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With its breath-taking opening, State of Heads explores the feeling of waiting.
Learn moreLong fascinated with street cred, artistic self-identification, personal economy, and the relationship between corporate America and culture, Dickson is publicly mining the evolution of his lifestyle from DIY to 2.0. Sell Out, his latest PowerPoint monologue, or PowerLogue, documents this journey.
Learn moreA starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.
Learn moreA multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Learn moreA subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac sings songs about love, mermaids, subway safety directives and revolution.
Learn moreLas Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.
Learn moreIn Spite of Everything is the latest entry into the emerging genre of hip-hop theater, featuring one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word collectives: The Suicide Kings.
Learn moreNo one belongs here more than you. A reading and book signing with Miranda July.
Learn moreMiller combines virtuoso choreography with cutting edge motion capture technology to investigate the relation between the foreign and familiar in contemporary life.
Learn moreDirected by reg e. gaines, acclaimed journalist Jerry Quickley tells the sweat-inducing tale of his travels to Iraq.
Learn morePerformed in a lightless room for a small audience equipped with night vision apparatus.
Learn moreUtilizing hand-constructed puppets made from thrift store cast-offs, BlingLab presents a bumbling set of explorers by reading between the lines of Lewis & Clark’s infamous expedition.
Learn moreFlight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.
Learn morePart of an ongoing project to honor Spalding Gray’s memory and perhaps capture one of his elusive “perfect moments” in which doubt, distress, and angst yield momentarily to a broader epiphany.
Learn moreSomewhere between a band and a theatre group, with none of the hangups of either, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang is an irresistible multimedia force of nature!
Learn moreWith a provocative brand of stagecraft wizardry, everyday gestures as simple as sleeping, walking, listening and waiting transform into a carnivalesque ballet of everyday life.
Learn moreKiki is a washed up chanteuse and Herb is her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist. Together forever they...
Learn moreLinda Austin and Tahni Holt perform their solo adaptations of Room, individually commissioned and adapted as part of Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland.
Learn moreFrom the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Learn moreDrawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson creates an ambitiously large portrait of contemporary American culture.
Learn moreYubiwa Hotel inscribes a mesmerizing dreamscape of Japanese pop culture, traditional Buddhist practice, and abstract movement as they explore what it means to be a modern Japanese woman.
Learn moreFor this beautifully simple performance/installation, Stan’s Cafe will bring 300 million grains of rice to Portland, a grain for every person in the United States.
Learn moreComposer John King leads dozens of electric guitar players from Portland’s music community with a unique concert staged on the steps of Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Learn moreAdkins will show up at TBA Central every day at 2 pm.
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