Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Shipment, Young Jean Lee & Company seen on Friday Sept. 5th Posted by: Susan Ploetz As I walked home from watching the Shipment, I felt open and tender to everyone passing by me. I wanted to sit with the … Continue reading →

Crock Posted By: Carissa Wodehouse The film Crock marks a TBA first for me, a first anus. I’ve seen a dancer pee on stage, an impromptu testicle shaving, and a penis stuffed behind fishnets (Fleshtone, darn you, that one is … Continue reading →

Planted! A Labor Day Picnic with Slow Food Portland Monday, September 7th 12:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. THE WORKS at Washington High School By Eve Connell Barely coming down off my It Might Get Loud high Monday afternoon, I arrived … Continue reading →

Sunday, September 6th 6:30 PDX Contemporary Younger – Ethan Rose, Laura Gibson, Ryan Jeffery 10:30 PM The WORKS C.L.U.E. Live – robbinschilds/Kinski Some Rainy Day Magic – Mild Intro to an Explosion of Sound and Form By Eve Connell The … Continue reading →

Locust Crushed Crushed With Joy To the sounds of a beat-box, locusts emerge and dance around on the ground before being crushed by a man’s unseeing boot. And then the dancers emerge, rising from the floor, hips swaying, shoulders and … Continue reading →

locust / crushed Posted by Jim Withington Just saw locust’s show and it left me that kind of joyous “HELL yeah!” feeling that I’ve been wanting during TBA this year. The festival has had heavy covered, maybe more than ever, … Continue reading →

Crock: The Motion Picture Posted by: Benjamin Adrian Before seeing Crock, I wondered why it was in tba. It basically looked like maybe it would be interesting, but certainly not anything more than a relic of 1996 Portland Cable Access. … Continue reading →

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience), robbinschilds posted by: Jenevive Tatiana The movement language and collaborative dynamics that span the multiple iterations of the projects of robbinschilds are almost painterly in nature. The radical relationality of color is echoed in their … Continue reading →