Friday December 3, 2004
07:00 PM : Andrew Dickson @ Northwest Film Center
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
On December 3rd at 7pm at the Guild Theater the Northwest Film Center will be presenting what is likely to be my last public screening before temporarily leaving Portland for Los Angeles. While I will be back often in the coming year for both business and pleasure, I'm looking forward to screening and talking about my work and thanking the city of Portland for its support and nourishment.
The exact run down on the evening won't be nailed down until the day of the show but I can promise a clip from my feature film Good Grief (2000) and screenings of the shorts Hunter Dawson (10 minutes, 2002), and My Name is Bradlee, This is my Story (7 minutes, 2003), and my student film, 2-ply Comply (14 minutes, 1995). I will also show something from the evolving Autographhss.com project and probably another piece to be determined.
I will talk between each film, offering anecdotes about the projects and some insight into the trajectory of my work from conventional narrative films to character-based performance work using video and PowerPoint.
The evening will end with the infomercial for AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller (2 minutes, 2004), my recent full-length piece from this fall's PICA TBA festival. As I'm an actual eBay PowerSelller, I've got a mountain of stuff. To that end, I'll finish the evening by auctioning off a few of my possessions - a collection of posters from Portland cultural events of the last 5 years, some of my own artwork, who knows what else. The bidding starts at free. If more than one person wants something, the highest offer takes it. If no one wants something, I may open up my own wallet to get some of this stuff off my hands through bribery.
Hope to see you there. Please contact me with questions or to set up an interview. Further information about the films as well as artist biography, press packet and stills are all available.
-- Andrew Dickson
Tuesday January 4, 2005
07:30 PM : 21 Dog Years @ Winningstad Theatre
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Mike worked for the World's Largest Store during two of its tumultuous early years and survived. Now he tells the real story of Amazon.com--how he learned to slavishly love sixty-hour work weeks and worshiped the cult of personality that is CEO Jeff Bezos. With keen observation and honesty, he explores the darkly humorous compromises made every day to survive in corporate America.
Part gonzo documentary and part personal memoir, Mike Daisey exposes a corporate world too absurd for the cartoons. Daisey, who labored for 21 dog years (almost two human ones) at Amazon.com, chronicles with lunatic precision his ascent from lowly temp to customer service rep to business development hustler--from the lightless cube farms where he rebelled by sending free books to Norwegians to the halls of BizDev, where the higher-ups insisted that the perfect business model was Pets.com, the company that showered all its assets on a sock puppet. Wickedly funny and alarmingly true, 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak--an anthem to a bygone era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity.
Jan 4 - Feb 4
Wednesday June 15, 2005
08:00 PM : Whatever Girl: The Musical @ Echo Theatre
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Whatever Girl: The Musical
Echo Theatre (1515 SE 37th, just off Hawthorne)
Wed. June 15th - Sat. June 18th
8pm
$5-$15 sliding scale
Sunday July 17, 2005
12:00 PM : PIZZAZZ AUDITIONS @ ???
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
PIZZAZZ AUDITIONS!
Portland Mercury Pizzazz Returns
Audition for the Mercury's Talent Show!
Pizzazz is the Mercury's all ages talent show, and if you've got talent, we want it! Dancers, singers, ventriloquists, ukulele players, comedians, clowns, drag queens, dogs who do flips . . .
Auditions will be held Sunday, July 17
E-mail zach@portlandmercury to reserve an audition time!
(You could win CASH!)
Saturday August 27, 2005
08:00 PM : The Mercury's PIZZAZZ @ Aladdin Theater
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
Portland's ONLY Citywide Talent Show
Presented by the Portland Mercury
Portland has talent, and the Mercury is going to prove it. Our Second Annual Pizzazz talent show is a review of Portland's best, weirdest, strangest, oddest . . . people? Dance teams? Dog tricks? Puppet Shows? Tap dancers?
YES, YES, YES, YES!!!
Join us at the Aladdin Theater Saturday, August 27, have a beer, and watch some of Portland's most unbelievable home grown acts.
Saturday, August 27
Aladdin Theater | 3017 SE Milwaukie | 7pm doors | 8pm show | $5
Sunday January 15, 2006
08:30 PM : Mercury Karaoke Challenge @ Boiler Room
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
Sunday, January 15
Presented by the Portland Mercury
Mercury Karaoke Challenge
Come down to the Boiler Room this Sunday and watch the Mercury kick the shit out of the Chopstix karaoke team. We know we're better singers, and soon you'll know it too!
The Winner (aka the Portland Mercury) will hereafter be known as the "Greatest Karaoke Team in Portland," while The Loser (aka Chopstix) will be forever banned from any Portland karaoke stage, including their own!
Celebrity judges too!
Boiler Room, 228 NW Davis
Sunday, January 15, 8:30PM
Friday March 17, 2006
07:00 PM : 10 Tiny Dances @ Wonder Ballroom
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
Mike Barber presents 10 Tiny Dances - performances on a stage 3 feet square. This 10th edition includes Tracy Broyles, Margretta Hansen, Gabriel Masson, Anne Furfey, Josie Moseley, Mary Oslund, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, Mike Barber and Minh Tran.
The pieces are short, ADD engaging, and often fun. See at the Wonder Ballroom, details
http://www.tentinydances.org
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Thursday March 30, 2006
07:30 PM : Nixon In China @ Portland Opera
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Nixon In China is an avant garde (why does that term seem so dated...?) opera by brilliant composer John Adams, with production design by enfant terrible Peter Sellars.
Nixon, the other president who illegally wiretapped his political enemies, was forced to resign when tapes of his own oval office bugs threatened to expose his coverup of a black ops burglary of Democratic Party offices. Luckily his loyal secretary of 24 years, Rosemary Woods, erased a crucial 18 1/2 minutes from the tapes before they were turned over to prosecutors seeking Nixon's impeachment for lying.
