{"id":6023,"date":"2016-03-31T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2017-02-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:43:11","slug":"pdx-contemporary-ballet-presents-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/guest-rental\/pdx-contemporary-ballet-presents-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"PDX Contemporary Ballet presents Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTERLUDE<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Unleashed and Unexpected at CoHo Theater<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\"PDXContemporaryBallet_Interlude_group\"<\/a>Tickets for \u201cINTERLUDE\u201d now available online at www.PDXCB.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong> CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., Portland, Oregon<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday, February 9th<\/strong> \u2013 open to the public event at 6:30pm, \u201csneak peek\u201d at 7:30<\/p>\n

Friday, February 10th<\/strong>\u00a0at 7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, Feb 11th<\/strong>\u00a0at 7:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday, Feb 12th<\/strong>\u00a0at 2:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

COST:<\/strong>\u00a0$15 – $25 online, \u00a0$20 – $30 at the door<\/p>\n

Image Credits to Nic Porter Photography<\/h6>\nPDX Contemporary Ballet's Interlude<\/span><\/a>\n

Interlude:\u00a0 Six works by six choreographers, danced by six company members.<\/h4>\n

All coming together from across the U.S.\u00a0 All set loose in the intimate CoHo Theater to ply their art as they see fit in these tumultuous times.<\/p>\n

The result is unexpected, and sometimes provocative.<\/p>\n

Seattle\u2019s Eva Stone sets a piece entirely to spoken word about language and meaning lost in translation.\u00a0 Artistic Director Briley Neugebauer\u2019s podcast-inspired work begins with a call to arms for women.\u00a0 And Boston-based choreographer Margaret Wiss explores the space where dance and science meet.<\/p>\n

Another unexpected twist:\u00a0 Japanese violinist Tomoki Martens delivers capricious musical interludes within \u201cInterlude\u201d.<\/p>\n

Local favorite M\u2019liss Stephenson Quinnly \u2013 long time principal with Polaris Dance Theater who continues as their Junior Company Director and main company rehearsal director \u2013 entertains with a music box persona.\u00a0 In this vignette, the music box girl does something absurd (no spoilers here!), gets a bit of a scare, but all in all she keeps going round and round.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Emily Running \u2013 founder of Portland\u2019s Dance Wire and veteran choreographer for aerial troupe A.W.O.L \u2013 returns to terra firma for \u201cInterlude\u201d. Her work highlights the contrast between the skeletal body and fluidity of movement, and instead of depending on storyline, engages the viewer on a visceral level.<\/p>\n

In contrast Hayley Glickfeld Bielman is more coy about her piece The Singing Butler,\u00a0<\/em>which is inspired by Jack Vettriano’s painting of the same title. Glickfeld Bielman has worked abroad in Germany and Austria, and makes her Portland choreographic debut with this dance.<\/p>\n

Up-and-coming choreographer Margaret Wiss \u2013 who took time from the demands of her schedule in Boston and NYC to set a piece for \u201cInterlude\u201d \u2013 explores the space where dance and science meet.\u00a0 She seeks to reveal for us the invisible motion of physical forces, testing the hypothesis that nothing happens until something moves.<\/p>\n

Finally, there is Formless<\/em> \u2013 another new work by Artistic Director Briley Neugebauer.\u00a0 Of the surreal time since Election Day 2016, she says \u201cNever in a million years did I feel like I would have to re-live a struggle that was already in the history books.\u00a0 But suddenly the pages are rapidly being flipped backward, from left to right.\u201d\u00a0 Neugebauer\u2019s original soundscape pulls from past and present notions of female stereotypes.\u00a0 It includes controversial podcast excerpts, along with music from multiple eras and genres.<\/p>\n

With the exception of Eva Stone\u2019s piece to spoken word, all works are entirely new and will premier for the first time during \u201cInterlude\u201d.\u00a0 And no setting could be more ideal than the CoHo stage.\u00a0 Says company supporter Claire Willett, \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m a longtime fan of CoHo and have seen my own work produced on their stage.\u00a0 I love their commitment to providing an artistic home for smaller companies.\u00a0 I\u2019m thrilled to see \u201cInterlude\u201d brought to life in such an intimate space, where the formal distance between dancer and audience we typically expect in ballet performance is erased.\u201d<\/p>\n

2016-2017 is the company\u2019s first full season.\u00a0 It will conclude with \u201cIterum Echoes\u201d in June 2017, when PDX Contemporary Ballet returns to N.E.W. Expressive Works.<\/p>\n

Choreographer bios and more information is online at www.pdxcb.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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