Portland’s longest-running queer night, Double Down, has its last hurrah — at least until further notice — tomorrow night at Holocene (aka Homoscene), according to organizer Kaki Marshall.
The popular hip-hop night is going out with a bang with an extended list of playlist masters. DJs exstravaGAYza,
Girlfriends, Party Martyr, Gutter Glamor and Lez I Did [...]

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Up-and-coming NoPo gayborhood hot spot, The Blue Parrot, adds another new night to its growing roster of queer dance parties with Friday’s debut of Dirt Bag!
First-time playlist-master, DJ Gutter Glamour, will be pumping an queertastic feminist-inspired mix of new wave, ’80s dance pop and electro jams to put the bounce back in your weary bones [...]

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It may be Monday (cue collective groan), but spring arrives this weekend (yay!) and with it, plenty of opportunities to feel the fever on the dance floor and maybe even get a little twitterpated (note: this term has nothing to do with Twitter, see this clip from “Bambi” if its meaning escapes you).
If you can [...]

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Since the untimely demise of Fruitcake, queers in N/NE have been hankering for a night of dirty dirty dancing in a space more, uh, intimate (and a closer tipsy bike ride) than the double-decker madness that is Blow Pony.
Enter BENT, a new queer dance night from DJs Jodi Bon Jodi (Blow Pony) and Roy G [...]

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Beginning Friday, July 24, Disjecta (8371 N. Interstate) and Rumpus Room Dance Company will present a month-long residency of dance performance dubbed RESA.
Rumpus Room is pleased to announce the creation of a new evening length work. In their upcoming
project RESA, the directors Stephan Laks and Rachel Tess renew their commitment to exploring the
theme [...]

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Reeds Art Week presents Lawn of the Limp, a dance performance created by Hot Little Hands, 7 p.m. today and 5 p.m. tomorrow at Kaul Auditorium, 3202 S.E. Woodstock Blvd. Admission is $10. Read on:
Co-artistic directors David Stein and Suniti Dernovsek invite you into a fantastical land where otherworldly characters dance to an original score [...]

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Christopher Stowell just doesn’t quit.
And thank God! Since coming to Portland and transforming the city’s classical dance company from a sleepy regional outfit to a sharp-toed troupe garnering national attention, Stowell’s transformational leadership of Oregon Ballet Theatre is one of the Portland arts community’s gifts that just keeps on giving.
This weekend his company takes [...]

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BodyVox has opened its studios for a weeklong series of free dance classes through Jan. 24. Read on:
BodyVox offers community dance classes in their Pearl District Studio and will expand their class schedule in the new year. Classes are available for children as young as 14 months (taken with parent or guardian), teens and adults. [...]

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You’ve gotta hand it to Paul King and Walter Jaffe at White Bird Dance: they know something about putting together a fabulous and intriguing season of contemporary dance for Portland audiences.
Their upcoming Portland premiere of the explosive Bad Boys of Dance company is a classic case in point. Here is a modern dance outfit that blurs [...]

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