Summer Splendors - NW Dance Project

“SOME OF THE BEST DANCERS YOU WILL EVER SEE” -CALGARY HERALD

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SUMMER SPLENDORS JUN 8 - 10 / 7:30 PM

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SUMMER SPLENDORS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis

DANCERS Samantha Campbell Elijah Labay Andrea Parson Ching Ching Wong

William Couture Lindsey McGill Julia Radick

Kody Jauron Franco Nieto Charbel Rohayem

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Photo / Blaine Truitt Covert Dancers / Elijah Labay + Andrea Parson

WELCOME TO SUMMER SPLENDORS Thank you so much for joining us for our Summer Splendors show! We are honored to have you here with us tonight to experience this special evening of dance and music.

We are thrilled to revive our Chopin Project, which Oregon ArtsWatch reviewed as “smart, surprising, witty, engaging, and all the way to funny.” Chopin’s iconic 24 Preludes are being played live by acclaimed Portland concert pianist, Hunter Noack. We are greatly honored to have him onboard for these shows and Hunter always brings a wonderful energy and artistic spark to the studio and the stage.

The Chopin Project is a unique collaboration between four diverse choreographers. Each selected sequential preludes as inspiration for their pieces, and were creatively sewn together to create a full work that is varied yet cohesive. We know you’ll love the results.

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.

“... ONE OF THE HOTTEST DANCE COMPANIES IN AMERICA.” –Portland Stage Reviews

Also on the program is a world premiere from Artistic Director Sarah Slipper, who is known for her dramatic viewpoint. For her latest work, she is taking on a tragicomic drama that demonstrates the volatility of relationships and the banality of desires. She’s coupling four dancers to show a contrasting perspective of a relationship: young and visceral versus old and somewhat absurd.

NW Dance Project remains dedicated to commissioning, creating, and premiering significant new contemporary dance works in Portland—over 250 since our inception in 2004—while celebrating the creativity and invention of exceptional dancers and dance makers. We think you’ll agree with the Calgary Herald that we have “some of the best dancers you will ever see,” and with The Oregonian that NW Dance Project is “an essential part of the city’s arts scene.”

We are excited to unveil our exciting 2017–18 season with you—our 14th —with our brochure in this program. It is going to be another year of stunning dance featuring several ambitious new works for the company. The season will see the return of some dear friends such as our Resident Choreographer, Ihsan Rustem, the wildly inventive Czech dance maker Jirí Pokorný, and the winner of our 2016 Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, Luca Signoretti. We’ll also be welcoming back two top choreographers who have been away for far too long: Cayetano Soto, who had his US premiere with NW Dance Project in 2007 and is now Resident Choreographer of Ballet BC, and Wen Wei Wang who returns to us after a five-year absence.

Sarah will have another premiere in the spring—a full-length work based on the famous 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, a masterpiece of realism and world drama, featuring her first original score. We will again turn the creative duties over to our immensely talented company dancers for In Good Company—now a Portland holiday tradition, and this new show will also see the return of Ihsan’s imaginative and well-received Boléro.

It’s going to be an inspired and inspiring year of dance. We hope you will be with us to experience each stunning step. Thank you again for being here—we truly appreciate your support of innovative, original dance made in Portland and of NW Dance Project! Enjoy the show and we’ll see you in the lobby!

Sarah Slipper | Artistic Director

Scott Lewis | Executive Director

NW DANCE PROJECT

Photo / Blaine Truitt Covert Dancers / Kody Jauron + Ching Ching Wong

2016–17 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.

We are so proud that four of our talented company 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 most recently Ching Ching Wong in 2015.

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.”

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.

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 250 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)

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

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.

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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GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHIES LUCAS CRANDALL

Lucas Crandall began training in dance at the age of 14. In 1980 he obtained his first professional contract with the Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve. In 1985, he joined Nederlands Dans Theater where he first worked with HSDC’s Artistic Director, Jim Vincent. After performing with the Nederlands Dans Theater for two years, Crandall returned to the Ballet du Grand Theatre, working with choreographers including Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kylián, Mats Ek and Christopher Bruce.

In 1996 he became the company’s Rehearsal Director. Lucas then went to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2000 to serve as the renowned company’s Artistic Associate. Lucas Crandall has also served on faculty with the Lou Conte Dance Studio, as well as ballet and repertory instructor for master classes throughout the country.

Creating works since 1982, his pieces have been performed in the US and abroad. Lucas has led master classes and workshops for the NW Dance Project and created —Triptych— for the company in 2006 and —Blue— in 2008. In 2010, Lucas returned to Nederlands Dans Theater 1 where he served as Repetitor through 2012. Since then, Lucas has served as a guest teacher for the Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve, guest Ballet Master for Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal and Rehearsal Director for NW Dance Project. Lucas returned to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in April 2013 to serve as the company’s Ballet Master. In 2015 Lucas was one of the four choreographers in the NW Dance Project, Chopin Project, collaboration with international awardwinning pianist, Yekwon Sunwoo, marking his third original creation for the company.

