Past
World Fair blends movement and video to present the body as a bank able to record, erase, or register different ingredients of modern reality and national identity.
Learn moreA live, cinematic concert of songs scored by Dean & Britta for 13 of Andy Warhol's famous black and white Screen Tests.
Learn moreA Crack in Everything examines the liminal space between action/reaction, cause/effect, and before/after.
Learn moreThree experimental poem-plays by the late Leslie Scalapino, staged with a small ensemble of instruments and singers.
Learn moreOffsite Dance Project returns to Portland and embeds three dynamic choreographers in the Central Eastside Industrial District. Under bridges and at loading docks, the performers will explore the “edges” of Portland, both in geographic and psychological terms. The audience will be guided on a walk between three different sites.
Learn moreA carpet-pacing, pulpit-pounding performance reanimating an out-of-print vinyl record of a sermon by the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Learn moreLive! The Realest MC is a new ensemble dance work inspired by Pinocchio’s plight to be a “real boy.”
Learn moreHome Made mounts a daring exploration of the awkwardness of human beauty and the struggles of intimate negotiation.
Learn moreA play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.
Learn moreGloriously larger than life, the fabulous performer, writer, and director Taylor Mac draws from the traditions of drag and performance art to create a style all his own.
Learn moreThe loss of a community radio station and the impact of Alzheimer’s on a family, seen through contemporary choreography and classic soul and hip hop recordings.
Learn moreA program of four solo dances, including collaborations with renowned choreographers Pina Bausch and Ushio Amagatsu; as well as works by Savitry Nair and Shivalingappa.
Learn moreA live performance and video installation that invites the audience deeper into the world of the company's dance.
Learn moreTBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.
Learn moreVariations pieces together different performances of the bolero: from Eydie Gormé to Maria Callas, Benny Goodman to Tchaikovsky.
Learn moreA highly personal multimedia work with solo cello compositions at the core and based on recollections of childhood family car vacations.
Learn moreTwo dancers encounter 50 people in a series of dreamlike meetings but manage to miss each other while environments and people constantly change.
Learn moreA deconstructed Hansel and Gretel, this wickedly funny multimedia theater piece blends the imaginary, subconscious, and real.
Learn moreSet against the shifting backdrop of a city, the audience is wired via headphones to an intensely personal drama that unfolds somewhere in the crowd.
Learn moreOverhead projection combines with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book.
Learn moreDancers sing and musicians dance in this feverishly physical dissection of cause and effect.
Learn moreA musical comedy about the beaver state with a new Act IV, complete with brand new songs and rollicking plot in celebration of Oregon's 150th birthday!
Learn moreMAYBE FOREVER explores loss, longing, the place in between dreams and wishes, mourning and meeting.
Learn moreMining movement and text from James Dean Last Meadow creates a non-narrative collage of an America where the jig is up and the dream has died.
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