Repertory

At the core of Conduit’s programs is the Moving Archive Project, a community-based archive dedicated to preserving, documenting, and sharing the works of choreographers who have shaped the vibrant dance history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

To date, this project has preserved more than 15 historic works and hundreds of hours of archival footage from regional artists and community elders. Below is the growing list of works that have been restaged as part of this intergenerational project by Artistic Director Shaun Keylock.

  • ManTango Opera Lounge (1993)

    Duration: 20 minutes
    Performers: 2
    Premiere: 1993, Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: Horacio Rivera, Giuseppe Verdi
    Costume Design: Laurel Leverton, Adam Arnold

    A dance that plays incongruently with the performers and music, this work pairs choreographer Gregg Bielemeier's idiosyncratic, loose-limb dance style with his unique sense of choreographic humor. The two dancers command the space as they perform the synopsis of a relationship — the chase, the passion, and the familiarity that leads to its inevitable conclusion.

  • Where for ART Thou (1994)

    Duration: 9 minutes
    Performers: 3
    Premiere: 1994, “Revving Up” Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: Kevin Volans
    Costume Design: Adam Arnold

    An abstract, fast-moving contemporary dance work for three dancers. The work uses choreographer Gregg Bielemeier's signature dance style that contains both a grace and heaviness to propel the dancers across the stage changing directions, levels, and timings.

  • With (1995)

    Duration: 12 minutes
    Performers: 2
    Premiere: 1995, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Keller Auditorium

    Choreography: Josie Moseley
    Music: John Richard Lurie, Lou Harrison
    Lighting Design: Michael Mazzola

    Josie Moseley's "With" received acclaim from critics and audiences alike when it premiered in 1995 for Oregon Ballet Theater.

    Described as “poetic” and “expansive,” the distinct moods of each of the four sections nods to Moseley’s own spirit and influences. The work was selected for inclusion in OBT's New York season at the Joyce Theater in 1999, and was also performed for the Dalai Lama's visit to to Portland in May of 2001. 

  • Suit Side In (1996)

    Duration: 10 minutes
    Performers: 8
    Premiere: 1996, “Pfools,” Michael Menger’s Really BIG Dance Company, Winningstad Theater

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: Joseph Haydn, Arthur Lyman, Robert Maxwell

  • Lovely Beautiful (1996)

    Duration: 8 minutes
    Performers: 5
    Premiere: 1996, “Revving Up” Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Odd Duck Lake (Excerpts) (1998)

    Duration: 5 or 10 minutes
    Performers: 1 to 5
    Premiere: 1998, Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: 3 Leg Torso

    * Commissioned by White Bird Dance

  • Evidence of Division (1999)

    Duration: 20 minutes
    Performers: 2 or 4
    Premiere: 1999, Minh Tran & Company

    Originally performed by Tere Mathern and Minh Tran
    Choreographer: Tere Mathern
    Music: Heather Perkins
    Lighting Designer: Jenessa Raabe
    Costumes: Tere Mathern and Adam Arnold

  • Sfumata (2002)

    Duration: 7 minutes
    Performers: 6
    Premiere: 2002, BodyVox

    Choreographer: Gregg Bielemeier
    Music: John Adams

    * Commissioned by BodyVox, Inc.

  • Arms Reach (2007)

    Duration: 15 minutes
    Performers: 6
    Premiere: 2007, Oregon Ballet Theatre

    Originally performed by the students of the School of Oregon Ballet Theatre
    Choreographer: Josie Moseley
    Music: Kate Power, Steve Einhorn, Lou Harrison

  • Drift (2009)

    Duration: 12 minutes
    Performers: 2
    Premiere: 2009, Conduit Dance, Inc.

    Originally performed by Keely McIntyre and Noel Plemmons
    Choreographer: Keely McIntyre
    Lighting Designer: Jeff Forbes
    Music: Jay Clarke

  • Problem of Bias (2012)

    Duration: 12 minutes
    Performers: 2
    Premiere: 2012, Conduit Dance, Inc.

    Originally performed by Jessica Hightower and Keely McIntyre
    Choreographer: Jessica Hightower
    Music: Katie Griesar