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2018/19 Great concerts for the holidays
DISNEY IN CONCERT: MAGICAL MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2 PM Jeff Tyzik, conductor The magic of Disney comes to life in this multimedia showpiece featuring music from the scores of Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Aladdin, The Lion King, and more.
GOSPEL CHRISTMAS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
BIG BAND AND BEETHOVEN: NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 7:30 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 4 PM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 7:30 PM MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 7:30 PM
Charles Floyd, conductor Northwest Community Gospel Chorus Gary Hemenway, music director It’s the 20th Anniversary of Gospel Christmas, the tradition that just gets bigger and better, year after year! Join the region’s premier gospel singers and the Oregon Symphony for an evening that’s sure to have you on your feet, clapping and shouting, celebrating the true spirit of the season.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor • Jenny Schuler, soprano • Siena Miller, mezzo-soprano • Singers from PSU, Oregon Repertory Singers, and Pacific Youth Choir Ellington/Strayhorn: The Nutcracker Suite James P. Johnson: Victory Stride • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, “Choral” What finer way to ring in the New Year than with Duke Ellington’s delightfully cheeky twist on Tchaikovsky’s classic, followed by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its glorious Ode to Joy? A little bit smart, a little bit sassy, thoroughly exhilarating.
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WELCOME TO WOLF TALES THANK YOU so much for joining us for our special Wolf Tales show! Each year, we turn our winter show over to our incredibly talented company members to conceive and create. While this may seem like a fun idea — which it certainly is — providing our dancers with the chance to make new works and produce a full show is an incredibly important learning and growing opportunity. This year, they were captivated by the mythical, magical, and majestic wolf, and its part in numerous fables and fairytales. We are sure you will enjoy the adventure. ENVISIONED, CREATED, AND LED BY SARAH SLIPPER, WE REMAIN DEDICATED TO PROVIDING CHOREOGRAPHERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THEIR ARTISTIC DRIVES AND DREAMS TO FRUITION FROM THE STUDIO TO THE STAGE AND CHARTING THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE.
“A COMPANY OF SLICK, SKILLED DANCERS” –The New Yorker
As we make our way through the holiday season and look to the year ahead, we are asking for your crucial financial support. We are facing an unprecedented and deeply challenging time of rapidly shifting funding priorities and drastic reductions in grants for the arts, especially by our governmental funders. Non-profits, especially the performing arts, and dance in particular, are facing frightening times and a stable funding landscape that is sliding away. In order to continue and further our work — dance creation; Portland premieres; regional, national, and international touring; broad, deep, and subsidized dance education for all; ongoing arts engagement, participation, and outreach for underserved youth and challenged adults in our community — we will need the generous support of patrons and friends such as yourself. We hope you will support NW Dance Project with your generous year-end taxdeductible contribution. Better yet, share your love year-round by joining our Sustaining Circle with automatic monthly donations! Information is available at our table in the lobby and in the DONATE area of our website. Want your gift to keep on giving? Ask about contributing to our endowment! As a special thank you for giving big, donate $300 or more (either as a single gift or a monthly donation of $25 or more) and you will score our brand new, hot-off-the-press official NW Dance Project 2019 Calendar autographed by all the dancers along with heaps of gratitude and deep appreciation. Thank you again for being here and thank you for supporting NW Dance Project! Enjoy the show and we will see you in the lobby.
