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BODYVOX EMBRACES FRIGHTFUL FUN WITH BLOODYVOX

(Portland, OR) - This October, BodyVox kicks off its 2010-2011 season with BloodyVox: a show that embraces the frightful fun of the company's favorite holiday. This haunting work will debut new choreography from Artistic Directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland, with additional work from Artistic Associate Eric Skinner. Hampton and Roland have also reworked some favorites from the BodyVox repertoire, giving them a chilling twist. The BodyVox classic "Falling for Grace," for instance, is re-imagined as a ghostly visitation that subtly crosses into the realm of horror.

BodyVox in Westhampton Beach

BodyVox brings contemporary dance theater to Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center

27East.com

By Kristi Kates
Jul 20, 10 11:41 AM

Oregonian Review of Smoke Soup

BodyVox creates feast of images with 'Smoke Soup'

By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian
March 26, 2010, 3:19PM

"Smoke Soup," the title of the latest show by BodyVox, follows in line with other fanciful names for the Portland contemporary-dance troupe's shows: "Foot Opera Files," "Horizontal Leanings," "A Thousand Little Cities."

BodyVox-2 Press

Portland dance company BodyVox looks to future with apprentice troupe BV2

By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian
February 20, 2010, 3:05PM

BodyVox-2 does the bunny hop

By: Bob Hicks, ArtScatter.com
February 20, 2010

Smoke Soup press release

New Work Simmers: BodyVox Premieres Smoke Soup

(Portland, OR) - In spring 2010 BodyVox premieres Smoke Soup, a richly layered companion piece to the company's 2009 hit show The Foot Opera Files. Once again co-artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland will work with a team of choreographers to include Eric Skinner, Daniel Kirk, and Matt Hope and set the full show to the music of a single composer: Grammy-nominated producer and song writer Joe Henry. Known for a genre spanning musical style, the LA TIMES writes that "Joe Henry crafts music o

Audition

AUDITION NOTICE

BodyVox, a leading contemporary dance company under the artistic direction of Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland, is auditioning for their 2010-2011 season. Based in Portland Oregon, BodyVox is a freewheeling, multi-media, boundary-bending movement troupe. BodyVox’s unique approach to theater assimilates all possibilities for movement; endows it with breathtaking physicality; enriches it with striking imagery and embellishes it with humor, wit and whimsy to create refined dancing that knows no boundaries.

Oregonian Review of Chronos/Kairos

Dance review: 'Chronos/Kairos' makes case for BodyVox's skill and sensibility

By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

November 13, 2009, 1:18PM

"Well, you're here," Jamey Hampton said, not sounding surprised about the capacity crowd in front of him, but, rather, gratified about the "here" he could share.

"The first show in the new, remodeled BodyVox Dance Center... We're nervous. And we're thrilled."

Oregonian Preview of Chronos/Kairos

BodyVox opens new space with a retrospective program

By Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

November 12, 2009, 6:03AM

Amid the myriad choices made for the $700,000 renovation of Northwest Portland's Corberry Press building into the new BodyVox Dance Center, one of the least functional might be the most telling.