Title: Auditions: Cal Arts
Location: ACMA
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Description: Cal Arts is holding open auditions. All DW dancers will audition, dancers from ACMA and from the community are invited.
Start Time: 14:30
Date: 2008-10-02
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
Title: Performance: American Diabetes Association
Location: PDX Convention Center
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Description: Dance West entertains for the American Diabetes Association Benefit. This is one of many return engagements with the ADA.
Date: 2008-11-01
Title: Auditions: Cornish College
Location: ACMA
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Description: Cornish College in Seattle, WA, is holding open auditions at ACMA. All ACMA dancers are encouraged to attend, dancers from the Portland area will also attend.
Start Time: 14:30
Date: 2008-11-06
Title: Performance: ACMA Recital
Location: TBD
Description: The ACMA Dance Dept hosts a dance recital for all dance students. Dance West will perform selected pieces. Location, specific dates and time are TBD
Start Date: 2009-05-29
End Date: 2009-05-30
We all know there’s a secret world backstage and that probably goes double for a dance company like Dance West. Well, here’s the secret backstage world of the company during a number of different seasons.
This group of photos is from the 2007 Portland concert. A large portion of the On Broadway section of the concert was composed of pieces from 42nd Street. There were also two concert tap pieces: one piece was set to Duke Ellington’s “A” Train; the other piece was a duet named Jukebox Jump, set by Terry Brock from film choreography by Hermes Pan, Eleanor Powell, and Fred Astaire.
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- “A” Train – Duke Ellington
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- “A” Train – Duke Ellington
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- 42nd Street
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- 42nd Street
Finishing college or building a dance career? Performing on Broadway; barnstorming the country with the JTE; managing PR or operations with PNB or Miami City Ballet?
We know some of you are currently in schools such as: Tisch, Cal Arts, Marymount, U of Oregon, UNLV, Utah, and many other schools with dance departments. Some of you are dancing on Broadway or in touring companies. Many of you are teaching in studios and schools across the nation, either full time or part time.
So, whatever you are doing, let us know where you are now.
“In the world of Tango, a dance which has West African and Afro-Cuban influences,women are the means by which men exhibit their machismo. In ‘Milonga’, which is an Angolan word for ‘argument’. women strike back.
Men and women dance as one in tango. I have incorporated the Japanese martial art, Aikido because of its philosophy of entering the “other’s” sphere to become one.” -Les Watanabe
Choreography by Les (Leslie) Watanabe for Dance West – Beaverton, OR. Chosen for performance at the 2008 National High School Dance Festival in Philadelphia. Original choreography 2006.
PARTS 1 & 2
FINALE (PART 3)
Contemporary dance & Flamenco. Choreography by Les (Leslie) Watanabe for Dance West – Beaverton. OR. Chosen for performance at the 2006 National High School Dance Festival Gala Concert in Miami. Original choreography 2003.
Kent Zimmerman was raised on a farm in Indiana, so he’s amazed to have recently celebrated his 10th year as a resident of New York City. He began his training upon arriving at the University of Cincinnati: Conservatory of Music. As a 1996 graduate, his college credits include: Carousel; West Side Story; Runaways; Lady Be Good; Assassins; Little Me; Falsettoland; Das Barbecu and Starting Here, Starting Now. His regional theater credits include: A Few Good Men; Singing in the Rain; Anything Goes; Into the Woods; damn Yankees; Guys and Dolls, The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Good News; An Evening with George Gershwin, Randy Newman’s Faust; A Chorus Line, 42nd Street and West Side Story. Four months after moving to New York, he was blessed to find himself on tour with the revival of Show Boat. Other national tours include: Footloose, Guys and Dolls and The Producers. He was also invited to be a part of London’s West End production of Show Boat. While in London, he appeared in Sondheim Tonight at the Barbican Theater. Kent has shared the Broadway stage with Cheryl Ladd, Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire in the revival of Annie Get your Gun. He was also in the original Broadway cast of Thou Shalt Not. Kent can be seen on the PBS special Our Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs featuring Julie Andrews, Bebe Neuwirth and Chita Rivera, to name a few. He can also be seen on the big screen in The Shawshank Redemption and The Producers. In 2006, Kent graduated from the Swedish Institute with an Associates Degree in Applied Sciences and is a licensed Massage Therapist. He recently performed on stage in The Producers at the Paris Casino in Las Vegas. He is currently peforming in Portland at the Gerding Theatre in Guys and Dolls He would like to thank Felice for the opportunity of working with the ladies in the company and wishes he could be there. All my love to Felice and Sonny. IABWY, PJ. Psalms 91:11.