His fourth original creation for NW Dance Project, Salt, premiered in fall 2016.

TRACEY DURBIN

Tracey started dancing professionally at the age of four. After studying years of piano, theater and ballet at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, Tracey moved to Los Angeles where she studied ballet with Stanley Holden, jazz with Luigi (the innovator of the world’s first jazz technique), and assisted Hama, Luigi’s protégé. Her choreography has been in the L.A. Jazz Festival, music videos, industrials, and many shows. Tracey has also lived and taught dance in Israel. In Portland, Tracey was an original member of Dancers’ Workshop, started Irvington Dance Company, and has taught for many years at Oregon Ballet Theatre, Reed College, and BodyVox. Currently she teaches at DaVinci Arts Middle School and Portland

Ballet. Teaching since the age of 15, Tracey’s classes blend the philosophy of classical Luigi jazz technique, the lyricism and strength of modern and ballet, and the musical experience ranging from Bach to Aretha Franklin. Her life experiences inspire her true passion—teaching lyrical jazz dance.

RACHEL ERDOS

Rachel Erdos is an independent choreographer born in England. She received her MA from The Laban Centre London specializing in choreography. She is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her work has been seen around the world including Israel, UK, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Slovakia, China, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kasachstan, Tajikistan, and The U.S. Rachel won first prize in the AICC International choreography competition in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008 and in 2009 won City Dance Ensemble’s commissioning project, Washington DC. She was commissioned to create a new work for Mancopy Dance Company, Aarhus, Denmark in 2009. Her work has been shown in some of the most prestigious venues including The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, The Royal Opera House London. Rachel was artist in residence in Cork, Ireland in 2010.

In 2011 Rachel was commissioned to make a new solo work and Mr on dancer/ choreographer Ido Tadmor which has toured extensively around the world including Korea, Cyprus, U.S.A., and Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Poland and Africa.

In 2012 Rachel was commissioned by Company E, Washington DC and Third Row Company, London. In 2012 Rachel was awarded the prize for Artist of the Year in the field of dance by The Ministry of Absorption.

DANCER BIOGRAPHIES SAMANTHA CAMPBELL

is from Salt Lake City, Utah.

She attended the University of Utah as a Ballet major and graduated with a B.F.A. in May 2007. She was a member of Utah Ballet for three years while at the University, danced with Alabama Ballet and danced on scholarship at the Lou Conte Dance Studio (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago). Samantha has danced original roles in NW Dance Project works by Didy Veldman, Lucas Crandall, Sarah Slipper, Donald McKayle, James Canfield, Patrick Delcroix, Wen Wei Wang, Andrea Miller, Pedro Dias, Loni Landon, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Noam Gagnon, Edgar Zendejas, Maurice Causey, Lauren Edson, Carla Mann and Minh Tran.

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, Jirˇí Pokorný, Ihsan Rustem, and Yin Yue.

DANCER BIOGRAPHIES ELIJAH LABAY was born in

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and started training at Ballet Arts Academy in Spokane, Washington. In 2004, Elijah joined Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet Professional Division and then attended the Fellowship Program at The Ailey School on full scholarship. He received a Professional Advancement Award at Jacob’s Pillow to work with Aszure Barton, Helen Pickett, and Tero Saarinen.

In 2009, Elijah joined Florida Dance Theatre directed by Carol Erkes and had the opportunity to choreograph Kaos in Wonderland. Elijah attended NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:4 project where he worked with choreographers Loni Landon and James Gregg. He was featured in NW Dance Project’s premiere of André Mesquita’s duet, A Short History of Walking, and in other original NW Dance Project works created by Patrick Delcroix, Ihsan Rustem, Lucas Crandall, Pedro Dias, Loni Landon, Sarah Slipper, Noam Gagnon, Olivier Wevers, Carla Mann and Minh Tran.

LINDSEY MCGILL was born

in Houston, Texas. She began her formal dance training under Elizabeth and Rosemary Molak in Orange County, California and continued training at the Houston Ballet Academy under the direction of Ben Stevenson, Clara Cravey and Priscilla Nathan Murphy. Since graduating from Houston Ballet Academy, Lindsey has worked with Jane Weiner’s Hope Stone Dance, Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, iMEE, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, O Dance, NobleMotion Dance, The Next Stage Project, KDNY and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2.

