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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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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Amy O'Neal and Ellie Sandstrom

Two dancers encounter 50 people in a series of dreamlike meetings but manage to miss each other while environments and people constantly change.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Pan Pan Theatre

A deconstructed Hansel and Gretel, this wickedly funny multimedia theater piece blends the imaginary, subconscious, and real.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Back to Back Theatre

Set against the shifting backdrop of a city, the audience is wired via headphones to an intensely personal drama that unfolds somewhere in the crowd.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Daniel Barrow

Overhead projection combines with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: locust

Dancers sing and musicians dance in this feverishly physical dissection of cause and effect.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Pink Martini with the 234th Army Band - Oregon National Guard

A musical comedy about the beaver state with a new Act IV, complete with brand new songs and rollicking plot in celebration of Oregon's 150th birthday!

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TBA:09 WORKSHOP: Meg Stuart

In this master class, participants will explore techniques and strategies for developing material through improvisation.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Philipp Gehmacher/Mumbling Fish

MAYBE FOREVER explores loss, longing, the place in between dreams and wishes, mourning and meeting.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People

Mining movement and text from James Dean Last Meadow creates a non-narrative collage of an America where the jig is up and the dream has died.

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TBA:09 ON STAGE: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Young Jean Lee challenged herself, as a Korean American, to create a politically engaged theater piece about black American identity.

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L'Effet de Serge: Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio

Serge’s subtle and focused concentration on his own universe highlights the futility in our daily rituals yet exposes the pleasure and necessity of these routines.

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A piece at the crossroads of performance, visual arts and theatre, Échantillons thwarts traditional frameworks of representation, and encourages a reconsideration.

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TBA:08 Geisha by Leesaar The Company

Full of vivid, cinematic characters, Geisha is a sensual duet featuring Saar Harari and Jye-Hwei Lin, accompanied by spoken and sung text by Lee Sher.

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TBA:08 Antony and the Johnsons

Winners of Great Britain’s 2005 Mercury Prize, Antony and the Johnsons join the Oregon Symphony for a one-of-a-kind concert. Co-presented with the Oregon Symphony.

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