Ten Tiny Dances returns to downtown Beaverton

Sat., July 8, 10 am-noon, Beaverton City Park, SW Fifth St & Hall Blvd. Free

The City of Beaverton will present Ten Tiny Dances, a free, public event featuring a wide variety of dancers who represent modern, contemporary, and traditional ethnic dance forms on a four-by-four-foot stage, that challenges the choreographers and dancers to use the limited space to fuel their creativity. The schedule is:

9:20 am: NW Dragon and Lion Dance Association parade through Beaverton Farmers Market and City Park

The traditional lion dance is a form of dance in the Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion’s movements in costume. For more information about this group, visit www.nwliondance.org.

10 am: Performances begin at City Park

Performers include ADAPT, Def Con 5, Huitzilopochtli, Mike Barber and Cydney Wilkes, Nartana School of Kuchipudi Dance, Painted Sky Northstar Dance Company, The Patrollers, push/FOLD, Victoria Rose White, and The Zealous Advocates.

11:30 am: Ten Tiny Dances Talk Back

The Talk Back offers an opportunity to meet Ten Tiny Dances founder and artistic director Mike Barber, along with event choreographers and dancers to gain insight into their experiences and creative process used to produce dances for the tiny stage.

Now in its ninth year, Ten Tiny Dances is designed to animate public spaces and raise the visibility of Beaverton’s ethnic diversity. For more information about this event and its performers, visit www.BeavertonOregon.gov/TTD. For more information about Ten Tiny Dances, visit www.tentinydances.org.