Ian Goodrich Anne Furfey’s Sink The difficulty with a Tiny Dance is that within the constraints of space and time—a small stage, and maybe around ten minutes—it can be hard for a choreographer to get across what they want to get across. It seems to me, longer performances with more stage allow choreographers/performers much more […]
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Your Free/Cheap TBA Picks of the Day!
As promised, here are your free and cheap options for TBA today: Embodied Words – NOONTIME CHAT: Free! The Wooster Group – There Is Still Time…Brother: $10 and totally woth it! Zachary Oberzan – Flooding with Love for The Kid : $9! Jennifer Reeves (Director) and Skuli Sverrisson (Performer) – When It Was Blue, Curated […]
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SoloShow: Beautiful, But….
I have mixed feelings about Maria Hassabi’s SoloShow, which runs for two more nights (the 13th & 14th, 8:30 pm) at Imago Theater. Part of me could really get into what Hassabi was wanting to convey. The other part of me thought that the overall presentation of the show may have gotten in the way […]
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Here Are Some Pictures #5: Five more Tiny Dances
<img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/la-chaim-crimes-and-punishmenttheres-something-in-her-pants/u/original/2850179/1284344894-imgp0924.jpg" alt="La Chaim Crimes & PunishmentThere’s Something in Her Pants” title=”La Chaim Crimes & PunishmentTheres Something in Her Pants” width=”500″ height=”747″ /> Ian Goodrich La Chaim Crimes & PunishmentThere’s Something in Her Pants More after the jump Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Eric Skinner “Clearly Another World” Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Michael Rioux and Monica […]
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REVIEW: Jessica Jackson Hutchins’ Children of the Sunshine
A family gathers in their living room in front of a trio of windows. They take up instruments, and in spontaneous anti-harmony, repeatedly sing the words, “we are children of the sunshine.” The father (Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus) strums a guitar. The mother (Jessica Jackson Hutchins) holds her youngest child, burying the newborn into her […]
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RE: Dayna Hanson’s Gloria’s Cause
Noah wrote: Walking out of Dayna Hanson’s Gloria’s Cause last night, I had a thought that Patrick Alan Coleman vocalized before I could get a word in edge-wise. “This is one of the TBA shows that I’m going to tell friends to go see. When they ask me: ‘what’s good?’, ‘what is worth spending some […]
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The Wooster Group and Elizabeth LeCompte
Five minutes into Elizabeth LeCompte’s roundtable discussion of There Is Still Time..Brother, the legs were knocked out of my primary criticism of the show. The Wooster Group has been billing There Is Still Time as an “anti-war film,” which implies a considerably more pointed tack than the 360-degree, interactive film actually takes (read a description […]
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TBA:10 for the Penny Pincher!
So here’s the thing about most of my friends: like me, a lot of them are on a pretty tight budget here in PDX (fun-employment is what they’re calling it) which usually leaves room for a couple tall boys and possibly a movie at The Laurelhurst as a way to spend a Friday night. So […]
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Here Are Some Pictures #4 Ten Tiny Dances. Well…the first five at least
Ian Goodrich Anne Furfey “Sink” Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Mike Barber and Cydney Wilkes “A Version” Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Katherine Longstreth “City” Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich You just cant get good help…and the bad help never looked my way Ian Goodrich Dayna Hanson Ian Goodrich Linda Austin “Nigh” Ian Goodrich …More to […]
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Here are some pictures #3: A little After the Fact. A Hell of a Time With Extreme Animals Sit Down “Music is a question with no answer”
Ian Goodrich Not too sarcastic to smile at themselves Ian Goodrich This is where the magic happens Ian Goodrich The show feels somewhere betweeen this Ian Goodrich …and this
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REVIEW: Women Without Men
In Shirin Neshat’s beautiful debut Women without Men, the year is 1953, and four Iranian women are living very different lives in Tehran. Some of them wear veils; some of them do not; one is political and engaged, one is the westernized wife of a powerful general, and another is a prostitute who, in the […]
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Performance Art for the Interwebs Age
The Extreme Animals Sit Down show, Music is a question with no answer, last night was pretty rad. Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman (Extreme Animals, Paper Rad, You Can’t Do That on Television) kept it fairly casual and presented about an hour of video, mix-taped with music/sound that they were playing and mixing live. I […]