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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
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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
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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.
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