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TBA:06 ON STAGE: BEBE MILLER COMPANY

Miller combines virtuoso choreography with cutting edge motion capture technology to investigate the relation between the foreign and familiar in contemporary life.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: TREVOR PAGLEN & THE SPECULATIVE ARCHIVE

Artist, writer, and “experimental geographer” Trevor Paglen, and The Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne) join forces in a program investigating the secret underworld of government and the war on terror.

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TBA:06 CHATS: The New Burlesque

David Weissman, with Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz, James Tigger! Ferguson, the Wau Wau Sisters, and Zebra from Sissyboy, on the intersection between burlesque and performance art.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Art and Activism

Choreographer Linda K. Johnson speaks with hip hop performance poet Jerry Quickley, artist Bob Braine, and choreographer and community activist Jennifer Monson.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Bebe Miller: Improvisation/Composition

Bebe Miller: Improvisation/Composition

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: WAU WAU SISTERS

Wearing high heels and clutching cocktails, The Wau Wau Sisters, NYC’s bravest and bawdiest burlesque duo, straddle the hilarious gap between performance art and burlesque.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: JAMES TIGGER! FERGUSON

New York’s leading boylesque performer since 1997, James Tigger! Ferguson has been stripping and grinding since 1988.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: JULIE ATLAS MUZ

Julie Atlas Muz blurs the boundaries between performance art, dance, burlesque and visual art with her dark, twisted, come-hither performances securing her place in the underworld of nightlife as well as the bastion of the art world.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: TAYLOR MAC

Flamboyant chameleon of spoken word, music, and sociopolitical tirades, New York sensation Taylor Mac makes his Portland debut in this performance art cabaret.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: JERRY QUICKLEY

Directed by reg e. gaines, acclaimed journalist Jerry Quickley tells the sweat-inducing tale of his travels to Iraq.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: CRISPIN SPAETH DANCE GROUP

Performed in a lightless room for a small audience equipped with night vision apparatus.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Imaginative Bodies

Artist Deborah Hay discusses her writings about Dance and the creative process with the Henry Art Gallery’s Betsey Brock.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Jennifer Monson: Navigating Landscapes through Improvisation

Jennifer Monson: Navigating Landscapes through Improvisation

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: Ten Tiny Dances

An experiment in confined space, Ten Tiny Dances is a performance series.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: BLINGLAB

Utilizing 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.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: JENNIFER MONSON/iLAND

Flight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Spectacle of the Everyday

Mark Russell chats with Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma about their radical perspectives on contemporary theatre.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Deborah Hay: Experimentalism

Deborah Hay: Experimentalism workshop.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: 31 KNOTS

Punk meets Prog in this three-piece band made up of crooner Joe Haege, relentless drummer Jay Pellicci and maniacal bassist Jay Winebrenner.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Crispin Spaeth: Set/Not Set: Dance Improvisation

Crispin Spaeth workshop called Set/Not Set: Dance Improvisation.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Art and Social Practice

David Eckard, with the performers of Stan’s Cafe, Red76, and MK Guth (PNCA), on innovative artistic practices that engage the urban environment.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Chance Poetics

Movement improvisation for dance and theater.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: PANTHER

Panther’s music is a hard match of damaged soul, falsetto disco and broken synth fueled freak-outs.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: CAUGHT IN CANDY

Electro pop duo from Portland...

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