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WOLF TALES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis
DANCERS William Couture Colleen Loverde Andrea Parson
Katherine Disenhof Franco Nieto Anthony Pucci
Kody Jauron Kevin Pajarillaga
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NW DANCE PROJECT 2018–19 SEASON
NW DANCE PROJECT WAS FOUNDED IN PORTLAND IN 2004 BY PRINCIPAL DANCER, AWARD-WINNING CHOREOGRAPHER, AND ACCLAIMED DANCE MENTOR SARAH SLIPPER, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN MAKING A SPLASH AND A NAME FOR ITSELF BY DOING THINGS A BIT DIFFERENTLY IN DANCE. Our dedication to providing dancers and dance makers the resources and artistic freedom needed to create and take new, inspired dance works to the stage led Dance International Magazine to proclaim that we are “changing the way dance is created” and established NW Dance Project as “a laboratory, factory and repository for risk-taking new works from the next generation of choreographers from Europe and North America.” NW Dance Project has grown into a world-class contemporary dance company and an international leader in the creation and premiere of significant new contemporary dance works. We commission gifted choreographers from around the world to create on our classically trained yet daring and fearless professional company, giving them full artistic freedom and all the resources needed to bring their artistic drives, inspirations and dreams to fruition and to the stage. With over 270 new dance works created and premiered in Portland to date — more than any other company in the country — NW Dance Project truly is “the ‘it’ company…one of the most dynamic dance troupes in the country” (Oregon Public Broadcasting) and “an essential part of the city’s arts scene” (The Oregonian), with “some of the best dancers you will ever see.” (Calgary Herald) And while Portland gets to experience our works first, the world is watching. NW Dance Project took the Audience Award at the prestigious 25th annual Hannover Choreographic Competition in Germany in April 2011. Later the same year, we were picked the winner, out of nearly 200 entrants from around the world, of the 2011 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest, and as the winner, enjoyed two sold-out, standing ovation London performances in June 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad. 8
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We are so proud that four of our talented dancers have been awarded the most prestigious award in dance — The Princess Grace Award: Andrea Parson in 2010; Franco Nieto in 2012; Viktor Usov in 2014; and Ching Ching Wong in 2015. Audiences in Oregon, New York, Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Colorado, Los Angeles, Houston, London, throughout Canada and Germany, and even Mongolia have been similarly wowed by the company’s touring performances. NW Dance Project is proud to represent Portland and further our city’s glowing and growing reputation as a destination for dance and inspired new works of art. We are equally proud of the work we do in our cherished local community that occurs off the theater stage. Our innovative and interactive Dance Moves outreach program brings free dance classes and workshops to thousands of at-risk and low-income young members of our community each season. Our Arts Access initiative provides numerous fully accessible, professional dance performances locally each season, even drawing a record breaking, 4000-strong crowd to the Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater to experience the company perform select works from our all-original-repertoire. NW Dance Project is also an extraordinary and comprehensive training center for all dancers. We hold open community classes for adults and youth seven days a week in our beautiful Creative Center at 211 NE 10 th Avenue, as well as special opportunities for professional and pre-professional dancers such as our signature LAUNCH project and our esteemed Summer Dance Intensive. NW Dance Project believes in dance. We believe everyone can dance and anyone can appreciate the beauty and power of human movement. We believe that dance can, and should, touch and enrich each and every person’s life. And with tonight’s special performance, we believe you’ll agree.
“SARAH SLIPPER IS TRULY GIFTED. THIS IS WHAT DANCE SHOULD BE ... SHE FOUND THE POINT AT WHICH THE FORM OF DANCE (STEPS, TECHNIQUE, FEET, PERFORMANCE) COMBINE TO CREATE A WORK OF ART.” —The News Record
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / SARAH SLIPPER SARAH SLIPPER was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and received her professional training at the Royal Ballet School in London, England and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. In 1980, she made her professional debut with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as a corps de ballet member, and became one of the company’s leading dramatic ballerinas. Sarah worked closely with many internationally renowned directors, choreographers and teachers, including Arnold Spohr, Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylián, Agnes de Mille, Galina Yordanova, and Alla Savchenko. Sarah was noted for her classical line and dramatic abilities, dancing the principal roles in classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Giselle, and The Nutcracker. In addition to the classical repertoire, she received worldwide acclaim for her performances of contemporary ballets, most notably Nobert Vesak’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and the award winning Belong pas de deux. After Sarah left the stage, she continued her passion for music and drama, studying theatre at the honours
