It’s rare that a show at TBA is as easy to summarize as Andrew Dinwiddie’s Get Mad at Sin: a Message to the Young People of Today by Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart . I bet I can do it in ten words: Andrew Dinwiddie re-enacts a 1971 sermon by preacher Jimmy Swaggart. Bam. Now, I’ve spent […]
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Tonight in TBA: Fake Preaching, New Musics, and More
Tonight kicks off Andrew Dinwiddie’s fake-preacher act Get Mad at Sin! In 1971, evangelist Jimmy Swaggart—the bible thumper best known for banging a prostie in 1987—recorded onto vinyl a sermon warning the “now generation” that retribution in the fiery lakes of hell surely awaits all sinners who refuse to repent. Now you can relive Swaggart’s […]
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THE WORKS Review: Experimental 1/2 Hour
Here it is pure and simple: I find experimental video art to be extremely difficult to engage in. This might have something to do with the fact that I really have no idea how one goes about conceiving or creating it; the extent of my video editing knowledge is trapped somewhere in the early aughts […]
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Today in TBA: Spandex, Drag, and Cable Access
Experimental 1/2 Hour I saw drag artist Taylor Mac’s show last night, and found it funny and thought-provoking—although I liked it more than a few of our other writers. There’s some point/counterpoint action over here. We review last night’s Works show Whispering Pines, which Jenna Lechner favorably describes as “Opera meets New Age meets Spandex.” […]
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Taylor Mac: Counterpoint
I saw Taylor Mac’s Comparison is Violence, or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook last night. It was much, much funnier than I expected, and Mac did some of the best crowd work I’ve ever seen, through a combination of provocation, bullying, and an implied “you’re not a fully actualized person unless you’re willing […]
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THE WORKS: Whispering Pines 10
Shana Moulton bathing, with Daisy Press on vocals Opera meets New Age meets Spandex. Last night was the single performance of Whispering Pines 10. Nick Hallett (vocalist and composer) is the collaborator to Shana Moulton, a Brooklyn-based artist, who has been working on her Whispering Pines series for nearly a decade. (This particular performance was […]
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tEEth Does PDX Proud
Powerful, gripping, challenging; adjectives can only tell you so much about tEEth’s Home Made. In many ways the piece defies definition, beckoning the audience to grapple with its themes in a very experiential way. Which is what ultimately makes Home Made a successful work; it communicates, engages, questions, and specifies without words. Which for all […]
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Opening Weekend at TBA: A Talking Tiger, Ten Tiny Dances, Drunk Guy vs. Art
The Radio Show Promotional Video from Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.motion on Vimeo. Our TBA coverage continues! (Well actually, it kinda just started. You’ve got a whole week of this ahead of you.) On the blog : One outdoor TBA performance was interrupted by an angry drunk guy—the best part was watching the crowd try to figure out […]
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Re: David Eckard; Fine Art Meets the Real World
The estimable Anne Adams over at Culturephile reports on one of the most unintentionally funny moments of TBA so far: When performer David Eckard’s side-show barker schtick was interrupted by a drunk guy who handily stole the show, to the chagrin of a well-heeled crowd: A slight woman in a beige dress steeled her nerves, […]
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Abraham.In.Motion, The Radio Show
Oops, there goes his shirt. Up over his head. Oh, MY. Yup. No doubt about it, Kyle Abraham is a beautiful, beautiful specimen. So are his six dancers. Abraham is the choreographer and emotive mastermind behind The Radio Show (which has received a fair amount of press, deservedly). It only makes sense that the troupe […]
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Ten Tiny Dances at the Works
I’m going to admit right now that I didn’t make it all the way through 10 Tiny Dances at the Works last night. The show didn’t start until after 11, and I started to nod off during dance #7. (It didn’t help that the show was sold out and the auditorium at WSH gets pretty […]
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Jesse Sugarmann’s Lido (The Pride Is Back)
PICA I’ve been looking forward to Jesse Sugarmann‘s Lido (The Pride Is Back)— easily my most-anticipated TBA:11 offering. It’s billed as a minivan ballet of sorts, in which three Chryslers are parked on 42 air mattresses. The air beds are inflated, forcing the bulky vans to rise into the air (and possibly topple into a […]