photo: Alicia J. Rose

White Bird Uncaged Presents

Tere Mathern Dance / Minh Tran & Company
Miller Hall, World Forestry Center
January 20-24, 2010

Commisioned by White Bird

Tere Mathern and Minh Tran are two of the Pacific Northwest's finest choreographers. Mathern is a pattern maker, acclaimed for weaving lush swirling formations with razor sharp athleticism. Minh Tran has created a body of work celebrated for its singular fusion of traditional Asian and contemporary western techniques.

In a shared program, performed in the round, Tere Mathern Dance will premiere PIVOT, set to a live score by composer Tim DuRoche, that explores the instance of transfer - the fulcrum between balance and risk. Teaming up with composer Heather Perkins and videographer David Bryant, Minh Tran & Company will perform a new work on the subject of sexual identity, based on Tran's coming-out experience. A highlight of the program is a new collaborative duet by the choreographers who have long danced for and with each other. Contains partial nudity.

    If you misssed Oregon Art Beat's profile of Tere Mathern, watch it here.

Below, Paul King and Walter Jaffe of White Bird interview Tere Mathern and Minh Tran about their upcoming White Bird Uncaged performance at the World Forestry Center: