THE PC } REPERTOIRE
NWPDP Current Repertoire 2008 / 2009
All works listed are original and created especially for the Northwest Professional Dance Project. A Fine BalanceFinalist for the Benois de la Danse award, performed at the award's Bolshoi Theatre gala.
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / NWPDP 2004
- "This is what dance should be...she found the point at which the form, of dance (steps, technique, feet, performance) combine to create a work of art."
Blue
Choreographer / Lucas Crandall
Premiere / NWPDP 2008
- "gracefully athletic ballet"
Last But Not Least
Choreographer / Cayetano Soto
Premiere / NWPDP 2008
- "darkly stylish...a brief but striking trio"
The Nuisance of Being
Choreographer / Sarah Slipper
Premiere / NWPDP 2007
- "exquisitely pulled the audience inside the private, passionate relationship of a Edwardian-era couple."
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Choreographer / Luca Veggetti
Premiere / NWPDP 2006
- "a stand out...mysterious...dreamlike quartet"
Two Studies For Four Singles
Choreographer / Alejandro Cerrudo
Premiere / NWPDP 2008
- "intriguingly peculiar movement vocabulary that appeared to borrow from old-school hip-hop street dance in its isolations and unexpected re-directions of limbs, yet with a rhythmic feel all its own."
Be Little
Choreographer / Aszure Barton
Premiere / NWPDP 2008
- "a pair of figurines reminiscent of the comic characters Nancy and Sluggo stood at the front of the stage as models, while the dancers, dressed to match, brought them to life to the doo-wop singing of the Harptones."
De Wilde (The Wanted)
Choreographer / Edgar Zendejas
Premiere - NWPDP 2008
- "with an arresting all-male pas de deux"
Life On Shuffle
Choreographer/ James Canfield
Premiere / NWPDP 2008
- "much to love...onlookers knew they'd seen dance that could take its place confidently on any stage"
To view select repertoire clips, please see the VIDEO section of the GALLERY page.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR NWPDP:
2008
Sinuous Tattoo / Donald McKayle
2007
Nacht / Sarah Slipper
2006
In Her Bones / Josie Moseley
2005
Krow / Thaddeus Davis
2004
smallprintfiction / Shawn Hounsell
Be Little / Aszure Barton
Life on Shuffle / James Canfield
Last But Not Least / Cayetano Soto
Blue / Lucas Crandall
Two Studies for Four Singles / Alejandro Cerrudo
Sway / Sarah Slipper
De Wilde (The Wanted) / Edgar Zendejas
Incognito / Mark Godden
Lateef / James Canfield
The Obliged / Jamey Hampton
Excerpts from Thirst / Mary Oslund
Segue / Gregg Bielemeier
Short Stories / Thaddeus Davis
Blessed are the Meek... / Lane Hunter
A Pear / Sarah Slipper
Unlike Me / Jonathan Sadony
Eddy and Grace / Sarah Slipper
Broken Sparrow / James Canfield
Mercurial Balance / Thaddeus Davis
Syncopated Gambol / Donald McKayle
Still Life Moving / James Canfield
Inner Shore / Luca Veggetti
Both / Lauri Stallings
Violins For Tracy / Thaddeus Davis
The Nuisance of Being / Sarah Slipper
Not Yet / Cayetano Soto
Perfidia / James Canfield
Patter / Sarah Slipper
SKY Redux / Mary Oslund
Untitled / Cristina Betts
Last Time I Saw U / Thaddeus Davis
Skirmish / Mary Oslund
After Images / Steve Gonzales
2 Lullaby Studies / Paul Vasterling
Be a String to My Guitar / Stephen Mills
Vacilon / Stephen Mills
Ensemble for Somnambulists / Luca Veggetti
Sort Of? / Sarah Slipper
Triptych / Lucas Crandall
BAM / James Canfield
Untitled / Thaddeus Davis
Orange Blues / Paul De Strooper
Workshop 6 (cheez cake stirgin) / Gioconda Barbuto
Standing in Tears / Ronen Koresh
Burning / Paul Vasterling
After the Poison / Sarah Slipper
Open Enclosure / Davis Robertson
SLIGHTLy SHUNNED / Gérard Théorêt
Floor 3 / Mary Oslund
A Fine Balance / Sarah Slipper (Finalist for the 2006 Benois de la Danse Award)