE PROJECT’S CREATIVE CENTER (211 NE 10th Ave., Portland OR 97232)
Info: https://nwdanceproject.org/performances
Tickets: $58 advance (NO SERVICE FEES) at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=nwdp

ON THE PROGRAM (ALL NEW/PREMIERE WORKS FROM):

Andrea Parson is a former company member (our star female dancer for nearly a dozen years) and Princess Grace Award winner. Her work as a choreographer leans towards dance theater and we know she is gaining for a retro feel and the piece will feature spoken word. This is the 18th work Andrea has created for NW Dance Project (both while in the company and as an independent artist). “A dynamic duo interweaving dance, stories, words, and variety of musical tracks played from a boombox. This piece is an ode to the party dance, millennial music vibes, and a splash of holiday. It might make you laugh or smile or want to sing. View after having had a cocktail (or two).”

Carla Mann is the former Chair of the Reed College Dance Department. She is working on a full company work (8) with a focus on 5 dancers. Her work slips between contemporary and modern and is very fluid. Carla says “the work is about complexity, subtlety, possibility, and presence. About diving deeply. About openness, surrender, rigor, and joy.”

The remaining three women are company members:

Ingrid Ferdinand: “The piece is a study in the safety, or lack there of, of seeing and being seen. Questioning what it is to embody this and the repercussions of so.”

Lucia Tozzi is a dancer and an actress. Her work is cerebral and thought provoking. Spoken text figures heavily. “In a lesson from people who are by no means experts, six dancers awkwardly navigate the confusing and mysterious tendencies that occur when one falls in love. Somewhere along the way they discover that they are better at just falling. Through text, movement, note-taking and devastatingly uncomfortable encounters we attempt to explain the unexplainable; This is what it feels like to fall in love.”

Nicole Hennington came from the hot competition word of Phoenix, Arizona. Her work is highly physical and musical. She is doing a duet for our newest dancers, Beatriz García Díaz and Armando Brydson (married couple that recently immigrated from Cuba).

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And as always at our intimate winter shows, attendees can enjoy a cup of warm homemade wassail!
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We’ll have a few raffle packages for fundraising…