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Michel Groisman will lead audiences in participatory games and captivate their attention with graceful performances.
Learn moreA live performance and video installation that invites the audience deeper into the world of the company's dance.
Learn moreThe United States has over 700 military bases on foreign soil in sovereign countries where we have no declaration of war. This project unites musicians, researchers and music-lovers to gather covers by American musicians of songs that originate from each of these places.
Learn moreClaire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work.
Learn moreAn all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists wildly diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children.
Learn moreThis September, PICA takes over Portland with an all-hours happening of contemporary performance and visual art.
Learn moreTBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.
Learn moreWith acoustic guitars and digital effects, the duo creates live improvised songs respond to the sonic influences of the local area.
Learn moreNew Japanese choreographers explore and illuminate the hidden subtext of the overlooked urban landscape.
Learn moreThe fluid boundaries of theatrical reality are exposed in a dance that bounces between sincere and ironic, seductive and violent.
Learn moreDance, storytelling, live multi-layered music and visual image merge to explore displacement, personal history and igloo myth.
Learn moreBased on the play by the late Bernard-Marie Koltès, an encounter of a Dealer and a Client is staged with the swagger of a punk concert.
Learn moreThe Beckett Trilogy is a three–hour tour de force performance of Samuel Beckett’s opus trio of novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
Learn moreHassabi moves beyond rhythm, ideal postures and coherence to physically collage hundreds of images of female identity.
Learn moreAn experiment in confined space, TTD is dedicated to fostering inventive dance/performance art and providing an accessible and exciting performance experience for a diverse audience, all on a 4×4-foot stage.
Learn moreA soft-sculpture environment provides the set for a dance performance exploring human engagement and synthetic experience.
Learn moreConor Lovett embodies the dark comedy of Samuel Beckett’s early short story, about a man’s first, and perhaps only, love.
Learn moreControlled by the audience, this 360-degree interactive war takes on a new narrative scope with each choice to look or turn away.
Learn moreIconic and not-so-iconic moments of the American Revolution in a dance-driven rock musical inspired by Schoolhouse Rock.
Learn moreIn this symphonic collaboration, Wainwright will share pop songs, Berlioz and his opera, Prima Donna.
Learn moreJoin us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.
Learn moreHalaby looks into the varying and matching points between collective and personal stories inside the choreographic creative processes.
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.
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