Events Archive
Spring 2013
Dance Chat: Opportunities for Summer Study, Exchange Programs, Internships, Graduate School, and Professional Work in Dance
Friday, March 8, 4:15 pm in Vollum 110
Are you interested in opportunities in dance, including summer study, internships, domestic and international exchange programs, graduate school, and professional opportunities? Members of the dance faculty will discuss some of the current opportunities in dance as well as opportunities and facilities soon to be available in the new performing arts building.
More than Just a Trend: Native American Appropriation in the 21st Century
Wednesday, March 27, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Eliot Hall chapel
Free & open to the public
http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/vine_deloria
*The NAYA Youth Dancers will perform at the start of the event with the Bulls & Bears drum circle.
This panel discussion presents Native American perspectives and deconstructs the issues surrounding the misrepresentation of "the Native" in fashion, sports, and music and provides examples of ethical solutions to help avoid damaging controversies that perpetuate racism in popular culture.
Panelists:
- Louie Gong (Nooksack): Seattle-based artist, activist, and educator; founder of Eighth Generation
- Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation): Author of Native Appropriations (nativeappropriations.com)
- Jessica Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa): Author of Beyond Buckskin (beyondbuckskin.com)
- Moderated by Se-ah-dom Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce, & Yakama).
Guest Lecture by Lynn Garafola: The Rite of Spring at 100
Thursday, March 28, 6:15 p.m. in Bio 19
Free and open to the public
Since the premiere of The Rite of Spring in 1913, scores of choreographic works to the celebrated Stravinsky music have seen the light of day. Like Vaslav Nijinsky’s original, the vast majority have disappeared. Yet the work continues to occupy cultural space. In the introduction to her book The Archive and the Reperetoire, performance scholar Diana Taylor muses: “Is performance that which disappears, or that which persists, transmitted through a nonarchival system of transfer that I...call the repertoire?” In other words is the cultural relevance of The Rite of Spring linked to what Taylor calls “the paradoxical omnipresence of the disappeared”? Or does the cycle of loss and renewal built into the very identity of the ballet—to say nothing of its original scenario—inspire its continuous reinvention? In this presentation I argue that The Rite of Spring, precisely because it is a lost ballet, comprises a body of ideas rather than a detailed choreographic script, and that this conceptual freedom allows both for the ballet’s reinvention and for the persistence of ideas associated with the original. With no standard choreographic text the work ventures into realms the score alone cannot take it; it undergoes a process of reinvention that updates and transforms the work, even when the music remains untouched. A reason—perhaps, the reason—The Rite of Spring remains so popular a musical text is because it keeps remaking itself as a dance.
Lynn Garafola is a Professor of Dance at Barnard College. A historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World and other books, and curator of the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, and several shows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, including New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World and, most recently, Diaghilev’s Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath. She is currently working on a book about the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska.
This event is sponsored by the Dance and Music Departments at Reed in conjunction with the course Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes. It is supported in part by the Weitkamp Fund.
Lunch with Lynn Garafola
Friday, March 29, 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Eliot 405
Bring your lunch and talk with Lynn Garafola about her work, her lecture, and the field of dance studies. All are welcome.
If you plan to come, please email Hannah at hannah.kosstrin@reed.edu.
Auditions for Spring Dance Concert - Friday, April 19, 3:15-5:00 p.m.
Prepare and audition your choreography to be shown in the Spring Dance Concert! Click here for audition information.
Spring Dance Concert
Friday-Saturday, May 10-11, 7:00 p.m. in Kaul Auditorium
WHAT: Spring Dance Concert featuring Reed College choreographers and dancers.
Students and faculty of the Reed College dance department’s intermediate and advanced technique dance classes will present a program of dance for the Spring Semester. Featuring choreography work by advanced dance students to original music by the Portland-based band 3 Leg Torso, as well as dance work by students from the Special Projects in Choreography class, inspired by the literary work of Khaled Hosseini’s "The Kite Runner." The concert will also showcase independent student choreography by the Reed College Dance Troupe.
WHEN: Friday & Saturday May 10 & 11, 2013 @ 7PM
WHERE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
COST: $1 (Reed Community Members)
$2 (Students and Seniors)
$3 (non-Reed community)
CONTACT: For more information, please visit Reed's public events website, http://events.reed.edu/, or to call the events line, 503/777-7755.
Sponsored in part by the Weitkamp Fund and Reed College Dance Department.
Fall 2012
Dive into Dance!