Arch anti-Communist Nixon was probably the only politician of his era who could have credibly opened diplomatic relations with China. Perhaps the same could be said of Mao, who lead China's Communist revolution in the 1940's.
The opera focuses Nixon's trip to China and the dynamics between Nixon, his wife, Mao, his wife, Henry Kissinger and Chou En-lai. In English 7:30 www.portlandopera.org $37-$133
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Wednesday April 26, 2006
09:30 PM : [PDXFF] PDX FILM FEST OPENING PARTY @ HOLOCENE WITH WHITE RAINBOW'S PRISM
Music Flyered by adam
TIME
9 PM
TICKETS
@ the door
COST
FREE with festival pass
or $5
white rainbow audio/video/light/prisms/performance/full spectrum temporary art installation/healing experience
free beer provided by Pabst!
more info PDX FILM FEST
Thursday May 25, 2006
07:30 PM : Flamenco Without Borders Performance @The Aladdin Theater
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Solo Flamenco presents Flamenco Sin Fronteras, Flamenco Without Borders, at the Aladdin Theater. Flamenco, the other passion without regret, I mean another passion without regret! $18-25 Advanced tickets recommended 7:30PM
Friday May 26, 2006
06:00 PM : Underground Belly Dance @ Sabalas
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Belly dancing. The cognoscenti, or whatever the body's belly center equivalent is, know all about it. But it flies below the pop cultural radar, close to the ground. Now underground belly dance... These performers are creatively evolving belly dance, particularly in costuming. Tonight's bi-annual production by East:Meets:West is themed Kali's Boudior: 'From distant lands past Priestesses of gyration gather in Kali’s Temple. While the Sultan’s away, the girls will play…' That establishes quite a territory. Performers Serpentine, Belyphonic, Auracle, Severina, Geurilla Tribal, Ariellah, Gypsy Caravan, Tayissa Blue and Anath will be accompanied by DJ's Layla and Amar with percussionists Children of Paradise and David Rolin. Wear black and be intense and you will fit right in.
Sabala's 4811 SE Hawthorne
Friday June 2, 2006
08:00 PM : Modern Dance Performance @ Performance Works NW
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
SE Foster Road seems sometimes the realm of the Lost Patrol. But there is a beautiful organic neighborhood there: artists amidst backyard body shops, strippers and Russian restaurants, piano stores and junk shops, tango and the neighborhood gun shop. A pioneer in the neighborhood is Performance Works Northwest, a movement studio, focused primarily on modern dance. It's the child of dancer Linda Austin - New York: been there, done that and lighting designer Jeff Forbes, Portland's best. Friday through Sunday, Austin is joined by Clarinda Mac Low from NY and Meg Wolfe from LA and Portland dancers Chuck Barnes, JB Harrison, Chris Piuma, Lilly Chamberlin, Anne Furfey, Rebecca Harrison and Paige McKinney for "...not afraid of the dark". Modern dance is obscure, but so are a lot of things. reservations 503-777-1907 www.performanceworksnw.org 4625 SE 67th $12-15 includes a free drink.
Monday June 5, 2006
08:00 PM : Sort of Random Theater @ NW Neighborhood Cultural Center
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Theatre Vertigo and the Anonymous Theater Company present Moliere's The Learned Ladies. The play has been cast in secret, each actor has met the director, but none of the other actors. On the day of the play they go to the theater in their everyday clothes, purchase a ticket, receive a program and take a seat in the audience. The play begins and each actor emerges from the audience, delivering their first line while walking to the stage to continue the play with a cast they are meeting for the first time. This is a one night only event and fundraiser for Theater Vertigo. www.theatrevertigo.org
1819 NW Everett $20 8PM
Friday June 30, 2006
08:00 PM : Modern Dances for Garages @ New American Art Union
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Courtesy of ULTRAPDX (thanks Lisa!):
Speaking of space shaping movement...or not...as we often find ourselves doing, try this one on for size: three dancers (Brooklyn-SF) make dance for garages. And no, not car-parks, we've all seen performance in parking garages. Jbird Leary, Erin Sylvester and Biba Bell made their first piece in the one-car garage of Leary's step-father.
Modern Garage Movement, Modern Dance for Garages pic comes to town.
This description of one of the promised pieces pleases us to no end: "MAYNARD is all about the permanent rainbow and the possibility of imagination. ... The music, designed by Lani Rowe, is entirely based on the structure, meaning, and significance of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow,' the song that almost didn't make it into that famous movie.
Friday June 30 at New American Art Union (922 SE Ankeny) at 8 PM. ($5)
Friday August 25, 2006
08:00 PM : Performance "Grab Bag" @ Portland Art Center
Music Flyered by Rob W.
Susan Ploetz and Khaela Maricich are wrangling a new monthly performance night. It's an opportunity for performers and artists to experiment, to take a risk, to get feedback and to have fun; it is the same for the audience, but low key like a house party. So performer or audience performer, take advantage of this!
The first evening:
Pash (Susan Ploetz)
Brace Paine (of Gossip)
M. Blash (director of upcoming movie "Lying")
Khaela Maricich (of The Blow)
Admission is $3 or free for Portland Art Center Members (you can join at the event). Included in the admission is an actual grab bag. Beer and Wine for sale.
