Third annual benefit for Hot Little Hands.

An astonishing turnout of performers for the third annual Variety Show. A group of Portlandas finest artists throw their many talents behind Hot Little Hands to raise money for their next dance performance. The Variety Show is a rich latticework of dance, music, and theater.

The Variety Show promises to be a great show featuring such artists as, Portland dance company, Hot Little Hands fuses detailed movement, wearable art and original music to create a timeless and hauntingly beautiful experience. Joe von Appen a Portland based writer/solo performer whose work restlessly traverses the lines between monologue, rant, confession and tangent, exploring the inner lives of uniquely American misfits in a not-so-distant dystopia. Angela Fair likes to air out her psyche for the amusement of others. Her performances may include but are not limited to: acting in tandem with video, satire and/or parody, 80's nostalgia and mild hyperventilation. Other acts include premieres by John Bielecki coming in from NYC, Ernest Adams, Jessica Burton, Summer Morgan, and Kaj-anne Pepper. Lee Kyle aka Splendora will tie the evening together as our MC.

The Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave
Portland, OR

info.phone = 503-248-1030
email.address = info@hotlittlehands.org
WWW.URL = www.hotlittlehands.org

ticket.price = $8-$15

Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak founded the INBAL PINTO DANCE COMPANY in 1992. Together, they have been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors - mainly the creation, direction, choreography and design of unique and award winning, dance performances for their Company.

Their productions have been presented and acclaimed in Israel as well as many other countries.

The Company consists of 12 dancer/actors working together and motivated by the collective wish to make connections among various artistic disciplines to convey new stage creations informed by memories, longings, ideas and imagination.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland Center for the Performing Arts

www.url = www.whitebird.org

Anatta is a program of new contemporary music and dance works performed by Los Angeles based interdisciplinary performer Michael Sakamoto and Thai dancer-choreographer Waewdao Sirisook with original music by acclaimed new music composer/percussionist Amy Knoles and avant-garde sound artist Bob Bellerue. Anatta takes its title from a Buddhist concept concerning the illusory nature of the self. Combining electronic mixology, lo-tech invention, Butoh, contemporary performance, and traditional Thai dance, Anattadelves into contemplative physical practices and imagery based in key Buddhist concepts - permanence and impermanence, joy and suffering, form and emptiness - to express a benevolent core of human experience and the integration of body, mind, and spirit.

Read the review of Michael's 2006 performance @ Conduit from our archives.

www.url = www.conduit-pdx.org

A heart-wrenching fable of true love heroically won and tragically squandered. Swan Lake is classical theatricality at its thrilling best. Virtuoso solos, an achingly beautiful score, and a majestic corps de ballet in brilliant white are all emblematic of the opulent grandeur of the greatest of all 19th-Century story ballets. When we premiered our new Swan Lake in 2006, every performance sold out well in advance. Subscribe today and get the seats you want at the very best price before they go on sale to the general public! "Oregon Ballet Theatre pulls out all the stops with this big, bold full-length journey into one of the landmarks of ballet history." -- Oregonian "...this is true reverential spectacle..." -- Willamette Week

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As part of the HEADWATERS Fall Programming, we will present two informal evenings of sharing studio performances by Butoh artists. On October 18th, Yuko Ota of Japan will share her work in Jinen Butoh along with Seattle's Death Posture & Portland's Mizu Desierto Butoh Theatre. On November 8th, world-renowned Japanese artist, Katsura Kan, will share a performance with his workshop students. Both of these offerings have very limited seating. Reservations are required. To reserve seating, please contact mizudesierto@gmail.com, or visit our website: www.mizudesierto.com

The HEADWATERS: kinesthetic laboratory & center for international exchanges in the arts
8371 N. Interstate Ave. (@ Disjecta)
Portland, OR 97217

info.phone = 503-289-3499
email.address = mizudesierto@gmail.com
WWW.URL = www.mizudesierto.com

ticket.price = $15

KINETIC IMAGES DANCE COMPANY FALL GALA
October 18, Conduit Studio

Kinetic Images Dance Company, Inc. launched its 2008 - 2009 Season by shooting its newest dance video on location in the Crooked River Gorge in Central Oregon.

Artistic Director Kimm Mahoney-Watson has led this innovative and eclectic classic modern dance Company in video performances from Yosemite to Yachats and stage performances throughout the Pacific Northwest since 1996. Videographer Will Mahoney-Watson has been creating the Kinetic Images videos by capturing the essence of movement in nature since 1999. Kinetic Images continues in its dedication to creating art that invites the audience to explore the nature of experiences that are universal, but are often felt in isolation. "Through the performance (often in evocative landscapes) we come to see those experiences as common to our humanity," according to Kimm Mahoney-Watson, the company's artistic director.

