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Dead Thoroughbred artists sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin discuss process, concept, collaboration and their new TBA performance project in depth with Sampada Aranke (Asst. Professor, Art History, Theory, & Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Kemi Adeyemi (Asst. Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Seattle).
Learn moreTight. Moving. Aural. Physical. Breath. Beat. Lost. Loose. Breathless. Minutes? Months? Meters? Monsters? Monograms? Macaroons? 15 m = ? Four ways. Samiya Bashir dreamcasts Portland poets Shayla Lawson and Dao Strom, plus special guest Ronaldo V. Wilson and collaborating artist Roland Dahwen Wu, as together they guide poetry through space. Four ways. Solve for the poem. What? See for yourself.
Learn moreBecca Blackwell shares insights into the creation of They, Themself, and Schmerm, including themes of gender and transition, strategies of humor, and forms of comedy and personal narrative. In dialogue with TBA Guest Scholar bart fitzgerald and Shawna Lipton, Chair, MA in Critical Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Learn moreIn celebration of Pepper Pepper and friends’ fifth and final edition of Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Ball at TBA, don’t miss this roundtable and mimosa kiki by and for the growing Pacific Northwest ballroom scene. A diverse group of local dancers and performers will come together to get critical and connect about their practice and presence.
Learn moreIn collaboration with dramaturg Kate Bredeson (Assoc. Professor of Theatre, Reed College), this afternoon series will illuminate the work of dramaturgs in dance and new performance. A talk by Katherine Profeta, followed by a roundtable on dance dramaturgy, together investigate how dramaturgs work, and provoke conversations about the role of dramaturgical collaboration in new work. This program is grateful for the support of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, who awarded Portland dramaturg Kate Bredeson the 2017 Bly Fellowship that helps to make this series possible.
Learn moreTBA artists and scholars discuss what it means to make experimental performance through a Black queer feminist lens in light of the contemporary politics and evolving aesthetics of race, gender, sexuality, and the body. With Kemi Adeyemi, Sampada Aranke, sidony o’neal, taisha paggett, and Keijaun Thomas. Moderated by Ariel Osterweis, TBA:16 Guest Scholar.
Learn moreIn a spirited launch of this year's TBA, artistic directors of leading national and international art and performance festivals speak to the concentrated time, space, and place of “the festival” as an unparalleled platform for artistic presentation, audience experience, curatorial research, political engagement, and cross-cultural confluence of people and ideas. With Angela Mattox (TBA Festival, Portland); Silvia Bottiroli (Santarcangelo Festival, Italy); Helen Cole (In Between Time Festival, Bristol, UK); and Melissa Levin (River to River Festival, NYC). Moderated by Stephanie Snyder, Anne and John Hauberg Director and Curator, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.
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?
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