...only question: Counting Up, or Counting Down? Answer's still out there, but it won't stop us from presenting a sampling of the best of the best of ALD's 5-year run in and out of Portland. All ALD supporters, lovers of music and lovers of dance, you are all invited to join us for
· live performances
· video screenings
· fine fruit, wine and cheese
What's more, it's not only FREE - we'll give you $5 to attend. That's right! That's $1 a year @ 5 years = $5 per person. That's better than Portland's "Free is still a very good price," the line that put Portland on the map, even before Tonya Harding. And NO, she probably won't be in the audience and NO, the star's celebrity hobby-band namesake won't be on stage, but the real star will, recapping his 2003 debut.
INVITATION to CELEBRATE - ON US
Agnieszka Laska Dancers
5th ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION PERFORMANCE PARTY
right where we started
exactly 5-years
to the day
APRIL 10 @ 7:00PM
IFCC - 5340 N. Interstate
info - 503.715.1866
email=a.laska@comcast.net
www.url=www.a-laska.com
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photos - Chris Leck
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RECENT REVIEWS
Aug. 24, 2007
International Festival of Dance Theaters
Rozmaitosci, Poznan, Poland
...absolutely beautiful...on one hand...confessional and metaphysical, on the other, full of the fervor of uncertainty...the inseparable element of contemporary life. - Glos Wielkopolski - Aug. 25, 2007
April 26, 2007
Seventh Species
Classical Pianos, Portland, Oregon
...dance was intimate, delicate and circumscribed in a tiny space... - The Oregonian - April. 30, 2007 more>>
RECENT PERMIERES
November 11, Veterans Day
THE FALL '01 [US premiere]
Imago Theatre
Portland
Performed
in solidarity with the Nov. 10th Labor Arts Festival and the November 11th event, From Helmets to Hard Hats - both at Portland State University.
RECENT PERFORMANCES
Beyond the Threshold:
Seattle International Dance Festival
November 30-December 2, 2007
Agnieszka Laska Dancers will present Suite No. 6 to music of J.S. Bach and Suite Nol. 3 to music of Ernest Bloch. Also, on the festival are performances by Las Pleyades, Danza Contemporanea, joined by several ALD artists.
Find details here: www.phffft.org
August 27-31, 2007
Score for Body and Movement Festival
Nowahuta Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
Agnieszka Laska and Luis Arreguin, with assistance from their lead dancers, gave a 4-day workshop which concluded with the European premiere of THE FALL '01 ), joined on stage by Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea in choreography created collaboratively by Agnieszka Laska and Luis Arreguin and workshop participants.
August 23-24, 2007
International Festival of Dance Theaters
Poznan, Poland
Agnieszka Laska Dancers performed with the Wielkopolska String Quartet, ALD's newly premiered "Suite No.3" (music of Ernest Bloch), "Spring Quartet" (music of ALD resident composer / technical director Jackie T. Gabel and "The Dissonant" (music of Mozart), joined on stage by Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea in choreography created collaboratively by Agnieszka Laska and Luis Arreguin
The Dissonant ~ Las Pléyades on stage with ALD
Photo: PAP (Polish Press Agency)
June 9 -10
West End Theatre
Agnieszka Laska Dancers are guest artists at Cascade Heights Dance Ensemble inagural season
April 28 and May 28, 2007
Ten Tiny Dances
Blue Hour, Portland, Oregon
Agnieszka Laska Dancers took part in the 13th edition of Ten Tiny Dances with Spring 2007 performances at Jazzbones in Tacoma, WA and at Bluehour in Portland, OR, performing the Adagio from Spring Quartet to music of resident composer, Jack Gabel.
RECENT EVENTS
Nov. 16-17-18 @ 7:30 pm
ENCUENTROS TERMINALES [US premiere]
Imago Theatre
Portland
ALD presented, with support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council,
Encuentros Terminales, Luis Arrenquín's newest 40-min.-long multi-media
work to music Ernesto Martínez and Ludwig von Beethoven. Arrenquín explores
through striking partnerings the alienation of modern life and redemption of
love.
Agnieszka Laska Dancers also contributed Suite No. 3 to music of Ernest Bloch, performed by cellis Josh Weissenborn.
Luis Arreguín and Las Pléyades Danza Contemporánea are in great demand
in Mexico. They give about 100 performances annually. CONACULTA (Consejo
Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes - México) is subsidizing the international
airfares for this tour.
Promotional photo by Chris Leck
see many more great ALD photos
for media licensing and for sale at
photostore.chrisleck.com
Luis Arreguín is one of the top dancers and teachers working today in
Mexico. In previous collaborations with Agnieszka Laska Dancers, first rate
productions have resulted, as well as engaging workshops. Las Pléyades will
be in the Pacific Northwest for about 2 weeks in November, working In
collaboration with Agnieszka Laska Dancers.
Imago Theatre
17 SE 8th Ave.
Portland
October series of Brave New Theaters Screenings of THE FALL '01
of the DVD from the Querétaro, México World premiere
At 45 min. in duration, THE FALL '01 is a choreographic multimedia drama
on terror, war and torture, depicting the wholesale dehumanization of the
Global War Of Terror - a civilization at the precipice of its fall - not for the faint of heart.
"...one of the most potent artistic responses
to war and state terrorism perpetrated by
our government I've ever seen..."
- Brett Campbell - Eugene Weekly
Flash trailer
(1 min.)
QuickTime trailer
Brave New Theaters
potential screeners:
Contact
by email to get DVD
DVD is free + $5.00 shipping/handling domestic ($10 international)
authored region-free to DVD-R
If so moved, please make tax-deductible donations to Agnieszka Laska Dancers through the secure on-line system:
All donations go toward the US premiere (Fall '07)
and tour of the fully staged performance ('07-'08 and beyond)
August 18-26, 2007
XIVth International Workshops of Contemporary Dance
Agnieszka Laska gave a week-long workshop in
Limon-based modern dance and, with ALD resident composer Jackie T. Gabel, a 2-day workshop titled "Working methods in dance theatre" -
Poznan, Poland
July 11, 2007
The Old Church
ALD performed the Adagio from Spring Quartet with a quartet drawn from The Siberian Chamber Orchestra, as ALD presented them in a fuund-raising program titled WHITE NIGHTS OF SUMMER, their only concert in Portland
THANK YOU SUPPORTERS
We wish to thank our numerous individual and institutional donors for all the help over the years, and particularly now. In just 4 years Agnieszka Laska Dancers have given over 50 public performances and we are just back from our 2nd international tour - a great success. In addition to our local supporters Agnieszka Laska Dancers are grateful for full support from Polish festival and concert presenters while on tour in Poland and especially to the Polish Building Library Association, in Portland for their generous donation of use of Polish Hall for rehearsals and fundraising events.
Thank you all again
