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Offsite 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.
Learn moreMichel 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.
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