She has also had opportunities to dance in projects by a number of independent artists including Jhon R. Stronks, Paola Georgudis, Teresa Chapman, Amy Ell’s Vault and Freneticore. Lindsey participated in NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:5 project.

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.

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.

JULIA RADICK was born and

raised in New York City. She graduated from LaGuardia Arts High School and earned her BFA in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has also trained at North Carolina School of the Arts, Boston Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and with Batsheva. Julia has danced original works by Nathan Trice, Brunilda Ruiz, James Sutton, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Aszure Barton, and Kate Weare. She was a member of the Yomoco and has performed with Classical Contemporary Ballet Theatre.

Julia is a certified Mind Body Dancer™ yoga instructor. Julia took part in NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:7 project.

CHARBEL ROHAYEM began his

training at the age of 16 under the direction of Teresa Felix and Trina Araby in Hercules, California. He has participated in summer programs and workshops with the California State Summer School for the Arts, The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, BODYTRAFFIC, Sidra Bell Dance New

York’s winter|module, Springboard Danse Montreal (2015–2016), and NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:11. Charbel attended the Lines Ballet BFA program, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Arts Management in the Spring of 2016.

He is a 2011 Herb Alpert Emerging Young Artist, as well as a 2015–2016 Dizzy Feet Foundation scholarship recipient. Charbel has had the privilege of performing the works of Gregory Dawson, Alex Ketley, Ohad Naharin, Sidra Bell, Anton Rudakov, Arturo Fernandez, Maurya Kerr, Roy Assaf, Luca Signoretti, and Fernando Melo.

CHING CHING WONG — 2015 PRINCESS GRACE AWARD WINNER was born in Manila,

Philippines, but since the age of three calls southern California her home. She began her dance training at Allegria Dance Theater under the direction of Alia Harlan.

She received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance and minor in Education and Psychology & Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine. During her UCI days, she was a member of Donald McKayle’s Etude Ensemble and also performed works by Jodie Gates, Molly Lynch, Lisa Naugle, Rennie Harris and William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite. Ching Ching participated in NW Dance Project’s LAUNCH:3 & LAUNCH:4 projects, and has danced original roles in new NW Dance Project works by Didy Veldman, Patrick Delcroix, Wen Wei Wang, Ihsan Rustem, Pedro Dias, Lucas Crandall, Loni Landon, Noam Gagnon, James Gregg, Lauren Edson, Tracey Durbin and Minh Tran. Ching Ching has been awarded a 2015 Princess Grace Award in Dance, making her the fourth member in NW Dance Project to receive this coveted honor.

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NW DANCE PROJECT

STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sarah Slipper EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Scott Lewis COMPANY MANAGER Katie Holliday EDUCATION & OUTREACH COORDINATOR Caitlin Warren STUDIO STAFF Kasandra Martinez + Laura Faye Smith + Lindsay Spoonmore LIGHTING DESIGNER & PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Jeff Forbes STAGE MANAGER Thyra Hartshorn COSTUME & WARDROBE MANAGEMENT Cassie Ridgway + Alexa Stark ACCOMPANISTS Ray McKean + Jon Roberts + Susan Schroeder

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DANCE TEACHERS

Pierre-Laurent Baudey Jacqueline Cape Alan Jones Gary Leavitt Scott Lewis Mark MacDonald Missy MacDonald Steven C. Neighorn Sarah Slipper Jane Tighe John Tracy Peter van Bever Serena Zilliacus

Renee Adams Diana Bustos Samantha Campbell James Canfield Kim Choeychan William Couture Lucas Crandall Jason Davis Michelle Davis Mariecella Devine Selina Dipronio Tracey Durbin Peter Franc Cora Guren Izzy Holmes Kody Jauron Tracy Julias Sharee Lane Lindsey Matheis Ella Matweyou Lindsey McGill Faith Morrison Franco Nieto Andrea Parson Julia Radick Jesus Rodales Rachel Slater Sarah Slipper Vanessa Thiessen Gerard Theoret Kitty Tibbals Jasmin Trotter Viktor Usov Caitlin Warren Ching Ching Wong

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGN Rachel Beckwith + Christopher Peddecord

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

WEB SUPPORT Christopher Peddecord

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PHOTOGRAPHY Blaine Truitt Covert + Christopher Peddecord

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VIDEOGRAPHY Ralph Davis, Action Video + Christopher Peddecord HEALTH & WELLNESS Dr. Katharine Zeller PHYSICAL THERAPY West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic ACUPUNCTURE Anna Brook

Sarah Slipper

Scott Lewis

Samantha Campbell William Couture Kody Jauron Elijah Labay Lindsey McGill Franco Nieto Andrea Parson Julia Radick Charbel Rohayem Ching Ching Wong

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