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Organizing a professional-caliber dance chance to have their work seen if not for the
performance is no small endeavor. In addi coalition,” says Martha Murphy Hall, a
tion to creating and rehearsing the dance spokesperson for Dance Coalition of Ore
works on the program, there are myriad pro gon. (Murphy Hall is also participating as
duction details to handle, from hooking an an artist in the coalition’s upcoming Blue Sky
appropriate venue to organizing ticket sales, concert series.)
from engaging a lighting
The Blue Sky concert
designer to finding vol
series, supported in part
unteers to clean up after
by a grant from the Re
the audience has left.
gional Arts &. Culture
Many talented chore
Council, consists of four
ographers don’t have the
different programs, April
resources to organize a
8-10. More than 25 cho
full-scale production on
reographers are contribut
their own. That’s where
ing their work; represented
collaborative groups like
dance forms include mod
PDX Dance Collective
ern, ballet, ethnic dance,
and the Dance Coalition
hip-hop, tap, belly dance
of Oregon come in; both
and others.
are presenting April per
Blue Sky participants
C horeographer Agnieszka
formances that showcase
run the gamut from
Laska's piece The Fall ‘01
the work of diverse inde
emerging to established.
pendent choreographers “ Many of the groups
Choreographer Agnieszka
and dancers.
Laska spent nearly 20
wouldn’t
have
a
chance
to
The Dance Coalition
years working with the
of Oregon is the more have their work seen if not modern dance company
established of the two
Balet Form Nowocz-
for
the
coalition.”
groups. The nonprofit or
esnych of Poland before
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ganization was founded
she joined the Portland
DANCE
COALITION
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OREGON
more than 20 years ago to
dance community. Cerrin
SPOKESPERSON
support dance in all its
Lathrop, on the other
forms. Part of that support has historically hand, earned her B.F.A. in dance in 2007.
been to present the coalition’s annual Blue She has since acted as co-artistic director of a
Sky concerts, featuring a variety of dancers Phoenix-area dance company, Temenos
and choreographers from a range of genres Dance Collective, and performed with Po
and levels of accomplishment.
laris Dance Theatre’s second company, Polaris
“Many of the groups wouldn’t have a II, here in Portland.
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