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A bold "documentary" play exploring the radical revolutionary history of 60s Mexico, reigniting the social critiques of an earlier generation.
Learn moreTBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
Learn moreBlending real-time film, live actors, and a video “chorus” of interviews with a cross-section of Portlanders, Big Art Group pushes the formal boundaries of theater and film.
Learn moreA self-generated 'automatic' performance for two audience members/participants at a time, who take cues from words both written and whispered through headphones.
Learn moreLinda Hutchins, Future Death Toll, Austin Adkins, and Robert Tyree perform live for a steaming online international performance festival.
Learn moreRevelers will be treated to intermittent dance performances by local and visiting artists, empty truck beds for makeshift dance floors, and specials on Southern treats like mint juleps and boiled peanuts.
Learn moreFor years Mike Daisey has been working on an insane project: a live, 24-hour monologue on the scale of War and Peace and The Iliad. Unbelievably, this dream will at last be realized as the finale of this year’s TBA Festival.
Learn moreTiny TBA is a mini-festival within a festival that refuses to draw the line between kids and adults. Bring your families for open gallery hours and take part in activities led by TBA Festival artists and community volunteers.
Learn moreWorld 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 performance showcase featuring work by the most exciting Portland and New York artists, including Luciana Achugar, Oregon Painting Society, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, and more.
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 moreNEW MUSICS invites Portland’s most exciting sound scientists and pop adventurers to collaborate with some of the city’s under-sung traditional music ensembles.
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 moreExperimental 1/2 Hour, a biweekly cable access program produced by Eva Aguila & Brock Fansler, presents a night of video and live multimedia music performances produced for stage and television.
Learn moreComic, contemplative, and surreal, Whispering Pines 10 is a one-act, live-performance, video opera featuring Moulton’s alter ego, Cynthia.
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.
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