Winter 2020
PWNW CALENDAR OF EVENTS

All events at PWNW unless otherwise specified
4625 SE 67th Ave. ║ Portland, OR 97206  map

ADVANCE TIX for PWNW-produced events HERE
The Starred Events ** are eligible for Arts for All tickets!
—above photo by Chelsea Petrakis—

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Jan. 11 ║ Marissa Niederhauser ║Dance Spell: New Year’s Intention Setting Through Movement Improvisation

Sat. January 11 10am-1pm
$15- $30 Pay what you can

Movement improvisation strategies for an experiential approach to the 4 elements in order to set “magical” intentions for the New Year, expand our personal movement vocabulary and develop performance presence.

More Info HERE

Please register in advance at marissa.rae.n@gmail.com

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Jan. 16-18 & Jan. 23-25 ║ Linda Austin Dance ║ world, a world **

Linda Austin Dance

Jan. 16-18 & 23-25
Thurs-Sat at 8pm
plus an additional performance Sat. Jan. 25 at 4pm
Advance tickets HERE

a world a world invites audiences into a hyperactive landscape saturated by shards of movement, image, and language, a tumult that stutters and sputters out, yielding to a spacious, minimal, and meditative world. Choreography: Linda Austin in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Linda Austin, claire barrera, Muffie Delgado Connelly, Nancy Ellis, Hannah Krafcik, Danielle Ross, Noelle Stiles
Sound landscape: Seth Nehil
Visual design and costumes: Sarah Marguier

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Jan. 29-31 & Feb. 5-7 ║ Spring 4th Productions ║ Dearly Departed

PWNW Public Access

January 29, 30, 31
February 5, 6, 7
7pm
TICKETS: $15; $10 students/seniors
fertilegroundpdx.org (starting in January)
971-212-1020

This dark comedy, about how bad decisions always make perfect sense—until they really don’t—follows a family scattered to the winds, and fumbling to find themselves after the weight of the family secret has become too much to bear.

Dearly Departed is the sixteenth original two-act play from Spring 4th Productions’ writing/performing team Tobin Gollihar and Ian Paul Sieren.

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Feb. 2 ║ Holy Goats! Improvisations

Sunday Feb. 2 at 2pm
$5-$15 at the door

Music & Dance improvisations accompanied by coffee, tea, and bagels!

Allie Hankins + Caspar Sonnet
Pepper Pepper
Tracy Broyles + Adrian Hutapea + jaime lee christiana
Luke Gutgsell + Kennedy Verrett

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Feb. 21-21 || Genderbomb || Fauna Obscura

PWNW Public Access

Friday and Saturday
Feb. 21 & 22, 8pm
Tickets available here.

In the wilds of the soul, beasts leave their burrows to play.

Genderbomb is full of creatures. You’ve seen fleeting glimpses over the last few years. Now they’re stalking about backstage, ready to enter the scene with dance, poetry, rituals, scenes, and even a primal game show! Join the pack, as Genderbomb’s trans revolution through art continues.

Age 18+ show.
Cw: nudity, kink, sexuality

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Feb. 28, March 6 & 7 || Rogue Theology || Funeral for Expectations

PWNW Public Access

FUNERAL FOR EXPECTATIONS
An Immersive Theatre Ritual Aimed at Detachment from Success

Friday Feb. 28, Friday & Saturday March 6 & 7
7:30 pm
Tickets $12 at Eventbrite

This immersive and participatory ceremony of disposition examines the life of Expectations, who measured success. As Expectations always used to say “Once you’ve achieved this goal, once you’ve accomplished this thing, once you’ve attained this position, then you will be fulfilled”.

A funerary procession will lead you and your company into a dark room. You will then be taken through a series of landscapes, fun and goofy, dark and deep. You will be respectfully invited to share of your own experiences with Expectations throughout the service.

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Feb. 29 ║ Extradition Recital Series ║ Tessa Brinckman

Alembic Co-Production

Saturday, February 29, at 7pm
Ashland-based performer/composer Tessa Brinckman brings a new solo work to Portland and joins members of the Extradition Ensemble for a group performance.

> Tessa Brinckman, Box | Grown Men Sing (2019): A 35 minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, exploring the meta-politics of solitary confinement and climate change, performed by the composer (bass flute, waterphone, recordings of three survivors, fixed audio + video)

> Eva-Maria Houben, Haiku for Seven (2003–2019): A simultaneous realization of solo scores from the composer’s Haiku series, performed by Tessa Brinckman (flutes), Loren Chasse (percussion), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Jacob Mitas (viola), and Collin Oldham (cello)

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March 13-15 ║ Alembic Artist Residents Showcase**

Alembic Artists Program

SAVE THE DATES for one of the highlights of our year! Witness what our Alembic Artists have been making in our studio during their residency. Alembic Resident Artist Cohort #7 is catherine ross, Maggie Heath, and Sarah Brahim.

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March 20-23 ║ Since the First Sunrise ║ Bunkerfood Studio** CANCELED DUE TO COVID

PWNW Public Access

Friday & Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 2pm

Since the First Sunrise/COMING HOME asks “How can we reconcile our humanity with spirit and come home to the truth of our interconnectedness?” Dance, live music, language, and a giant yarn installation serve as a means to communicate with each other, with the past, and with the future. Created collaboratively by jaime lee christiana, Adrian Hutapea, and Tracy Broyles, this alive score probes with depth, humor and artistry at our very existence.

LIMITED SEATING 
Tickets available at https://bunkerfoodstudio.brownpapertickets.com/
If sold out, we will take a waiting list at the door in case of no-shows.

4 Arts for All tickets are available per performance. Please email us at theory1.tracy@gmail.com to reserve

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