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NW Dance Project is a contemporary ballet company based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 2004 by artistic director, Sarah Slipper. The company has performs around 250 all original works.

Sarah Slipper
Sarah Slipper was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and received her professional training at the Royal Ballet School in London, England and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in Winnipeg, Canada. She worked with many world renowned directors, choreographers and teachers including Arnold Spohr, Rudi van Dantzig, Hans van Manen and Jiri Kylian. After Slipper retired from dancing, she studied theater at the University of Winnipeg and at Oxford. Slipper was the ballet mistress at several companies such as the Alberta Ballet in 1994 and the Oregon Ballet Theatre in 1997.

Company
NW Dance Project dancers as of October 21, 2017.


 * Samantha Campbell
 * William Couture
 * Katherine Disenhoff
 * Kody Jauron
 * Elijah Labay
 * Lindsey McGill
 * Franco Nieto
 * Andrea Parson
 * Anthony Pucci
 * Julia Raddick