level at the University of Winnipeg, and in Oxford, England. During the 1996/97 season, she served as ballet mistress of Alberta Ballet, and from 1997/99 as ballet mistress of Oregon Ballet Theatre. Sarah’s command of classical and contemporary styles is demonstrated in her active role of teaching and coaching younger dancers. As a guest master teacher, Sarah has worked with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Washington Ballet, Ballet Austin, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Jefferson Dancers and the Dance Departments of the University of Utah, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Iowa. An award winning independent choreographer, Sarah is presently based in Portland, Oregon, creating dance worldwide. She has worked with prominent dance companies including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Nashville Ballet, Washington Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, Louisville Ballet, BalletNY, Alberta Ballet, Ballet Pacifica, Cornish Dance Theater, NW Dance Project and The Jefferson Dancers. She was awarded the Grand Prize for Choreography
at the International Choreographic Competition Saint Sauveur 2000 for her ballet Shattered Night, which was created on the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. During her choreographic residency at Festival des Arts in Quebec, Canada, her ballet A River In A Dry Land, was described by the Montreal Gazette as “one of the finest choreographies produced in residency.” Sarah’s works have been described as “absolutely remarkable... grippingly pits breezy romanticism against a sinister undercurrent.” (The Oregonian) and “...a complete, enclosed world, a somber yet hopeful winter landscape across which the three couples thread in a long, smoothly unfolding skein of dance” (The New York Times). A Fine Balance, her pas de deux created during NW Dance Project’s inaugural season, was a finalist for the prestigious Benois de la Danse award in 2006 and was performed at the Bolshoi Theatre as part of the award’s gala celebration. Sarah is currently working on several new creations and serves as the Artistic Director of NW Dance Project. ARTSLANDIA.COM
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis COMPANY MANAGER Michael De Farias Moura EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR Caitlin Warren ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Jennifer Hancock STUDIO STAFF Kolina Chitta + Lauren Herrman + Morgan Lunsford LIGHTING DESIGNER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Jeff Forbes PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Thyra Hartshorn COSTUME & WARDROBE MANAGEMENT Alexa Stark ACCOMPANISTS Ray McKean + Susan Schroeder GRAPHIC & DESIGN Rachel Beckwith WEB DESIGN Christopher Peddecord PHOTOGRAPHY William Anthony + Blaine Truitt Covert + Christopher Peddecord + Michael Slobodian VIDEOGRAPHY Ralph Davis, Action Video + William Anthony + Michael Slobodian HEALTH & WELLNESS Dr. Katharine Zeller PHYSICAL THERAPY West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic ACCOUNTING Richard Winkel, CPA BOOKKEEPING Susan Matlack Jones & Associates PRINTING & MAILING ProGraphics + MetroPresort STUDIO SUPPORT Amber Bates + Teagan Bentley + Rosina Gelormino + Melissa Rumsey Company portraits by Michael Slobodian Photo / William Anthony Dancer / Colleen Loverde
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Performance-Company.” She was also on staff at Alonzo King LINES Ballet for five years as the BFA Program Coordinator and Graphic Designer. Katherine attended NW Dance Project’s 2017 LAUNCH project.
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WILLIAM COUTURE was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota, where he attended the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts, and from there went to San Francisco to study at Dominican University of California with LINES ballet. While in college Will traveled as a guest artist to perform with the Southern California Ballet, Santa Rosa Ballet, and LINES ballet. In 2013 Will received a scholarship with the Dizzy Feet Foundation and was invited to perform a solo at their gala event. After graduating in 2015 Will returned to Minnesota to dance with Shapiro and Smith Dance and teach.
KATHERINE DISENHOF was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, where she trained at Marin Ballet. She graduated from Stanford University in 2012 with a B.A. in Human Biology and received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts. Katherine was a member of Robert Moses’ Kin for four years, with which she toured internationally and was part of a cast that received the 2015 Isadora Duncan Award for “Outstanding Achievement in
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KODY JAURON hails from Phoenix, Arizona where he began his formal dance instruction at age 15 with Andrew Needhammer. Shortly after, Kody furthered his preprofessional studies with the Miami City Ballet School and Ballet Austin’s Professional Division Trainee Program where he was honored to become a recipient of the Sarah & Ernest Butler Scholarship. After one year at Ballet Austin, Kody was promoted to an apprentice to the company where he danced for two additional seasons. Kody has supplemented his training at Lou Conte Dance Studio’s scholarship program, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Springboard Danse Montréal, and most recently at NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:10. Prior to joining NW Dance Project, Kody danced with DanceWorks Chicago under the tutelage of Julie Nakagawa and has been a featured guest artist with the Ruth Page Civic Ballet, Evansville Ballet, and Salt Creek Ballet. He has had the opportunity to perform works by Aszure Barton, Nelly van Bommel, Thang Dao, James Gregg, Felix Landerer, Joshua Manculich, Jiří Pokorný, Ihsan Rustem, and Yin Yue.
COLLEEN LOVERDE is a graduate of Point Park University where she earned her B.F.A. in dance as well as a minor in journalism. While training at Point Park, she had the privilege of performing works choreographed by Martha Graham, Luke Murphy, Garfield Lemons Gregory
Dolbashion, MADBOOTS DANCE, and Alexandra Damiani. Most recently, Colleen performed with Patrick O’Brien Dance, and worked as a freelance dancer in New York City. At Springboard Danse Montreal she had the opportunity to perform in original works by Vim Vigor Dance Company’s Shannon Gillen, German choreographer Ryan Mason, Johannes Wieland of Staatstheater Kassel, and Micaela Taylor of the TL Collective. While attending NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH project, she has had the privilege of performing original works by Alysa Pires, Alice Klock, Kristen Cere, and Meghan Lou before being invited to join the company.
