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Feb. 20 || UnPresidented Acts
Along with other artists, citizens, and spaces around the country, PWNW joins the Bad and Nasty movement with a marathon evening of performance featuring acts of protest, resistance, resilience and community building by 25-30 artists. Artist slate—currently in formation—includes Anthony Hudson, Button Will, claire barrera, Kiel Moton, Linda Austin,Tamara Lynne, Tere Mathern). All funds raised…
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Feb. 10 & 11 || Cabaret Boris & Natasha
An assemblage of imaginative and unconventional entertainment, presented salon-style, by some of the most inventive performing artists from the region. This edition features a collaboration between dancers Mike Barber and Subashini Ganesan, work by Seattle’s Syniva Whitney/Gender Tender, music by oboist Catherine Lee, performance by Amber Whitehall, dance by Button Will, and as well as…
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January 29 || The Greater Circulation
“The Greater Circulation” (2005; 93 min. USA) is Antero Alli’s cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s epic lament, “Requiem For a Friend”, where an actress, a dancer, and a visual artist stage Rilke’s work as a paratheatrical performance in present time as the film intercuts to flashbacks of the poet composing his “Requiem” a…
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RFP 2017 Alembic Resident Artist Program
2017 Alembic Resident Artist Program. Deadline: Feb. 11, 2017. Residency Period: April 1, 2016-Feb 28, 2017. PWNW || LAD invites artists working in original and contemporary time-based performance, whose work engages a strong movement, body or dance-based component, to apply for year 5 of our Alembic Resident Artist Program.
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We are standing with you, dancing with you, making art with you
The last bell rings for you: photo by Chelsea Petrakis Dear friend of Performance Works NorthWest & Linda Austin Dance, Last year at this time I wrote that we “tingle with excitement and confidence as we embark into another 15 years of avid experimentation in the live arts.” One year later, it is difficult, as…
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Dec. 2-4 || A Turbulence of Muses
December 2-4 at 8pm A Turbulence of Muses: A symbolist ritual Fri/Sat/Sunday 8pm sharp Doors open 7:45pm. No entry after 8pm. $10 admission (cash at the door). Not suitable for children or pets. Performance Works NW 4625 SE 67th Ave. Portland, OR MAP “After 20 years of paratheatrical experiments, music and film production in Berkeley…
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Dec. 9-11 || I’d Like to Get to Know You
I’d Like to Get to Know You is inspired by The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness: A Procedure and Preliminary Findings, which is commonly known as The 36 Questions that Lead to Love. The goal of this research was to create temporary feelings of closeness between same or cross-sex pairings. In I’d like to Get…
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Dec. 15-17 || Complicated Women || Katie Scherman
Complicated Women, featuring dancers Jess Zoller, Faith Morrison, and Katie, explores the collective experience of being a woman; through wonder, depth, and complexity. Over the past two years, Katie has found herself constantly coming back to femininity in the studio; questioning and investigating how to translate the never ending self-dialogue. The work examines narcissism, vulnerability,…
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Dec. 18 || GIFTS
PWNW presents a screening of GIFTS, a 65 minute film by Nichola Bruce centering on a 10-year project by U.K. artist Clare Whistler. Clare’s project was inspired by eight objects that were traditionally given in England to welcome a new child into the world: Egg, Coal, Evergreen, Salt, Candle, Bread,Coin and Silver. Each symbolic gift…
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Nov. 26 || The Work of Fire
The Work Of Fire Saturday, November 26th 8pm Performance Works Northwest || Linda Austin Dance 4625 SE 67th Ave. Portland, OR 97206 One Night Only No ticket fee $5 suggested donation A multi-media meditation on the nature of time, language, the imagined, history, butterflies, rocks, neurology, and revolt, The Work Of Fire brings forward a…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 