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qcu hove o uihde drq or' qoir C elebrates 'The Simple Jo y
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bodies, they create joy and plea­
12/24
Annual Holiday Show O f Handmade Crafts.
more info: http://www.wweek.com/html/visl...
Oregon College of Art and Craft Portland, OR
12/24
Art by Northwest Coast Indians 223-1729.
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Quintana Portland, OR
12/25
35th-annual Christmas Show 644-8001.
more info: http://www.wweek.com/html/visl...
Village Gallery of Arts Portland, OR
12/25
8:00pm Christmas With The Crawfords
Pre-Berserk! Joan throws open her home to Davis,
Hepburn, Merman and Garland, while daughter Christina
cowers nearby. Triangle Productions! at Theatre!
Theater! $ 15-$ 17. more info: http://www.wweek.com/html/perf...
Theater! Theater! Portland, OR
12/25
Christmas at Tidbit
This is 41 different artistes in a salon-style show.
This exhibit will represent the gallery’s direction for the New Year,
more info: http://portland.digitalcity.co...
Tidbit Portland, OR
12/26
After Christmas Sale
RE1 is one of the best places to buy all of your winter
sports gear. Come here and pick up every thing that you
will need for the weekend skiing
more info: http://portland.digitalcity.co...
REI- Portland Recreational Equipment Portland, OR
12/26
Annie Hoppe; Bob Swan
Oil paintings of serene landscapes by Annie Hoppe;
oil-on-wood figurative paintings by Bob Swan 224-2634.
more info: http://www.wweek.com/html/visl...
Blackfish Portland, OR
H
. « dren published Dance, an
exciting book of photographs cap­
turing the spirit o f choreogra-
pher/dancer Bill T. Jones, one o f
the most important and celebrated
artists in the world today.
Author/photographer Susan
Kuklin, whose book, Reaching
for Dreams: A Ballet From Re­
hearsal to Opening Night, won
an ALA Best Book For Young
Adults, created the captivating
photographs o f Jones.
The perform er is pictured us­
ing his entire body to arch, curve,
leap, and stretch with fun m ove­
ments that kids child can easily
imitate. One color spread is d e­
voted entirely to hands and fin­
gers.
With unabashed delight, Jones
shares his passion for dance with
children in photographs and
words that are powerful in their
sim plicity, appealing to their
natural desire to express them ­
selves with their bodies. Publi­
cation o f Dance coincides with
Bill T. Jones’ and the Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Com ­
pany m ulti-city tour which will
be in Portland, OR on March 1-
3, 1999.
In Dance, Bill T. Jones and
Susan Kuklin suggest that not
only is dance lots o f fun, but it
can also help childnA 's self-
Charles Dickens (lassie A ChristinavCa
Portland Center Stage will stage
the largest production in its his­
tory this holiday season as it un­
veils a new adaptation o f Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The
production opened December 4
and plays through January 2,1999
in the Newmark (formerly Inter­
mediate) Theatre o f the Portland
Center for the performing Arts.
The play is adapted and staged
by Elizabeth Huddle, PCS Artis­
tic Director. It features scenery
by Scott Weldin, costumes by
Jeanne Arnold and lighting by
Rick Paulsen. For this song-filled
Carol, composer Karl Mansfield
has written several new pieces o f
music as well as including tradi­
tional favorites and Victorian car­
ols.
Terry Sneed, last seen in Port­
land Center Stage's raucous tour-
de-force A Tuna Christmas, plays
Ebenezer Scrooge. The cast fea­
tures many Portland favorites,
including Susannah Mars as the
ghost o f Christm as past, Ted
Roisum as the Ghost o f Christ­
mas present and David Meyers as
Jacob Marley.
Other cast members are Victor
Morris as the Narrator, Robert
M cGranahan as Bob C ratchit,
Dance,
sure for themselves and others.
Jones inspires children with po­
etic language that celebrates the
ab ility o f dance to enhance
children’s connectedness to the
world and to humanity.
“ When I am dancing, I am
everyone and I am only one,” he
writes. “ When I am dancing I
am everywhere and I am hardly
there.”
Bill T. Jones loves to
inspire children to
express themselves
through dance
TEARS OF TOY
a THEATRE;
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by Tim Giugni
December l l * - 13,h
Columbia Arts Center
December 18* - January 3"*
Joyce H arris W ood as M rs.
Cratchit, JoAnn Johnson as Mrs.
Fezziwig, Don Alder as Fred,
Jacque Drew as Belle, and Dwight
Tolar as Young Scrooge.
Several local young people ap­
pear in the production. Dustin
Tragethon plays Tiny Tim, Cody
Hill plays Teen Scrooge, Blake
Lowell and Lily Lowell play
Cratchit children, and Timothy
Patrick Walsh is a singer and
ensemble member.
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for the Performing Arts
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248-0557 - Portland
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