Now in its 34th year, the NW New Works Festival features established artists from a variety of performance disciplines, upholding its mantra to create a platform for tomorrow’s artists today within the Northwest’s creative community. Curated by a panel of peer artists and administrators from across the region, the Festival provides rehearsal time, an honorarium, documentation, and the opportunity to present work at OtB.

WEEKEND 2: STUDIO SHOWCASE
JUN 16-18

LINDA AUSTIN DANCE
a world, a world — (Un)Made Chapter 3 (Dance | Portland)
Sandbags, headphones, a moveable stair unit, and five dancers in a performative interrogation of the borders of the self; the push-pull between autonomy and “groupness”.

ELLA MAHLER
Really, it’s this. (Dance | Seattle)
Two dancers sort through any and all strategies in their search for “this” – that ever changing, perhaps never arriving solution or answer.

JULIE HAMMOND
Môj Gidget (Theater | Vancouver, BC)
A California-born Jew travels to a landlocked country to learn to surf. Pop music, dentistry, and a family story that can’t be told.

MOTHER TONGUE
< sic > (Performance | Seattle)
Moving through strange worlds an alien and a believer seek refuge, an artifact, and understanding.

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Check out the entire Festival schedule here, and learn how you can save when you purchase multi-showcase packages:
http://www.ontheboards.org/nw-new-works-festival-2017

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Top left: Photo by Jeff Forbes. Bottom left: Photo by Vilhelm Sundin. All other photos courtesy the artists.