Paul King, born in Cleveland, Ohio, is a Cordon-Bleu-trained Chef, is Co-Founder with Walter Jaffe of White Bird and serves as President of the White Bird Board. Paul served 9 years on the Dance/USA Board and was Chair of the Board for two years. He previously served on the boards of California Presenters and International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA). He is currently a member of the Dean’s Circle of Portland State University’s College of the Arts and acted as the liaison between Portland’s arts organizations and the Executive Director Search Committee of the Regional Arts and Culture Council. White Bird received the 2012 William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals as well as the 2011 Jerry Willis Achievement Award from the Western Arts Alliance.

Curatorial Statement:

White Bird, founded in 1997 by Walter Jaffe and myself, is dedicated to bringing the best contemporary dance from around the world to Portland, Oregon, Each year we present 12 dance companies in two different subscription series. We have over 1700 subscribers. Over our 21 years of presenting on contemporary dance, we have presented the following Australian dance companies, Australian Dance Theater, Leigh Warren, Dance North, Philip Adams’ Ballet Lab (2X), Lucy Guerin (2X), Sydney Dance (3X), Chunky Move (3X). I am eager to see a wide variety of dance work that I can consider programming in future White Bird seasons. One of the main goals of attending Dance Massive is to deepen the relationships I already have with many choreographers and dancers by not only seeing the work but meeting with them. I look forward to getting to know artists to me.