Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance

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Attendees at performances must wear masks completely covering nose and mouth while in our studio theater. Please wear a high-filtration mask with a tight fit to the face, such as a KN95 or N95. We encourage full COVID vaccination and boosters!

October 8 || Nine Women: An Evening of Improv Comedy

Bridge City Improv brings together three trios of the Portland area’s best improv comedians. Featuring Allie Rivenbark + Betse Green + Lisa Brousseau // Mariah Muñoz + Sarah Thompson + Elena Afanasiev// Amy Conway + Lauren Sinner + Kristen Shier. Sat. Oct. 8 at 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00) Tickets available at https://www.merctickets.com/events/129620214/nine-women-an-evening-of-improv-comedy
2022 Fall Events

New performance by Linda Austin; an all-woman improv comedy group; the Alembic Artist Series with Blue McCall, Dee Bustos, Pepper Pepper and Adrianna Audoma; and Marissa Rae Niederhauser and collaborators
Oct 15 || Linda Austin: 3 miles of possible (the second mile)

ALL PERFORMANCES EXCEPT OCTOBER 15 CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin presents Mile 2 of her ongoing project “3 miles of possible.” animating and traveling along a series of spatial paths envisioned as giant drawings, spells,and/or runes. These paths are threaded through with a variety of movement scores, choreographies, tasks, interactions with objects, guest artists, texts, songs, and sound compositions.
Aug 27 || touch system ✿✿✿ – open studio showing || Blue McCall + Jamondria Harris + ensemble

Touch system ✿✿✿ is an emerging choreographic work by Alembic Resident Blue McCall, taking place within a custom sound installation by Jamondria Harris (meroitic). Touch system explores the tension between image making and embodiment, shifting between high-impact physicality and moments of sculptural stillness. Join them for an informal open studio showing, to celebrate the end of the group’s summer studio sessions and to launch their fall performance season!
2022 Summer & Fall Events

Performances, showings, residencies by old friends and new: Allie Hankins, LIMITS, Linda Austin, Alembic Resident Artists, and more!
August 5-7 || Allie Hankins || GHOSTING

By My Own Hand, Part 1: GHOSTING, is the first in a five-part series of performances that leverage the performer/audience relationship to question attempts we make at containment; at naming; at establishing lines and boundaries. Toying with the perceived power of systems we use to define ourselves, such as astrology, psychotherapy, and dream interpretation, the work coyly points to the futility of attempting to uphold a fixed persona in life or performance.
August 8-20 || LIMITS: Corrie Beffort + Jason Anderson || Alembic Parent Residency

PWNW welcomes Corrie Befort and Jason E. Anderson of LIMITS for our inaugural Alembic Parent Residency. The duo draw upon their extensive involvement with improvisation, film, video art, installation and experimental performance to investigate psychological experiences of time, memory and perception. Corrie and Jason are using this residency opportunity to invite other artists to play/improvise with them within the context of LIMITS, proposing “container” scores for themselves toward revealing new ideas and perspectives on their preoccupations with character, narrative and information density.