Corinne Loperfido had a busy weekend when she visited Portland to host her quarterly sex-positive dance party, EveryBODY PDX: DIY Performance Art Strip Club. She was seen at numerous sex-positive…
Live in the moment at Portland’s DIY Performance Art Strip Club
It’s hard to write about EveryBODY: DIY Performance Art Strip Club in a linear sense. NO PHOTOS was written in block letters on a Party City banner on stage, multiple…
Kabuki dance drums performance returns to PSU
For the last 15 years, Laurence Kominz has been staging Kabuki performances right here on Portland State’s campus. This year the show will be held on May 30 and 31 in…
NW Dance Project stages alluring new ‘Carmen’
It was a cold, rainy night. Luckily for me, I had the NW Dance Project’s waiting room to keep me warm while waiting for the company’s dress rehearsal of Carmen…
The (almost) universal guide to enjoying Portland’s strip clubs
Strip clubs are unique businesses whose cultures vary from state to state, city to city, even zip code to zip code. We here in the City of Most Strip Clubs…
Best Portland places to dance your body right
Let’s make one thing clear: “Get fit” is not a synonym for “get thin.” Big bodies in motion are one of humanity’s most beautiful expression forms. The only thing more…
Lincoln Hall performances celebrate Korean and Chinese traditions
The Institute for Asian Studies is starting off the fall term with a bang, hosting two traditional events reaching thousands of years into the cultural past of Korea and China….
“Adapt” brings dancers together for competition
Additional contributions by Andy Ngo. On August 20, 2016, the Portland State HipHop Alliance, Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon and AMP hosted “Adapt,” an annual dance contest, in Smith…
POV Dance challenges perspectives on movement and space
This week, POV Dance will open its newest, architecturally inspired performance “In My Own Space” at the Body Mechanics studio in Southeast Portland. Based on an athletic style of modern…
Let art flow: an unknown form of positive psychology
The culture surrounding raves and festivals is not just electronic dance music DJs, vibrant costumes and extravagant lights. There is a whole realm of moving human art called “flow art.”…
NW Dance Project welcomes fourth Princess Grace Award winner
The Northwest Dance Project is an innovative and professional adult-dance company in east Portland that features many award-winning dancers and dance producers. The company performs an all-original repertoire of dance,…