œi’1 'JJortlanò ©bseruer January 3. 2007 Page B3 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 * . BATES 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. • • • • • Jabberwocky' Kids Concert The mythical battle with the m on ster o th erw ise know n as “Jabberwocky” will be brought to life with help from the audience in an Oregon Symphony Kids Con cert on Sunday, Jan. 7 at I p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Arlene SehnitzcrCon cert Hall. T ales & S cales, an Indiana- First time buyer or seasoned investor Purchase, Refinance. 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