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January 3. 2007
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Focus
A wish changes nothing A decision changes everything!
Using
Movement
to Mend
Dancers work
to heal trauma
Bands of white fabric create a
spellbinding scene in ‘Un
bounded, ' a Gina Gibney Dance
performance coming to Portland
State University as part of a
series celebrating international
women choreographers.
Spellbinding dJance
Clinging to the familiar,
reaching beyond the unknowable
A celebration of international
women choreographers continues
at Portland State University when
Whitebird presents “Unbounded,”
by Gina Gibney Dance, a produc
tion company known for its exquis
ite and sensitive choreography.
The 70 minute show with no in
termission will take place Thursday
through Saturday, Jan. 11-13 at 8
p.m. each night at Lincoln Hall on
the PSU campus.
Gibney founded her company in
New York City in 1991 and then
reconceived it in 1997 as an all
female troupe in response to her
growing concern that women in
professional dance were losing ar
tistic and financial ground.
Since that time, she has devel
oped critically acclaimed evening-
length worksexploring the human
ity and physicality of women.
The dancers make their Portland
dehut with Gibney's most recent
full-length work, a spellbinding
dance for five women who, in tra
versing a stage surrounded hy
bands of white fabric, explore the
tension of clinging to the familiar
and reaching beyond the unknow
able.
Admission is $25 for adults and
$14 for students, plus handling
charges. Tickets are available at the
Portland Center for the Performing
Arts Box Office, Southwest Broad
way at Main: Portland State Uni
versity Box Office, inside Smith
Center. I825S.W. Broadway and all
Ticketmaster outlets.
Kimberly. Idams.Owner
Mortguyc Broker
GinaGibney Dance artists and
domestic violence providers are
joining forces to sponsor a unique
workshop on the healing power
of the arts.
A "U sin g M ovem ent to
Mend" demonstration and dia
logue will capture how move
ment, physical awareness and
creativity ean play a remarkable
role in healing trauma. It takes
place Saturday, Jan. 13 from 11
a.m.to I p.m.at the YWCA, 1111
S.W. 10th Ave.
T he
sp o n so rs
in clu d e
Portland’s White Bird dance se
ries, New York's Gina Gibney
Dance and Healing Roots Vil
lage. the organization founded
by poet and Oregonian colum
nist S. Renee Mitchell.
Healing Roots is a collabora
tion of individuals, social-sefvice
providers and community orga
nizations committed to the em
powerment of African and Afri
can-American women who are
experiencing domestic violence.
Gina Gibney Dance launched
its own domestic violence project
in 2(XX) to provide women an en
vironment to build self-esteem
through positive physical expres
sion.
JU D Y
E verybody
R eads
2007,
Multnomah County Library's fifth
annual community reading project,
kicked off this month.
This year's book is Midnight at the
Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates,
the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese
girl growing up the only daughter of
an unhappy and isolated immigrant
family in a small town in the 1950s.
Private and corporate sponsor
ships are making 3,0(X) copies of the
book available at libraries, and re
lated programming will take place
throughout February. The local
project culminates with a visit by
Bates on March 1.
Scores of educational and cultural
programs throughout the commu
nity, including dozens of discussion
groups, will take place at Multnomah
FONG
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M idnight
at the
County libraries, local bookstores and
other organizations. Some discus
sions will be led by Portland State
University scholars and will focus on
specific topics or themes from the
novel.
Lectures and talks include a
rou n d tab le d isc u ssio n on the
Chinatowns of the Pacific North
west, a talk on contempoiaiy Chi
nese cinema and a lecture on the
Pacific Coast race riots of 1907.
There will also be performances
of classical and contemporary Chi
nese music, demonstrations of Chi
nese brush painting and a Chinese
rod-puppet show. Admission to most
Everybody Reads programs is free.
The Everybody Reads project
guide w ill have a complete listing of
programs, dates and times at all
Multnomah County libraries, partici
pating bookstores, and the Every
body Reads website at multcolib.org/
reads.
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