June 12, 2019
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
‘Have Mercy’
Rapper
Rapper YBN Cordae, one of
music’s young rising stars
performs at the Hawthorne on
Friday, June 14. Born in North
Carolina and raised in Maryland,
Cordae is on a world tour
featuring his lead single “Have
Mercy” and debut solo project
“The Lost Boy.”
photo by
J immy F ontaine
NW Dance Summer Premieres
photo by m iChael S loboDian
NW Dance Project Founding
Artistic Director Sarah Slipper.
NW Dance Project presents
a limited series of new contem-
porary dance works to close the
company’s 15th anniversary sea-
son.
For three nights only, Thursday,
June 13 through Saturday, June
15, the “Summer Premieres” will
provide a rare opportunity to ex-
perience three brand new dance
works in a single evening.
James Canfield, the founding
artistic director of Oregon Ballet
Theater and more recently of the
Nevada Ballet Theater returns to
Portland for his world premiere
“Each Desperate Choice,” based
on “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
NW Dance Founding Artistic
Director Sarah Slipper will per-
form a new male/female duet in-
spired by Pablo Neruda’s poem
“Tonight I Can Write the Saddest
Lines.”Award-winning German
choreographer will perform “All’s
Been Said,” taking on the issue of
climate change.
“Summer Premieres” will take
place at Lincoln Performance
Hall at Portland State University,
downtown. For tickets and more
information, visit nwdanceproj-
ect.org.