Around the world with Oregon Ballet Theatre’s varied spring program, Chromatic Quartet.
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Around the World
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Spring Program Chromatic Quartet
Jenna Lechner
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Cirque du Soleil: I Want to Write This As Much As You Want to Read This
A couple days ago I found a charming photo; taken in Quebec in 1984, this is what the first performance by Cirque du Soleil looked like: Now it looks like this: Which is a press pic from Ovo, Cirque’s traveling show that is in its second week here in Portland. I know, ugh, it’s annoying […]
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Inside and Outside
Photo Month Takes over Portland
Portland Photo Month takes over the city, indoors and out.
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In Defense of Heliocentrism
Portland Opera’s Inventive Take on Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei
Portland Opera’s inventive take on Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei.
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The Weekend in Dance
Linda Austin mid-dance in A head of time Last week Linda Austin premiered her hybrid dance/installation/performance piece A head of time, and it is proceeded this weekend with an incredible mishmash of shows, including, although not limited to: a maturely pregnant woman (Tahni Holt) dancing to music by the Decemberist’s bassist (Nate Query); a BodyVox […]
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Kidd Pivot: Making Improv and Puppets Look Good
Ruby Washington When dolls attack It’s been a few days, but I still can’t get that malevolent cardboard puppet out of my head. Last weekend White Bird brought an insanely talented company called Kidd Pivot (and their marionette) to the Newmark Theater. The dance troupe, originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, are currently based in Germany, […]
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NW Dance Project: at the Olympics, at Newmark Theatre, and on Your Interwebs
Soon they’ll be headed to the London Olympics; in the meantime, the NWDP performed The Best of Now this past Friday and Saturday. It was three world premieres: one piece by their artistic director, Sarah Slipper, and two others by Patrick Delcroix and Wen Wei Wang. Never ones to disappoint, all the works were striking […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Berenice Abbott Pop! Jean Cocteau c. 1937 Guns, guns, guns! Young people with guns, old people with guns, Cocteau with a gun…everybody’s packin at the Charles Hartman Gallery this March, as part of GUN: A Collection of Photographs, which considers what it means to “pull the trigger,” i.e. the similarities between shooting a picture and […]
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RUPTURE-ing at Reed
Curtis Mann Photo illustrations of Yemen, by Curtis Mann, for the New York Times Magazine March is a mighty busy month; this is especially true in the world of academia, as students prepare for thesis shows, and faculty gear up for culminant lectures (see: Helen Molesworth). Reed College is among these activated epicenters, which begins […]
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Gaiety and Tragedy in the Rhineland
Plus, OBT in 2012
Giselle (Haiyan Wu) and Albrecht (Chauncey Parsons): It’s all fun and games…’til the dead and vengeful virgins stop by Last Saturday OBT began their first show of 2012 with the iconic Giselle. Set in the Rhineland in the Middle Ages, the dancers, garbed as peasants, jeté and brise across the scene like balls whizzing inside […]
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John Cage Again
Men hummed like whales and 14 harps plucked in and out of unison last Friday at YU Contemporary. It was—or would have been—John Cage’s 100th birthday. YU arranged a collection of Cage’s music; with multiple performances happening throughout the YU building, it turned into a four-hour festival. As an ode to an artist devoted to […]
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Dance Varieties
Blaine Truitt Covert Daniel Kirk and Eric Skinner in Flying Over Emptiness The Skinner/Kirk Dance Ensemble made a rare debut of work last week. Seeing both tEEth and Skinner/Kirk perform within several days of one another got me excited at how truly diverse Portland’s contemporary dance scene is. Where one (tEEth) is edgy, hinging on […]