KEVIN PAJARILLAGA is a Washington D.C native who began his training at CityDance Conservatory in 2010 before attending Point Park University from 2012 to 2016. Since then, Kevin has danced professionally with YY Dance Company, Sonya Tayeh Dance Company, PrioreDance, Bruce Wood Dance, and I.C. Movement Project, as well as guesting with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company (at the National High School Dance Festival), Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Focus Cia De Danca in Brazil. He has had the privilege to dance works by Crystal Pite, Alejandro Cerrudo, Victor Quijada, Lar Lubovitch, Jessica Lang, Andrea Miller, Loni Landon, Gregory Dolbashian, Dwight Rhoden, and Ronen Koresh, among others. Kevin participated in NW Dance Project’s 2018 LAUNCH project before being invited to join the company.
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FRANCO NIETO 2012 PRINCESS GRACE AWARD WINNER was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. Franco was an athlete playing football for seven years before making his choice to dance. Franco began his training at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and Columbia Dance, later studying under Tracey Durbin as a student and an assistant in Portland. Franco graduated from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a B.F.A. in Jazz in 2009. Franco has danced original roles in NW Dance Project works by Didy Veldman, James Canfield, Sarah Slipper, Luca Veggetti, Pedro Dias, Maurice Causey, Wen Wei Wang, Andrea Miller, Noam Gagnon, Loni Landon and Lauren Edson. In August 2012, Franco was one of only six dancers in the U.S. to win a Princess Grace Award for Dance. Franco received a full page feature in the February 2014 issue of Dance Magazine.
in NW Dance Project works by Patrick Delcroix, Sarah Slipper, James Canfield, Luca Veggetti, Pedro Dias, Ihsan Rustem, Andrea Miller, Aszure Barton, Noam Gagnon, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Maurice Causey, Lucas Crandall, Wen Wei Wang, Alejandro Cerrudo, Cayetano Soto, Loni Landon, Edgar Zendejas, Carla Mann and Minh Tran. In June 2010, Dance Magazine named Andrea their dancer “On the Rise.” The following month, Andrea received her biggest career honor to date, winning a 2010 Princess Grace Award for Dance and she appeared on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine in February 2011, which did a feature on her and another on the company.
ANDREA PARSON 2010 PRINCESS GRACE AWARD WINNER began her early dance training in Hillsboro, Oregon, at NW Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Anita Mitchell. She received her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2008. Andrea has taught dance throughout Oregon and Washington and has participated in workshops with the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, anoukvandijk dc and the NW Dance Project. She has danced original roles
was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began his dance training at Studio Dance under Michele Burke. He attended the University of Iowa, where he received a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography. While attending university, he had the privilege to perform extensively in faculty, graduate, and undergraduate work — most notably a site-specific work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia with the visually stunning Tori Lawrence & Co, as well as an evening-length work exploring energy cultures at an Anthroprocene symposium hosted by the University of Wyoming with Incite Insight Arts. Anthony danced for the past four years with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre in their productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, and others. Anthony is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor through the Yoga Alliance. In 2017 he attended NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH project.
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Pierre-Laurent Baudey Alan Jones Gary Leavitt Scott Lewis Carole Montarou Steven C. Neighorn Sarah Slipper John Tracy Lucinda Welch Serena Zilliacus
Andre Baker Allison Brando James Canfield Kim Choeychan William Couture Lucas Crandall Jason Davis Michelle Davis Mariecella Devine Uly Gonzalez Cora Guerin Charlene Hannibal Lauren Herrmann Izzy Holmes Kody Jauron Sharee Lane Colleen Loverde Morgan Lunsford Beth Maslinoff Ella Matweyou Morgan Moore Thorey Mountain Franco Nieto Kevin Pajarillaga Abby Parker Andrea Parson Anthony Pucci Jesus Rodales Sarah Slipper Vanessa Thiessen Gerard Theoret Caitlin Warren Deanna White
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis
COMPANY MEMBERS William Couture Katherine Disenhof Kody Jauron Colleen Loverde Franco Nieto Kevin Pajarillaga Andrea Parson Anthony Pucci
MANAGING EDITOR
Kristen Seidman MEDIA DIRECTOR
Chris Porras SALES DIRECTOR
Lindsey Ferguson DESIGNERS
Lisa Johnston-Smith Dan Le Jackie Tran ARTSLANDIA BOX MANAGER
Bella Showerman PUBLISHER’S REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole Lane PUBLISHING COORDINATOR
Sara Chavis NEW BUSINESS ASSOCIATE
Ashley Coates PHOTOGRAPHERS
Christine Dong Max McDermott PODCAST HOST
Susannah Mars
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APR 25 - 27 / 2019
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ON STAGE AT THE ARMORY!
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Season Superstars
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