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A gathering and discussion about queer performance, art, and culture. A casual and curious space for exploration of history and lineage. A group experiment in dialogue and community.
Learn moreAs a performing artist, Emily Johnson makes contemporary performance works that are infused with her experiences growing up in Alaska.
Learn moreLocal and regional contemporary artists discuss and contend with culturally specific readings of their work.
Learn moreJoin us for the first of our Field Guide sessions, where an intimate group of curious audience members will gather for a participatory workshop, discussion, and dinner in conjunction will Emily Johnson's performance of Niicugni
Learn moreWe will make short stories for one another; aware of what we believe about ourselves and what we completely make up. We will think of the blood moving through our bodies – get hot and sweaty as we do so.
Learn moreAn interdisciplinary weekend of art, performance, and conversations, investigating the complexity of constructing and communicating culture in contemporary art
Learn moreBased in Los Angeles since the early 1970s, Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. His wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on “action” painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience.
Learn moreAn accessible workshop with members of Circo Zero, exploring improvisation and movement techniques.
Learn moreCompany members from Gob Squad lead a performance workshop right in the set of Gob Squad’s Kitchen, exploring their unique blend of theater and real life.
Learn moreFaustin Linyekula discusses his bold solo dance and its themes of legacy, forgetting, and memory with Angela Mattox.
Learn moreA workshop led by cheltfisch’s award-winning director and playwright, Toshiki Okada, known for his stylized hybrids of oddly humorous text, distinctive lighting, and idiosyncratic movement.
Learn moreLuisa Pardo and Gabino Rodriguez from Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol talk about performance in Mexico with Olga Sanchez, Artistic Director of Teatro Milagro.
Learn moreInternational curators discuss the festival model and its role in the world of contemporary performance.
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 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 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 moreVogt discusses the conceptually complex and layered environments she creates out of videos and objects.
Learn moreBig Art Group director Caden Manson will discuss the group’s serial site-specific project, The People, along with the local Portland residents who participated in the performance.
Learn moreBy using imagination and a sense of absence and presence, butoh invites a constant transformation to your body.
Learn moreTBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
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