1. Tuning Score Practice | Sunday Sept 16.
2. Call for Choreographic and Dance Film submissions to Next Fest NW | DEADLINE TODAY
3. South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program | Tim DuRoche
4. NEW Performance Work NW Op: ALEMBIC | Application due Oct. 1
1. Tuning Score Sunday Sept 16.
Tuning Scores is an approach to spontaneous ensemble composition and performance developed by Lisa Nelson. Each player uses actions and simple verbal calls to continually tune the image, the time, and space in order to make meaning for her(him)self. For the past year, Performance Works has been hosting a monthly Tuning Score practice led by Karen Nelson and Nora Hajos, and after summer break, we are ready to start again!
From Karen:
Hi all,
We’ve decided to take a dive into the material underneath the tuning scores. The workshop will include a deep sensory personal warm-up and opportunities to experience an extension of the warm-up state in dances with others. Then we will play with some tuning scores both doing and watching. No previous experience is necessary, and we hope you will gain some understanding of what tuning scores and the under-the-surface activities are all about. Your questions will inspire us!
All this, in some way, is in preparation for a visit to Portland by Lisa Nelson early next spring. We hope anybody who is interested in this work will take the opportunity to dive in over the next months, and be able to also interact with Lisa when she comes.
If you think you can come on Sunday, Sept 16th from 12-4pm at Performance Works NorthWest, please let me know.
heartgreen@yahoo.com
The deal is the same, a sliding scale starting at $5, but don’t stay away if you can’t afford that. Also, please pass the word.
thanks,
karen
2. Call for Choreographic and Dance Film submissions to Next Fest NW
Next Fest NW, November 30-December 2, 2007, is Velocity’s new works series celebrating what’s happening in contemporary dance and movement in our region. Each Next Fest NW showcases 3-4 choreographers and dance films and videos screened at the late-nite Next Dance Cinema. Next Fest NW artists are fully produced in Velocity’s MainSpace Theater and also benefit from promotional, administrative and technical support.
The applications are available on our web site at http://www.velocitydancecenter.org/opportunities.htm
Deadline for Next Fest choreographers September 13, 2007
Dance film and video submission deadline is October 26, 2007.
Questions: 206.325.8773 or info@velocitydancecenter.org
3. South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program | Tim DuRoche
South Waterfront Artist in Residence Program presents:
Two projects by composer and conceptual artist Tim DuRoche
Sept. 1st – 30th, 2007
Whyte Spaces: a self-guided metonymrovisational audio tour
Looking at the So. Waterfront as an improvisational work-in-progress, DuRoche is creating self-guided audio-tours that immerse listeners in a conceptual relationship with site and sound. WHYTE SPACES retunes the perception of place and assembles sounds recorded throughout Portland. . . sounds of celebration, quietude, commerce, contemplation and communion—singular memory-rich sounds that help us imagine the possibilities of landscape and a neighborhood under construction, both figuratively and literary. The self-guided audio tours can be checked out daily from the AiR temporary office at Bella Expresso at the corner of SW River Parkway and Pennoyer or call to make an appointment -971.998.4810. Office Hours: M, 10a-noon and 4-6p; T/Th, noon-4p; W/F, 10a-2p; Sa, 10a-1p
23 Anthems: So. Waterfront Sound Commission
During the month of September, DuRoche will solicit answers to a survey/ questionnaire from residents, workers and visitors to the South Waterfront from which he will compose 23 anthems, school songs as it were, for the Waterfront, to be performed live by his jazz quartet on Sunday, Sept. 23rd at 4p. Please join us for this free concert.
Sunday, Sept. 23rd, 2007
@John Ross Plaza @ SW River Parkway and Gaines
4-5:30p; Free and open to the public
Tim DuRoche is the inaugural artist in a 13-month series of guest exhibitors who will be developing site-specific works in Portland’s newest urban neighborhood— South Waterfront. The South Waterfront Artist in Residence program, Sept./07 – Sept./08, is directed by dance artist Linda K. Johnson and is devoted to place-making, through temporary acts of performance, installation and written/spoken word. All events are free and open to the public. For more information – artistinresidence@southwaterfront.com or www.southwaterfront.com after Sept. 14th.
4. NEW Performance Work NW Op: ALEMBIC | Application due Oct. 1
ALEMBIC will offer afternoon space six Sundays a year to individual artists or groups to curate and produce their own low tech events.
OUR GOAL is to encourage artists to take a chance, cook up new ways of presenting or talking about work, investigate innovative audience/performer/participant relationships or all of these at the same time! For example:
–curating an event that brings together other artists around a theme or discipline or rubric
–experimenting in front of an audience with something you’ve always wanted to try
–creating instant performance on the spot with “audience” members
–trying out another medium that’s not your official area of expertise; i.e. dancers showing video; painters reading their writing
–hosting an event focused on discourse or investigation or consideration of art practice in our region/nation/world (a talk show? panel? town meetng?)
–any other public event that you dream of that’s NOT a works-in-progress. ALEMBIC is the event– not a “practice” or less worthy version of the “real thing” or “finished product.”
WE PROVIDE
—our space (max capacity = 49): available for you from 12-6 pm on a given Sunday: time to set up, have your event and clean up.
—sound system and the lighting system in its existing rep plot
—video projector available for a small fee (bulb burn fee)
—someone at the box office. Performance Works keeps 20% of the door (minimum of $20 to a maximum of $75) and the producing artist or group gets 80%.
—distribution of your announcement to our email list
—answers to tech questions etc.
—kitchen facilities for serving snacks, making coffee etc.
—discounted rehearsal time at PWNW
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
—setting your own ticket price
—your own publicity, set up and clean up.
—someone to run lights and sound if needed (we can show you the ropes for running the lights manually)
—acknowledgment of Performance Works in any press materials
—supplying own refreshments as desired
—getting your own OLCC temp license if you sell or serve alcohol
TO APPLY
Send a short email proposal to
lindapaustin@mac.com
by Oct 1, 2006 if you are interested, telling us
1–a general description of what you want to do, and how it relates to our goals as stated above.
150 words max.
2–short bio of yourself/selves 100 words max per lead artist
3–three possible Sunday dates in 2008
We will make our decision by Nov. 15.
Criteria for selection are
–how well your event aligns both our stated project goals and our overall artistic mission
–scheduling needs
–desire on our part for variety in the programming
–willingness to attend a meeting (with food!) of all the artists chosen
