Open Ended

Open Space presents an international dance collaboration with Outrun the Bear (Megan Doheny and Ilya Nikurov), who will be performing a self-created duet and choreographing a brand new work on Open Space’s company artists and the Open Space Too trainees. Doheny and Nikurov met as dancers at Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Israel.  Doheny, who is American, and Nikurov who’s originally from Russia, established their Los Angeles-based collaborative dance project, "Outrun The Bear," performing and screening their works in theatres and festivals in Israel, the United States, the Netherlands, Portugal, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Japan, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea. 

Open Space’s resident choreographer, Noelle Kayser, and local filmmaker, Matthew Tomac will be premiering dust, a 9 minute dance film shot at the Oregon Coast. Kayser feels the film “pays tribute to generational cycles of caregiving and is a reflection of my experience caring for my father as he died of cancer." Dust is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.Dust is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

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Performance will be in the round at Open Space's Creative Container in Kenton

Open Space and Oregon Contemporary Accessibility:

Oregon Contemporary is a wheelchair accessible theater (ramp to front entrance, no internal stairs) with wheelchair seating available for power or manual wheelchairs.  Oregon Contemporary has an all-gender restroom which is accessible for power and manual wheelchairs. Please contact charlene@openspace.dance if you will be using accessible seating, have any additional questions, or just want to let us know you’re coming so we can plan accordingly.