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A documentary on nine choreographers from Africa challenging stale stereotypes of the continent.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreA collective conversation about exhibition making, “performance” community, and the artist as object, with artist Jamie Isenstein, Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder, and PICA’s Kristan Kennedy.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn morePortland artist and net native Krystal South shares her digital essay created as part of the TBA:13 visual projects—a personalized history of “internet aware” art, and how its diffuse communities function online and IRL.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreThe Blow returns to TBA in its new collaborative incarnation between founder Khaela Maricich and conceptual/installation artist Melissa Dyne.
Learn moreThree Trick Pony is an intimate face-off between performer Linda Austin and a sculptural installation by David Eckard.
Learn moreHow are a new generation of Chileans—including the children of activists targeted by Pinochet and other younger artists, journalists, and activists—making sense of their shared past within a post-Pinochet climate?
Learn moreIn Guillermo Calderón’s Villa (2011), three young women debate the future of the site of a former villa turned into a torture barracks by the military dictatorship. Originally performed inside the infamous Villa Grimaldi, this “spare, intense” play by one of Chilean theatre’s fiercest new literary voices grapples with the legacy of atrocity using “stark lyricism and dreamlike imagery” (LA Times).
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreTwo leading Argentine theater artists discuss their own work as it intersects with aesthetic and conceptual trends in Latin American performance, as well as both artists’ thematic and documentary-inflected engagement with the experiences of Latin America’s post-dictatorship generation. Moderated by Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator and Producer, Boom Arts.
Learn moreInternational kamikaze cabaret sensation Meow Meow returns to Portland to take the symphony by storm!
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn morePICA’s new Field Guide program will take off during TBA, offering up new avenues for you to explore, experience, and discuss concepts and forms in contemporary dance. Join guest Field Guide faculty FRONT (a local dance newspaper published by Robert Tyree, Danielle Ross, Tahni Holt, and Noelle Stiles) for a casual, guided workshop and conversation about Trajal Harrell's Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure)/Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M).
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreJennie Livingston’s iconic 1990 documentary explored the voguing and drag ball culture of New York City and its African-American and Latino gay and transgender communities.
Learn moreAn introductory lecture by Judy Hussie-Taylor, curator of Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2012: Judson NOW, followed by a conversation Lydia Bell to illuminate Judson Dance Theater’s West Coast influences. Conversation followed by wine and book signing.
Learn moreChoreographer Trajal Harrell will talk with Judy Hussie-Taylor, Artistic Director of Danspace Project in New York, unpacking the sources for his Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem project.
Learn moreThis is how we disappear examines the complexity, frailty, and weight of human relationships in contrast with the fluid simplicity of the passage of time. Two performers embody Suniti Dernovsek’s unique movement vocabulary and are captured in their actions by custom electronics, driving a real-time response in sound and video.
Learn moreWhat would have happened if one of the early postmodern choreographers from Judson Church had gone uptown to perform in the ball scene in Harlem? In M2M, three dancers collide the formalism and minimalism of postmodernism with the flamboyance and performativity of voguing.
Learn more“To say that this contemporary dance piece is memorable is an understatement: You can’t forget watching two naked men manipulate each other’s penises in a game of one-upmanship.” —The Globe and Mail
Learn more“...it shakes you to the core [...] Recommended for all generations – those of us who lived through those years, those who saw our children in peril, and those who are only now realizing that history is more than learning dates, parrot style.” —La Segunda
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
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