Dance Studios

Center for Movement Arts in Portland, Oregon offers children and adults a safe, positive and enjoyable environment in which to study a rich variety of movement disciplines. Students at Center for Movement Arts take dance classes for the love of dance. Our faculty, guest teaching artists and directors work hard to make that love life-long. Open Listing

Learn to dance for fitness and fun! The Colleen Murray Dance Centre offers dance lessons and dance ‘experiences’. We take the dance experience to the next level, offering a wide range of services and facilities to everyone, from first-time dance enthusiasts to advanced competitors, children to seniors. Dancing is more than just movement to music. The American writer John Dewy wrote about art as experience, and this is what dancing is really about. Each dance is an expression of a mood, an experience of emotion. The music brings out the emotion in the dancer, and this emotion is translated into Open Listing

NW Dance Project was founded in Portland in 2004 by acclaimed dancer, mentor and choreographer Sarah Slipper. NW Dance Project is dedicated to the creation and performance of innovative, new contemporary dance works from established and emerging dance makers created in an open and artistically stimulating environment. NW Dance Project has fostered the creation and Portland premiere of nearly 300 original contemporary dance works to date. Our dedication to providing dancers and dance makers the resources and creative room needed to realize new, inspired dance works led Dance International Magazine to proclaim that we are “changing the way dance is Open Listing