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TBA:17 Guest Scholars Lydia Brawner and Keith Hennessy present back-to-back lectures that engage their current research, practice, ideas, and questions.
Learn moreInternationally esteemed choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen (Marrakech) sheds light on the creative process and visual, sonic, and movement elements or Corbeaux, which celebrates the power of the feminine through intensive, intimate public performances in collaboration with several artists from Morocco and over twenty local Portland participants. In dialogue with Angela Mattox, PICA Artistic Director.
Learn moreLearn from last year's Critical Mascara Vogue winner and local vogue instructor Daniel Girón (aka Carbon Electra) as he breaks down the five (5) fundamentals of Vogue Femme: Hand Performance, Cat Walk, Duck Walk, Floor Work, and Spin Dip. This class is open to all levels of vogue enthusiasts who wish to take their fundamentals to the next level by adding the element of performance.
Learn moreImmediately following P-Orridge’s performance the dance floor will open up for an evening of celebration and music curated by Y.G.B.Portland. Bomba con Buya, a Chicago-based ensemble that aims to preserve and advance Bomba, Puerto Rico's oldest surviving dance form, will invigorate the audience with Buya (translated to mean good spirit in Taino, the language spoken among the island's indigenous population). Atlanta-based artist and DJ, Father Fannie, closes the evening with their set.
Learn moreIndustrial music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge inaugurates our 15th TBA festival in our new East Side home. P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and performance and visual artist who has been regarded as a provocateur and an icon of the British avant-garde since the early 1970s. S/he’ll be opening the festival with a sonic and visual performance ritual that should not be missed.
Learn moreGet the first look at TBA:17 as we kick off the festival with our annual Opening Night Dinner. Enjoy a sneak peak of the festival by dining with local, national, and international artists and curators. This year's dinner by Field Day Feasts and Gatherings will have an elevated block party feel outside of our new home at 15 NE Hancock. This year's dinner will feature everything from this season's Pacific Northwest bounty. Join us to raise our glasses together to toast TBA:17 and new beginnings at PICA.
Learn moreAs part of our free and ongoing program, join PICA and Guest Facilitator Candace Kita for a small-group experience exploring the social, political, cultural, and aesthetic influences in Field GuideTakahiro Yamamoto’s Direct Path to Detour, in which the artist, as a queer Japanese immigrant to the US, examines the physical and emotional effects of clashing cultural values in a globalized society. Through pre- and post-show conversation and participation, we’ll discover key themes and ideas in the work while sharing our own thoughts and perspectives on the performance. All are welcome—no prior contemporary dance or performance experience required! Light refreshments will be served.
Learn moreDirect Path to Detour is a new dance work by Portland-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto. Grounded in the idea that a sense of who we are is rooted in our embodied experiences, this dance evokes mental and physical states at the intersection of value systems, social pressures, expectations, and personal experiences of four dancers, all of whom have an intimate relationship with bridging multiple societies by birth, residence, upbringing and/or religion. Direct Path to Detour envelops the performers in a poetic, visceral experience of resistance, surrender, sincerity, and fiction.
Learn more“...it shakes you to the core [...] Recommended for all generations – those of us who lived through those years, those who saw our children in peril, and those who are only now realizing that history is more than learning dates, parrot style.” —La Segunda
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