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TBA:11 OUTSIDE: Michel Groisman

Michel Groisman will lead audiences in participatory games and captivate their attention with graceful performances.

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TBA:11 zoe | juniper A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: INSTALLED

A live performance and video installation that invites the audience deeper into the world of the company's dance.

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TBA:11 ON SIGHT: Occupation/Preoccupation

The 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.

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TBA:11 ON SIGHT: Claire Fontaine

Claire 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.

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TBA:11 ON SIGHT: Whoop Dee Doo

An 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.

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TBA:11

This September, PICA takes over Portland with an all-hours happening of contemporary performance and visual art.

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TBA:11 ON STAGE Preview

TBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.

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TBA:10 Blackfish

With acoustic guitars and digital effects, the duo creates live improvised songs respond to the sonic influences of the local area.

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TBA:10 Offsite Dance Project ON THIRTEENTH

New Japanese choreographers explore and illuminate the hidden subtext of the overlooked urban landscape.

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TBA:10 John Jasperse Company TRUTH

The fluid boundaries of theatrical reality are exposed in a dance that bounces between sincere and ironic, seductive and violent.

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TBA:10 Emily Johnson / Catalyst THE THANK-YOU BAR

Dance, storytelling, live multi-layered music and visual image merge to explore displacement, personal history and igloo myth.

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TBA:10 Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS

Based 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.

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TBA:10 Gare St. Lazare Players THE BECKETT TRILOGY

The Beckett Trilogy is a three–hour tour de force performance of Samuel Beckett’s opus trio of novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

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TBA:10 Maria Hassabi SOLOSHOW

Hassabi moves beyond rhythm, ideal postures and coherence to physically collage hundreds of images of female identity.

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TBA:10 THE WORKS: Ten Tiny Dances

An 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.

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TBA:10 Danielle Kelly and Noelle Stiles BLANKET

A soft-sculpture environment provides the set for a dance performance exploring human engagement and synthetic experience.

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TBA:10 Gare St. Lazare Players FIRST LOVE

Conor Lovett embodies the dark comedy of Samuel Beckett’s early short story, about a man’s first, and perhaps only, love.

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TBA:10 The Wooster Group THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER

Controlled by the audience, this 360-degree interactive war takes on a new narrative scope with each choice to look or turn away.

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TBA:10 Dayna Hanson GLORIA'S CAUSE

Iconic and not-so-iconic moments of the American Revolution in a dance-driven rock musical inspired by Schoolhouse Rock.

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TBA:10  Rufus Wainwright IN CONCERT

In this symphonic collaboration, Wainwright will share pop songs, Berlioz and his opera, Prima Donna.

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TBA:10

Join 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.

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TBA:09 LECTURE: Tarek Halaby

Halaby looks into the varying and matching points between collective and personal stories inside the choreographic creative processes.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Raimund Hoghe

Variations pieces together different performances of the bolero: from Eydie Gormé to Maria Callas, Benny Goodman to Tchaikovsky.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Erik Friedlander

A highly personal multimedia work with solo cello compositions at the core and based on recollections of childhood family car vacations.

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