“A floating St. Patrick’s Day that we loved! Truly the best in Portland!”
Live Irish music and dancers on both levels!
There will be a bistro food bar on one level and full bars on all three levels for your pleasure to purchase!
The fun begins after the sound check at 7:30pm. All dances are taught and called as we dance until 11pm. (13 and older please.)
No experience or partner required, just folks that want to enjoy an evening of music (yes, you may attend and just enjoy the music) and dance.
“A floating St. Patrick’s Day that we loved! Truly the best in Portland!”
Live Irish music and dancers on both levels!
There will be a bistro food bar on one level and full bars on all three levels for your pleasure to purchase!
Christmas Presence is an offering of stories and songs centering on the joys, struggles, humor, and mystery of Christmas. Featuring the music of Dréos and guest Martha Moultry, the company renders characters ranging from the Innkeeper and the Wise Men to children and housewives, interspersed with sublime, evocative music.
More about Narrow Shoes Productions.
Cast – David Snider, Jeany Van Meltebeke Snider, Martha Moultry
Music by Dréos – Eliot Grasso, Brandon Vance, Glen Waddell with pianist Julianne Shepard.
Resonance Space at SOMA Towers (map)
BFan’s wickedly funny, sumptuous new take on a classic American legend, where romantic comedy meets superstition. Musical collaborators Dréos (with Eliot Grasso) and Gerry Rempel Ensemble play eclectic adapted classics and new works.
World premiere from Ballet Fantastique Resident Choreographer-Producers Donna Marisa + Hannah Bontrager
Funded by a generous grant from the Hult Endowment Fund of the Arts Foundation of Western Oregon Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.
Performance Dates
Friday, October 27, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2:30 PM
Dréos - 2nd Saturday Community Concert
Doors 6:45, show 7:30pm. Door price is $20 by cash or check only
There are times when making art is the only way we can give voice to suffering. Regionally known visual artist Wesley Hurd and internationally renowned composer Eliot Grasso have collaboratively produced a multidisciplinary exhibition of art and music that intimately explores the depths of loss, grief and hope. “The Odyssey of These Days” exhibition and performance will premiere March 3rd and 4th at the Hult Center Studio in downtown Eugene, OR. The project was deeply influenced by the shootings at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, which occurred during production of the work.
The paintings present an abstract visual narrative evoking the intensity of human suffering and our journey beyond it, into hope. The music, composed by Grasso and performed by the Dréos ensemble, is designed to reflect these inner experiences; to lend motion and aural texture to unanswerable questions and inarticulate responses.
According to Wesley Hurd, “this series of abstract paintings formed an unexpected narrative in three movements: shock and struggle, loss and grief, and finally memoriam and acceptance of loss. Eliot’s brilliant composition mirrors these movements in music. The two mediums, visual and aural, present an experience that is larger than the sum of its two parts.”
"Hurd's paintings, and the complex emotions behind them, have inspired me greatly,” said Grasso. “The music I wrote in response to the paintings is meant to confront each listener with the raw personal emotions of tragedy, grief, and loss, and to spur each listener forward beyond that grief into an emotional space where hope is not only reasonable, but real." Rather than focusing on the political or ideological, Hurd and Grasso are interested in how we form meaning from life experiences, both good and bad.
The premiere of “The Odyssey of These Days” is presented by ArtCity Eugene, with the generous support of the Oregon Arts Commission, Andersen Construction, Imagination International Inc., GloryBee, Gutenberg College, Brenner’s Furniture, QSL Print Communications, and BlueTower Arts.
Dréos performs original compositions for the Oregon Composer's Forum.
West Coast launch of The Clearing
