NW Dance Project - Encores

Photo / Michael Slobodian Dancers / William Couture + Colleen Loverde + Franco Nieto + Andrea Parson

WELCOME TO ENCORES THANK YOU so much for joining us for our 15th Anniversary Season and our Encores show!

We are honored to have you here with us tonight to experience this special evening of inspired and inspiring dance.

Tonight’s program finds us doing something rare — revisiting some of our best-received original works originally shown on this very stage.

ENVISIONED, CREATED, AND LED BY SARAH SLIPPER, WE REMAIN DEDICATED TO PROVIDING CHOREOGRAPHERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THEIR ARTISTIC DRIVES AND DREAMS TO FRUITION FROM THE STUDIO TO THE STAGE AND CHARTING THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE.

“A COMPANY OF SLICK, SKILLED DANCERS” –The New Yorker

Opening the retrospective is Yidam, which premiered in March, 2015 and compelled us to ask Ihsan Rustem to become our Resident Choreographer. We were thrilled that he accepted and are honored that he recently renewed the position. Like many works created especially for NW Dance Project and premiered here on the Newmark stage, Yidam has gone on to have a life beyond Portland, being featured at the augural American Dance Platform at the renowned Joyce Theater in New York City, and beyond our company being set on acclaimed companies such as Das Ballett des Staatstheaters Augsburg in Germany, Bern Ballett in Switzerland, and Codarts Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Inspired by Harold Pinter’s seminal 1978 play, Betrayal, Sarah Slipper’s Casual Act debuted in 2013 and marked our first real foray into working with sets (we affectionately call it “the housecopter”). The work captivated the audience and was described by Oregon Arts Watch as “an intense and beguiling abstraction from Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal… one almost forgot the dancers weren’t expressing themselves with language, as their movements so clearly and beautifully relay the drama of the story.”

That same program unveiled French choreographer and real-live Knight Patrick Delcroix’s third work for the company, Drifting Thoughts, which very recently caused a bit of a stir at our performance at Brigham Young University.

Though we are looking back tonight, NW Dance Project remains dedicated to commissioning, creating, and premiering significant new contemporary dance works in Portland.

In fact, we will be bringing you a trio of world premieres in June with commissions from acclaimed Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto, Oregon Ballet Theatre founding Artistic Director James Canfield, and inventive German dancemaker Felix Landerer, bringing our total number of commissions and Portland premieres to 300!

Thank you again for being here — we truly appreciate your support of NW Dance Project!

Enjoy the show and we’ll see you in the lobby.

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Scott Lewis | Executive Director

PRESENTS

ENCORES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis

DANCERS William Couture Noelle Kayser Kevin Pajarillaga

Katherine Disenhof Colleen Loverde Andrea Parson

Kody Jauron Franco Nieto Anthony Pucci

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Photo / Blaine Truitt Covert Dancers / William Couture + Colleen Loverde + Franco Nieto + Andrea Parson

NW DANCE PROJECT 2018–19 SEASON

NW DANCE PROJECT WAS FOUNDED IN PORTLAND IN 2004

BY PRINCIPAL DANCER, AWARD-WINNING CHOREOGRAPHER, AND ACCLAIMED DANCE MENTOR SARAH SLIPPER, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN MAKING A SPLASH AND A NAME FOR ITSELF BY DOING THINGS A BIT DIFFERENTLY IN DANCE. Our dedication to providing dancers and dance makers the resources and artistic freedom needed to create and take new, inspired dance works to the stage led Dance International Magazine to proclaim that we are “changing the way dance is created” and established NW Dance Project as “a laboratory, factory and repository for risk-taking new works from the next generation of choreographers from Europe and North America.”

NW Dance Project has grown into a world-class contemporary dance company and an international leader in the creation and premiere of significant new contemporary dance works.

We commission gifted choreographers from around the world to create on our classically trained yet daring and fearless professional company, giving them full artistic freedom and all the resources needed to bring their artistic drives, inspirations and dreams to fruition and to the stage. With over 270 new dance works created and premiered in Portland to date — more than any other company in the country — NW Dance Project truly is “the ‘it’ company…one of the most dynamic dance troupes in the country” (Oregon Public Broadcasting) and “an essential part of the city’s arts scene” (The Oregonian), with “some of the best dancers you will ever see.” (Calgary Herald) And while Portland gets to experience our works first, the world is watching.

