Photo courtesy of the artist Today was the official, final day of this year’s TBA Festival (phew!). Last night ushered it in with a big celebration: Chanticleer Trü’s Evelyn. Folks made figure eights on roller skates, circling a giant disco ball wrapped in a pink tulle bow in the middle of the room. Balloons hovered […]
Jenna Lechner
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GERMINAL: A Delightful Microcosm
TBA performances are winding down this week, so it seems safe to say: GERMINAL has to be one of the best performances of the festival this year. GERMINAL is a piece of theater, created by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort, that probably shouldn’t work. (I’m not sure what I like more: this performance, or the […]
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SQUART: Review
Tonight Chanticleer Trü reins in this final Works performance of this year’s TBA Festival. He made a guest appearance however earlier this week (Wednesday) during SQUART, which, to recap, was a performance of mayhem and asses— literal asses, which aligned nicely with the New York Times‘s recent declaration about our fine butt nation. LB Tomczak/PICA […]
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GERMINAL: A Delightful Microcosm
TBA performances are winding down this week, so it seems safe to say: GERMINAL has to be one of the best performances of the festival this year. GERMINAL is a piece of theater, created by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort, that probably shouldn’t work. (I’m not sure what I like more: this performance, or the […]
Posted inTBA
Macho Dancer
It was a packed house Friday night for Eisa Jocson’s two-part performance of Death of a Pole Dancer and Macho Dancer. The first thing you notice about Eisa Jocson is that she’s an incredible performer—masterful and captivating with her control—even though the majority of her first piece, Death of a Pole Dancer, consisted of Jocson […]
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BodyCartography Project’s Super Nature in Review
I waited for about an hour last Friday for my turn to see Super Nature. I waited at The Works, reading about the finer points of carving carousels to the sound of MSHR’s installation (which, after an hour, sounds like a jackhammer that has been auto-tuned) in the background. Super Nature is 15 minutes long. […]
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Life in Art
Exploring PAM’s Progressive History with Jen Delos Reyes
Exploring PAM’s progressive history with Jen Delos Reyes.
Posted inFeature
Portland’s Portraitist
Michael Horwitz Will Draw Your Face
Michael Horwitz will draw your face—for the price of a conversation.
Posted inMovies & TV
Dick Flicks
Twillerama‘s Diamonds in the Rough
Twillerama‘s diamonds in the rough.
Posted inTheater & Performance
Puppet Master
Katie McClenahan’s Tiny Puppet Theater Fest
The Tiny Puppet Theater Fest promises to be the cutest event of the summer.
Posted inDance
Tonight: Dance+ Festival, Part Two
Attention dance-friendly folks of Blogtown (I know there’s at least two of you out there): the Dance+ Festival resumes this week with five new performances, with final shows tonight and tomorrow. If you still don’t have weekend plans, consider this. I’ve gone to the Dance+ Festival every year —it started three years ago—and this year […]
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Conduit’s Dance+ Festival, Midway Review
Last night concluded the first round of performances in Conduit’s Dance+ Festival . I saw the show on opening night last week. It was *almost* a full house—all of us packed together in Conduit’s studio on the fourth floor, feeling the summer heat…desperately fanning ourselves with our programs. The first round of Dance+ performances had […]