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Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen draws inspiration from the writings of the famed Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi to probe the obsessions lurking in each of us. In Ha!, she shares this exploration with her collaborators Fatima El Hanna, Fatima Aït Ben Hmad, and Naïma Sahmoud—a trio of Moroccan aïtas, traditional cabaret singers who are both celebrated and scorned for their performing tradition on the margins of society.
Learn more“Nacera Belaza practices the detail drawing, the imperceptible nuance, the painting of a slow-moving body with a play of light and shade. She is to the dance what Bresson is to the cinema...” —RTBF
Learn more“The professional insights of Erdal, who at times operates the lighting from the stage [...] illuminate his story, becoming a metaphor for his experiences and for life’s big questions... he uses the medium he knows so intimately [...] to present theatre with universal resonance.” —The Globe and Mail
Learn moreJamie Isenstein: Will Return is an exhibition, an occasion, and a publication. For the past fifteen years, Portland native and Reed College alumna Jamie Isenstein has created objects, drawings, mixed-media sculptures, and installations that engage the artist’s body as an artistic medium—a subject of humor, theatricality, and historical representation.
Learn moreDisjecta Curator-in-Residence Summer Guthery and artist Ieva Miseviciute will discuss comedy, problems, mimes, audience members as captives, undescribing performance, and fugues, all while sitting in very tall chairs.
Learn moreHolmes will combine applications of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind Centering, Steve Paxton’s Contact Improvisation, and improvisational approaches in solo, duet, and ensemble dancing.
Learn moreIeva Misevičiūtė—former Lithuanian clown, academic, and practitioner of unproductive gymnastics presents her take on sketch comedy that lost its punch line and has been abstracted through dance and free-floating characters.
Learn moreLaura Arrington and Jesse Hewit discuss their newest work, ADULT, and reflect on their collaborative process subverting the dance duet. Moderated by Ju-Pong Lin, Faculty, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College.
Learn more“Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy.” —British Theatre Guide
Learn moreWISHFUL THINKING brings together the musicians of Led Er Est, Blues Control, Further Reductions, and The Coombe—bands that use hardware electronics to subvert the digital abstractions of the personal computer and resist the pure click-and-drag of the soft synth world. They’ll dissolve pop songs into walls of noise, and re-build aggressively rhythmic tracks that embrace the beauty of error in improvisation.
Learn more“In the beginning, Georg said, let there be no light. And there was dark. Silky, womb-like India-ink blackness. No emergency lighting in theaters, nada, nothing. And it was good. Mind-blowingly good.” —Los Angeles Times
Learn moreAnd lose the name of action balances neuroscience, improvisation, and paranormal investigations to explore the ghostlike traces that dance leaves on the mind and body.
Learn moreA 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 moreEmbark on a spiritual journey into the deepest caverns of YouTube’s collective consciousness, through a participatory artist and audience-curated video screening.
Learn moreIn ADULT, grown-up friends Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit exorcise and exhaust their collective fantasies about death and dying.
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 moreMake Well has been composed to heal its listeners in parts of their souls left untouched for unknown reasons. In early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project behind the alias of Like a Villain.
Learn moreScored for singers and electronics, Rainbow Passage is a multimedia concert based on a popular diagnostic text by speech scientist Grant Fairbanks, containing every sound of the English language. These sounds are first intoned literally, then fragmented much as the sunlight strikes raindrops, and rewoven into a vocal tapestry that communicates beyond language, simultaneously evoking the myth and science of rainbows.
Learn moreThe Blow returns to TBA in its new collaborative incarnation between founder Khaela Maricich and conceptual/installation artist Melissa Dyne.
Learn moreThrough the lens of Harlem ball and postmodern dance, New York choreographer Trajal Harrell performs a study of Antigone from Sophocles’ tragedy.
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