Portland Art Center
32 NW 5th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
503-236-3322
http://www.portlandart.org
Friday September 8, 2006
07:00 PM : TBA: LAURIE ANDERSON @ Newmark Theater
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
Drawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson creates an ambitiously large portrait of contemporary American culture. Conceived as the second in a trilogy of intimate solo works addressing concerns both personal and epic, The End of the Moon reflects on everything from war and beauty to spirituality and rampant consumerism. Anderson uses song, stories, and original electronic music in this riveting piece to suggest the fateful symmetry between journeys into outer and inner space.
Laurie Anderson is one of today’s premier performance artists. She has toured nationally and internationally with shows ranging from simple spoken word performances to elaborate multimedia productions. Her major work includes Empty Places, The Nerve Bible, Songs and Stories for Moby Dick, and her most recent solo work Happiness, co-commissioned in part by PICA and Leslie B. Durst. Anderson has recorded seven albums, notably Big Science, Mister Heartbreak, Strange Angels, Life on a String, and Live in New York. She is also an accomplished visual artist, composer, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and electronics whiz. Numerous awards and recognitions include a touring retrospective of her work organized in 2003 by The Musée Art Contemporain of Lyon, France, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Currently she is working on a series of very long walks.
Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) : Newmark Theater
1111 SW Broadway
Portland OR , Map
Capacity: 880
$20-40 Members
$30-50 General
All Ages
Fri . Sept 8 . 7-8:20 pm
Sat . Sept 9 . 7-8:20 pm
Wednesday September 13, 2006
08:00 PM : Butoh Dance Performance by Mexican Master Pinion @ Backspace
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Butoh is a strange and delicate thing. It is a modern dance form from Japan unlike any other movement art you have seen. It is improvised, sometimes based on images from nature. The site http://www.butoh.net, though outdated, is valuable. First created in 1959 amidst the post WW2 Japanese nationalist cultural movement, of which author Mishima was a leader, butoh was wild. Now it is unknown by many Japanese, while taking root worldwide. Diego Pinion is its Mexican instance. Pinion is known for his intense workshops in which psychodrama is the entry point for creating new movement. If you are a movement artist, or curious; if you can leave aside narrative and judgement and enter a dream state of pure body imagination, this will be a worthwhile performance. If you desire more, consider seeing Sanki Juku in Seattle November 21 - they are a sublime performance group and one of the preeminent butoh performance groups in the world.
7-midnight Someday Lounge (Backspace) 125 NW 5th $10
Saturday September 16, 2006
10:00 AM : Surreal Dog Walk @ NW Portland
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Whether dividing the world is useful, I've my doubts. It can be argued though that there are dog people and cat people. I fall on the dog side. I'm more interested in the medium to larger size, but I've many friends who prefer medium to small. One breed falling into this category is the west highland terrier. Yearly Portland westie guardians mount a surealistic visual conspiracy and walk their dogs en masse. The sight of a few hundred identical dogs at walk is not an hallucination. They wander NW Portland in pack - details at http://dovelewis.org/events/Westie_Walk.aspx. Begins 10AM at NW 20th and Raliegh. Free to watch
Saturday September 30, 2006
07:00 PM : HAUNTED @ Disjecta
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The Blood Rainbow Family presents:
HAUNTED - An exhibition of contemporary installation art
Opening Saturday September 30 - 7pm - special performances and many of the artists in attendance!!
Exhibition closes: October 29th
Disjecta
230 E. Burnside, Portland, OR 97214
Enter under the Burnside Bridge
Free!
More info at:
www.hauntedexhibition.com
Thursday October 12, 2006
07:00 PM : Live Wire @ Aladdin Theater
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave
Portland, Oregon 97202
United States
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
"Film Geek" director JAMES WESTBY will talk about his next film "The Auteur" and how feature films on digital video are letting filmmakers, not studios, decide which stories can be told;
Author LEE MONTGOMERY will read from her "touching, lovely" and "immensely heartfelt" new book The Things Between Us;"
DIRTY MARTINI will sing a couple songs and chat about their latest release "Tea and Revenge; "
DAVE HELFREY, the deeply troubled mind behind Baron Von Goolo's Museum of Horrors and Food Court of the Damned tells us how to scare the hell out of people;
STACY BOLT, acerbic wit/wrestling fan will tell us another tale from her dysfunctional and darkly funny youth;
JEFFERSON SMITH of the Bus Project (an organization that mobilizes itself to help mobilize voters) will pop in for a quick update on where the Bus is headed;
JEN BERNARD will drop by (with some special guests) to help us say goodbye to a 10-year tradition: The Night of the Murder Ballads; and
LITTLE SUE brings her sweet strains to our stage.
Friday October 13, 2006
08:00 PM : Kalakendra Indian Dance Performance @ Schnitzer Concert Hall
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Kalakendra presents a bharatanatyam dance performance, Ekaanta Seetha, Lonely Furrow, commemorating women Sita in Hindu mythology, who raised the twin sons of Rama, Rani Lakshmi Bai, a key figure in India's struggle for independence and Aparajitha, a representative contemporary fighter for social progress in rural India. These dances have elaborate costumes, stylized hand movements and characteristic shifts of gaze (sit close or bring field glasses). Usually they retell historic myths, this one is contemporary. Schnitzer Concert Hall 8PM $30 Discounts for Kalakendra members. Details http://www.kalakendra.org
08:00 PM : Grown Up Haunted House @ Portland Art Center
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
The Portland Art Center opens Catacombs, a sort of grown up haunted house, involving a maze of rooms created within the Center's warrens. Each room is representitive of historic happenings in the North End and Old Town Portland, enacted by actors with you in the scene, passing or tarrying as you wish. Continuous performance 8-11PM Admission $10-20 on a sliding scale October 13-15, October 19-22, October 26-31 (Halloween show runs 8-midnight)
Details http://www.portlandart.org
Thursday October 26, 2006
07:00 PM : Thriller @ Alberta Art Walk
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Here is a question. Do three wrongs make a right? First, Michael Jackson. Yes the music persists, but that was more a product of Jackson's producer from Seattle, Quincy Jones. Wiki his career. Second, the conjunction of Alberta and art. Yes it is heartfelt. Anyway taste is personal, or, as I say, aesthetics is tribal. Third, zombies. Put the three together and what you have is zombies performing the West Side Story-(on the East side - ?)-inspired dance sequence from the Michael Jackson music video for Thriller, live at the corner of 15th and Alberta beginning at 6:30 or 7 and for every 20 minutes for a few hours while the Alberta art walk happens this Thursday. Pop culture sampling. Start your halloween off right...Free
08:00 PM : GRAB BAG #3 @ Someday Lounge
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Coming up soon, another edition of GRAB BAG-- the semi-monthly performance experiment night, a little space for local artists to try out something new.
