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White Bird Dance studio presents a program from Montreal’s renowned Compagnie Marie Chouinard dance company, featuring her treatment of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring to celebrate the centennial of Igor Stravinsky’s masterwork. The show will run from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at Portland State’s Lincoln Hall and is sponsored by the Willamette Week. Chouinard is an internationally recognized choreographer who was awarded the title “Chevalier des arts et des lettres” in 2009 by the French government, and who won the first CALQ Award for best choreographic work in 2011–12 for The Golden Mean (Live). Chouinard was only the third woman soloist to take on the role of the faun in Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Her interpretation of Vaslav Nijinski’s work draws on Adolphe Meyer’s photographs of the original performance rather than the choreographic notations available at the time, according to the press materials. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for students and seniors; they are available at whitebird.org or through the PSU Box Office at 503-725-3307.