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œ 1,1 :f Jo rt lattò © bseruer September 14, 2005 Focus Page B3 f atrocities he learned about into a flowing movement piece that provokes a com pelling re sponse. His o th er w orks include c o m m e n ta ry on lo v e and spirituality. Minh Tran and Company is a nonprofit dance organization based in Portland. Tran was the recipient of the 2005 Oregon Art Commission Individual Fel lowship Award for his distinc tive, socially aware and con temporary choreography. Performances at Portland State University will be held and revisited dance works. at the Lincoln Perfor mance Hall from Sept. The program will feature ■ 22 to Sept. 24. Tickets work from Tran’s “Ex range from $20 to $24 pose,” “Nocturnal Path” and “Forgotten Memories” and can be purchased Local dance group Minh Tran and Company will start touring on Sept. 22 at Portland State University. pieces, examining ethnic at the theater’s box of animosity, extremist ideology Cambodia’s troubled history, million people wholosttheirlives can, toured Cam bodia with the fice or through Ticketmaster. and the fragility of human life. “Forgotten Memories” focuses under the Pol Pot regime, For more information, visit M ekong D ance P ro ject o f A n a rtistic resp o n se to on Khmer Rouge and the 1.7 Tran, a Vietnam ese-Am eri New York, and turned the www.m tdance.org. Dance Troupe 4 Hosted by Portland State Minh Tran and Company tour Dance troupe Minh Tran and Com pany will kick off this year’s touring schedule with a return to the Portland concert stage in a performance of new Old and New at Soul Awards (AP) — In a meeting of old and new. honoree Aretha Franklin and young win ners Ciara and Amerie dished up pure soul at the 2005 Lady of Soul Awards. .Franklin received the Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achieve ments and gave two rousing pertormances - “Until You Come Back to Me” with Stevie W onder on piano and a pumped- up version of her hit “Respect.” Sweating and slapping her thigh, she pounded out high and low notes, holding her microphone out to the audience on the song’s famous chorus. “I don’t think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award,” she said. The big winners of the Sept. 6 event to be broadcast later this month were Mariah Cajey, Destiny’s Child, Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott. Lady One, The Musical The cast o f “One, The Musical” is set to begin three weeks of shows at the Wonder Ballroom, 128 N.E. Russell St. The production by the Insight Out Theatre Collective is a modern look at cultural paradigms inspired by the Indian story of Siddhartha, based on a book by Wade McCollum. Performances will take place Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1. A Sunday, Sept. 25 performance will be at 2 p.m. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com. Advertise with diversity in al’1 P o r f í a t t ò Sylvester’s Birthday Blues Norman Sylvester A o n e -n ig h t o n ly b irth d a y party for Portland blues singer Norman Sylvester will be held Fri day. Sept. 16 from 9 p.m. to I a.m. at the Beale Street Blues Bar. 10721 N.E. Sandy Blvd. Area residents are invited to party with the local music leg end with music by the Lloyd Jones Struggle. The cover charge is $6. Sylvesterwas born Sept. 16, 19045 in Bonita, La. 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