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OREGON'S LGBTO NEWSMAGAZINE 4 dance- APRIL 1, 2011 Also on the Blue Sky program is PDX Dance Collective, which is contributing work to the April 8 Blue Sky concert. In addition, the collective will present a full-length performance of its own, dubbed Inspired Transcendence, later this month. The performance features original contemporary dance pieces by five members of the collective, interspersed with musical inter ludes by local electro/indie band Ilima Considine and the Sexbots. Inspired Transcendence marks dancer Timothy Johnson’s first performance with PDX Dance Collective. Recently relocated from Houston, where he danced with a number o f professional companies, Johnson is excited to be a member o f the Portland collective, which presented its first show last fall. Members of the PDX Dance Collective contribute their skills as dancers as well as their individual “W hat I love about the collective styles as performers and choreographers. is that we are a mature group,” says Johnson. “We are all professional.” For Inspired Transcendence, Johnson is performing and teaching. Since coming to dancing in works choreographed by other Portland, he has continued to do both. (In members o f the collective. In the future, he fact, a high school dance team that he hopes to contribute his own choreography coaches, Parkrose Elite, recently won first to PDX Dance Collective productions. place in a state championship competition.) Johnson appreciates the collaborative But Johnson has also needed to branch into structure o f PDX Dance Collective. “There’s other performing arts in order to make ends no specific director, which is great,” he says. meet. In 2010, he performed locally with “We discuss things as a group.” Although he Broadway Rose Theatre Company and Lake- notes it can be challenging for a group of wood Theatre Company. He is also choreo strong-minded dancers and choreographers graphing a drag show that will be performed to make decisions together, it does tend to this summer at Darcellc XV Showplace. work out eventually. “The good thing is that Portland chal Johnson adds, “We all want the same lenges me to move into different directions,” thing: We all want to be heard, to be re says Johnson. J0] spectful o f each other. Everyone brings something different to the table.” The Dance Coalition o f Oregon presents its an Organizations such as PDX Dance C ol nual Blue Sky concert at 7:30p.m. April 8-10, lective and Polaris Dance Theatre, with plus a 2 p.m. matinee April 10, at Body Vox Stu which Johnson danced last year, are a large dios, 1201 N W 17th. Tickets, S I5 ($10 students/ part o f the reason Johnson moved to Port seniors), available through boxoficetickets.com. land in the first place. “I heard that the arts community is very good here, that there’s PDX Dance Collective presents Inspired Tran scendence at 8p. m. April 15-16 at Conduit Dance lots o f really great talent here,” he says. In Houston, Johnson made his living al Studio, 918 SW Yamhill Ave., Ste. 401. Tickets, most entirely in the dance community, by $12, via 503-512-0104 or pdxdancecollective.org. ft* o r tla n d SW OPFN -V IS IT T r y o u r C en ter fo r th e B r o a d w a y 8 c M a in FOR MOST P C PA E V E N T S W W W .P C P A .C O M n e w FOR s p e c ia l t y tww* 4 120 NW Third Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209 503-224-3285 www.hoboi Thursday A p ril 7, 2011 - First Thursday Kicks o ff LIVE Shows Every Thursday N ig h t to Enhance ALL y o u r Senses! This Weeks M usical Guest. A n d N e w A p ril A rtw o rk Old Flames Show Starts @ 8pm No Cover H appy H o ur Till M id n ig h t! Friday - April 8, 2011 @ 8pm S C A N D A LS P resen ts Tracy Underwood's àifcM dkttM hL d i f n i > w 1125 SW Stark St. Portland, OR 97205 503.227.5887 www.scandalspdx.com • at the Oregon Convention Center's Classic Cocktail Lounge . w Open to the Public HAPPY HOUR 4 PM to 7 PM Thursday and Friday drlnhs I oppetizers ffhtf mean I desserts P .,4' Soaoiiati STIR It Up... fr BISTRO • A P e r fo r m in g A rts * • 5 0 3 .4 3 2 .2 9 0 5 PlTASF CALL CALENDAR c o c k t a il s ’N . * 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd Portland. OR 97232 Located inside the Martin Luther King J t Lobby TO C O N F I R M OF FV FN TS — 8 c f o o d m e n u ! 3 3