GRAB BAG #3 will be happening: Thursday October 26th, 2006, 8pm, at the Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th (2 doors down from Backspace). $3
GRAB BAG #3 will feature new stuff by:
a) Sarah Shapiro (new music and video from upcoming solo album)
b) Alicia McDaid & Greg Arden (Russian disco lounge dance-along)
c) Mary Christmas ("Trancendental Love War" -participatory instruction on conscious losing)
d) Colin Beatty (reads aloud from a clothing catalog, with special focus on the characters' emotional states)
e) Scout Niblett (Yet undisclosed offering)
a) Sarah Shapiro is a local direcor/producer/aninmator/filmmaker/musician/artist. She makes music as a solo project, and also in the band New England Roses with JD Samson and BARR. Her violently terrifying embroidered emails and text messages have been displayed at White Columns Gallery in New York, FIrehouse Gallery Brooklyn, Space 1026 in Philadelphia and at New Image Art in LA as part of the LTTR group show.
b) Alicia McDaid is a painter and musician who has lived in Portland for 9 years. Most recently she has worked as a traveling puppeteer for Tears of Joy Puppet Theater, a creative recruiter /jingle write for Wieden + Kennedy, a set painter for theater and tv commercials. She is in the bands Ape Shape and in Dead Elm and has collaborated with Zak Margolis on 2 biographical video projects that involve crying, dancing and ambrosia salad.
b) Greg Arden is a local film maker and performer
entertaining Portland in the early millenium with his
Beyond Beauty Productions: Ugly Parade and The Tony
Mangini Show. Currently working in animation and
teaching yoga at Corepower Yoga in NW, he is making
his return to performing to ease the pain of
Portland's winter malaise.
c) Mary Christmas is a freelance writer and yoga+meditation instructor. She moved to Portland one year ago from her hometown of New York, where she has performed and exhibited at galleries including ABCNORIO, Deitch Projects, and Participant, INC.
d) Colin Beattie's recent activities include work for the Alvord Desert
Outpost, Public Speakers, and "Come In, We're Not Ready!" (with
Red76, as a part of their Travelers and Record Project).
e) Scout Niblett has toured the world extensively playing solo drums, solo grunge guitar, and singing along with both. She reduces audiences to jibbering wrecks with the force of her performances. She moved recently from the UK to be a resident of Portland.
Friday November 10, 2006
10:00 AM : Food and Shelter Festival @ Center Space & Goldsmith Building
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
The Food and Shelter Festival explores improvised music and movement through workshops and performances. Workshops on the day. performances evening.
Their website has all the details: http://foodandshelter.blogspot.com/
Friday November 17, 2006
08:00 PM : Sprockettes International Invitational @ Disjecta
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
The Sprockettes are one of those things that can bring only smiles. Their precision nano bike performances are the bike version of high school's synchronized swimming with much better costumes. Or precision Zoobombing. Tonight they invite international bike stars the Clettes, girl bike performers and the Brakes, boy bike performers - all the way from Vancouver BC! Also on the bill are Kazum!, local acrobats; and electro, disco, romantico rockers, Romanteek from Olympia. Fulfill all your entertainment needs, wants and out and out lusts with drinks, a pimp your bike booth, Sprockettes calendars and official Sprockettes clothing, a silent art auction, a live stenciling wall, more art and a dance party with DJ Sniffles and DJ Puppet. Self propelled fun.
At Disjecta. Doors 7, show 8. All ages. $5-10 sliding scale
But wait there is more, a whole minibike weekend...
Saturday brunch and make tall bikes at 11:11AM, alleycat on minibikes at 3 at Mt Tabor - points for style and then see bike movies at Free Geek at 7
and
Sunday bike a beer treasure hunt at noon, at 3, bike polo and learn bikedancing skills at Alberta Park then Zoobomb.
Tuesday November 21, 2006
07:30 PM : Sankai Juku @ The Paramount Seattle
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Sankai Juku's elegant minimal style gets inside your head. Their relationship with the Seattle audience is special, the emotional dynamic flows in both directions. 9/10 1985, Sankai Juku performer Yoshiyuki Takeda fell to his death before the audience in an outdoor performance due to faulty rigging suspending he and his fellow dancers from a Pioneer Square building. You can get more information and a video excerpt of the current perfomance in Seattle at http://www.theparamount.com/artists/artist.asp?key=368
$32-42 Paramount Theater, Seattle 7:30PM
Thursday November 30, 2006
08:00 PM : Drats!!! another rock opera @ Holocene
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Punkers Drats!!! release their cd Welcome to New Granada. Then they show a teen rebellion film from the 1970's, Over the Edge with Matt Dillon in his first role. The film has a soundtrack with Cheap Trick, The Cars and The Ramones! Don't leave early, though, because Drats then performs their own rock opera mashing up their New Granada songs and performing characters inspired by Over the Edge!! So !!! 8PM Free !!! !! !
