Episodes
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Poison Waters on His Role as Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Monday Dec 18, 2017
This week Susannah chats with Kevin Cook, aka Poison Waters, about his role as Mother Ginger in Oregon Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker.
If you haven't seen The Nutcracker, this is the time to do it! Click here for tickets and show times!
Monday Dec 04, 2017
FROGZ Returns for the Holiday Season!
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Susannah chats with Imago co-founders, Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad about the company's return of the critically acclaimed production of FROGZ, which put Imago on the international map. The simplicity and the charm of the show catapulted the production to two Broadway runs at the acclaimed New Victory Theatre in 2000 and 2002.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
World Premiere for Lexicon by BodyVox
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
BodyVox leaps into its 20th Anniversary Season with the world premiere Lexicon, November 30 – December 16.
BodyVox fuses dance and technology in an exploration of space, sound, light, and motion, exemplifying BodyVox’s legacy of pushing the bounds of our senses and perceptions. Lexicon re-examines and expands the idea of live performance as dancers interact with infrared sensors, live video graphic generation, and animation creating a stage experience like no other.
Monday Oct 16, 2017
NW Dance Project: Ching Ching Wong’s Farewell Performance
Monday Oct 16, 2017
Monday Oct 16, 2017
This week Susannah chats with Sarah Slipper & Ching Ching Wong about their Fall 2017 season opener and Ching Ching's farewell performance with NW Dance Project.
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Get to the Pointe: Resident Choreographer Discusses His Work with OBT
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Monday Sep 18, 2017
This week Susannah Mars chats with Oregon Ballet Theatre's Resident Choreographer Nicolo Fonte about OBT's World Premiere of George Gershwin’s brilliant Rhapsody in Blue with live music by Pink Martini featuring China Forbes and Hunter Noack.
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Monday Jul 24, 2017
Susannah chats with Emily Lau about the upcoming Big Mouth Society inaugural Rainbow Soiree.
Monday May 15, 2017
PDX Contemporary Ballet: The Struggles & Triumphs of Creating a Company
Monday May 15, 2017
Monday May 15, 2017
Susannah chats with Briley Neugebauer of PDX Contemporary Ballet about their upcoming performance entitled Iterum Echoes: One Day. One Lifetime. En Eternity.
These are the explorations undertaken in premiers by three choreographers.
Concluding the prologue of their journey, PDX Contemporary Ballet easerly anticipates their next chapter.
terum Echoes runs June 2 -4 at New Expressive Works located at 810 SE Belmont St.
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Monday Apr 24, 2017
Adventures in Artslandia: Susannah Mars Chats with Fuchsia Lin
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Meet Fuchsia Lin filmmaker and textile artist. Her film Crystals of Transformation is a dance film that promotes water environmentalism and the research of a water scientist, Dr. MasaruEmoto. It’s a part of the Contact Dance Film Festival: Presented by Northwest Film Center and BodyVox Dance.
Apr. 27 - 29, 2017
Whitsell Auditorium
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Monday Mar 27, 2017
Listen here to BodyVox and skinner|kirk chat about their new performance, featuring Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland, Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk.
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Rich Narratives Around Women in Performance & The Making of a Production
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Monday Mar 20, 2017
Brenan Dwyer, McKenna Twedt, and director Alana Byington talk about Playhouse Creatures by by April De Angelis at Coho Productions.
Also, get a preview of next week's show with Skinner/Kirk Dance Ensemble's Eric Skinner and Daniel Kirk, and Body Vox's Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland.