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"I've always wanted to be a dancer," says Byron Beck, the 53-year-old Portland blogger and former Willamette Week editor famous for his "Queer Window" column.

"You spin the wheel. They dance." When Jamey Hampton, artistic co-director of BodyVox, explains the modern company's latest show, the premise seems simple.

“Awright, awright,” Jamey Hampton shouted into his microphone, sprinting onto the stage in his best Joel Grey/carnival-barker impersonation. “Here we go! Welcome to The Spin!”

Classical pianist Jennifer Wright has found a new instrument—an old piano, stripped to its bare parts, played with everything from shot glasses to wire brushes.

Lasers. Green screens. Wind-wands. Optical illusions. Firewall, the latest work from the ever-theatrical BodyVox, is, the program states, inspired by the hidden technology that shields us from

If you saw Inception a few years back, chances are you marveled at the film's spinning, zero-gravity hallway scene. BodyVox didn't stop at admiration—the 17-year-old dance company decided to

We may take them for granted, but some of Portland’s best artists and ensembles are beloved around the world.

When Wild Man premiered in Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 1991 American Choreographers Showcase, I thought it was a knockout. Created by Jamey Hampton in collaboration

BodyVox wraps up their production "Body Opera Files" this weekend, and, whether or not you follow dance, this show is delightful and definitely worth checking out.

BodyVox’s “Body Opera Files” opened last week, featuring 17 dance vignettes performed by Bodyvox and BodyVox-2 dancers, alongside members of a live band and four amazing singers.

Three of the city's major dance companies present compelling work this weekend, signaling the fall arts season is seriously underway. What knits them together?

BodyVox and Chamber Music Northwest musicians paired up for two nights of whimsical, spirited entertainment. The stage at St. Mary’s Academy is on the small side for a dance performance,

If you have negative thoughts about yourself racing through your head, you’re not alone. But you aren’t accomplishing anything except beating yourself down. There isn’t a professional dancer who

Jamey Hampton’s “S.O.S.” was the best piece on the program when it premiered at the Schnitz nine years ago in a BodyVox/Third Angle collaboration called “Water Bodies.”

“We’ve been around so much we call ourselves ‘tartists,’ Ashley Roland says. She means of course that, the dance troupe she co-founded with Jamey Hampton in 1997, has ranged widely in its