Pullout: TBA 2009
Pink Martini resurrects a forgotten piece of Oregon history.
Stephen Marc Beaudoin
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Minimal Drag
The Indescribable Performance Art of Kalup Linzy
Pullout: TBA 2009
The gender-defying repertoire of performance artist Kalup Linzy is
impossible to categorize.
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Cell-O Pop
Exploring New Stringed Territory with Erik Friedlander
Pullout: TBA 2009
Erik Friedlander’s autobiographical, multimedia performances pushes the
boundaries of the cello.
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The Portland Mercury‘s Guide to the TBA Festival 09:03:09-09:13:09
It’s that Time…
Pullout: TBA 2009
Introducing Cathy Edwards and TBA:09
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Another Week, Another Arts Bailout? Not So Fast…
Conduit, Portland’s 13-year-old non-profit contemporary dance center, needs $15,000 by August 31, or it may go out of business. They’ve just finished a weekend of benefit performances featuring stalwart Portland dancers and dancemakers, including guest soloists from the recently bailed out Oregon Ballet Theater. My take? The center, like many small to midsize arts non-profits […]
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News from Oregon Ballet Theatre
In with a Citywide Arts Fest, Out with OBT Exposed
Oregon Ballet Theatre cancels their popular free summer series, OBT
Exposed, and announces a new arts festival.
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Merce Cunningham Dies, and White Bird Remembers Him
Today’s sad sad sad news came early: the unspeakably moving modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham passed away last night, at age 90. There is a Portland connection here: Cunningham’s company was presented twice by White Bird, our city’s very own intrepid dance presenters. In an email message to the Mercury, White Bird co-founder Walter Jaffe […]
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OBT No Longer “Exposed”
Although they succeeded in raising more than $750,000 to save their organizational bacon, a lack of corporate sponsors means Oregon Ballet Theatre has cancelled its popular annual “OBT Exposed” series on the South Park Blocks next month, a staple of late summer Portland arts events that ran uninterrupted for fourteen years. Until now. What does […]
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BREAKING (with updates): Tom Potter Announces Support for Adams Recall Campaign
In what might go down as one of the most extraordinary political Facebook status updates in Portland history yet, moments ago former PDX mayor Tom Potter announced his support of the campaign to recall embattled mayor Sam Adams. Aaaaand cut to the status update: Tom Potter It’s time for Portlanders to stand up and be […]
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NYT Goes Bullshit-Free on Race & Queer Equality
There’s been a lot of shit-slinging – in California, Oregon, and elsewhere – about the role of race in divisions over the future of marriage equality for same-sex couples. CNN’s infamous post Prop 8 polling suggested that 70 percent of African-American voters cast ballots supporting Prop 8 – a poll that caused serious ruptures and […]
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A classical music weekend that is NOT dull (promise!!)
Does that guy look like a classical music composer to you? Well, does he?!? Because – surprise! (maybe) – he is. His name is Mason Bates, he’s all of 30 years old, and a new work of his is one of the highlights of what’s turning out to be a pretty interesting weekend upcoming of […]
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Exactly How Much Blood is in this Opera?
Ya gotta love those kooky classical music students over at Portland State University! Who else would come up with a new opera involving a quartet of brain-sucking zombies? Classical music in Portland may never be the same. The opera in question, “Maelstrom: A Zombie Opera,” opens this Friday night with a first-rate cast of PSU […]