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Three 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 moreTBA:12 artist (and Field Guide “faculty”) Keith Hennessy will lead a workshop for dancers, choreographers, and body and conceptual artists, re-imagining social relations through performance, improvisation, dance, and embodied action.
Learn moreCRITICAL MASCARA honors the lineage and history of a drag ball while inviting artists from PDX and beyond to create community amidst competition. Surprise performances, audience challenges, and queer history lessons are embodied by the future stars of the West Coast.
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 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 moreA physically rigorous but also gentle and slow workshop for anyone with an interest in the body. Come prepared to strut, drool, dance, nap, dream, tantrum, pray, sweat, seduce, and soar.
Learn moreVideo and performance artist Peter Burr presents a live television show featuring 18 short animations from underground video label Cartune Xprez and original music by Lucky Dragons and Seabat. Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's 1971 film Stalker, SPECIAL EFFECT takes a journey to “The Zone," an off-limits place of hope and possibility rumored to make one's deepest desires come true. With laser beams, green screens, and a live webcam, Burr acts as our guide and TV host, collaging live happening with animated experience.
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.
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 moreKhaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne—the collaborating artists and musicians of The Blow—discuss the place of pop music in contemporary art and its value as a performance practice.
Learn moreIn 1997, riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin, hoping someday to find a band to play the songs live. She finally assembled her dream team in 2010 as The Julie Ruin...
Learn moreWhen you stay up late to catch all of the artists and activity at the Time-Based Art Festival, you’re bound to get hungry. That’s why we’ve invited a mix of Portland chefs to drop the white tablecloths and cook the kind of food they make after-hours, indulging their secret, guilty pleasure tastes.
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