NW Dance Project took the Audience Award at the prestigious 25th annual Hannover Choreographic Competition in Germany in April 2011. Later the same year, we were picked the winner, out of nearly 200 entrants from around the world, of the 2011 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest, and as the winner, enjoyed two sold-out, standing ovation London performances in June 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

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We are so proud that four of our talented dancers have been awarded the most prestigious award in dance — The Princess Grace Award: Andrea Parson in 2010; Franco Nieto in 2012; Viktor Usov in 2014; and Ching Ching Wong in 2015.

Audiences in Oregon, New York, Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Colorado, Los Angeles, Houston, London, throughout Canada and Germany, and even Mongolia have been similarly wowed by the company’s touring performances. NW Dance Project is proud to represent Portland and further our city’s glowing and growing reputation as a destination for dance and inspired new works of art.

We are equally proud of the work we do in our cherished local community that occurs off the theater stage.

Our innovative and interactive Dance Moves outreach program brings free dance classes and workshops to thousands of at-risk and low-income young members of our community each season. Our Arts Access initiative provides numerous fully accessible, professional dance performances locally each season, even drawing a record breaking, 4000-strong crowd to the Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater to experience the company perform select works from our all-original-repertoire.

NW Dance Project is also an extraordinary and comprehensive training center for all dancers. We hold open community classes for adults and youth seven days a week in our beautiful Creative Center at 211 NE 10 th Avenue, as well as special opportunities for professional and pre-professional dancers such as our signature LAUNCH project and our esteemed Summer Dance Intensive.

NW Dance Project believes in dance. We believe everyone can dance and anyone can appreciate the beauty and power of human movement. We believe that dance can, and should, touch and enrich each and every person’s life. And with tonight’s special performance, we believe you’ll agree.

“SARAH SLIPPER IS TRULY GIFTED. 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.” —The News Record

Photo / Christopher Peddecord Dancers / Franco Nieto + Andrea Parson

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / SARAH SLIPPER SARAH SLIPPER was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, and received her professional training at the Royal Ballet School in London, England and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.

In 1980, she made her professional debut with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as a corps de ballet member, and became one of the company’s leading dramatic ballerinas. Sarah worked closely with many internationally renowned directors, choreographers and teachers, including Arnold Spohr, Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen, Jirí Kylián, Agnes de Mille, Galina Yordanova, and Alla Savchenko. Sarah was noted for her classical line and dramatic abilities, dancing the principal roles in classical ballets such as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, Giselle, and The Nutcracker.

In addition to the classical repertoire, she received worldwide acclaim for her performances of contemporary ballets, most notably Nobert Vesak’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and the award winning Belong pas de deux. After Sarah left the stage, she continued her passion for music and drama, studying theatre at the honours

level at the University of Winnipeg, and in Oxford, England. During the 1996/97 season, she served as ballet mistress of Alberta Ballet, and from 1997/99 as ballet mistress of Oregon Ballet Theatre. Sarah’s command of classical and contemporary styles is demonstrated in her active role of teaching and coaching younger dancers.

As a guest master teacher, Sarah has worked with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Washington Ballet, Ballet Austin, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Jefferson Dancers and the Dance Departments of the University of Utah, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Iowa. An award winning independent choreographer, Sarah is presently based in Portland, Oregon, creating dance worldwide. She has worked with prominent dance companies including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Nashville Ballet, Washington Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, Louisville Ballet, BalletNY, Alberta Ballet, Ballet Pacifica, Cornish Dance Theater, NW Dance Project and The Jefferson Dancers. She was awarded the Grand Prize for Choreography

at the International Choreographic Competition Saint Sauveur 2000 for her ballet Shattered Night, which was created on the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. During her choreographic residency at Festival des Arts in Quebec, Canada, her ballet A River In A Dry Land, was described by the Montreal Gazette as “one of the finest choreographies produced in residency.”

Sarah’s works have been described as “absolutely remarkable... grippingly pits breezy romanticism against a sinister undercurrent.” (The Oregonian) and “...a complete, enclosed world, a somber yet hopeful winter landscape across which the three couples thread in a long, smoothly unfolding skein of dance” (The New York Times). A Fine Balance, her pas de deux created during NW Dance Project’s inaugural season, was a finalist for the prestigious Benois de la Danse award in 2006 and was performed at the Bolshoi Theatre as part of the award’s gala celebration. Sarah is currently working on several new creations and serves as the Artistic Director of NW Dance Project.

