CAKE Photos by Minh Tran DANCE NIGHTS CAN SUCK. If they’re bad, you end up cowering, metaphorically, naked and afraid in a dark, humid armpit of a room among too many fedora-sporting dudes trying to find their manic pixie dream girl. But if they’re good, you get to wiggle your flesh to hot beats for […]
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Today in Fantastic: Tap Dancers Perform Beyonce’s “Formation”
If you started today off on the wrong foot, here’s a great way to get back on track. Check out the women of Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies doing a FANTASTIC tap dancing routine to Beyonce’s “Formation.” It’s got everything you need today.
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Dancing at the End of the World
11: Dance Co’s Post-Apocalyptic Library
11: Dance Co’s post-apocalyptic Library.
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Net Positive
After Losing Their Studio Space, Conduit’s DANCE+ Festival Lives
After losing their studio space, Conduit’s DANCE+ Festival lives.
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Conduit Dance Loses Studio Space After Rent-Subsidy Agreement Ends
Conduit Dance Inc. Tere Mathern, artistic director at Conduit Dance Inc. just sent out a press release announcing that her dance organization’s lost their space at 918 SW Yamhill. According to Mathern, Nia Technique, a neighboring company in the same building, had been subsidizing Conduit’s rent while the organization was struggling financially, but that, “recent […]
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Out from Under
How Northwest Dance Project Survived Every Dance Company’s Worst Nightmare
How Northwest Dance Project survived every dance company’s worst nightmare.
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A Skillet, a Hoodie, Lil Wayne, and Real Tears: Keyon Gaskin at PICA
Physical Education Keyon Gaskin’s in the upper left square. Saturday’s release party at PICA for Lynne Tillman’s Weird Fucks (New Herring Press) was four hours long, which on paper seems like a terrible idea. Who wants to sit through a four-hour reading of, you know, anything? In practice, though, it worked incredibly well—Tillman’s reading was […]
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Dancing Tips by Ann-Margret
Before you go shake a tail feather tonight, here are some dancing tips brought to you by Ann-Margret, who has much knowledge of shaking her thing. I’m a fan of her big-finale face.
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Ghosts, Murder, and Sentient Candy: Here Are the Holiday Shows You Still Have Time To See
Owen Carey Holiday theater season isn’t over yet! Many of this year’s best and most imaginative/strange holiday shows have already closed (farewell, Rudolph, and SANTA, Liminal’s tale of Christmas and DEATH). You’ll have to wait until next year for delightful stop-motion animation acted out by actual people—and maybe until never for Liminal’s next holiday play, […]
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TBA Highlights: GHOST PARTY, Music Makes Us Feel Things, & Gender Performances
A drag show inspired by (WHAT ELSE) Paris Is Burning, adult ghost dress-up time, and sounds that make us feel present in our bodies or just confused—if you haven’t been to PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival yet, here’s what you’ve been missing: Pat Moran Ghosting. Alison Hallet was a pink ghost in Not About Face, Luke […]
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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 […]