Friday December 1, 2006
08:00 PM : CARTUNE XPREZ @ Portland Art Center
Performance / Theater Flyered by kmikeym
The CARTUNE XPREZ is coming to the PORTLAND ART CENTER on Friday, December 1, at 8:00 p.m.
This event features live multimedia performances by YACHT, UNIVERSE, HOOLIGANSHIP, and SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL alongside a program of animations by PAPER RAD, TAKESHI MURATA, MICHAEL BELL-SMITH and more.
Check out http://www.cartunexprez.com for details.
Friday December 8, 2006
08:00 PM : A Certain Facilitation of Impasse - Modern Dance @ Disjecta
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Longtime movement collaborators Cydney Wilkes and Mike Barber can read each other's kinesthetic minds. In some ways, Barber is the comic and Wilkes the straight man. Tonight they collaborate with Jenn Gierada, Margretta Hansen and a dog named Hermann. This will be witty modern dance made by strong movers.
"A Certain Facilitation of Impasse uses obstacles in the form of confined space and restraint to present a human, thought provoking, and engaging performance experience. Separately and collaboratively, Barber and Wilkes have created new site specific work that explores how limits are perceived as impediments to forward movement as well as a means of ignoring repetitive patterns. Impasse hinges on both external and internal barriers – the kind that weave through the textures and dysfunction of personality and character."
Just in time for New Year's resolutions.
Friday thru Sunday. December 8, 9, and 10 at 8PM with an additional matinee on Sunday, December 10 at 2PM.
$15. Advance tickets thru Disjecta (503.286.9449) Also at the door. All ages.
Disjecta / 5 SE 3rd Avenue 97214 / www.disjecta.org
Saturday January 20, 2007
07:30 PM : Solo Flamenco Dance @ Artichoke Music
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Flamenco is not fancy. Really. In fact its gypsy roots and bar room history chart a peoples' passion. Solo Flamenco is a Portland group of dancers who share performances solo. They do have a pretty, shall we say, unusual web site nav convention involving mousing a guitar. Tonight their dancers perform "El Cuadro", the picture. Catering by Pix. Chocolate, flamenco, what is the moon phase? http://www.soloflamenco.org/ at Artichoke Music, in back, 3130 SE Hawthorne. Advance tickets recommended, there is a fiercely passionate flamenco community and the space is small. 7:30PM Call 503/972-1178 or email: soloflamenco@gmail.com $12
09:00 PM : Seattle Butoh Dance Visitors @ Someday Lounge
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Prepared guitar performer Bill Horist collaborates with primarily Seattle butoh players Vanessa Skantze, Douglas Ridings and Sheri Brown, plus perhaps some Portland movers. Butoh is a strange and wonderful very modern dance performance form. Sometimes it can be dark and grotesque, other times sublime. Improvised, I cannot predict the outcome tonight. http://www.somedaylounge.com 125 NW 5th 9PM $7
Wednesday January 24, 2007
06:30 PM : Trishia Brown Speaks @ PNCA
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
Born in 1936, Brown, as a modern dancer in New York in the 1960's, with her collaborators at the Judson, broke every boundary of dance and choreography they could find. In this 1966 photo, Brown dances with a running film projector on her back. Performances were held on rooftops; dancers rappelled and danced the walls of buildings high above the audience. Everyday movement was repurposed to dance becoming the foundation of what is now termed postmodern dance. She collaborated with artists Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves, Lina Wertmüller, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Fujiko Nakaya, Kenjiro Okazaki, Robert Ashley and Terry Winters, she was a key figure in those avant gardes.
Portland's creatives may be able to plumb Brown's experience on finding collaborators and then finding boundaries; on risk taking, art's relation to audience; on the dynamics of a sustainable creative arc.
13 NW and Johnson PNCA Commons 6:30PM Free
Friday January 26, 2007
09:00 PM : Japanese Things @ Someday Lounge
Performance / Theater Flyered by Rob W.
If you know me, you know I'm the butoh go to guy here. I'm not so enamoured of butoh grotesque and this performance is not that.
Tonight's performers are Maureen Freehill, Sheri Brown, Vanessa Skantze and former Portlander Ariel Denham. They have danced in the past with, PAN, a Seattle group, the child of DK Pan. PAN has been funded to travel and perform in Korea, Pan's family home, and in Japan where they've been developing collaborators.
Pan and many of his movers are descended from the Hijikata-Hakutobo lineage which is characterized by sublime expression and metamorphoses into wind, stone, water, animals and the like. Several of the dancers have studied deeply too with Kazuo Ohno, who was involved with the founder from the beginning. Ohno's approach is driven by love and common images which dancers visualize to create their movement are birth and the flower. Ohno celebrates his 100th birthday year with his last performance on stage tomorrow in Yokohama. Many butoh giants will perform tributes.
(Math teacher!)Sheri Brown has trained in the Hakutobo and Ohno traditions, actress Maureen Freehill brings a theater background to extensive studies in Japan with Kazuo Ohno and others. Ariell has trained extensively with Ohno in Japan. Skantze is trained in Jinen Butoh by founder Atsushi Takenouchi.
Soundscapes will be provided by Kyoto improvisor Marron and DJ Daichi from Japan, who will play for a dance party after the performance.
Marron a.k.a dubmarronics is Yasuhiko Tanaka
Based in Kyoto, Japan his musics include:
2005 apr."melts slowly" by his own unit "dubmarronics"
2005 oct. "the ten oxherding pictures" recorded with 3other guitarists,Fernando Kabusacki, from Argentine, Kei from ex.Hanadensya, Yoshitaka.expe from Nutron.
