COMPANY } REPERTOIRE

Northwest Dance Project's Current Touring Repertoire

All works listed are original and created especially for Northwest Dance Project.

A Fine Balance
Finalist for the Benois de la Danse award, performed at the award's Bolshoi Theatre gala.
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / 2004
- "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."

Kind of a Sort
Choreographer / Didy Veldman
Premiere / 2011
- "second-ever U.S. creation...arguably the most memorable of the evening's offerings, a quirky combination of movement and vocals. Sliding, teetering and falling gave way to repeated gestural sequences, whispering, laughing and an amusing slow-motion disco sequence." "the class clown, and a highly effective one at that...feels like Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl: oddball, gangly, independent, charming and funny in a sweetly sputtering way."

Blue
Choreographer / Lucas Crandall
Premiere / 2008
- "gracefully athletic ballet"

Harmonie Défigurée
Choreographer / Patrick Delcroix
Premiere / 2011
- "mesmerizing...gave the dancers the kind of space-eating, tempo-shifting movement -- from fast, aggressive unison to lyrical duets -- that makes this company such a pleasure to watch."

A Short History Of Walking
Choreographer / André Mesquita
Premiere / 2010
- "Wind-milling arms at hurricane speed propelling the pair in giant steps"

Airys
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / 2012
- "…sharp and dramatic… apocalyptic dystopia…an urban wasteland with those moving, seeking protection in concert together."

Mother Tongue
Choreographer / Ihsan Rustem
Premiere / 2012
- "... a model of contemporary choreography – a piece very much of its own time but also fiercely focused and sure of itself."

Through the Mouth of Your Eyes
Choreographer / Pedro Dias
Premiere / 2011
- "motion that crawls almost torturously through odd contortions before sweeping into low and swift resolutions...impeccable control and athletic grace." "a muscular modern work for seven dancers. Set to an electrified score bristling with static, the dancers powered through patterns of light and shadow, which highlighted aspects of the work's physicality."

Flying E
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / 2009
- "A stunning opening... "Flying E" has an arc, a beginning, middle and end, quite a compelling end as it happens, with the dancers walking in a line to the back of a red-lighted wall, replicating a desert sunset."

Ensemble for Somnambulists
Choreographer / Luca Veggetti
Premiere / 2006
- "a stand out...mysterious...dreamlike quartet"

Chameleon
Choreographer / Patrick Delcroix
Premiere / 2012
- "... vibrant colors in motion... we see the very fullest these relations in movement can interwine and take us."

State Of Matter
Choreographer / Ihsan Rustem
Premiere / 2010
Audience Award winner - 25th annual Hannover Choreographic Competition
Winner - 2011 Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest
- "impetus for some propulsive, flexed foot movement, following an opening duet - beautifully danced" ... "floating beauty"

Trace in Loss
Choreographer / Alex Soares
Premiere / 2012
- "awesome, dynamic, industrial, technical, electric ghost-like images… really did knock my socks off.”

Chi
Choreographer / Wen Wei Wang
Premiere / 2009
- "the highlight of the show...a small feast of images"

Not I
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / 2009
- "a strenuously awkward and entirely engrossing performance - a remarkably physical characterization of dissolution -- perhaps dementia, perhaps death itself."

Play It As It Lays
Choreographer / Gregory Dolbashian
Premiere / 2012
- "wonderful... very moving."

To view select repertoire clips, please see the VIDEO section of the GALLERY page.

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT:

2013

Casual Act / Sarah Slipper
Drifting Thoughts / Patrick Delcroix

2012

KEN / Ching Ching Wong
Turing Test / Samantha Campbell
The Architects / Lindsey Matheis
Zero to Spin / Andrea Parson
Formidably Bright / Franco Nieto
Sugar and a Red Martini / Elijah Labay
Hopelandic / Lindsey McGill
L O D E S T A R / Patrick Kilbane
Mother Tongue / Ihsan Rustem
Play It as It Lays / Gregory Dolbashian
Trace in Loss / Alex Soares
Mr. Lee Project / Hanna Kiel
Solletico / Robyn Mineko Williams
Yacht Club / Kate Wallich
This is Embracing / Gregory Dolbashian
When I arrive at the other side, I will kiss you / Sarah Slipper
Atash / Tracey Durbin
Airys / Sarah Slipper
Chameleon / Patrick Delcroix
Conjugations / Wen Wei Wang

