Jenna Lechner

Jeffrey Wells “This feels like a really interesting experience,” says performer Jeffrey Wells during One with Others, “a really interesting, almost satisfying encounter,” he follows up. He’s referring to the performance itself; It’s partly sarcastic. It’s partly a challenge. One with Others, a trio choreographed by Minneapolis-based Karen Sherman, is “meta” and self-aware in a […]

Jeff Forbes Last night, PICA’s artistic director Angela Mattox introduced Three Trick Pony referring to Linda Austin as a cornerstone in Portland dance. What does a cornerstone of Portland dance look like? Last night’s performance looked partly like an absurdist play—there’s no plot, just atmosphere—and partly like a quirky creative person (*cough*myself*cough*) alone in his/her […]

Lindsey Rickert Sometimes a performance tries to do too much. Too many ideas, too many techniques, too many emotions are corralled together. It gets messy. I think this is what happened in bobbevy’s This is how we disappear, which has some gorgeous segments but overall feels incoherent. From PICA’s TBA brochure: “This is how we […]