On Saturday evening, March 10, 2012 my son, Christopher, and I attended the NW Dance Project's Spring Premieres performance at the Newmark Theatre in downtown Portland. This is modern choreography and dance at its finest. The first piece was Conjugations, by Choreographer and Artistic Director of his own dance company, Wen Wei Wang. Artistic Director and Choreographer Sarah Slipper’s piece, Airys, was a sharp and dramatic contrast to the first. The final piece by Patrick Delcroix, Chameleon, opened up the stage after the previous catastrophic vision, to the bare back walls, ropes and lights of backstage.
"This is dance theater with a company at the height of its ability to communicate emotions and images, yes, with their expertly trained motions through light and sound, but also from every fiber of their being, inside and out, clearer than any words that could be uttered."
Dancers: Samantha Campbell, Patrick Kilbane, Elijah Labay, Lindsey Matheis, Lindsey McGill, Franco Nieto, Andrea Parson, Ching Ching Wong. Christopher is the rehearsal pianist for NW Dance Project.
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