2006 mar. "spring" by his main band dubdub on-seng, unit with Manabu Sakata (dr)
2006 aug. W-named album "sleephammer" recorded with bill holist(gt), from seattle, U.S.A
awards include:
2006 jun. Dokkebi Awards in Korea as a member of P.A.N, a Butoh group from Seattle, U.S.A. he was in charge of music performance.
2006 aug. Special Awards from judges of ACC Sound Performance Dojyo. Awarded as a music performer of the performance group Holon. <<<<<
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/dubdub_on-seng >>>>>
DJ DaiChi MatSuOKa also currently Kyoto,Japan
"I started to play live P.A and DJ at club and open air rave party scene around 1995,and play kind of ambient music mainly. From 1999 to 2000 I joined "SOFT"(SOFT came to Seattle and play live a few years ago) as a track maker and sampler player, and released albums "Bonjour Bonshanfarm" "Otodama". Later I released some other remix and mix CDs. Recently I started new band "Based On Kyoto" with Marron and other friends, and we will release 12inch vinyl coupling with Daniel Wong and later compilation CD with 10 more artists around us from Jetset records. This time I bring some soundsouces of studio recordings, jam sessions, field recordings and my tracks that I recorded or joined in, and I make dub and mix those sounds with my computer. thank you."
http://www.somedaylounge.com/ 125 NW 5th 9PM $5
Saturday May 12, 2007
08:00 PM : MINI-FESTIVAL OF SOLO THEATRE @ Performance Works Northwest
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MINI-FESTIVAL OF SOLO THEATRE
@ Performance Works Northwest 4625 SE 67th Ave.
All tickets are $10, but a special discount pass for all three shows can be purchased for $24 ($8 each).
For discount pass, call 971 212 2554 or e-mail barnaby@flawedgeni.us
Barnaby King in FLAWED GENIUS
by Barnaby King & Sue Morrison
Fri May 11 & Sat May 12 (8pm)
Reservations - 503 777 1907
Catch the hit comedy performance, FLAWED GENIUS, in Portland this May. Barnaby King has been described as "Hugh Grant coming down off a bad mushroom high". FLAWED GENIUS, created with Canadian clown guru Sue Morrison, combines Vaudeville showmanship, absurd Chaplin-esque clowning, with a sardonic humour of a distinctly British flavour. In his uniquely live performances, Barnaby entertains, lampoons, disturbs, challenges and provokes his audiences.
Friday May 25, 2007
07:00 PM : swallow songs @ stumptown downtown
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wash back the winter with a swallow song.
the swallow songs is a performance, drinking game concert. audience members are invited to join the performers as they play out the roles of love-lost café goers singing, dancing and gulping down a goodbye to cloudy days and a hello to portland summer.
songs based on schnapf's video installation, "the swallows" were written by liam kenna, sean barrett, dickbird, jesse lichtenstein, interiors collective, sara farrell, kate o'brien-clarke and charles westmoreland and shaped into a choreographed performance by long time collaborators, tahni holt and marty schnapf.
what: swallow songs
who: marty schnapf, tahni holt (Monster Squad), liam kenna (Megadome, Snuggle Ups) sean barre tt (toholdyou) dickbird, jesse lichtenstein, interiors project, sara farrell, kate o'brien-clarke (Iretsu) and charles westmoreland (the Kingdom)
when: friday may 25th , 7pm
where: S tumptown downtown 128 SW 3rd Ave
cost: free!
Saturday July 21, 2007
07:00 PM : Ashes 2 Ashes b-boy-girl Battles @ Newmark Theater
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Ashes 2 Ashes is a locally based b-boy-girl battle drawin' national talents. They are ampin' it up this year with some venues to respect. Fits.
Thursday the preparty is at Someday Lounge. DJ's Forrest Getum Gump (NYC), Waajeed, Rev Shines (Lifesavas-PDX), Ohmega Watts (Lightheaded-PDX), Kez (360 Vinyl-PDX) and Dundiggy (RockBox-PDX) spin for open cipers. Sorry kids, 21+
Friday battle it. This is a full crew event. You got 5, 10 in your crew? Bring em. 32 crews will battle down to 8 finalists. Friday'z at the Wonder Ballroom.
Saturday it'z King of the Hill. Who's goin to be it? The 8 crews will battle it out with 10 supastars - Kid David (Renegades - San Francisco, CA); Ryoma (Mortal Kombat - Osaka, Japan); Tells-1 the Rebirth(Street Masters - Miami, FL); So (Gamblers - Seoul, Korea); Kareem (Rock Force - Sacramento, CA); Luigi (Rock Steady Crew - Worldwide); Albert (Knuckle Headz - Los Angeles, CA); Dyzee (Supernaturalz - Toronto, CAN); Casper (Boogie Brats - Vancouver, CAN); Marlon (Havikoro - Houston, TX).
The wordz of the judges - Free (Circle of Fire), Nabil (Killafornia) and Waak (Breaks Kru) - iz final.
Skeme Richards (Philadelphia) and Forrest Getumgump (NYC) be layin' down fresh beats.
Ther'z an afta' party at the Doug Fir. Skeme Richards, Ohmega Watts, Reverend Shines. 21+ again.
Check the fine prints at Amplified Techniques or the Myspace.
Thursday Someday 21+ 9PM-2:30AM $5
Friday Wonder Ballroom all ages 7PM $15
Saturday Newmark Theater (!!) all ages 7PM prompt $22.50/$27.50
Saturday Doug Fir 21+ 9?PM-2:30AM $10
Sunday July 29, 2007
09:00 PM : Water in the Desert Performance @ (under) the St Johns Bridge
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Butoh is a very modern dance form of sorts, originated in Japan, and unlike any other movement form you have seen. Usually improvised, it ranges from beautiful ritual performances by large international touring companies with a budget such as Dairakudakan and Sankai Juku to intimate living room performances. Of course you can do your own butoh anytime in the park or wherever you are so inspired. Especially true as many performers draw their improvisational inspiration from nature.
