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My Hijacked Weeks (TBA:11)
cloudy sunday just before seven is quiet. epically quiet Post-festival depression? During the festival, I’m consumed and don’t have time to properly be. I sleep too little, drink too much, nub...
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!……….(TBA:11)
15-20% of the audience walked out of a dance performance I was at recently. We were in a theatre with no back exit and a stage that ran level with the front row – like Portland’s Imago Theatre. Each...
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KIDD PIVOT: DARK MATTERS
You’d have to be in a really bad mood not to have a good time at Dark Matters, Crystal Pite’s widely-toured work for her Kidd Pivot company. It’s entertaining, spectacular and deftly constructed. The...
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Yasmeen Godder: Love Fire
LOVE FIRE immediately declares how it intends to relate to its audience: brashly. There’s a man, a woman, a greatest hits collection of classical waltz music and a title I can’t read without a smirk....
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The Göteborg Ballet: All-Nordic Program
Earlier in the day -before The Göteborg Ballet’s All-Nordic Program- my academic director told me I looked like a Russian sailor. Making great use of office flattery, he added, “It’s a good spring...
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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...
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Time 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...
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Postscript (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:...
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Trisha 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...
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Camille 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...
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Festival 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...
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Duet 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...
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Allie 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...
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FRONT: 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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FRONT: ED05
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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