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Whether you’ve just emerged from 24 hours with Mike Daisey or you’re winding down after 10 stimulating days of art, join us on closing night to celebrate the moveable feast that was TBA.
Learn moreA class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s acclaimed Home Made.
Learn moreRevelers will be treated to intermittent dance performances by local and visiting artists, empty truck beds for makeshift dance floors, and specials on Southern treats like mint juleps and boiled peanuts.
Learn moreFor years Mike Daisey has been working on an insane project: a live, 24-hour monologue on the scale of War and Peace and The Iliad. Unbelievably, this dream will at last be realized as the finale of this year’s TBA Festival.
Learn morePICA’s outgoing Artistic Director Cathy Edwards reflects on her three-year tenure with the TBA Festival, in conversation with PICA’s soon-to-be-announced incoming Artistic Director.
Learn moreTiny TBA is a mini-festival within a festival that refuses to draw the line between kids and adults. Bring your families for open gallery hours and take part in activities led by TBA Festival artists and community volunteers.
Learn moreZoe Scofield offers a rigorous, deep, and intellectually challenging class including set exercises and structured improvisation inspired by Ashtanga Yoga, Gaga Gyrokenesis, and contemporary ballet.
Learn moreBig Terrific is a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri.
Learn moreWorld Fair blends movement and video to present the body as a bank able to record, erase, or register different ingredients of modern reality and national identity.
Learn moreStop in at THE WORKS beer garden before or after Dean & Britta’s Friday night performance for special happy hour deals on Distillery Row cocktails!
Learn moreMatsue Okazaki of Offsite Dance Project and Malina Rodriguez of Dance Truck discuss their shared interest and experience in presenting dance in nontraditional locations.
Learn moreA performance showcase featuring work by the most exciting Portland and New York artists, including Luciana Achugar, Oregon Painting Society, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, and more.
Learn moreA live, cinematic concert of songs scored by Dean & Britta for 13 of Andy Warhol's famous black and white Screen Tests.
Learn moreA Crack in Everything examines the liminal space between action/reaction, cause/effect, and before/after.
Learn moreRachid Ouramdane explores global and political anxieties through the body in his conceptual dance works. In conversation with Cathy Edwards.
Learn moreNEW MUSICS invites Portland’s most exciting sound scientists and pop adventurers to collaborate with some of the city’s under-sung traditional music ensembles.
Learn moreThree experimental poem-plays by the late Leslie Scalapino, staged with a small ensemble of instruments and singers.
Learn moreBenning explores duration and the cinematic industrial sublime in a series of masterfully composed long-take shots of Germany's Ruhr Valley.
Learn moreOffsite 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 moreYOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Kristan Kennedy in conversation about how artists and curators use their “voices” to talk about work, money, and the world.
Learn moreMiwa Matreyek steps behind the video screen to enter as a shadow into a world of her own animation.
Learn moreA home-built, hand-cranked projector presents turn-of-the-century cinematic prototypes and long-forgotten ideas surrounding the moving image and its early promise.
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.”
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