Performance Works NorthWest || Linda Austin Dance

01/12/2025

In just a few days! Happy to be hosting Karen Nelson, Nica Portavia, and Evan Strauss.
JAN 17 SMALLER | A Tribute of Small Dance
JAN 18-19 Faking It with Gravity: CI Worksop
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SMALLER is a dance improvisation duet in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Strauss. The piece takes its name from Steve Paxton’s Small Dance query, “Can it be smaller?” In Contact Improvisation fashion, Nica and Karen, along with Evan’s living music, give their current answer, and explore the gigantic space found even within the most seemingly predictable outcomes.

The evening will include a “Tribute of Small Dance” to honor the inspiration of Steve Paxton, the instigator of the dance form Contact Improvisation who passed away in February 2024. His January 21st birthday also inspires a chance to recall and review a small sample of Steve’s many pointings, physical gestures, writings and performance interactions via readings and short video clips brought to life in the moment by the performers of SMALLER joined by local performers in an ensemble improvisation. Performers include Linda Austin, Linda K Johnson, Erik Ferguson and likely more.

01/08/2025

workshop #3 curated by

February 1, doors at 7pm, show at 7:30 PM
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01/07/2025

FEB 6-8 at
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Choreography and performance by Linda Austin in collaboration with dancers Allie Hankins and Danielle Ross.
Music composed and performed live by Chris Cochrane (guitar) and Kevin Bud Jones (electronics).Other collaborators & related events

WORSHOP: Artist/educator Amanda Leigh Evans, offers “When I Die: A Will Writing Workshop,” Saturday 4pm at PICA.
Sign up for the workshop HERE.

ARTIST TALK: Nan Curtis, visual artist and death doula, will join Linda Austin and Amanda Leigh Evans in an artist talk after Friday’s performance

12/29/2024

OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENT MOVEMENT ARTISTS!

PWNW || LAD invites one local and one visiting parent artist whose work engages a strong movement, body or dance-based component, to apply for one of our 2025 Alembic Parent Residencies providing s…

12/24/2024

Dear PWNW friends and supporters,

A quarter of a century! We are filled with joy, gratitude and not a little awe as we contemplate the thousands of artists, performances, rehearsal hours, and audience members involved in 25 years of artistic activity. Please help PWNW celebrate and prepare for the next chapter by donating as you can! And by coming to our space to experience artist-driven experiments in dance, music, and interdisciplinary performance. We have a wealth of such manifestations coming up in 2025!

IN 2024

—PWNW presented, co-presented or hosted 18 productions by local and visiting artists for a total of 36 performances and more than 1500 audience witnesses.

—Our Core Alembic Residency Programs presented work last March by the 2023-24 cohort of Katherine Longstreth, Emma Lutz-Higgins, and Trash Babe Productions. The latter two will be presenting evening-length works at PWNW in 2025. Our new cohort of sophia tweed ahmad, Kye Kauffman Grant and Kai Hynes is currently in the process of
researching and creating work.

—For our Alembic Parent Artist Residency, Latoya Lovely finished up her time at PWNW and Muffie Delgado Connelly is in the midst of her residency, while in the summer, we hosted our visiting parent artist, the Seattle-based award-winning choreographer Heather Kravas.

COMING UP IN 2025!

—JAN 17-19 “SMALLER” + “Faking It,” performance + workshop by Karen Nelson, Nica Portavia , and Evan Strauss

—JAN 26 “PASTfuture Long-Form Archival Conversation Series”— Linda K Johnson with Jeff Forbes, plus more to come!

—FEB 1 workshop #3: music by Seth Nehil, cat ross, and Anthony Stillabower

—FEB 6-8 “In Preparation for Disappearances to Come New work by Linda Austin Dance with Allie Hankins, Danielle Ross, Chris Cochrane and Kevin Bud Jones” ⇢ at PICA

—MAR 21-23 “FLOOR” Emma Lutz-Higgins with Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, and John Niekrasz.

—JUNE 27-29 “Alembic Artists in Performance:” sophia tweed ahmad, Kye Kauffman Grant, and Kai Hynes

—JULY 18-20, 26-27 new work by Trash Babes Productions, JmeJames Antonick, Patsy Morris, and Geovanny Vega

—AUGUST 2-3 PWNW 25th anniversary 25-hour marathon!!

12/03/2024

It’s hard to believe that 2025 will be our 25th anniversary year! Your generosity helps us cultivate and celebrate work that challenges, enlivens, keeps us alert and flourishing in these tricky times.

11/28/2024

DEC 21 | WINTER SOLSTICE POP-UP KARAOKE COCKTAIL PARTY RAFFLE FUNDRAISER
Join us at Performance Works NW to celebrate the longest night and the return of the lengthening days—and to raise a toast to (and a few extra bucks for) PWNW as we enter our 25th anniversary year! Stop by anytime between 7:30-11:30 to sing, hobnob, and enjoy a libation.
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
Your ticket includes one drink (beer, wine, soft drink, or Negroni), one raffle ticket, and of course, karaoke.
Raffle prizes include baked goods, performance tickets, T-shirts, and contributions from artists.

10/18/2024

DRIVE WOLVES MAD OPENS TONIGHT! Fri-Sat 7:40 pm at .
The show looks so good in our space yesterday for dress rehearsal!
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10/09/2024

10/09/2024

Oct. 18 & 19 at 7:30 DRIVE WOLVES MAD
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Collaborative duo Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy of Seattle are coming to PWNW to present an evening length dance work of horror, humor, and friendship, told through their distinctive aesthetic of the unhinged and uncanny.

DRIVE WOLVES MAD tracks the aftermath of an inciting event and ambiguous line between victim and perpetrator. A musical score by Jenny Peterson riffs on predatory pop songs, altering and abstracting them as an act of reclamation. Peterson/McCarthy’s journey seeks to transcend archetypes authored by men, finding their way to a place of survival and remediation–a way to exist in a context of their own creation.

07/27/2024

July 29 at 7:30 || noise night || Wilson Shook, Rebecca Novak, stephanie lavon trotter, and dana jnnfrsn
soak in the sounds of noise makers and improvisers Wilson Shook (Oakland), Rebecca Novak (Houston), stephanie lavon trotter and dana jnnfrsn.

July 29 | 7:30pm
PWNW | 4625 SE 67th Ave
$10-15 sliding scale

07/24/2024

July 26-27 || Kodi Crone || Metīs
Metîs reflects the harmonic series in bone, bark and the bardo. Concluding a triptych built on her sisters PALLAS and Medusa, Metìs is an interactive, immersive installation offering intermittent performances. Riding the waves, Metìs explores sound and vision in the active art of deep listening, and invites bodily transmissions in a sea of dreams.
sliding scale $8-$25 ~ no one turned away for lack of funds.
Tickets are required, so please RSVP.
Donations greatly appreciated.
July 26-27
Friday-Saturday 8-10pm
Performance Works NW
4625 SE 67th Ave. || Portland 97206
Installation & performances from 8-10pm.
Short performances will be offered throughout the installation.
Stay for an hour or more and you’ll likely catch one.