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TBA 10 Opens With an “Okay. Whatever.”
I like Rufus Wainwright. I like how hard consonants don’t exist when he sings. I love the range of his voice, and his skill as a musician, songwriter, and composer. All of that being said, I have no idea what he has to do with Time Based Art. At last night’s TBA Festival opening performance […]
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Opening Tonight: Women without Men
A bit lost in the shuffle of TBA’s opening night festivities is Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men, an Iranian film opening tonight at the NW Film Center. It’s a fictionalized account of five women’s lives, set in 1953, after Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup organized by British and US forces […]
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Mike Daisey: The Mercury Interview
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to interview Mike Daisey, a TBA favorite who will be returning this year to perform The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a new monologue about how the game-changing design of Apple products comes with horrific labor and environmental consequences. Daisey spoke with me from Seattle, […]
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Quick TBA Picks for the Discriminating Performance Goer.
(Better than “TBA for Idiots,” no?) I’ve had a few people ask for recommendations on stuff to see at the Time-Based Art festival, which opens Sept 9—specifically, picks tailored to those who are a little leery of the contemporary art scene, but definitely identify as TBA-curious.* •Obviously any TBA for Idiots TBA Picks for the […]
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The Spooky Spirituality of the Oregon Painting Society
The opening moments of Friday night’s Oregon Painting Society show were dark. With the stage lights off, three women in shiny shirts and leotards crossed through the audience crowded onto the cement floor close to the stage. The three women took their places on the step leading up the stage and raised three brooms. Together […]
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REVIEW: Raimund Hoghe’s “Bolero Variations” @ Newmark Theatre and Oregon Painting Society @ The Works (Friday, Sept 11)
There was a simple, moving moment during PICA’s TBA Festival this past Friday night at the Newmark Theatre. One that left the audience breathless. It happened when PICA artistic director Cathy Edwards, in another of her graceful and understated pre-performance speeches, described the conditions under which dancemaker Raimund Hoghe‘s company entered the United States earlier […]
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Erik Friedlander: Block Ice and Propane
Erik Friendlander’s Block Ice and Propane was not a show I was particularly excited to see. A cellist playing songs to accompany videos and photos from his childhood—it sounds pleasantly snoozy. The reality is far more beautiful, and more moving, than I’d anticipated. Friedlander’s show is structured like a road trip, based on the trips […]
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REVIEW: The Crumb Trail
Oliver Paul Pan Pan Theatre’s The Crumb Trail is a neurotic little piece of theater that finds sources of anxiety everywhere: in fairy tales, in food, and especially in the internet. Pan Pan takes Hansel and Gretel as its starting point, a cautionary tale about two children whose parents abandon them in the woods. The […]
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Small Metal Objects: “Everything Has Fucking Value.”
Jeff Busby Steve (Simon Laherty) is deep in an existential crisis brought on by thoughts of losing his friend Gary (Sonia Tueben) to a routine knee operation. Unfortunately, his crisis is standing in the way of a major deal. Without Steve nothing will move forward, but he’d rather stand in Pioneer Square trying to work […]
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Review: Crushing on Locust
Gabriel Bienzycki Zeke Keeble of locust The intersection between modern dance and hip-hop can be hard to traverse without diluting the energy of both forms. Fortunately Amy O’Neal, Zeke Keeble, and their Seattle-based dance company locust have been able to combine the more lyrical aesthetics of modern movement with the dynamics of funky club dancing […]
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REVIEW: Sept. 7th, Daniel Barrow’s “Everytime I See Your Face I Cry” at Northwest Film Center
Courtesy of PICA’s image bank Daniel Barrow in a red button-up dress shirt, striped yellow-black tie, and plaid pants— he’s just skinny enough to squeeze behind his overhead projector which is wedged between two rows of seats on the floor of the Northwest Film Center. He preps for his performance of Everytime I See Your […]