Saturday, August 25 in Gym II
Join the Dance Department as we kick off the academic year with a day-long dance festival. The day will include:
10:00-11:15 – Modern
11:15-12:30 – Ballet
12:30-2:00 – Lunch break
2:00-3:15 – Hip Hop
3:15-4:30 – African
Bharatha Natyam Master Class with Subashini Ganesan
Thursday, September 13, 2:40-4:00 p.m. in Gym II
Open to all. Please RSVP to hannah.kosstrin@reed.edu if you would like to attend.
A Master Class with Trisha Brown Dance Company
For Students at Reed -- FREE
In association with the White Bird Uncaged presentation of Trisha Brown Dance Company, company member of Trisha Brown Dance Company will teach a master class based on Trisha Brown’s distinctive choreographic language. This is a unique opportunity to participate in a workshop focused on the movement of the most widely acclaimed artist of the postmodern era.
Wednesday, October 10, 3:10 – 4:30PM
Sports Center, Gym 2
Reed College
White Bird Uncaged presents Trisha Brown Dance Company, Oct. 11-3, 8pm
At the Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway (at Main St.).
Tickets $20 Students/Seniors/Dance Community; $30 Adult
Order online at www.whitebird.org (no fees)
Auditions for Winter Dance Concert - Friday, November 16
Prepare and audition your choreography to be shown in the Winter Dance Concert! Click here for more information.
Winter Dance Concert
Sunday, December 9 in Gym II
2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Click here for more information.
Plus Upcoming Dance Performances in Portland
White Bird Dance presents dance companies from around the world.
whitebird.org
The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's (PICA) Time-Based Arts Festival (TBA) presents more than a dozen performances, lectures, and classes by and with contemproary artists from September 6-16.
www.pica.org/tba/
Spring 2012
skinner/kirk DANCE ENSEMBLE
February 2-11, various times; visit http://bodyvox.com/bodyvox/skinner-kirk for more show times and more information (off-campus)
Eric Skinner is Reed's ballet instructor. Go see his work!
The program will feature a revival of the trapeze duet One set to one of Canteloube's "Songs of the Auvergne," live accompaniment by pianist Bill Crane playing works by Hayden and Arvo Pärt, new work by Eric Skinner and Daniel Kirk and a new duet from Josie Moseley.
Purchase tickets online at bodyvox.com and enter coupon-code: dancestudent at check out to receive a 20% discount.
Victoria Marks Residency
February 23-25, 2012
Dance films, workshops, and talk by award winning choreographer/filmmaker Victoria Marks. Marks' work locates dance-making within the sphere of political meaning and considers such issues as the politics of citizenship and the representation virtuosity and disability. For more information and for a full schedule of events, please click here. For more information about Victoria Marks and her work, please visit: www.victoriamarks.com
Troika Ranch - Enter Comma Prepare
March 2-4, 2012
8:00 p.m. in Kaul Auditorium
Troika Ranch creates contemporary, hybrid artworks through an ongoing examination of the moving body and its relationship to technology. The company's newest work, Enter Comma Prepare, is a playful exploration of the situation of performance and examines how meaning is created in the encounter between performers and viewers. Drawing inspiration from Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the piece toggles between two simultaneous realities. Reality #1 consists of ideas deliberately organized and presented, i.e. the performance. Reality #2 is that individuals have gathered in a room, and are now standing, sitting, doing, observing, and participating-- "performing" the individual and collective actions of their lives, i.e. the situation. Enter Comma Prepare intentionally encourages a heightened awareness of these two realities for both performer and viewer.
The performers are propelled into action through computer-generated commands. Their improvised responses to these random commands in combination with the commands themselves result in unexpected narrative relationships and scenarios. Enter Comma Prepare examines the process of making “meaning” from performance by presenting numerous “accidental narratives." Each viewer’s resulting sense of “meaning” is the real one and always has been.
Tickets for Reed students, staff and faculty are free with Reed ID.
Pick up free Reed tickets in advance at the Student Activities Office.
Tickets or the general public are $20 and can be purchase at troikaranch.org
Enter Comma Prepare is supported by Reed Arts Week, the Reed College Dance
Department, the Wolfe Fund and the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Workshop
Tuesday, February 28 @ 4:10-5:30 pm in Gym II
Dawn Stoppiello, choreographer/director of Troika Ranch, will lead a workshop for students interested in creating interactive performance.
