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Check your boredom at the megaplex for performances and videos from Terrifying Women, brand new work from Weston Currie and Liz Harris (Grouper), and B Movie Bingo Wolf Choir.
Learn moreJoin us for a flight of small tastes, eaten with your eyes closed, in this game of sensory deprivation and exploration. Featuring Jason French (Ned Ludd), Chef Naoko Tamura, and Johanna Ware (Smallwares).
Learn moreA collaborative creation, Turbulence is an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, improvised happening, and political theater in response to economic crisis.
Learn moreInternational curators discuss the festival model and its role in the world of contemporary performance.
Learn moreA multimedia night of live musical performances, Skype video concerts from western Africa, YouTube remixes, and live cellphone feeds.
Learn moreAn evening of site-specifc performance art from some Croatia and Serbia’s most provocative current artists.
Learn moreLong before the sprawl of Mexico City, the Aztecs established their capital, Tenochtitlàn, in 1325 on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. Of the more than 770 square miles of lakes originally marking the basin, less than four square miles remain.
Learn moreWood-fired Neapolitan-style pizzas—simple, charred, and sublime.
Learn moreProfessor Culp lectures on the current moment in Latin American theater and the tensions between presentation and representation on stage.
Learn moreCecchetti talks about his performative, media-crossing body of work, and his TBA:12 “relay” performance, Summer is Not the Prize of Winter.
Learn moreInternational curator Zvonimir Dobrovic of Perforacije Festival and Queer New York International talks about the generation of artists currently making performance work in Eastern Europe and the Balkan states.
Learn moreTwo clever puppeteers play out small-scale dramas live and projected on-screen.
Learn moreFood-cart fine-dining Italian! Pastas, gnocchi, and more with fresh Oregon produce.
Learn moreA collaboration with six dancers from Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and the US that evokes classical Japanese aesthetics and the subtle interplay of light and shadow.
Learn moreGutierrez offers insight into his provocative practice and introduces his new work in development, co-commissoned by PICA as part of the 2013 TBA Festival.
Learn moreDance with members of Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence cast, exploring improvisation and circus skills.
Learn moreThe annual favorite is back, featuring a lineup of artists that are entirely new to the small stage. Get a front-row seat and see how a host of national and international performers experiment with what’s possible within just 4 x 4 feet. New forms, new ideas, and a new generation of tiny projects—there’s really no telling what will happen when things get this small.
Learn moreJason Barwikowski's crew at The Woodsman Tavern will cook up late summer treats from the grill: flatbreads, corn, watermelon and more.
Learn moreSome people know exactly what they want out of life and how to get it. Good for them. But most of us could use some help navigating the increasingly infinite options modern life affords.
Learn moreFresh from the premiere of her latest work, choreographer Nora Chipaumire discusses female iconography, the burdens and freedoms of exile, and ideas of the female African body as subjugated and unknowable.
Learn moreWorking from the proposition that dance is a mode of perceptual inquiry, students will be led through explorations that prioritize sensation and non-rational action and trigger automatic, unprepared physical response.
Learn moreA shameless and sexually infused sewer of live rap and RnB who challenges the American obsession with charm and grace, CHRISTEENE is a new, dangerous breed of entertainer and “Drag Terrorist.”
Learn moreTaking her name from the South African singer, activist, and icon Miriam Makeba, Miriam explores the tensions that women face between public expectations and private desires and the perfection and sacrifice of the feminine ideal.
Learn moreA taste of the alps at TBA. Enjoy sausages, pepper stews, and stone fruit cakes, from chef Chris Israel.
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