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SPIN
WHO’S WHO AND WHAT’S
WHAT IN DANCE THIS MONTH
BY RACHAEL CARNES
BU T T ON W IL L
(OF P OR T L A ND)
P ER F OR M S
‘L IL AC NOISE S’
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t’s a new year, and you should be dancing:
Ballet Fantastique Academy’s winter
session has begun, and BFan offers a Free
Dance Week, Jan. 9-14, at their studio.
Eugene Ballet Academy (EBC) offers a
full slate of classes, too, with ballet, hip hop, jazz,
modern, tap and creative movement for all ages.
Rueda de Casino (Cuban salsa) is a social activ-
ity, and you have the chance to learn its founda-
tional moves in a lively beginner class taught by
Vito Garcia, 7-8 pm, Jan. 9-30, at the Eugene
Flamenco Arts Studio, 1670 W. 11th Ave.; $35
for the series. “Beginners will learn the basic
foundation moves of Cuban salsa: guapea, dile que
no, enchufla, vacilala and exhibila as well as some
other fun ‘fluff’ moves,” Garcia says. The studio
also offers intermediate and advanced classes.
Call 541-431-1640 for more information.
Modern square dance lessons start Jan. 31,
7-8:30 pm, at the Emerald Square Dance Center,
2095 Yolanda Ave., Springfield. $3 per class,
under 18 free. For more information, go to dare-to-
dance-square.com.
And Track Town Swing Club swings into the
action with a Lindy hop series class for beginners.
“This class is perfect if you have never danced
swing before and if you have experience in other
social dance styles!” dancer Nick Davis says. Class
meets at 7 pm Tuesdays at the Veterans Memorial
Association, 1626 Willamette St.
In fundraising news, The Northwest
Screendance Exposition has launched a campaign
to support its academic outreach program with the
Academy of Arts and Academics in Springfield.
“The project will introduce students to the art and
techniques of creating Screendance, an art form
resulting from the collaboration of choreographers
and filmmakers, and create a curriculum for teaching
Screendance in secondary schools around the state.
The goal is to raise $6,500 by Feb. 15,” says
Screendance’s John Watson. See the campaign page
at igg.me/at/a3nwse.
In Snow Queen news, on the heels of their
Nutcracker performances (find our review online
on the EW blog), Orchestra Next musicians
recorded the score for The Snow Queen in
December under the direction of Brian McWhorter,
while the music’s composer, Kenji Bunch, along
with EBC artistic director Toni Pimble, listened
from a sound booth. The recording will serve
Pimble and EBC during rehearsals for The Snow
Queen and the music will be available to purchase
when the show premiers in April 2017.
And in inauguration news, America’s favorite
chorus line, the Rockettes, kicked up a kerfuffle
when many in the group spoke out against per-
forming in celebration of the president-elect.
Initially, the company’s owner, cablevision CEO
James Dolan, along with the dancers’ union, the
American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), pres-
sured the dancers to perform, but after an outpour-
ing of online ire, they backed off their “or else”
stance. The dancers onstage for the Jan. 20 pro-
ceedings will have apparently chosen to be there
(although, as of press time, there were no volun-
teers.)
In hope-for-the-future news, Whim W’Him
Contemporary Dance presents SENSATION, Jan.
20-28, at the Cornish Playhouse in Seattle, pre-
miering new creations by the artistic director of
New York-based Keigwin + Company, Larry
Keigwin, as well as a new work from Penny
Saunders, a dancer with Hubbard Street Dance
Chicago, and Whim W’Him artistic director
Olivier Wevers.
And closer to home, Portland’s White Bird
Dance presents Great Britain’s BalletBoyz, Jan.
24-25. After their memorable Portland debut in
November 2014, the British boys are back with a
compelling new program they’re calling Life, fea-
turing two works by acclaimed choreographers
Pontus Lidberg and Javier de Frutos. Ten
immensely gifted male dancers, guided by former
Royal Ballet stars Michael Nunn and William
Trevitt, will display great physicality and lyricism
in an evening that takes a powerful look at life and
death. (And in Life, dancers wear giant papier-
mâché bunny heads.) Recommended for all ages.
And locally, mark your calendar for King’s
Krew’s 11th-annual winter show Royal Express,
Jan. 21 at LCC, and Xcape Dance Company’s
LOVE! Feb. 3 at the Hult Center, with a portion of
proceeds benefitting Ophelia’s Place.
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