bvx-blog

[bvx-blog]

Happy New Year to all of our Friends and Fans around the world. Thank you for an amazing year! Lets start the new year off right with Mr. January from our 2014 calendar. Enjoy!

Daniel Kirk, photo by: Jay Lawrence, Polara Studio

[bvx-blog]

Football Players doing ballet!  Reminds me of the famous Vince Lombardi quote: "Football is not a contact sport, it’s a collision sport – dancing is a contact sport"

ESPN Video: Rick Reilly describes how Steelers nose tackle Steve McLendon uses ballet as a means to improve his football performance.

[bvx-blog]

 A little inspiration for the holiday weekend. Enjoy!

heart,  BodyVox

[bvx-blog]

And I must be insane To go skating on your name And by tracing it twice I fell through the ice Of Alice

See "Alice" by Jamey Hampton in BodyVox's production of Body Opera Files. www.bodyvox.com

photo by: Randall L. Milstein

[bvx-blog]

pu·gi·list  [pyoo-juh-list]  noun a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.

BodyVox's 2013 Season opens with Body Opera Files, a revival of the 2009 hit production, Foot Opera Files. Step into a thrilling work of American Noir where character and story take center stage as dancers transform and a world both distant and familiar comes into focus. Follow the stories of a drifter, a vixen, a pugilist, and a rocker through a dance theater cycle of nostalgia, 
heartache, love, and loss.

With a live Indy Rock band led by bassist Michael Papillo, the powerful music of Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, gospel and Americana bridge tango, anthem, torch, and rockabilly to create a world that, “…feels Old World circus, 1930s nightclub, lonesome heartland and silent film by turns” The Oregonian.

www.bodyvox.com

photo by: Michael Shay, Polara Studio

[bvx-blog]

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

~Desmond Tutu

BodyVox. photo by: Michael Shay, Polara Studio

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox. We like to bring our friends when we dance.

photo by: Lois Greenfield

[bvx-blog]

Our own superhero, the incredible Holly Shaw photographed by Jeremy Dunham of Polara Studio. wwwbodyvox.com

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox at the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Derrin Battles, Polara Studio

[bvx-blog]

"Contact" Our newest collaboration with filmmaker Mitchell Rose. This premiered in our show "The Cutting Room" which we will be performing at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia this December.  www.bodyvox.com

[bvx-blog]

"Trampoline started with 6 men and a woman. I wanted to see how high 3 men could throw a dancer if 3 men were going to catch her. Dramatically, it became a dance about how people can support and help each other." ~ Jamey Hampton, BodyVox.  Photo by Jim Lykins.

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox, The Road to "FIFTEEN," Episode 4

[bvx-blog]

Intense Heather Jackson performs "Rip/Tide" in BodyVox's restrospective show FIFTEEN.  Choreography by Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland, photo by David Krebs.

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox, The Road to "FIFTEEN," Episode 3

[bvx-blog]

Hopper's Dinner first premiered as a surprise BodyVox performance at Clarklewis restaurant in SE Portland. Four diners jump, and dance over, under and around their table as one perplexed waiter tries desperately to hold the evening together. photo by: Blaine Truitt Covert — performers Cristina Jo Betts-Gilbert, Jen Hileman, Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk and Lane Hunter.

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox, The Road to "FIFTEEN," Episode 2

[bvx-blog]

BodyVox, The Road to "FIFTEEN," Episode 1