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TBA:06 THE WORKS: SISSYBOY

What you are reading is not mere propaganda...this is not a test! This is the REVOLUTION and YOU, my deviant darlings, are the Revolutionaries!

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: SPALDING GRAY PROJECT

Part 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.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: JOLLYSHIP THE WHIZ BANG

Somewhere 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!

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA

With a provocative brand of stagecraft wizardry, everyday gestures as simple as sleeping, walking, listening and waiting transform into a carnivalesque ballet of everyday life.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Gods, Heroes, and Monsters

Artists Matthew Day Jackson, Sutapa Biswas, and Daniel Duford (PNCA), with Kristan Kennedy, and Stephanie Snyder.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Stan’s Cafe: Form/Content/Form

Amanda Hadingue and Craig Stephens lead a practical workshop sharing improvising and devising techniques.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: HOLCOMBE WALLER

Portland’s Holcombe Waller has been writing, recording and performing music for the past 15 years.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF KICK ASS

On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: KIKI & HERB

Kiki is a washed up chanteuse and Herb is her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist. Together forever they...

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TBA:06 LECTURE: MARK RUSSELL

Mark Russell will talk about his own experience of the history of performance and its future. Writer Matthew Stadler may ask some questions. We will see what happens.

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TBA:06 CHATS: Creative Cities Forum

The focus of this panel is the development of new strategies to nurture and sustain the Creative City.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Brede Rørstad

The new economy of Chamber Music.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: NEAL MEDLYN & KENNY MELLMAN

Mellman (of Kiki and Herb) and Medlyn (the Paris Hilton of Performance Art) wear fancy clothes and present a formal evening of R. Kelly songs.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: FLESHTONE

Following a philosophy of collaboration and shared creative energy, Fleshtone developed the themes and characters of the electro-opera Fleshtonics before the eyes of Portland and Seattle audiences, and will be performing the full work for the first time at TBA:06.

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TBA:06 ON STAGE: DEBORAH HAY

Linda 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.

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TBA:06 WORKSHOPS: Vivarium Studio: Staging/Set Design

Staging and set design with Vivarium Studio.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: LAURIE ANDERSON FILM

Commissioned by EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan, Hidden Inside Mountains is a high definition film that debuted in Japan at WORLD EXPO 2005 on the largest high definition Astrovision screen in the world and features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: ALL AGES DANCE-O-RAMA

With music that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult,” and visuals made by and for kids, families have a chance to shake their groove thing in an environment that is cool, fun and decibel-appropriate.

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TBA:06: CHATS: Come Together/Social Action - FREE admission

Ten short talks by invited guests about their direct or indirect experience with the American War in Vietnam. Stay for the duration or drop in. In conjunction with Harrell Fletcher’s exhibition, The American War.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: SUTAPA BISWAS

This special screening includes selections from the last ten years of Biswas’ work, and features one of her most lauded films: Untitled (The Trials and Tribulations of Mickey Baker), 1997.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: DANCEPOD

6 DJs in 6 installations in 5 cities (including Berlin, Mexico City, and PS122 in NY) around the world come together to form one super-party.

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TBA:06 THE WORKS: UNIVERSES

Universes is an ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues.

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TBA:06 ON SCREEN: JOHANNA BILLING

Oscillating between the staged and the real, the works synthesize charged silences and permeating pop songs in order to reflect the psychology of group dynamic.

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TBA:06 CHATS: The View From France

The artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.

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