Performances, talk and workshop by acclaimed dance company Troika Ranch, in conjunction with RAW. This ground-breaking company combines dance, theater, and interactive digital media within their eclectic live performances. www.troikaranch.org
2012 Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series - Making the Invisible Visible: The Native American Community in Multnomah County
Wednesday, March 28
Eliot Hall Chapel
4:30-6:00 p.m:
Traditional Native American dancing and drumming, performed by members of the Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA).
Panel discussion among three prominent Native leaders of the recent Coalition of Communities of Color and Portland State University's 2011 report: The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile.
6:00 p.m.: Reception
Spring Dance Concert Auditions
Friday, April 13, 4-6 p.m. in Gym II
Please click here for the full audition notice.
Spring Dance Concert
featuring Reed College choreographers and dancers
Friday-Saturday, May 4-5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR
Use West Parking Lot of SE 28th Avenue
The Reed College Dance Department presents Spring Dance Concert. The performance will feature works choreographed by dance faculty Minh Tran and Carla Mann, the Reed College Dance Troupe, and Reed students.
COST: $3 General, $2 Students & Seniors, $1 Reed Community
CONTACT: For up-to-date information, the public is asked to visit Reed's public events website or to call the events line, 503/777-7755.
Friday afternoon dance films.
Various dates
White Bird brings national and international dance companies to Portland through May.
Fall 2011
Reed Centennial Celebration
September 22-23, 2011
The Northwest Dance Project and many of your friends who are also Reed Dancers will be performing for Reed's Centennial Celebration! Exclusively for Reed dancers is open rehearsal and a talk-back with the choreographers.
Friday Dance Film - The Cost of Living
October 7, 12:15-12:50 p.m. in Eliot 103
The dance department invites you to the first of a new series of monthly Friday afternoon dance films. This week is a viewing of The Cost of Living (2004) by Lloyd Newson and DV8 Physical Theatre. Bring your lunch!
Please contact Carla Mann at cmann@reed.edu with questions. For more information about the film, please visit <http://www.dv8.co.uk/projects/costoflivingfilm/press>
Friday Dance Film - Dreams
October 28, 12:15-12:50 p.m. in Eliot 103
The dance department invites you the weekly Friday afternoon dance film.
This week is a viewing of Dreams (1961) by Anna Sokolow.
Bring your lunch!
Please contact Hannah Kosstrin at hannah.kosstrin@reed.edu with questions.
Call for Dancers: Contemporary Performance Ensemble
Audition: Friday, October 28, 2011, 4:00-5:00 pm in Gym II
The Contemporary Performance Ensemble focuses on the development, rehearsal, and production of contemporary dance works choreographed by faculty members and visiting artists. We address the technical, stylistic, and interpretive challenges of the choreography as well developing and manipulating choreographic material of our own. Contemporary Performance Ensemble is offered as a .5 credit course (Dance 221) on a credit/no credit basis. In spring 2012, Contemporary Performance Ensemble will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:10-4:30 and will be directed by Carla Mann.
Enrollment is open through audition. Auditions for the spring semester of Contemporary Performance Ensemble will be held on Friday, October 28 from 4-5 pm in Gym II. Please contact Carla <cmann@reed.edu> with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Reed College Dance Department presents Anna Sokolow’s Rooms
in conjunction with the Dance Library of Israel's Anna Sokolow Centennial Exhibit
Friday-Saturday, October 28-29 at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, November 4 at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m.
All performances are in Vollum Lounge.
Free admission. There are no reservations for this event.
Please join us as Reed dancers perform excerpts of Anna Sokolow’s Rooms (1954), a landmark dance of mid-century urban alienation and isolation, that they have staged from Labanotation score. As part of the event, Hannah Kosstrin, visiting assistant professor of dance, will give a brief talk about Sokolow, a significant Jewish-American choreographer of the 20th century whose work embodies her intention to reflect and respond to social and political issues of her time. This performance will be in conjunction with the Dance Library of Israel’s Anna Sokolow Centennial Exhibit, which will be on display in Vollum Lounge through December.
Rooms is staged by Reed students under the direction of Hannah Kosstrin from the Labanotation score notated by Ray Cook, 1967-1975, by arrangement with the Dance Notation Bureau who has preserved, enriched, and furthered the art of dance for 71 years, 1940-2011. Artistic coach for these performances, Suellen Haag, Sokolow Dance Foundation. This event is supported in part by the Dance Department, the Dance Preservation Fund, and the Cooley Gallery.
Friday Dance Film - Rosas
November 4, 12:15-12:50 p.m. in Eliot 103
Please join the dance department for the weekly Friday afternoon dance film.
