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PICA’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 Tonya Lockyer (dance artist/educator and Artistic Director of Velocity Dance Center in Seattle) for a casual, guided workshop and conversation about Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People's performance of And lose the name of action.
Learn moreAt this year’s Festival, Karen Sherman (Minneapolis) performs with set pieces she designs and builds herself, drawing on her skills in construction, while Linda Austin (Portland) performs with sculptural objects by artist David Eckard. Here, they talk about designing and constructing set pieces and choreographing with and for sculptural objects and visual artists.
Learn moreChoreographer Miguel Gutierrez will lead a unique walk through the world, guiding participants to awaken, explore, and illuminate their senses of the world around them.
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 Keith Hennessy (choreographer and TBA alum) for a casual, guided workshop and conversation about Bouchra Ouizguen's Ha!.
Learn moreTrue to PICA’s interdisciplinary, artist-driven focus, TBA visual artist Emily Roysdon—whose practice spans independent and collaborative work in performance, installation, printmaking, text, video, and curating—interviews visiting choreographers Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco) and Nacera Belaza (France/Algeria) on their newest works.
Learn moreTools and tactics for dancing and performance, which may or may not include: doing movements, imagining doing movements, rolling on the floor, touching each other, talking, screaming, seeing, and being seen. Participants will access and build a sense of awareness, presence, decision making, quality, and imagination.
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 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 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 Zoe Scofield (TBA alum and choreographer/dancer of zoe |juniper) for a casual, guided workshop and conversation about Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit's ADULT.
Learn moreA documentary on nine choreographers from Africa challenging stale stereotypes of the continent.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 morePICA's seventh annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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