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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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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t

Danced with mesmerizing intensity and technical precision, Scofield and Shuey’s collaboration is part of a long term project exploring adolescent group dynamics; how and why people fall into or push each other into the roles of Leader, Follower and Outcast.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

Provocative writer/director Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Gatz

One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest is a vocal performance that imagines movement, video, costume and character to be instruments as inextricable from the process of musical arrangement as piano, guitar and strings.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: In Concert

Larry Krone performs original songs and country music standards, infusing them with all the love and devotion one would expect from a downhome, defiantly wholesome, cross-dressing cowboy entertainer.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: PERFORMANCE (career ender)

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Repeat After Me

Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: No Dice

Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: KOMMER

KOMMER, Dutch for "sorrow," traces the intersecting paths of six people as they race through inventive evasions, slapstick parlor tricks and dialogue culled from a soap opera in their search for something human and familiar.

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TBA:07 ON THE STAGE: Normal and Happy

A dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures and a tense, awkward physicality.

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