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“Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine balance between comedy and tragedy.” —British Theatre Guide
Learn moreWISHFUL THINKING brings together the musicians of Led Er Est, Blues Control, Further Reductions, and The Coombe—bands that use hardware electronics to subvert the digital abstractions of the personal computer and resist the pure click-and-drag of the soft synth world. They’ll dissolve pop songs into walls of noise, and re-build aggressively rhythmic tracks that embrace the beauty of error in improvisation.
Learn more“In the beginning, Georg said, let there be no light. And there was dark. Silky, womb-like India-ink blackness. No emergency lighting in theaters, nada, nothing. And it was good. Mind-blowingly good.” —Los Angeles Times
Learn moreAnd lose the name of action balances neuroscience, improvisation, and paranormal investigations to explore the ghostlike traces that dance leaves on the mind and body.
Learn morePICA’s new Field Guide program will take off during TBA, offering up new avenues for you to explore, experience, and discuss concepts and forms in contemporary dance. Join guest Field Guide faculty Zoe Scofield (TBA alum and choreographer/dancer of zoe |juniper) for a casual, guided workshop and conversation about Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit's ADULT.
Learn moreA documentary on nine choreographers from Africa challenging stale stereotypes of the continent.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreA collective conversation about exhibition making, “performance” community, and the artist as object, with artist Jamie Isenstein, Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder, and PICA’s Kristan Kennedy.
Learn moreEmbark on a spiritual journey into the deepest caverns of YouTube’s collective consciousness, through a participatory artist and audience-curated video screening.
Learn moreIn ADULT, grown-up friends Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit exorcise and exhaust their collective fantasies about death and dying.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn morePortland artist and net native Krystal South shares her digital essay created as part of the TBA:13 visual projects—a personalized history of “internet aware” art, and how its diffuse communities function online and IRL.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreMake Well has been composed to heal its listeners in parts of their souls left untouched for unknown reasons. In early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project behind the alias of Like a Villain.
Learn moreScored for singers and electronics, Rainbow Passage is a multimedia concert based on a popular diagnostic text by speech scientist Grant Fairbanks, containing every sound of the English language. These sounds are first intoned literally, then fragmented much as the sunlight strikes raindrops, and rewoven into a vocal tapestry that communicates beyond language, simultaneously evoking the myth and science of rainbows.
Learn moreThe Blow returns to TBA in its new collaborative incarnation between founder Khaela Maricich and conceptual/installation artist Melissa Dyne.
Learn moreThrough the lens of Harlem ball and postmodern dance, New York choreographer Trajal Harrell performs a study of Antigone from Sophocles’ tragedy.
Learn moreThree Trick Pony is an intimate face-off between performer Linda Austin and a sculptural installation by David Eckard.
Learn moreHow are a new generation of Chileans—including the children of activists targeted by Pinochet and other younger artists, journalists, and activists—making sense of their shared past within a post-Pinochet climate?
Learn moreIn Guillermo Calderón’s Villa (2011), three young women debate the future of the site of a former villa turned into a torture barracks by the military dictatorship. Originally performed inside the infamous Villa Grimaldi, this “spare, intense” play by one of Chilean theatre’s fiercest new literary voices grapples with the legacy of atrocity using “stark lyricism and dreamlike imagery” (LA Times).
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreTwo leading Argentine theater artists discuss their own work as it intersects with aesthetic and conceptual trends in Latin American performance, as well as both artists’ thematic and documentary-inflected engagement with the experiences of Latin America’s post-dictatorship generation. Moderated by Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator and Producer, Boom Arts.
Learn moreTBA:12 artist (and Field Guide “faculty”) Keith Hennessy will lead a workshop for dancers, choreographers, and body and conceptual artists, re-imagining social relations through performance, improvisation, dance, and embodied action.
Learn moreCRITICAL MASCARA honors the lineage and history of a drag ball while inviting artists from PDX and beyond to create community amidst competition. Surprise performances, audience challenges, and queer history lessons are embodied by the future stars of the West Coast.
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