Beth Whelan
Samuel Hobbs’ push/FOLD dance company prepares for a Mexico City festival
After months of hibernation, push/FOLD bounds into action with a restaging of an recent work JULY 22, 2021 // DANCE // ELIZABETH WHELAN...
Dance Writing
My writing on dance is published in The Philadelphia Dance Journal as well as Oregon Arts Watch. Covering local and touring shows, I aim to offer an introspective look at movement/choreography and its intersection with the public eye.
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Beth Whelan
- Mar 13, 2021
- 6 min
For houseless women, a fresh Momentum
Dance workshops rethink the dance world and aid houseless women, children and nonbinary people at the Rose Haven shelter MARCH 13, 2021...
Beth Whelan
- Jan 30, 2021
- 13 min
Shaun Keylock Company: Dancing the past into the future
The Shaun Keylock Company navigates Covid-19 shutdowns in its new space while looking to Portland’s modern dance elders for direction....
Beth Whelan
- Jul 21, 2020
- 11 min
Pandemic Ed: Dancing remotely and well
Dancers will dance, together in the studio or, these days, together on Zoom JULY 21, 2020 // CULTURE, DANCE, ED, FEATURED // ELIZABETH...
Beth Whelan
- Jun 30, 2020
- 12 min
How Portland’s big dance organizations responded to Black Lives Matter
Portland's very white dance companies attracted blowback from the dance community and agreed to change JUNE 30, 2020 // CULTURE, DANCE,...
Beth Whelan
- Mar 31, 2020
- 10 min
The Show Must Go On(line)!
Portland’s dance community responds to the COVID-19 health crisis as dance spaces close, classes shift online, shows are postponed, and...
Beth Whelan
- Mar 3, 2020
- 24 min
Striking a reckoning with death
Jess Evans and Lyra Butler-Denman's paired solo shows "Delicate Fish/BARDO" take a tender look at grief, pain, and death MARCH 3, 2020 //...
Beth Whelan
- Feb 19, 2020
- 7 min
Darvejon Jones Dance Ensemble: Light and shadow
Darvejon Jones dances love and joy, but he understands the darker shadows, too, in his company's first concert FEBRUARY 18, 2020 // DANCE...
Beth Whelan
- Jan 29, 2020
- 5 min
Everything and Nothing
Subashini Ganesan and Yashaswini Raghuram integrate classical Indian dance forms and a modern dance sensibility in "Listening to Silence"...
Beth Whelan
- Dec 17, 2019
- 5 min
Dance review: NW Dance Project’s stocking stuffers
NW Dance Project’s holiday show, conceived by its dancers and resident choreographer, felt a lot like a sampler plate of grandma's...
Beth Whelan
- Nov 19, 2019
- 5 min
A journey home for Israeli choreographer Amy Leona Havin
The Holding Project's new dance at Shaking the Tree Theatre considered how we choose to make things holy NOVEMBER 18, 2019 // DANCE //...
Beth Whelan
- Oct 1, 2019
- 7 min
Union PDX: Making the case for dance
Samuel Hobbs created a dance festival to showcase dance and to confront the problems the art form faces in Portland OCTOBER 1, 2019 //...
Beth Whelan
- Jul 25, 2019
- 4 min
Dance preview: The essence of love in Indian dance
Viraja Mandhre and Shyamjith Kiran focus on the rasa of love in their bharatanatyam concert Sunday night JULY 25, 2019 // DANCE //...
Beth Whelan
- May 15, 2019
- 6 min
Keylock company finds its footing
The contemporary dance company stages its first evening-length performance with work by founder Shaun Keylock and two others MAY 15, 2019...
Beth Whelan
- Mar 12, 2019
- 4 min
Linda Austin’s ‘Ordinary Devotions’ is a peculiar playground
MARCH 12, 2019 // DANCE // ELIZABETH WHELAN Ordinary Devotions, a new contemporary dance work by veteran Portland choreographer and...
Beth Whelan
- Oct 17, 2018
- 3 min
Tapping into memory
Portland Tap Company debuts with "The Man Who Forgot" OCTOBER 17, 2018 // DANCE // ELIZABETH WHELAN “Your stories go on, but who are...
Beth Whelan
- Sep 25, 2018
- 4 min
Contemporary dance befriends vaudeville in ‘Some Are Silver’
Lighthearted antics thread through new and vintage pieces by Carlyn Hudson SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 // DANCE // ELIZABETH WHELAN Carlyn Hudson...
Beth Whelan
- Jun 19, 2018
- 5 min
Dance review: ‘Waters of the World’ is a liquid love story
Heidi Duckler pays homage to the liquid side of the Northwest in her new site-specific dance in the Fair-Haired Dumbbell building JUNE...
Beth Whelan
- May 9, 2018
- 3 min
Dance Preview: BodyVox’s ‘Rain & Roses’ checks some boxes
BodyVox finishes up its 20th anniversary season with a dance concert set to the music of female songwriters MAY 9, 2018 // DANCE //...
Beth Whelan
- Apr 30, 2018
- 4 min
Diversity dances: Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater
Oluyinka Akinjiola's troupe mixes a social justice message with choreography drawing on the joyous movement of the African diaspora APRIL...