THIS IS THE PLACE, A SUNDAY SALON
The Halprin Landscape Conservancy is proud to promote the Portland-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance Northwest’s This is the PLACE, A Sunday Salon, a series of personalized performances and projects at PLACE featuring live performances by Carla Mann, Conrad Kaczor, Freddy Vilches, Jennifer Wright & Laura Cannon, HDD/NW dancers Nicholas Petrich and Viktor Usov, screenings of new films by Nicolas Savignano and a photography exhibit by Cristal Tappan activated by HDD/NW dancer Barbara Lima. Join us for an hour or the day and listen to indigenous music of Latin America, learn to Tut, create a Tibetan sand mandala and enjoy dance on film!
Purchase Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/this-is-the-place-a-sunday-salon-tickets-266250872527
*Audience limited to 25 for each event. Vaccines required.
DATE: Sunday, February 27th, 2022
VENUE: PLACE, 735 NW 18th Avenue
EVENT TIMELINE:
10:30AM Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest featuring Barbara Lima
11:00AM Carla Mann
12:00PM Conrad Kaczor and Friends
1:00 PM Music with Freddy Vilches
2:00 PM Jennifer Wright and Laura Cannon
3:00 PM Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest featuring Nicholas Petrich and Viktor Usov
4:00 PM Screenings of New Films and Music
4:30 PM Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest featuring Barbara Lima
About Heidi Duckler Dance Northwest:
Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest (HDD/NW) redefines relationships between artists and audiences by curating and presenting original site specific performances and learning experiences in historic and iconic places in the Pacific Northwest. HDD/NW collaborates with diverse artists and communities in Oregon, creating meaningful, multidisciplinary performances and opportunities for dialogue to explore themes of social justice and civic engagement.
Since its inception in 2010 Heidi Duckler Dance Northwest (HDD/NW) has been creating captivating storytelling through site-specific dance. HDD/NW has produced over 55 site-specific works, films and festivals in Portland, OR and the surrounding metropolitan areas and its performers have animated iconic Pacific Northwest locations such as a contemporary coworking office space, the paths through local forests and lumber mills, the graffiti-decorated ruins of a burned out building across the bridge and the historic vacant US Customs House.
Working with a diverse range of artists, HDD/NW curates original performances around architecture, audience members, and each other. With input from creative partners and collaborators (dancers, musicians, architects and community partners, among others), a truly site-specific and environmentally responsive work emerges, capturing the multiple dimensions of each place, performer, and collaborator.
Heidi Duckler, Founder/Artistic Director
Heidi Duckler is the Founder and Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler has created more than 400 dance pieces all over the world. Duckler earned a BS in Dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in Choreography from UCLA, and is currently a Board Member of the University of Oregon's School of Music and Dance Advancement Council. Awards include the Distinguished Dance Alumna award from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the Dance/USA and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Engaging Dance Audiences award, and the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpiece award. Duckler was recipient of the 2019 Oregon Dance Film Commission and her work received the award for Best Choreography For the Lens at Verve Dance Film Festival. Currently, she is the recipient of the 2021 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship.
Nicolas Savignano, Filmmaker
Nicolas Savignano is an Argentinian filmmaker who has worked with LA’s most renowned choreographers as a director, cinematographer, and editor. Originally from Buenos Aires, he moved to Los Angeles in 2015 to pursue a Master’s Degree in Film Directing at Calarts, where he currently works as the Institute Videographer. Nicolas will share valuable insights on how to create a movement film from start to finish.
Carla Mann, Performer/Choreographer/Teaching Artist
Carla Mann creates choreography for stage, alternative site, installation, and film; her work includes dances created for Northwest Dance Project, Portland Taiko, Performance Works Northwest, Muddy Feet Dance, Northwest Fusion, Arts in the Arboretum, Artquake, On the Boards (Seattle, USA), Duncan Centre (Prague, Czech Republic), Kunming Youth Art School (Kunming, China) and Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/NW. Carla has performed with Benny Bell & Company, Bonnie Merrill, Imago Theatre, JED, the Navigators, Oslund+Co/Dance, Minh Tran & Company, Dance Gatherer, tEEth, and Troika Ranch among others. Recent performances include projects choreographed by Tahni Holt (USA and Bulgaria), Iris Erez (Israel), Minh Tran (USA), Rachel Slater & Suzanne Chi (USA), and an independent dance film, currently in post-production. Carla serves as professor of dance at Reed College, where she teaches courses in contemporary dance technique, choreography, and improvisation.