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IHSAN RUSTEM / RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER

STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis COMPANY MANAGER Michael De Farias Moura EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR Caitlin Warren ENGAGEMENT + EVENTS COORDINATOR Jennifer Hancock STUDIO STAFF Kolina Chitta + Olivia Hasencamp + Dharma Nicotera LIGHTING DESIGNER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Jeff Forbes PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Thyra Hartshorn COSTUME & WARDROBE MANAGEMENT Alexa Stark ACCOMPANISTS Jenny Peterson + Susan Schroeder + Western-Li Summerton GRAPHIC & DESIGN Rachel Beckwith WEB DESIGN Christopher Peddecord PHOTOGRAPHY Blaine Truitt Covert + Christopher Peddecord + Michael Slobodian VIDEOGRAPHY Ralph Davis, Action Video + Michael Slobodian HEALTH & WELLNESS Dr. Katharine Zeller PHYSICAL THERAPY West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic ACCOUNTING Richard Winkel, CPA BOOKKEEPING Susan Matlack Jones & Associates PRINTING & MAILING ProGraphics + MetroPresort STUDIO SUPPORT Teagan Bentley + Hanna Brandt + Taylor Dalton + Tina Mascaro + Derek Menesez + Melissa Rumsey Company portraits by Michael Slobodian

Born in London, Ihsan trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and began his professional career at the age of 17, joining Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures. Engagements followed with the Ballett Theater Munich (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz) and Introdans in The Netherlands. In 2007, Ihsan moved to Switzerland as a founding member of the Bern Ballett and the Tanz Luzerner Theater. During this period, he originated roles in creations by Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Alexander Ekman, Matthew Bourne, Patrick Delcroix, Stijn Celis, Cayetano Soto, Felix Landerer, Guilherme Bothello and worked with choreographers Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, Sol Leon / Paul Lightfoot, Hans van Manen and William Forsythe, among others.

In 2010 Sarah Slipper of the Northwest Dance Project invited Ihsan to Portland, Oregon USA, where he created State of Matter, a work which received both the 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers Hannover. His sixth original work for NW Dance Project, Carmen, received Dance Magazine’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Award for Coolest Collaboration.

In 2015 Ihsan was appointed Resident Choreographer for NWDP and continues in this position today. Rustem was the 2014 recipient of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s International Commissioning Project and a featured choreographer for Russia’s TV show ‘The Bolshoi Ballet’. He is the former Artistic Director of the Dance Art Studio Ballettschule Luzern.

To date, Ihsan has created works for NW Dance Project, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Istanbul State Ballet MDT, Tanz Luzerner Theater, Kazan State Opera and Ballet, Whim W’Him Seattle, Ballet Regensburg, Ballet Koblenz, Würzburg Ballett, Salt Contemporary Dance Company, National Youth Dance Company, Aksanat Istanbul, Cinevox Junior Company, Zurich HdK and the Palucca Schule Dresden. Upcoming creations include the Nederlands Dans Theater 2, National Ballet of Chile, Arts Umbrella Company Vancouver and the Augsburg Ballet. Ihsan lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Further info at www.ihsanrustem.com

PATRICK DELCROIX / GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER Choreographer Patrick Delcroix was educated at the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes and the Ecole de Danse Colette Soriano in Orthez, France. In 1982 he joined the Iwanson Dance Company in Munich (director Jessica Iwanson), followed by the Scapino Ballet Amsterdam in 1985 (director Armando Navarro). It was here that he first met Jirí Kylián, when the choreographer came to create Picolo Mondo and cast the young Delcroix. He was subsequently invited by Kylián to join the Nederlands Dans Theater 1, where he danced from 1986 to 2003. In these 17 years with NDT he worked with many celebrated figures, namely William Forsythe, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Edouard Lock, Nacho Duato, Hans van Manen and of course Jirí Kylián.

