On the Boards:NWNW + H2M:Risk/Reward // 2012
Backstage at On the Boards, the other artists in the first weekend Studio Showcase of the Northwest New Works Festival were playing word games I could never figure out – something involving a lot of...
View ArticleTime in Portland (TBA:12)
TBA:12′s Beer Garden at The Works/Washington High School. Photo: Wayne Bund courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art PERFORMANCE CLUB: For 10 days each of the last 10 Septembers, the...
View ArticlePostscript (TBA:12)
Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero, “Turbulence (a dance about the economy)” at the 2012 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA. Photo: Joseph Webb, courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. PERFORMANCE CLUB:...
View ArticleTrisha Brown Company
Trisha Brown in Watermotor (1978) Photo © Julieta Cervantes 2011 I took my seat for White Bird’s first show of the 2012-2013 Uncaged Series feeling quite the cynic—reluctantly as I really didn’t want...
View ArticleCamille A. Brown & Dancers – MR. TOL E. RAncE
Photo: C. Duggan I had always thought that I would be fantastic at voguing—I love to dance in clubs. That should be good training, right?— A couple years ago, I took a voguing workshop from master...
View ArticleFestival TDB: Emergency Glitter
The inaugural Festival TBD ran July 24-28th at Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement. Fresh baked from a “city-wide heat emergency,” five summer nights on the Lower East Side unfolded Ben Pryor’s...
View ArticleDuet Love for Stance
The first time Tahni talked with me about the project that would become Duet Love, she had me hang my head off a bleacher. We had just finished a final rehearsal for her 2012 piece SUN$HINE. Laying...
View ArticleAllie Hankins: Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth
She just brought this today. Check this out: now it’s a bag! Obviously, I cannot hang this right now. And my musicians are not here. Allie Hankins who walks out resolutely told me Sunday. “Nijinsky’s...
View ArticleFRONT: ED4—BUOY
BUOY OPENING LETTER: For FRONT’s fourth edition, we trespass outside artistic production, asking the dark rich waters of process: What resources do communities self-engender to underwrite artistic...
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Five choreographers’ questions Biba Bell Milka Djordjevich Jessica Jobaris Sara Shelton Mann Taka Yamamoto One set of creative thinking tools FRONT invited five leading US-based choreographers to...
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