This week is a viewing of Rosas shorts (2002) by Anna Teresa deKeersmaeker.
Bring your lunch!
Please contact Hannah Kosstrin at hannah.kosstrin@reed.edu with questions.
Winter Dance Concert Auditions
Friday, November 18, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Gym II
Please click here for the full audition notice.
Winter Dance Concert
featuring Reed College choreographers and dancers
Saturday-Sunday, December 10-11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR
Use West Parking Lot of SE 28th Avenue
Students and faculty of the Reed College intermediate and advanced technique dance classes will present a program of choreography and dance for this fall semester. The performance will feature works choreographed by students and faculty, including works by members of the Reed College Dance Troupe and a piece featuring Reed’s chamber music program.
COST: $3 General, $2 Students & Seniors, $1 Reed Community
CONTACT: For up-to-date information, the public is asked to visit Reed's public events website or to call the events line, 503/777-7755.
Friday afternoon dance films.
Various dates
Come for the moves, come for the snacks!
Plus Upcoming Dance Performances
PICA’S Time-Based Art Festival, September 8-18, hosts more than a dozen, performances, classes and talks by contemporary dance artists.
http://www.pica.org
Spring 2011
Kathy Westwater
Choreographer Kathy Westwater creates art that exists in the human body. Inhabiting the gap between dance and performance art, her work reimagines and reconfigures the body's movement potential. During RAW: GEOGRAPHIES, Westwater will present two site-specific dance pieces on Reed campus based on the relationship between the public park and the landfill, specifically examining their cycles of consumption, production, and regeneration.
PARK:PDX
Thursday, March 3, 8:00 p.m.; Student Union
PARK MOVEMENT PIECE: a response to Ben Wolf's "Assembly of Freight"
Friday, March 4, 5:30 p.m.; Eliot Circle
labPARK WORKSHOP
Friday, March 4, 1:00 p.m.; Winch/Capehart
"labPARK"
Westwater will conduct a movement and voice workshop entitled labPARK. This is a
workshop exploring improvisational movement and voice practices used to create
PARK. The creative physical practices that underlie PARK, that will be explored in labPARK, have been developed to lead one from what is known, apprehensible, and consumable into the structural unknown. These practices speak to the inherent
adaptability of the human body and mind to ever shifting circumstance and environment. This workshop is designed for experienced and non-experienced movers alike.
For more information Kathy Westwater’s performances and workshops, and other RAW events, visit http://www.reed.edu/raw
Emiko Saraswati Susilo, Dancer/Musician/Vocalist from Bali, presents “Living Arts of Bali”
A lecture-demonstration
Wednesday, April 6, 7:00 p.m.; Eliot Chapel
Free admission
Discuss the vibrant performing arts of Bali, with their ever-changing cultural and social contexts. How does this context influence the arts and how do the arts in turn effect social-economic and cultural change? We will explore a history of Balinese dance and music from pre-Hindu, to the great Hindu Kingdoms of the Golden Age to Indonesian independence and current work in international tours and the tourist industry.
Emiko Saraswati Susilo
Dancer, musician and vocalist, Susilo was raised in a family rich with the arts. Twenty-four years ago, she began her study of Balinese dance with Ibu Ni Made Wiratini and began the study of Javanese dance with late Master Rama Sasminta Mardawa, teacher of the Court of Yogyakarta. She is a gamelan/vocal student of Bp. Tri Haryanto and Ki Midiyanto. She performed as a soloist with Gamelan Sekar Jaya of the San Francisco Bay Area for many years, and she is now there in residence as Director and Guest Dance Director until 2012. Susilo is a founding member of Çudamani, one of Bali’s most active and well-known arts organizations, based in Pengosekan, Ubud. She has been a core leader since the group’s inception and works closely with Çudamani’s senior dance students, master dance teachers, performers preparing for tour and the groundbreaking girls gamelan program. Susilo has a deep love of bringing together traditional and contemporary forms and ideas across the disciplines of dance, music, voice and visual arts. She received her BA from UC Berkeley's Department of Anthropology and her Master's degree at the University of Hawaii's Department of Asian Studies.
Laura Dubroca and Al-Andalus Ensemble
Flamenco dance lesson: Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.; Winch
Al-Andalus Flamenco performance: Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.; Kaul Auditorium
The Spanish House is hosting an introductory Flamenco lesson with Laura Dubroca, a visiting Flamenco dancer from Spain. The lesson will take place on Tuesday, April 5th in Winch; tapas at 7:30 pm, lesson at 8:00 p.m.
