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Photo / Blaine Truitt Covert Dancers / William Couture + Noelle Kayser

WELCOME TO SUMMER PREMIERES THANK YOU so much for joining us for our special Summer Premieres show. We are honored to have you here with us tonight to experience this special evening of dance closing our actionpacked 15th Anniversary Season! WOW — 15 years and over 300 works! That’s a milestone and achievement for everyone involved — including you — can be proud to share.

Tonight’s program goes to the heart of what NW Dance Project is all about — new works from gifted choreographers danced by “some of the best dancers you will ever see” (Calgary Herald).

We are thrilled to welcome James Canfield back and to be able to provide him with the dancers, time, space, resources, and production team needed to finally bring a project to life and to the stage that he has envisioned for years — a new interpretation of Tennessee Williams’ iconic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. We also wish to thank Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. and his foundation for providing the crucial and generous funding for the development and premiere of this important new work which we can’t wait to share with the world.

We are also delighted to have Felix Landerer with us again, whose company has been doing great work in Germany and beyond. This is Felix’s third work for NW Dance Project and we are proud to support a piece that is so environmentally, socially, and politically poignant.

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”

Being steadfastly focused on commissioning and premiering new works, NW Dance Project occupies a rare and critical place in the international world of dance. The work that happens here and is seen first in our beloved Portland has impact and importance throughout the world.

We are thrilled to unveil our exciting 2019–20 season — our 16th! — with our brochure that’s hot off the press. And we have a special tasty treat for you! Renew or start your season subscription tonight and you’ll receive a box of custom, official, “collector’s edition” NW Dance Project M&Ms! It is going to be another year of stunning dance featuring several ambitious new works for the company. Resident Choreographer Ihsan Rustem is eager to dive into another adventurous classic, The Rite of Spring. Our dear “Frenchy” friend and real-life knight, Patrick Delcroix, returns for his fourth work with us. Two newly discovered talents — renowned Canadian poet, visual artist, and dance maker Serge Bennathan, and Amos Ben-Tal, an Israeli choreographer and musician based in the Netherlands, will make their U.S. debuts with NW Dance Project.

And of course, we will again turn the creative duties over to our immensely talented company dancers for In Good Company — now a Portland holiday tradition.

We hope you will stay with us to experience each stunning step.

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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PRESENTS

SUMMER PREMIERES 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 / Colleen Loverde + Anthony Pucci

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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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STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis COMPANY MANAGER Michael De Farias Moura EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR Caitlin Warren ENGAGEMENT + EVENTS COORDINATOR Jennifer Seung Hancock STUDIO MANAGER Kolina Chitta STUDIO STAFF 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 + Vincent James 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 + Madeleine Chow + Derek Menesez + Annie O’Neill + Melissa Rumsey Company portraits by Michael Slobodian

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JAMES CANFIELD GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER James Canfield was born in Corning, New York and received his early dance training at the acclaimed Washington School of Ballet under the direction of Mary Day. After dancing for the Washington Ballet in Washington, D.C., he joined the Joffrey II Dancers in New York City. Following one season with the Joffrey II Dancers, he was invited to join the Joffrey Ballet under the direction of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. During his career, James danced an extensive repertoire of works by noted choreographers such as Sir Frederick Ashton, Anthony Tudor, George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, William Forsythe, John Cranko, Marius Petipa, Jirí Kylián, José Limón, Agnes de Mille, Choo San Goh, and Val Caniparoli among others. James left the Joffrey Ballet and was appointed Oregon Ballet Theatre’s founding Artistic Director and served in that role from 1989–2003, choreographing over 30 ballets for the year-round company and establishing the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre. James served as Artistic Director of Nevada Ballet Theatre from 2008 to 2017. This is his ninth original work for NW Dance Project and he regularly teaches the company’s morning ballet class as well as other open classes.

FELIX LANDERER GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER Felix Landerer was born in 1975 in Hannover, Germany. He trained as a dancer at Gymnasium Essen-Werden and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. He danced professionally for 15 years and brought this phase of his career to a close in 2006 after years as a soloist in the company of Stephan Thoss at the Opera of Hannover.

During his time at the Opera of Hannover, he began choreographing for the ensemble of Stephan Thoss and additionally for the Balé Teatro Guaira in Curitiba, Brasil. In 2006 Felix transitioned to working full time as a freelance choreographer and founded his company Landerer & Company in Hannover. In 2007, alongside his own company’s productions, he began working with the Commedia Futura, Theater in der Eisfabrik. In 2010 Felix won the first prize in the International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover for the duet Suits, as well as the production prize for the Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam. Soon was named Resident Choreographer at Scapino Ballet the following year. He has created continuously for Scapino and Landerer&Company as well as being commissioned by companies all across Europe and the U.S. In 2015, Felix created What We’ve Lost on the Way for NW Dance Project, returning the following year to create Post–Traumatic Monster.

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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.

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.

In 2013, Noelle joined Goo, an Atlantabased 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 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.” She was also on staff at Alonzo King LINES Ballet for five years as the BFA Program Coordinator and Graphic Designer. Katherine attended NW Dance Project’s 2017 LAUNCH project.

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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.

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.

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 University from 2012 to 2016.

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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