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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.
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