Photo / Blaine Truitt Covert
Dancer / Lindsey McGill + Franco NIeto
NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT
2014-15 SEASON
NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT WAS FOUNDED IN PORTLAND 2004
BY PRINCIPAL DANCER, AWARD-WINNING CHOREOGRAPHER, AND
ACCLAIMED DANCE MENTOR SARAH SLIPPER, AND IMMEDIATELY
BEGAN MAKING A SPLASH AND A NAME FOR ITSELF BY DOING
THINGS A BIT DIFFERENTLY IN DANCE.
Our dedication to providing dancers and dance makers the
resources and artistic freedom needed to create and take
new, inspired dance works to the stage led Dance International
Magazine to proclaim that we are “changing the way dance
is created” and established Northwest Dance Project as “a
laboratory, factory and repository for risk-taking new works from
the next generation of choreographers from Europe, and North
America.”
Northwest Dance Project has grown into a world-class
contemporary dance company and an international leader in the
creation and premiere of significant new contemporary dance
works. We commission gifted choreographers from around the
world to create on our classically trained yet