Kinetic Images' 2008 - 2009 Season will include its annual FALL GALA held on October 18 at 7:00 PM at Conduit Studio, 918 SW Yamhill. This event will feature live music, hors d'oeuvres, silent auction and a Kinetic Images Dance Company performance.

Please visit our website: www.kineticimages.org to learn more about upcoming Kinetic Images performances, the dancers and the Company.

Conduit Studio
918 SW Yamhill
Portland, OR

info.phone = 503-913-5788
email.address = info@KineticImages.org
WWW.URL = www.KineticImages.org

In its ten years as one of Portland's most innovative performing arts companies, BodyVox has taken audience engagement beyond the expected, by encouraging on stage participation, inviting fans into the studio to experience work in progress, and even incorporating supporters' clothing into production costume design. The company enjoys a unique relationship with its audience.

Artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland may have reached a new high in embracing the public, they've invited the audience to play artistic director. BodyVox patrons voted online to select the dances that will make up the show. The results will be revealed on stage when he curtain rises on Encores: the Best of BodyVox.

Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209

info.phone = 503.229.0627
email.address = info@bodyvox.com
WWW.URL = www.bodyvox.com

ticket.price = $12-$46
ticket.purchase.locations = online, PCPA Box Office, all ticketmaster outlets
ticket.purchase.numbers = 503.229.0627

To mark the commencement of Minh Tranas appointment as Assistant Professor in Dance at Reed College, the Dance Program at Reed College will present Minh Tran & Company in a retrospective of the company's work that has, over the past decade, received critical acclaim: Ancestor(2000), The War Within (1996), and Nocturnal Path (2003).

These selections of Tran's work will also be performed as part of the Footlight Series in March 2009 at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (www.jmkac.org); and Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State University, Los Angeles, California (www.luckmanarts.org).

Reed College, Sport Center Gym II
3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard
Portland, OR 97202-8199

info.phone = 503.998.0381
email.address = info@mtdance.org
WWW.URL = www.mtdance.org

ticket.price = $18 Adults / $15 Seniors / $12
Students / Free to Reed Community
www.brownpapertickets.com
ticket.purchase.numbers = 503.838.3006

The rivalries, romances and hijinks of the cast behind the curtains come to light in aBackstage,a an audacious show mixing contemporary circus and dance theater.

Aerialists, acrobats, dancers, magicians and more bring you breath-taking acts - and a hilarious take on the REAL drama that happens off-stage. It's an evening of unforgettable entertainment for the whole family!

Don't miss these dazzling performers from across North America and Europe, in Portland for 3 shows only! Backstage: all bets are off once the spotlight is out!

French American International School
8500 NW Johnson St.
Portland, OR 97229

info.phone = (503) 319-5486
email.address = pendulumdance@gmail.com
WWW.URL = http://www.pendulumdancetheatre.org

ticket.price = $25 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students/children
ticket.purchase.locations = www.pendulumdancetheatre.org

ticket.purchase.numbers = (503) 319-5486

"Full-bodied dancing that seems wrenched from the soul and utterly without artifice." - The Village Voice From Finland Daring Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen has proven himself as one of Europe's most innovative and breathtaking dance artists, creating work inspired by diverse influences from Japanese butoh and martial arts to classical ballet and Western contemporary dance. His company makes its Portland debut with a fantastic program made up of three of his most celebrated works, including his international breakthrough Westward Ho!, Wavelengths, and HUNT - an acclaimed work set to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring that incorporates stunning multimedia projections and is danced by Tero Saarinen himself. Saarinen is recognized today as one of Europe's leading choreographers, whose work is performed by many international companies, including White Bird alums like Lyon Opera Ballet, Batsheva Dance Company, and Nederlands Dans Theater.

Special Note: This is a change in program from that announced in White Bird's 2008-2009 Season Brochure. The Tero Saarinen Company has announced that the new work "Next of Kin" will not be coming to the United States this season. www.terosaarinen.com

Program: running time - 2 hours - Westward Ho! (1996) - intermission - Wavelengths (2000) - intermission - HUNT (2002)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland Center for the Performing Arts

www.url = www.whitebird.org

8PM, $15 admission nightly with an additional matinee performance at 2PM on Sunday Featuring new work by Barber, Wilkes, and dance legend Deborah Hay.

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