Join us as we begin our third decade of creating exceptional new contemporary dance works made in Portland and revive some crowd favorites!
OCT 25+26 / 2024 | CASUAL ACT + YIDAM
DEC 6-14 / 2024 | IN GOOD COMPANY
MAR 28+29 / 2025 | HEDDA
MAY 30+31 / 2025 | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM + PIAF
To open our 21st season, Artistic Director Sarah Slipper revisits Casual Act, based on Harold Pinter’s lauded play, Betrayal, and International Choreographer Ihsan Rustem remounts his meditative and dramatic Yidam from 2015, which has been performed at the Joyce Theater in New York City, the iconic Bolshoi Theatre and on esteemed stages throughout Europe.
Per traditions, we turn our winter show over to the NW Dance Project's company artists to conceive, create, produce, and perform. We are expanding our annual holiday show IN GOOD COMPANY to run for two weekends this year. Double the shows = double the holiday cheer (and double the wassail)!
And as a special treat, our Young Creatives Pro Track company students will take part in our Dec 13 + 14 shows.
Limited Capacity seating. Get your tickets early as these performances sell out!
Artistic Director Sarah Slipper's acclaimed work Hedda returns to the stage for our spring program. In this evening-length work, Sarah's distinctly dark, theatrical, and vivid choreography takes on Henrik Ibsen’s incomparable 19th-century play, Hedda Gabler, a classic of realism and world drama.
To close out the season, Resident Chorepgrapher Ihsan Rustem turns to the music of French songbird Edith Piaf for his 14th original work for the company, and celebrated Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano returns to create his second original NW Dance Project work - a new, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.