Butoh has experienced a diaspora from its origins in Japan. Seattle is one center as the result of butoh artist Joan Laage's work there. The late Doranne Crable worked in Olympia, influencing generations of Evergreen College artists. San Francisco is a center, anchored by the craziest sushi bar owner of the late Country Station Sushi, Koichi Tamano, an early collaborator in Japan with butoh's founder. Portland is also a center as a result of interchanges with San Francisco, Olympia and Seattle as well as an active workshop program at Portland State University.
Butoh artist Mizu Desierto, (water in Japanese+desert in Spanish), was once bitten by a rattlesnake in the Arizona desert. She survived, but it left an imprint. She has collaborated, studied and performed with Mexican butoh artist Diego Piñón, Kazuo and Yohsito Ohno and the Tamano's.
She presents for your pleasure, consideration and meditation Water in the Desert, a festival of art, ritual performance ecology and consciousness. In the day, musicians perform and there will be a variety of talks and workshops. In the evening, the river itself will become part of a performance, the performers lit by the full moon.
There is also a series of butoh workshops as part of the festival by visiting artists Syzygy Butoh (July 24 6-9); Harupin-Ha Butoh Theatre (July 27 6-9); and an intensive with Harupin-Ha (July 28 3-7)at very reasonable prices. See the website for details.
At Cathedral Park, under the St Johns Bridge. Art, music, workshops 2-9PM. Performance 9-11PM Free
Tuesday August 7, 2007
06:00 PM : SJH Fundraiser @ Tiga
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EVERYBODY WINS at the Sincerely, John Head Fundraiser
SJH Fundraiser @ Tiga
1465 NE Prescott Portland, OR 97211
August 7, 2007
6-10pm
Sincerely, John Head (SJH) is proud to present a fundraising event on their behalf on Tuesday, August 7 from 6-10pm at Tiga. SJH is a local duo who thrive on orchestrating participatory installations and performances with the public at large.
(imagine Hair Act photo here)
Scott Porter will get his hair did on the tailgate of the '77 Ranchero in the Tiga parking lot while the DJ plays selections from the SJH record collection, featuring live albums from 1977. You will hear some of the music that inspires Sincerely, John Head's current/ongoing project BOX SET.
(imagine Heidelberg Beer photo here)
Raffle tickets are affordable and prizes are abundant! Please support Sincerely, John Head by enjoying the great food and drinks at Tiga. (A $2 charge will also be added to every dinner bill to benefit SJH)
This event is 21 & over.
Saturday August 18, 2007
09:00 PM : T. Blood, R. Walmart, T.J. O'neil w/ Fred Nemo, Lylyylys @ Voleur
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Curated by Tom Greenwood and Chris Johanson. Weird art party in the atrium on the side of Voleur Restaurant and Bar which is one block west of the Willamette River and two blocks south of Burnside in the historic New Market Theater Building (1st and Ash).
Also art stuff by Sam Coomes and his daughter, and Johanson's art friend from out of town.
Tara Jane O'neil will perform with dancer Fred Nemo
Poet Tom Blood will say words out loud that are beautiful together
Rob Walmart/Marriage Family Band/Lyllyys will get psychedelic and crunk and drum circle and tryyped and a lot of phaser and distortion. (Members of Adrian Orange, Rob Walmart, Watery Graves, White Rainbow, Valet, Jackie-o motherfucker, Drone Bone, Dark Yoga, etc etc)
Night time on saturday August 18th, 2007
Saturday November 10, 2007
06:00 PM : Hip Hop Battles @ Reed
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While the city has been waging a war of attrition on hip hop, a small group is building community around b-girl b-boy crews. Individual style, teamwork and psychology all come together for battle events which combine fierce competition with love. The Amplified Techniques Ashes2Ashes event this summer was the performance of the year for me. A more intimate event is the 7th annual Reed battle.
The Foundation is a 5 on 5 event. On the wheels of steel itz Sugarman of the Buttermilk Baby Makers (PDX/AZ)and judges are Kareem (R4C), Andy Tiger Claw (Misguided Steps) and Tim Chips (Fraggle Rock).
At the Reed student union. Doors 6PM, battles 7. All proceeds to Ethos (yea!!) $3 Reed students, $7.
Meanwhile there is a bellydance performance by Severina and Znama with Kristin, Emily, Angel and Lili. They are accompanied by musicians Negara which is Doug Shafer, Sean Malloy, Chris Jacobson and JD Devros. It's at Marino's Cafe, 4129 SE Division. 8PM $5
Saturday December 22, 2007
04:00 PM : Free Performance @ South Waterfront
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Arts funding is fleeting. A new addition is funding by developers, envisioned by branding visionaries Ziba, and set on the Civic Condominiums and the South Waterfront Development. Artist choreographer curator Linda K Johnson has selected performance artists to work there and all their performances are free to you! And the artists are paid!! So be there!!!