Laura will also be performing with Al-Andalus Ensemble on Saturday, April 9th at 7:30 p.m. in Kaul Auditorium. Ticket information for the performance is available here. The concert is free to Reed faculty, staff, and students with current ID.
Noru Ka Soru Ka
Friday, April 15, 8:00 p.m.; in Gym II
This improvisational dance and music ensemble emerged from a 2006 "jam" concert that took place at Session House, a Tokyo center for new dance and music. The performance revealed that the musical group Carr Nord Hofmann Maddox and dancers Makoto Mashima, Mao Arata and Kenzo Kusado shared a passion for collective improvisation and for the blurring of artistic boundaries. Since that time they have been developing their shared interests as an ensemble and exploring the intersections between Japanese and American aesthetics, new dance improvisation and free jazz.
Auditions for Reed Spring Dance Concert
Friday, April 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m.; in Gym II
Click here for more information.
Contact Improvisation Jam
Saturday, April 30, 1:00-3:00 p.m.; in Sports Center Dance Studio
For more information, contact Joseph Vincent at jvincent@reed.edu
Reed Spring Dance Concert
Friday-Saturday, May 13-14, 7:00 p.m.; in Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Use West Parking Lot off SE 28th Avenue
Students and faculty of the Reed College intermediate and advanced technique dance classes will present a program of choreography and dance for the spring semester. This performance will feature works choreographed by students and faculty, including works by members of the Reed College Dance Troupe and a traditional Balinese dance piece by the “Dances of Bali, Indonesia” class.
Tickets: $3 General, $2 Students & Seniors, $1 Reed Community
For more information, the public is asked to visit Reed’s public events website, http://events.reed.edu/, or to call the events line, 503/777-7755.
Fall 2010
Performance Workshop with Anna Halprin
Thursday, September 16, 4:10-5:30; meet in Gym II.
Come work with one of the most influential dance and theater artists of the last 50 years. The workshop will explore movement in relation to the environment. No experience necessary!
Tango Workshop with Alex Krebs
Wednesday, September 22, 4:40-6:00 p.m.; in Gym II.
No experience necessary!
Site-Specific Dance Workshops with Noel Plemmons of POV Dance
Tuesdays, September 28 & October 5; 4:10-5:30 p.m.; meet in Gym II.
POV dance creates site-specific choreography that creates partnerships with walls, stairways, objects and people. This workshop is for participants with at least a year of dance experience.
Samba Workshop with Donna Oefinger
Wednesday, October 6, 4:40-6:00 p.m.; in Gym II.
No experience necessary!
Conversation with Andrea Miller, Artistic Director of Gallim Dance
Tuesday, October 12, 11:15-11:50 a.m.; in Gym II.
Andrea Miller performed with Ohad Naharin’s Ensemble Batsheva in Israel, and was a guest with Cedar Lake, José Limón Dance Company, and The Buglisi Dance Theatre before she founded the internationally-renowned company Gallim Dance in 2006. All are welcome!
Capoeira Workshop with Pedro Cruz
Wednesday, October 27, 4:40-6:00 p.m.; in Gym II.
Check out this fusion Brazilian dance and martial arts. No experience necessary!
Multi-media Workshops with Dawn Stoppiello of Troika Ranch
Tuesdays and Thursdays, November 2-16, 4:10-5:30 p.m.; in Gym II
Troika Ranch has pioneered the ways of merging live dance performance with digital media. These workshops will explore the use of software and equipment to explore the interaction of video projection with live performance. Contact Carla Mann <cmann@reed.edu> for more specifics.
Auditions for Reed Fall Dance Concert
Friday, November 19, 2:00-4:00 p.m.; in Gym II
Click here for more information.
Reed Fall Dance Concert
Saturday and Sunday, December 11-12, 7:00 p.m.; in Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Use West Parking Lot off SE 28th Avenue
Students and faculty of the Reed College intermediate- and advanced-technique dance classes will present a program of choreography and dance for the fall semester. This performance will feature works choreographed by students and faculty, including works by members of the Reed College Dance Troupe, and students in the "Alternative & Altered States" class creating "virtual sites" for the performance.
Tickets: $3 General, $2 Students & Seniors, $1 Reed Community
For more information, the public is asked to visit Reed's public events website, http://events.reed.edu/, or to call the events line, 503/777-7755.
Plus Upcoming Dance Performances
PICA’S Time-Based Art Festival, September 9-19, hosts more than a dozen, performances, classes and talks by contemporary dance artists.
http://www.pica.org