Matthew Miller For a contemporary dancer, rehearsing is a challenge. You need space, often a lot of it. The space needs to be danceable (e.g. hardwood floors). And the space needs to be affordable, because—this goes without saying—dancers don’t really make money from dancing. Enter on the scene local choreographer Tahni Holt (co-founder of “FRONT” […]
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Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Halls
POV Dance Returns with 3×3
Dancers, musicians, and a building collaborate in POV Dance’s 3×3.
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Northwest Dance Project: Doing a Thing Called the Crocodile Rock
Blaine Truitt Covert Click! Patrick Kilbane’s performing in “Rothko.” Tonight the Northwest Dance Project resumes their holiday show “In Good Company.” Surprisingly, you can still get tickets! Surprising, because it easily sells out (seating is limited), and, because it is awesome. The show features music culled specifically from the year 1973, including all the classics: […]
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“It Goes Until I Do”
Vance Feldman’s Endless Illustration
One man’s quest to make the world’s longest illustration.
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Class Warfare Littered with Glitter
Ty Chance A snap from a Homomentum preview at the 2012 JAW festival. Pants-Off Productions staged their first full performance of “Homomentum: The Musical” last weekend. The premise: a band of intergalactic performers land on an imaginary, conformist world (Metopia), full-fledged with unicorns, falsettos, and stilettos. In it, the three intergalactic performers—Sam Kazaam (Leigh Richards), […]
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Off with His Head: Portland Opera’s Dramatic Opener
Cory Weaver Get out the binoculars. Last Friday the Portland Opera premiered an all-new production of “Salome.” Before you scroll away because I’m talking about opera (which is arguably not your thing), HERE, three interesting facts about Friday’s performance: (1) there were waves of uniform audience laughter during the performance(!); (2) it was weird; (3) […]
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Portland’s Most Clever Dance Troupe
David Krebs Jonathan Krebs flexes in “Let Him Dangle” BodyVox wraps up their production “Body Opera Files” this weekend, and, whether or not you follow dance, this show is delightful and definitely worth checking out. The troupe has teamed up with musical director Michael Papillo for the program. It’s a theatrical blend of live music, […]
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Indies, Meet Symphony
“You won’t see a concert like this anywhere else in the world,” said conductor Jeff Tyzik last Saturday at the concert Portland’s Indies. And he was right. The Oregon Symphony teamed up with Mirah, Black Prairie, and Holcombe Waller at the Schnitzer last Saturday for Portland’s Indies. It was mostly wonderful. Waller opened the show […]
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Pumpkin King
Profile: Master Carver Tim Pate
Pumpkin proposals are all in a day’s work for Tim Pate.
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Regionalism
Parsing the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Surveying regional art at the Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards.
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Shakespeare for Idiots
Snoozing Through a Dumbed-Down Romeo and Juliet
Snoozing through a dumbed-down Romeo and Juliet.
