Photo by Chris Freeman, Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Dance is having a high art moment right now. From Beyoncé channeling Pearl Primus and Loie Fuller in The Carters’ “APES**T” music video to the complexity of Sherrie Silver’s masterful choreography for “This is America, to Pose‘s groundbreaking visual storytelling bringing underground ballroom culture […]
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TBA: Powerful Dancer Stares at ANTHEM, Nothing Much There in Soft Goods
Courtesy of Milka Djordjevich / TBA Choreographers often strain to de-emphasize the erotic nature of young bodies in motion, or the childlike glee of gamboling around without restriction. Those elements are crucial to the creation of modern movement arts, but get tamped down—as if any prurient interests or laughter would remove the work from the […]
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TBA: Unexploded Ordinances (UXO) Selects a Council of Elders to Discuss Modern Anxieties
Photo by Theo Cote, Courtesy of PICA Experimental theater is a high risk, high reward activity. Sometimes TBA means sitting through three hours of trust fund kids farting in cottage cheese to limited effect. But sometimes a spoken word performance— delivered with muffled pathos through a gilded diving helmet—brings you to tears because those specific, […]
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TBA: Late Night TBA with S1 DJs, The Creatrix, Isabella and Portland’s Decorum
Photo by Chris Freeman, Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art The late night events at TBA operate within a set of opposing forces. The organizers want them to exist as both an art event and as a regular ol’ concert. That can create exciting moments of friction like the Critical Mascara drag competitions or […]
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TBA: Kaneza Schaal’s Jack & Mixes Theater, Stand-Up, Dance, Music, and Ritual
JACK & TJ Acena JACK & is a fitting show to start TBA. Kaneza Schaal mixes theater, stand-up, dance, projections, music, and ritual, encompassing the full spectrum of acts you might see at the festival. In the performance, Jack (Cornell Alston) is an ex-con working at an industrial bakery who one night decides to bake […]
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TBA: Ann Hamilton’s Habitus Is an Interactive Installation of Dwelling, Shelter, and Sanctuary
Megan Harned In Northwest Portland, off Naito Parkway, towering cylinders of curtain hang suspended and dancing in the wind. Presented against a panoramic view of the Willamette River, the massive installation of papery cloth slides against itself and roars. The tents obscure taut rigging, which keeps the sculptures aloft, but visable lines dangle within reach […]
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The Fall Arts Guide’s Picks for TBA: S1, Milka Djordjevich and More!
There’s so much to do this weekend, you guys. Anthem, Courtesy of PICA It’s that time again. Time to receive PICA’s perfectly designed TBA programs like one might accept a holy object. Time to crease the corners with interest and jam your fingers onto your phone, trying to figure out who half these artists are. […]
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All the Amazing Things at the 2018 Time-Based Arts Festival
LA Choreographer Milka Djordjevich, NY Video Arts Monologist Gregg Bordowitz, S1 DJs and Holocene’s Fin de Cinema
It’s time to have your mind blown at PICA’s Time-Based Arts Festival. Here are our starter picks.