Photo by Gregory Bartning.įeaturing Tempos Contemporary Circus, push/FOLD, and B. Push/Fold artistic director Samuel Hobbs and Ashley Morton, partnering. So all of this is based in nature, and that’s why it’s always wonderful to go back to nature because these are the true origins of this form.” No! It existed in whirlpools and eddies and the way that the world turns on its axis and goes around the sun. In a conversation with Gia Kourlas of The New York Times in a June 2020 story titled, Note to Dancers: ‘Drop Your Self-Consciousness’ and Get Into It,’ King describes dance/movement ideas as already existing in nature and declares that we are always dancing with our environment: “The origin of classical form came from nature. He is also profoundly inspired by nature. Thus, King’s dance company looks like the world. King senior had a close relationship with Malcolm X and introduced Alonzo to Gandhi and yoga, creating an east-west continuum and solidifying nonviolence and the power of love in his psyche. King’s work reflects growing up in Georgia as the child of civil rights activists Slater King and Valencia King Nelson. Azoth was also considered the animating energy that inspired the body and mind, and represented a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last of its letters. Mercury was an essential agent of transformation in alchemy, the transmutation of base metals into gold.
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White Bird is planning a full dance season beginning in Fall 2022.Īlonzo King LINES Ballet will present a two-part program that features Four Heart Testaments, four excerpts from various works representing Alonzo King’s forty-year history of choreography, and Azoth, a 45-minute, 10-part work that abstractly invokes the element mercury. Versa-Style Dance Company will perform at Beaverton’s new Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, a brand new, 550-seat venue easily accessible by the MAX Light Rail, with plenty of affordable, easy-to-access parking. The inaugural season includes Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Complexions Contemporary Ballet from New York, and Versa-Style Dance Company, a hip-hop company from Los Angeles. The company is part of White Bird’s new festival called We Are One, which will present dance companies of color. Thanks to White Bird, San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet will be breaking our Covid-induced dance fast, gracing Portland’s Newmark stage February 24-26. Graham directs his own dance-theater company Graham Cole/Performance, which premiered a new work several weeks ago. He holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and worked as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and dance administrator in New York City and North Carolina. Cole is also a dancer trained at Oregon Ballet Theatre and An Daire Academy in Irish step dancing. The rest of the team consists of the director of patron services and communications, Christopher Carvalho, and administrative assistant Jeremy Husserl.Ĭole is originally from Portland and is the son of Gary Cole, co-founder of the theater company CoHo Productions, which started the same year as White Bird. White Bird’s co-founders, Paul King and Walter Jaffe will remain as the White Bird Board co-chairs. This month, the big dance news is that White Bird, Oregon’s most prominent dance presenter, will be handing over the reins of its operations in Fall 2023, after 25 years, to current executive director Graham Cole.
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