Jennifer Wright, Artist
Jennifer Wright is a performer, composer, educator, graphic artist, and culture-maker. She holds two degrees in classical piano performance through study in the United States, England, and Germany.
Jennifer’s eclectic acoustic and electroacoustic compositions include works for solo instruments, mixed ensembles, choir, dance, and film. Much of her work explores alternative approaches to keyed instruments, including typewriters, toy pianos, and her creation “The Skeleton Piano”. You can find out more at jenniferwrightpianostudio.com & skeletonpiano.com
Conrad Kaczor, Performer/Choreographer/Filmmaker
Conrad “Icon” Kaczor is known as one of the most innovative Poppers that specializes in the geometric shape-shifting dance style called Tutting. Conrad's versatility as a dancer, along with his creativity and extensive knowledge of Popping and Tutting, have enabled him to guest perform and teach at national music festivals, judge dance battles on both the West and East coasts, and study with respected street style innovators across the world. Conrad also performs with Heidi Duckler Dance, a site-specific based dance company located in both Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest.
Cristal Tappan, Photographer
Cristal grew up splitting her time between the California central coast and the Arizona desert. She always had a camera with her, cultivating an archive of experiences throughout her early life. Cristal currently resides in Portland Oregon, where she received her BFA in Photography at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her art practice explores personal and family-related trauma so that she and her audience may gain a better understanding of themselves. Since graduating, she has been featured in several exhibitions including New Photography From the Pacific Northwest curated by Yaelle S. Amir and the Blue Sky Gallery’s Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers. When she’s not working you can find her hiking wooded trails with her dogs, tending to her vegetable garden, and cooking or canning homemade jams.
Freddy Vilches, Musician/Professor
Freddy Vilches joined the faculty of Lewis & Clark College as Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies in 2006. He received his PhD in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon, specializing in Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries. His principal research interests include Southern Cone literature, connections between literature and popular culture, Latin American testimonial writing, and detective fiction. His teaching experience covers all levels of language instruction and Latin American Literature, as well as an interdisciplinary course on Music in Latin American Cultures. He has published articles on Latin American poetry and fiction. Currently, he is working on a manuscript on the use of poetry in the Chilean New Song Movement, and articles on the Chilean and Latin American detective novel.
Viktor Usov, Dancer
Viktor Usov was born in Ukraine and raised in Portland, OR. He began his dance training at the age of 13 at da Vinci Art Middle School and joined the Jefferson Dancers in High school. Viktor received his BFA in dance at Juilliard in New York. He has performed worldwide during his dance career. He was a soloist at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany and NW Dance Project in Portland. Viktor was awarded the Princess Grace of Monaco award for dance in 2014. Viktor is currently studying to be a primary care doctor specializing in Naturopathic and Chinese medicine care at NUNM.
Nicholas Petrich, Dancer
Nicholas Petrich was born and raised in Portland, Oregon: a unicorn of the northwest. As soon as he could walk he could flip, which began his movement career as a competitive gymnast for Oregon Gymnastics Academy, becoming a national champion. In his 20s, he transitioned to freelance dance for companies like 11 Dance Co., Nike, Muddy Feet Dance Co., Pathways Dance Company, and a European tour for Agnieszka Laska Dancers. Recently, he just filmed and danced a full-length feature film with Wild Rumpus Jazz Co. Also, he's a newly graduated student of Portland State University with a degree in marketing and advertising, with a focus on video production. Part of the performance tonight will be a short dance film directed by him.
Barbara Lima, Dancer
Barbara Lima is a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and artistic director based in Oregon, United States. She got her major degree at the Angel Vianna University (BRA) and for over 15 years has been extending her talent into multiple areas of expertise, as a performer, a director, a producer, a teacher, a writer and a visionary.
She is a featured dancer of the documentary Believe the Beat, a documentary that has been screened at Hip Hop Film Festival in NY, Oregon Independent Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Latin American Film Festival in Romania, Vancouver Arts Academy in WA, and others. Barbara has performed in theaters and festivals around the world such as Theatre de la Ville in Paris and Danse a Lille (FRA), Hellerau (GER), Kunsten Festival des Arts (BEL), Pact Zollverein (GER), Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Wiener Festwochen (AUS) and many others.
She is the founder artistic director of ELa FaLa Collective that counts with 5 productions including Co-produced dance for camera with Urban Body Project and produced and choreographed dance for camera “Anna”, directed by Devin Febbroriello (Serpent Power Productions).
This is the PLACE is supported by funds from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts and funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation.