As a choreographer, Patrick has created 40 works and re-staged numerous others for a variety of companies, including Nederlands Dans Theater 1, 2 & 3, Royal Danish Ballet, Basel Ballet, Ballet du Capitole Toulouse, Cape Town City Ballet, Ballet of the Croatian National Theater, Vienna Staatsoper Ballet, Aalto Ballett Theater Essen, Cisne Negro Sao Paolo, Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Introdans, Prague Chamber Ballet, NW Dance Project, Junior Ballet Genève, It Danza Barcelona, Artscape, New English Contemporary Ballet, Tanztheater am Staatstheater Braunschweig, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Royal Conservatory Den Haag, Royal Conservatory Antwerp, Nationale Ballet Academie–Amsterdam and ArtEZ in Arnhem, Netherlands.

His relationship with Jirí Kylián continues to this day as a repetior for the Kylian Foundation. He has re-staged ballets on such companies as the Paris Opéra Ballet, Boston Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Ballet de l’Opéra du Rhin, Norwegian National Ballet, Bern Ballet, National Theater Ballet Prague, Aalto Ballett Theater Essen, Kobe Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and the Georgian National Ballet.

In 2001, he was knighted by the French government for services to the arts, being made “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”. Patrick’s first creation for NW Dance Project in 2011, Harmonie Défigurée, is a rich exploration of human relationships filled with inventive, breathtaking partnering The Oregonian reviewed as “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.”

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DANCER BIOGRAPHIES

Designer. Katherine attended NW Dance Project’s 2017 LAUNCH project.

Company Portraits / Michael Slobodian©

WILLIAM COUTURE was born and raised in St. Paul Minnesota, where he attended the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Arts, and from there went to San Francisco to study at Dominican University of California with LINES ballet. While in college Will traveled as a guest artist to perform with the Southern California Ballet, Santa Rosa Ballet, and LINES ballet. In 2013 Will received a scholarship with the Dizzy Feet Foundation and was invited to perform a solo at their gala event. After graduating in 2015 Will returned to Minnesota to dance with Shapiro and Smith Dance and teach.

KODY JAURON hails from Phoenix, Arizona where he began his formal dance instruction at age 15 with Andrew Needhammer.

Shortly after, Kody furthered his preprofessional studies with the Miami City Ballet School and Ballet Austin’s Professional Division Trainee Program where he was honored to become a recipient of the Sarah & Ernest Butler Scholarship. After one year at Ballet Austin, Kody was promoted to an apprentice to the company where he danced for two additional seasons. Kody has supplemented his training at Lou Conte Dance Studio’s scholarship program, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Springboard Danse Montréal, and most recently at NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:10. Prior to joining NW Dance Project, Kody danced with DanceWorks Chicago under the tutelage of Julie Nakagawa and has been a featured guest artist with the Ruth Page Civic Ballet, Evansville Ballet, and Salt Creek Ballet. He has had the opportunity to perform works by Aszure Barton, Nelly van Bommel, Thang Dao, James Gregg, Felix Landerer, Joshua Manculich, Jiří Pokorný, Ihsan Rustem, and Yin Yue.

KATHERINE DISENHOF was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, where she trained at Marin Ballet. She graduated from Stanford University in 2012 with a B.A. in Human Biology and received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts.

Katherine was a member of Robert Moses’ Kin for four years, with which she toured internationally and was part of a cast that received the 2015 Isadora Duncan Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Company.”

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NOELLE KAYSER originally from Atlanta, Georgia, began her professional dance career in 2011 at Luna Negra Dance Theater with an

apprenticeship under the direction of Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, performing the company’s repertoire domestically and internationally. In 2013, Noelle joined Goo, an Atlanta-based collaborative performance platform founded by Lauri Stallings. She has also worked with the Proia Dance Project, Erik Thurmond’s RIPPLE, Gathering Wild, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Scrap Theater Group. Noelle was a member of Visceral Dance Chicago under the direction of Nick Pupil from 2015 through 2018, performing works by Marguerite Donlon, Danielle Agami, Kevin O’Day, Alice Klock, Stephanie Martinez, and many others. Noelle has guested for Benjamin Wardell’s The Cambrians, and Fly on a Wall in Atlanta. Noelle has set her own choreography on Chicago’s Cerqua Rivera Dance Theater, Moonwater Dance Project, and Atlanta’s Kit Modus. Her piece for Kit Modus—The Excursion: Realized—was named a 2018 Highlight of the Year by ArtsATL. She has also served as a choreographic assistant to Stephanie Martinez and Wilfredo Rivera.

In addition to dance and choreography, Noelle has narrated 16 audiobooks for Listen Up Productions / Audible.com and appeared in industrial advertising for Grey Television and Kitchenmaid. Noelle joined NW Dance Project in February of 2019.

