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Celluloid Sparks

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

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Wounded Hearts

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

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Phone Home

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

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“You say that you need my love…”

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

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It Only Looks Like It’s about Cross Dressing

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

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“When your minds click – it’s like an orgasm.”

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

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Crock of… what?

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

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Lost in Miguel Gutierrez’s Meadow

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

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Dogs Barking, Moths Fluttering, Light Rain Falling

Hitoshi Toyoda, NAZUNA Posted By: Julie Hammond Part way through the first half of Hitoshi Toyoda’s 90 minute silent slideshow NAZUNA I started to believe that this artist was capable of controlling much more than a camera shutter. A photo … Continue reading

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Maybe Forever – Or, I Wanted to Give You So Much More

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Philipp Gehmacher/Mumbling Fish Maybe Forever Friday, September 4th 8:30 PM Newmark Theatre By Eve Connell Rainy Saturday afternoon, and I can’t shake the dregs of Meg Stuart’s melancholy study in mood and movement from last night’s … Continue reading

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