Monthly Archives: September 2009

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company “The Shipment” Posted by: Camela Raymond To anyone consulting this blog for advice about what to see: Run, don’t walk, to see The Shipment (last chance is tonight). In less capable hands, the concept could … Continue reading →

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Phillip Gehmacher/Mumbling Fish “Maybe Forever” Posted by: Camela Raymond Meg Stuart and Phillip Gehmacher are powerful and evocative movement artists, but unfortunately what they evoked for me was the experience of being cornered at a party … Continue reading →

Miguel Gutierrez & The Powerful People Last Meadow Posted by: Seth Nehil The script is a controlling device. The storyboard commands. The director is an egomaniac. The movie camera captures bodies within its lens, contains them – flattens them onto … Continue reading →

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods Maybe Forever Posted by: Seth Nehil A clear emotional narrative flows under its abstract surface. Letters are written to a distant reader. Words are addressed to an absent listener. We are witnessing an emptiness which is the … Continue reading →

Kalup Linzy, Churen Trading Mess: Conversations Wit De Churen Episodes I – VII 09/05/09 6:30 p.m. posted by: Allison Halter On the Telephone in Conversations Wit De Churen Kalup Linzy’s Conversations Wit De Churen is populated with a wide variety … Continue reading →

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Last Meadow 09/04/09 6:30 p.m. posted by: Allison Halter I suppose I am jumping in a little late in the game here – there have already been so many entries about this specific piece … Continue reading →

Kalup Linzy, Conversations Wit De Churen Episodes I – VII, Northwest Film Center By Jens Larson The episodic films in Kalup Linzy‘s Conversations Wit De Churen were created over six years, and the seventh episode was specially commissioned by PICA … Continue reading →

Working Together Noontime Chat: A.L. Steiner, Sonya Robbins, Layla Childs, and AJ Blanford talk about C.L.U.E. 09/05/09 12:30 p.m. posted by: Allison Halter “What is so important about a singular vision?” Although it wasn’t the first question asked in this … Continue reading →

Luke Cage and Prescott Sheng, Crock: The Motion Picture 09/05/09 4:30 p.m. posted by: Allison Halter We all know that Portland is a small city. It is the reason that so many of us choose to live here. As a … Continue reading →

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s Last Meadow was a piece that I found mostly lacking in coherence and accessibility. It didn’t resonate with me on any level. As I rode home on my bike, feeling exasperated, dissatisfied and empty, … Continue reading →