COLLEEN LOVERDE is a graduate of Point Park University where she earned her B.F.A. in dance as well as a minor in journalism.

While training at Point Park, she had the privilege of performing works choreographed by Martha Graham, Luke Murphy, Garfield Lemons Gregory Dolbashion, MADBOOTS DANCE, and Alexandra Damiani. Most recently, Colleen performed with Patrick O’Brien Dance, and worked as a freelance dancer in New York City. At Springboard Danse Montreal she had the opportunity to perform in original works by Vim Vigor Dance Company’s Shannon Gillen, German choreographer Ryan Mason, Johannes Wieland of Staatstheater

Kassel, and Micaela Taylor of the TL Collective. While attending NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH project, she has had the privilege of performing original works

by Alysa Pires, Alice Klock, Kristen Cere, and Meghan Lou before being invited to join the company.

University from 2012 to 2016. Since then, Kevin has danced professionally with YY Dance Company, Sonya Tayeh Dance Company, PrioreDance, Bruce Wood Dance, and I.C. Movement Project, as well as guesting with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company (at the National High School Dance Festival), Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and Focus Cia De Danca in Brazil. He has had the privilege to dance works by Crystal Pite, Alejandro Cerrudo, Victor Quijada, Lar Lubovitch, Jessica Lang, Andrea Miller, Loni Landon, Gregory Dolbashian, Dwight Rhoden, and Ronen Koresh, among others. Kevin participated in NW Dance Project’s 2018 LAUNCH project before being invited to join the company.

FRANCO NIETO 2012 PRINCESS GRACE AWARD WINNER was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. Franco was an athlete playing football for seven years before making his choice to dance. Franco began his training at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, and Columbia Dance, later studying under Tracey Durbin as a student and an assistant in Portland.

Franco graduated from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a B.F.A. in Jazz in 2009. Franco has danced original roles in NW Dance Project works by Didy Veldman, James Canfield, Sarah Slipper, Luca Veggetti, Pedro Dias, Maurice Causey, Wen Wei Wang, Andrea Miller, Noam Gagnon, Loni Landon and Lauren Edson.

In August 2012, Franco was one of only six dancers in the U.S. to win a Princess Grace Award for Dance. Franco received a full page feature in the February 2014 issue of Dance Magazine.

KEVIN PAJARILLAGA is a Washington D.C native who began his training at CityDance Conservatory in 2010 before attending Point Park

ANDREA PARSON 2010 PRINCESS GRACE AWARD WINNER began her early dance training in Hillsboro, Oregon, at NW Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Anita Mitchell. She received her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2008. Andrea has taught dance throughout Oregon and Washington and has participated in workshops with the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, anoukvandijk dc and the NW Dance Project. She has danced original roles in NW Dance Project works by Patrick Delcroix, Sarah Slipper, James Canfield, Luca Veggetti, Pedro Dias, Ihsan Rustem, Andrea Miller, Aszure Barton, Noam Gagnon, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Maurice Causey, Lucas Crandall, Wen Wei Wang, Alejandro Cerrudo, Cayetano Soto, Loni Landon, Edgar Zendejas, Carla Mann and Minh Tran. In June 2010, Dance Magazine named Andrea their dancer “On the Rise.” The following month, Andrea received her biggest career honor to date, winning a 2010 Princess Grace Award for Dance and she appeared on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine in February 2011, which did a feature on her and another on the company.

ANTHONY PUCCI was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began his dance training at Studio Dance under Michele Burke. He attended the University of Iowa, where he received a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography. While attending university, he had the privilege to perform extensively in faculty, graduate, and undergraduate work — most notably a site-specific work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia with the visually stunning Tori Lawrence & Co, as well as an evening-length work exploring energy cultures at an Anthroprocene symposium hosted by the University of Wyoming with Incite Insight Arts. Anthony danced for the past four years with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre in their productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, and others. Anthony is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor through the Yoga Alliance. In 2017 he attended NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH project.

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NW DANCE PROJECT DONATIONS: NW Dance Project would like to thank the following individuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies for their generous support.

Listing reflects gifts received from March 1, 2018 through April 15, 2019.

If you have a question or a correction to the listing, or would like to add or deepen your support, please contact Executive Director Scott Lewis at 503.756.1912 or info@nwdanceproject.org.

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