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    May 05, 2004
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Arts Celebrated at PCC
Portland C om m unity C ollege’s
18th annual show case festival Art
Beat is a district-w ide tribute to the
arts.
Art Beat spreads across all three
PCC cam puses, offering students
and the com m unity access to local,
regional and national artists as well
as an extensive collection o f visual
w orkshops.
Art Beat is from May 10 to 14. For
details on specific events, visit http:/
/art beat.pcc.ed u.
T he ev en t w ill have one o f the
reg io n s m ost p ro m in en t and re ­
sp ected artists as the fea tu re d
artist in 2004 in N ativ e-A m erican
painter Jam es Lavadour. T he ea st­
Polaris D a n ce T h ea te r brings
in n o va tive ch o reo g ra p h y a n d
a thletic, p o w erfu l m o v e m e n ts to
Art B eat.
L avadour is Art B e a t’s fe a tw e d artist, d ed ica tin g his p a in t­
ing, “G h o st Cam p, “ a s th e fe a tu re d work.
Jam es
art, dance, m usic, theater and liter­
ary events to help expose them to
art. Each cam pus wi 11 feature a vari -
ety o f perform ances, art displays,
in te ractiv e d e m o n stra tio n s and
ern O regon p ain ter w ill d iscu ss
his w ork “G h o st C a m p ” and his
o th e r la n d sc a p e s and a b s tra c t
form s.
The events will be held at the
C ascad e C am p u s, 705
N.
Killingsworth, Rock Creek Campus,
17705 N .W. Springville Road, and
the Sylvania C am pus, 12000 S.W.
49th A ve. Parking at all three cam ­
puses is free during Art Beat 2004.
For more inform ation, call 503-
977-4270.
Learning from World Class Choreographers
Jefferson D ancers A rtistic Di­
rector Steve G onzalez is lending his
support to an inaugural N orthw est
Professional D ance Project, July 26
to Aug. 13, for students o f classical
dance.
The event will bring together an
esteem ed collection o f w orld-class,
contem porary dance m akers from
across North A m erica including
A lonzo King, D onald Byrd, G érard
Théorét, Shawn Hounsell and Davis
Robertson, as well as P ortland’s
own dance com m unity artists Sa­
rah Slipper, M ary O slund and Minh
Tran, and representatives from O r­
egon Ballet Theatre and Body Vox.
The project is an exclusi ve, three-
w eek sum m er dance offering for
young professionals and advanced
dance students ages 16 to 25, giv­
ing them the opportunity to study
and w ork with leading dance m ak­
ers and com panies on innovative
choreography.
The culm ination o f the project
will include a public show ing o f the
w orks-in-progress at Lincoln Hall
on the Portland State U niversity
cam pus Aug. 13. Follow ing the
perform ance, there will be a discus­
sion period w ith artists, dancers
and audience.
E nrollm ent in the project is lim ­
ited to em phasize individualized
in s tr u c tio n ,
c o a c h in g
and
m entoring. A d m ittan ce w ill be
based on application m aterials, rec­
om m endation by a director o r fac­
ulty m em ber and/or audition.
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hvite you and a guest to a special advance screening
on Tuesday May 11, 7:00 PM at Tigard Cinemas
11626 SW Pacific Highway, Tigard.
Pickup your complimentary pass
to the special advance screening
at ®1’’^Iortlanb (Obaertier
4747 NE Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Portland, OR 97211.
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