Today modern dancer choreographer Tahni Holt presents the "The Party Project". You, the audience, stroll outside between 3 performance inside venues. Therein observe 30 performers, some collected from an open call to anyone, perform Holt's movement abstracted from parties. The link above explains it. In the end join everyone inside for one big party. Music created and played by Kate O’Brien-Clarke, Corrina Repp and Joe Haege. Lighting Bill Boese. Meet at the Bella Espresso Cafe, in the Meriwether Building - consult the S. Waterfront map on their website. You can easily go by streetcar or Tram. 4PM sharp. Free
Tuesday January 29, 2008
08:00 PM : Diana Szeinblum's ALASKA @ PSU
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PICA presents Argentine choreographer Diana Szeinblum and her new show Alaska
Event Information
Alaska
January 29-30, 2008, 8:00 pm
Portland State University Lincoln Hall
1620 SW Park (between Mill & Market)
$25 General / $20 Members
Tickets available at www.pica.org beginning January 1, 2008 or at the door the night of the performance
ALASKA
Argentine Choreographer Diana Szeinblum returns to the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art with her company of musicians and dancers and their dance/theatre work Alaska. Szeinblum last presented her work in 2003 at PICA with the acclaimed and popular Secreto y Malibu.
Diana Szeinblum's new work explores the relationships between four characters and the concept of "interior space”—a place where experiences, sensations, emotions and memories are stored in the body. Each of the four characters desperately try to reveal their interior space through physical expression. The title Alaska "speaks of that place that we all recognize, but nobody ever went."
Alaska features expressive, gestural/pedestrian movement on athletic bodies, complex relationships between characters developed through movement rather than language, live original music, a spare minimalist set and an abstract or surreal narrative structure. It is raw, sexy, brainy, mysterious and darkly funny.
Also during their stay in Portland, Diana Szeinblum and the company will conduct workshops for the Latino community and master classes for Portland-area dancers. Please contact PICA at 503.242.1419 for more information on these events.
Diana Szeinblum
Diana creates her work with a new group of performers selected for each project rather than working with the same company for each show. Through an intensive, lengthy and improvisatory rehearsal process she draws out the experiences and personal movement styles of each of the performers to create a unique vocabulary of movement for each piece. Rather than starting with a narrative or script, she builds each "play" as she goes in the studio, investigating ideas through the body rather than language or story.
While one can clearly see the Argentine influence in her work—especially with references to music and literary traditions—Diana Szeinblum is equally a product of her European training. She studied extensively and performed with Pina Bausch, Susanne Linke and others at the Folkwang Tanz Schule in Germany, the home of Tanztheater (dance theatre).
Alaska is funded in part by an Opportunity Grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), National Performance Network (NPN) Performing Americas and Jason Saunders and Stephanie Kelly of Morgan Stanley.
Sunday March 30, 2008
03:00 PM : Key Turn Project @ PWNW
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ALEMBIC
http://performanceworksnw.org/alembic.html
Performance Works has devised a new series, ALEMBIC, with artists from a variety of disciplines and aesthetics invited to use and/or transform the space here at PWNW or to engage in a project outside their normal trajectory.
March 30 3pm-- $5-$10 sliding scale
Key Turn Project, a Portland based dance and music collective, presents Whose Dance Is It Anyway?. The premise for this event is to give the audience complete creative control of the evening. We will provide a handful of dancers and a variety of musical instrument choices, the rest is up to the audience. They choose the number of dancers, the instruments to be played, the theme of the piece, as well as its length. At the end of each piece we will encourage brief comments/discussion and then repeat this process as many times as we can until an hour and a half to two hours has passed. This event would combine ALEMBIC's goals of bringing artist together under a common theme, experimenting in front of the audience, and creating instant performances with the aid of the audience.
Artists are Brianne Groh, Jen Hackworth, Regan Kinder Cole, Aiyana Maye, Amanda Byars Wickens and musical accompaniment by Ivon Rose Family Jamboree.
Performance takes place at
Performance Works NorthWest
4625 SE 67th Ave.
info: 503-777-1907 (please contact Key Turn Project if you have queries about their particular event)
Tickets available at the door --
Sunday April 13, 2008
11:00 AM : House Bound @ Performance Works NW
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You are fêted, fed, and lulled to relaxation. You move through installations and films, connect with performers in intimate spaces. Then the walls start closing in.
Welcome to the house that Works Corps built. "House Bound" is a kinesthetic salon of installation and performance with roving audience participation, in which the five women artists of Works Corps investigate the tension between solo and connectivity, individual and relationship, freedom and claustrophobia. Audiences will experience the show, which is a co-presentation of 2GQ, at Performance Works NW in Southeast Portland as part of the new experimental series, Alembic. Space is extremely limited, and reservations are strongly recommended.
"A slideshow about secretly wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater," is how Emily Stone describes her performance. Known for her dance and theatre work for presenters including PICA's TBA festival and On the Boards in Seattle, Stone will deliver a performative lecture about caretaking, the body as a domestic space, and "the wild territory of freedom and claustrophobia that exists in our own backyards."
Writer Nora Robertson, a recent finalist for the Pushcart Prize in poetry, will perform a monologue delving into "the underbelly of interdependence." Her character, Charlie, is described as "a charmer, a cocktail waitress with an alarming habit of chucking her boyfriend's records out the window."
Performer and choreographer Lilian Gael is the show's producer. She invites audiences into the dreamlike "attic" of the show's "house," which is defined by a kinetic installation of walls. The walls are the work of visual artist and letterpress printer Clare Carpenter, who covered them with wallpaper she printed. She says the walls are "imbued with the residue of stories from within a WWII housing project."
Interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown, co-editor of PLAZM magazine and director of the non-profit art and literary project 2GQ, will explore fertility and creativity with a site-responsive installation, film, and video. Brown will also feed the audience. She says, "The breaking of bread and sharing of wine are indispensable rituals of community, the source of metaphorical and literal nourishment."
Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres and drinks. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door; a limited number of discount tickets are available for $10 advance. For reservations, contact housebound@2GQ.org or 503 475 2306. Performance Works NW is located at 4625 SE 67th Avenue; various show times occur April 13 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. "House Bound" is co-presented by 2GQ, a project of the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.