"Incorporamento" / Gerding Theater / January 24 & 31, 10:15pm

Attic director David Biespiel and OBT principal dancer Gavin Larsen bring movement to poetry and voice to dance at the Fertile Ground Festival.

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Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Attic Writers' Workshop present "Incorporamento" by David Biespiel & Gavin Larsen.

If language could move and the body could sing, the result would be "Incorporamento," the unique collaboration between a poet and a dancer. In 2008, award-winning poet David Biespiel began writing a series of epistles—poems in the form of letters—to fellow poets, friends, and spirits from the past and future. "Incorporamento" is OBT principal dancer Gavin Larsen's fabulously choreographed sequence of dances in response to some of those letters.

The performance answers a profound question: Can two arts, one spoken and one silent, marry? The answer is, yes! This one-of-a-kind collaboration—between poet and dancer—will also include a post-show Q&A with the audience, moderated by Portland writer Dave Jarecki about how Biespiel and Larsen created the performance and what the collaboration suggests about the relationship between the body of poetry and the poetry of the body. Improvisational music preformed by Joshua Pearl.

Fertile Ground Festival
"Incorporamento": Jan 24 and 31 at 10:15 pm
Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)
Single Tickets: Call 800-494-TIXS or online at www.fertilegroundpdx.org