Slowing Down to Connect
Northwest Professional Dance Project Workshop
Friday 6:30-8:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 3-5 pm
$75 per student (students need to commit to full attendance)
Info: 503.421.7434
This three class series focuses on partnering. We will work on an interactive movement phrase that incorporates release and natural use of momentum. The ideas introduced in this series will help you find greater freedom to connect with your partners.
APRIL 18-20, 2008
Oslund+Co in Performance
8:00 PM, Imago Theatre
Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets (after March 1, 2008)
$16 general, $14 students, seniors, artists
Info: 503.234.3557
Bête Perdue is an new, original work which muses on the capacity for belief and disenchantment in the common world. Drawn from written history and individual vision, Bete Perdue is created collaboratively by choreographer Mary Oslund and master drummer and composer Obo Addy, whose work has been commissioned work by the Kronos Quartet and Third Angle Music, and is an NEA Heritage Artist. The score by Addy will meld African and Western modes and instrumentation, tradition and invention, and theme and craft at a cultural intersection. Addy and Oslund will explore a rough common language, employing a dj engineer as translator.
Dancers: Amber Baker, Rinda Chambers, Jessica Hightower, Jim McGinn, Keely McIntyre, Eric Nordstrom, Noel Plemmons, Michelle Rogers. Costumes: Rinda Chambers. Music Score: Obo Addy. Sound engineer and music consultant: Katie Griesar Lighting design: Jeff Forbes. Funded in part by The Kinsman Foundation.
UPCOMING 2008-2009
SUMMER 08
Oslund+Co. teaching involvement in Northwest Professional Dance Project and Conduit Summer Dance Intensive education programs during summer 2008, details tba.
THIRST
Bonnie Simoa and Walter Kennedy are premiering Thirst, a newly commissioned duet choreographed by Mary Oslund for performance seasons at the University of Oregon (Fall 2008) and Lane Community College (spring 2009). Music score is composed by Portlander Katie Griesar. Funded by a grant from The Oregon Arts Commission.
BLUR
Oslund+Co. In Performance, featuring the premiere of Where Are You? (working title) a new work in collaboration between Mary Oslund and Darrin Verhagen (Australia) and the repertory version of Bête Perdue choreographed by Oslund and composed by Obo Addy.