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September 26, 2012
Largest Dance Ever on Sunday
Portland's White Bird dance group pre
sents Le Grand Continental, starring 150
Portlanders who’ve taken a break from their
day jobs as FedEx drivers, professors, city
planners, etc. to learn and perform the
company’s season opening production.
Le Grand Continental’s premiere features
line dance, infused with contemporary move
ment that incorporates the rhythms of coun
try, techno, cumbia, waltzes, and R&B.
Two free performances will be held Sun
day, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at Pioneer
Courthouse Square, downtown.
For three months, volunteer photogra
pher Carolyn Campbell has followed the
diverse team to every rehearsal, capturing
the dancers learn the nine sections to Le
Grand Continental under the direction of
M o n tre a l’s acclaim ed c h o reo g rap h er
Sylvain Emard.
Drop into the Alberta Street’s Living
Room Realtors, 1422 N.E. Albera St., on Last
Thursday, Sept. 26, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., to
see a photo display documenting the evo In the largest outdoor line dance this city has ever seen, 150 Portlanders of all ages move their hands, bodies and feet in
lution of the largest dance ever held in White Bird's production of Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental to take place Sunday, Sept. 30 at Pioneer Courthouse
Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Square.
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photo by C hristopher P eddecord
Northwest Dance Project dancer Ching Ching Wong (left) and
choreographer Ihsan Rustem rehearse his new work, "Mother
Tongue" for the dance company’s upcoming show.
Three for One Dance
Three award-winning choreog
raphers converge in Northwest
Dance Project’s season opener
“New Now Wow !” a world premiere
of works by Ihsan Rustem, Gregory
Dolbashian and Alex Soares.
Rustem is follow ing up oh his
2010 prem iere State of M atter
which won m ultiple international
awards. Dolbashian and Soares
are winners of the Pretty Créatives
I n te r n a tio n a l C h o re o g ra p h ic
Competition.
“New Now Wow! plays on Thurs
day, Oct. 4 through Saturday, Oct. 6
with 7:30 p.m. performances at Lin
coln Performance Hall on the Port
land State University campus, 1620
S.W. Park Ave. Tickets are $25 and
up. For more information, visit
nwdanceproject.org orcall 503-828-
8285.