2011

The Art of Standing Up / Andrea Parson
I Love My Baby / Franco Nieto
Tsismis / Ching Ching Wong
Calibration of Light / Lindsey Matheis
There will be time / Samantha Campbell
Opuscule / Patrick Kilbane
Kind of a Sort / Didy Veldman
skin / Noam Gagnon
Through the Mouth of Your Eyes / Pedro Dias
The Great Quiet / Gregory Dolbashian
(Untitled) / Marina Mascarell
Harmonie Défigurée / Patrick Delcroix
Black Ink / Sarah Slipper
and she said... / Carla Mann
Covered / Loni Landon
MemoryHouse / Sarah Slipper
Two Against One / Lauren Edson

2010

Evanescence / Minh Tran
Dovetail / Carla Mann
The Wall / Andrea Parson
Broken Muse / Tracey Durbin
Snow / Sarah Slipper
Why Me? / Kemba Shannon
CRASH / Gérard Théorêt
If You Really Knew Me / Loni Landon
This is not a raincoat / Olivier Wevers
State of Matter / Ihsan Rustem
A Short History of Walking / André Mesquita
French Kiss / Loni Landon
Algorithm for the American Dream / Lindsey Matheis
Free 2 Play / Andrea Parson
Where, Wolf? / Lex Dones
Weigh Down Deep / Loni Landon
Second Hand / James Gregg
En(gulf)ed / Sarah Slipper
WILL / James Canfield
Illumine / Carla Mann
Curved Resistance / Lauren Edson
Flying E / Sarah Slipper
Giggle Giggle Quack / Maurice Causey

2009

Hoytski and LuLuska / Sarah Slipper
Beyond / Mary Oslund
Party of Two / Jamey Hampton
Tango / Gregg Bielemeier
Goodnight Moon / Patrick Kilbane
The Tyger and the Lamb: a study / Lindsey Matheis
Chee Chee /Andrea Parson
Not I / Sarah Slipper
Almost Twelve / Benoit-Swan Pouffer
Lewis Park / Andrea Miller
Bu Ba Bee / Edgar Zendejas
B.E.G. / James Canfield
Chi / Wen Wei Wang
Caress / Lucas Crandall
Gender Predicaments / Maurice Causey
Exhale/Converge / Carla Mann
This is What Happens / Maurice Causey
Just Like That / Lauren Edson
Phrase 3 / Andrea Parson
aung and/or usov / Patrick Kilbane
Impermanence / Lauren Edson

2008

Veli / Sarah Slipper
Sinuous Tattoo / Donald McKayle
Be Little / Aszure Barton
Life on Shuffle / James Canfield
Last But Not Least / Cayetano Soto
Bits and Pieces / Sarah Slipper
Blue / Lucas Crandall
Two Studies for Four Singles / Alejandro Cerrudo
Sway / Sarah Slipper
De Wilde (The Wanted) / Edgar Zendejas
Incognito / Mark Godden
Lateef / James Canfield
The Obliged / Jamey Hampton
Excerpts from Thirst / Mary Oslund
Segue / Gregg Bielemeier
Short Stories / Thaddeus Davis
Blessed are the Meek... / Lane Hunter
A Pear / Sarah Slipper
Unlike Me / Jonathan Sadony

2007

Nacht / Sarah Slipper
Eddy and Grace / Sarah Slipper
Broken Sparrow / James Canfield
Mercurial Balance / Thaddeus Davis
Syncopated Gambol / Donald McKayle
Still Life Moving / James Canfield
Inner Shore / Luca Veggetti
Both / Lauri Stallings
Violins For Tracy / Thaddeus Davis
The Nuisance of Being / Sarah Slipper
Not Yet / Cayetano Soto
Perfidia / James Canfield
Patter / Sarah Slipper
SKY Redux / Mary Oslund
Untitled / Cristina Betts
Last Time I Saw U / Thaddeus Davis

2006

In Her Bones / Josie Moseley
Skirmish / Mary Oslund
After Images / Steve Gonzales
2 Lullaby Studies / Paul Vasterling
Be a String to My Guitar / Stephen Mills
Vacilon / Stephen Mills
Ensemble for Somnambulists / Luca Veggetti
Sort Of? / Sarah Slipper
Triptych / Lucas Crandall
BAM / James Canfield
Untitled / Thaddeus Davis

2005

Krow / Thaddeus Davis
Orange Blues / Paul De Strooper
Workshop 6 (cheez cake stirgin) / Gioconda Barbuto
Standing in Tears / Ronen Koresh
Burning / Paul Vasterling
After the Poison / Sarah Slipper

2004

A Fine Balance / Sarah Slipper (Finalist for the 2006 Benois de la Danse Award)
smallprintfiction / Shawn Hounsell
Open Enclosure / Davis Robertson
SLIGHTLy SHUNNED / Gérard Théorêt
Floor 3 / Mary Oslund