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Feb 23-25 ║Alembic Artists’ Showcase

PWNW ALEMBIC: After working in the PWNW studio for the past year, the 2017 Alembic Artist Residents are ready to share their work: “civilized” by Catherine Egan, “An Incidental Host/ the passenger may in fact be the pilot” by Suzanne Chi, and “(p→p)” by GRINDGROUP.
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RFP || 2018 Alembic Resident Artists Program

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 6 of our Alembic Resident Artist Program.
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January 7 || Trance Music for Crows

PWNW ALEMBIC Co-Pro A new ensemble piece in development by Arrington de Dionyso (Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa, This Saxophone Kills Fascists), featuring for this iteration Ben Bennett, a spellbinding percussionist on tour from Philadelphia, and interlocking stereophonic electric bass played by Patrick Semple and Kofi Asaase Adjepong. Jennifer Robin will give a reading…
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January 12 & 13 || Sada Naegelin & Leah Wilmoth

PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: A dance exploring compositions that are funny, sincere, strange, and fleshy. The work represents, respects, and rejects female archetypes. It distorts and experiments with rituals and pop culture. There is deep darkness and bright, shimmering light.
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Jan 19-Feb 2 || Real People, Not Actors

PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: Think your job can’t be automated? The Shareholders disagree. Writer/performer/producer team Tobin Gollihar and Ian Sieren return to this year’s Fertile Ground Festival with Real People. Not Actors, a darkly comedic look at a near future where all our jobs have been automated, and all our government services have been contracted to…
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January 18-27 || Gigi Rosenberg || The Inheritance

PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS A firstborn daughter of the 1960s navigates her fractured family of origin to make sense of her inheritance. This workshop production is written and performed by Gigi Rosenberg and part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Work. Directed by Michael Griggs and dramaturgy by Seth Barrish.
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January 21 || Two Love Stories

PWNW ALEMBIC Co Pro: Marissa Rae Niederhauser (Berlin) performs new work ‘M/f duet’ with Aaron Swartzman (Seattle) and solo ‘Teething’ both which explore the complexities and boundaries of relationships.
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Thank You! Attentiveness & Devotion

Thanks for your care for, and participation in the PWNW community in the past, present, and future as you make or watch performance with us, share money, time, or other resources…as you shower us with your attention/attentiveness. ALL these gifts mean so much.
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a world, a world video trailer

(thanks to Seth Nehil for the trailer!) Tickets going fast—only 28 tickets available for each performance. Get yours now! Performed for an intimate audience in an extravagantly immersive environment, “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…
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Dec. 1-3 || Soror Mystica

PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: A ritual-based intermedia theatre work produced by ParaTheatrical ReSearch PDX and directed by Antero Alli with musical direction by Sylvi Alli. Featuring poetic text (“The Walls Do Not Fall”) by Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.)
