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Shaun Keylock Company will relocate its operations to the newly developed studios of the Classical Ballet Academy. This strategic move emphasizes the company's dedication to prioritizing its dancers, accessibility for audiences, and its ongoing archival work and historic projects.
Shaun Keylock discusses the challenges and impact of SKC's merger with Conduit Dance, Inc., the shift to nonprofit status, and the company's renewed focus on historical programming and community engagement.
Shaun Keylock Company (SKC) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Conduit Dance, Inc, a nonprofit dance organization. This transfer enhances SKC’s projects and accelerates its mission as one of the Pacific Northwest’s leading contemporary dance companies.
The Tower Theatre Foundation will present the first ever "Stage the Change" event on the West Coast. High school students from throughout the Pacific Northwest are invited to attend this two-day conference which is developed in partnership with the New York based non-profit Stage the Change. The goal of "Stage the Change" is to inspire, teach, and help attendees employ the performing arts to find their social voice to become responsible global citizens and catalysts for change.
While SKC's tour to San Francisco may have been postponed this year, the company will still be touring to the Bay Area virtually this month. PUSHfest, a mixed-genre dance festival led by founder Raissa Simpson, will be presenting 21 different artists from across the United States and Canada as part of a new virtual festival format.
Shaun Keylock Company launches a new residency program this fall for dance artists to create and perform their work at our studio. We have extended the opportunity early to resident artist Sophia Ahmad for her new community program Monday Fundays.
Shaun Keylock Company has opened a creative studio for dance and performance research in Portland. The studio is the new home for award-winning choreographer Shaun Keylock and his company of dancers and will serve as a unique resource for local artists and communities.
Shaun Keylock and company dancer Trevor Wilde will perform Keylock’s work TWO BOYS (4x4) at the Ten Tiny Dances Festival in Beaverton on Saturday, July 13th 2019.
Shaun Keylock Company will perform Calamus at the Barnstorm Dance Festival in Houston this June.
Shaun Keylock Company’s first full-length show is praised by Oregon ArtsWatch as "enticing and exploratory ... marked both by reticent moments and opportunities for deep discovery."
Shaun Keylock has won the prestigious Barney Creative Prize, awarded by White Bird to dance artists currently creating work in the western states.
Shaun Keylock will premiere a new full-length production with his company of dancers May 10-12, 2019 at New Expressive Works.
Shaun Keylock will return to his alma mater Pacific University this fall to create a new work for the Pacific University Dance Ensemble.
Dancers from Shaun Keylock Company will perform excerpts from Shaun Keylock's new work in-process for DownRight Productions next event at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, August 25, 2018
Calamus has received high praise on the Oregon ArtsWatch blog, described as a "deep exploration of masculinity and identity—sometimes as soft as a whisper and other times bold and dramatic."
Calamus forms part of a quadruple bill alongside works by claire barrera, Decimus Yarbrough, and Sarah Brahim, June 15-17, 2018.