Nora Chipaumire’s choreography considers displacement, exile, and African identity.
Jenna Lechner
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Crackpot Cookery
Thu Tran’s 420-Inspired The Yes and No of Blacklight Food
Thu Tran’s 420-inspired The Yes and No of Blacklight Food.
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Dancing for Newspapers
Chelsea Petrakis The first, April 29, performance in FRONT’s Collision series Heads up on a special, one-time-only performance happening tomorrow night: FRONT dance journal (which we’ve mentioned before, here), will perform the second part of their Collision series—in part an effort to raise money for FRONT’s second issue. Sponsored by Conduit Dance, a group of […]
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Dance+
Community, Collaboration, and Portland’s Dance Renaissance
Conduit’s first-of-its-kind series encourages community and collaboration.
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Tonight: Paufve Dance’s So I Married Abraham Lincoln
Pak Han Foto This one’s for the ladies. So I Married Abraham Lincoln is a show of many dimensions. At times it feels like a staging of The Yellow Wallpaper: like a documentation of hysteria, with women running in circles and crawling on the floor, who then take to a chair and sit creepily still. […]
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Tonight: Northwest Dance Project
NWDP It’s only a couple hours away, and tickets are sold out, but it still seems worth mentioning: tonight is the last chance to catch Northwest Dance Project‘s Summer Splendors. It’s also the last chance to see NWDP (besides at their gala benefit) before they head to the Olympics (!). Summer Splendors packs a tight […]
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Peering into YU’s Programming
Showcasing the Work of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg
Yale Union kicks off a full season with a retrospective of New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
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Operatic Collage
You’re Still as Beautiful Mashes up New Wave Cinema and a Debussy Opera
Opera Theater Oregon mashes up new wave cinema and a Debussy opera.
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Last Time I Saw Elvis
He was (1) in a Kmart calendar, with every month displaying a different photo of he and Priscilla on their wedding day. (2) Meeting Richard Nixon and being issued a federal narcotics badge. And (3), most consistently, and most important to this post, not Elvis. Biopics always make me nervous; a quasi-biopic on Broadway makes […]
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A Different Kind of Normal
Leah Nash’s Photographs Share a Candid Glimpse into Life with Asperger’s
Leah Nash’s photographs share a candid glimpse into life with Asperger’s.
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Tonight: The Cutting Room
David Krebs BodyVox goes intergalactic, and brings their exercise bands with them. BodyVox is trying something different. And, as usual, it’s joyful, clever, and pretty irresistible. Their new show, The Cutting Room, debuted last week; it takes the contemporary genre of dance-theater and stretches it into dance-cinema. The Cutting Room is a cinephile’s dream; it […]
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Uncaged Season Wraps Up: Get Your Cheap(er) Tickets, Here
Rounding out their exciting 2011/12 season tomorrow, dance organization White Bird offers you this: The hip-hop troupe Compagnie Käfig. Hailing from France and Brazil—their choreographer is based in Lyon, and its 10 young dancers from Rio de Janeiro—choreographer Mourad Merzouki will present two pieces, Agwa and Correria, for a mix of acrobatics, samba, electronic, and, […]