Tag: history in the making

  • JULY 19-21 ║ Screaming Traps + Tahni Holt: A shared evening of work

    JULY 19-21 ║ Screaming Traps + Tahni Holt: A shared evening of work

    The screaming traps (Shannon Stewart and Ellery Burton) of Seattle and Tahni Holt of Portland combine forces in a shared evening of work at PWNW.

  • July 14 || Austin & Trotter @ Ten Tiny Dances in Beaverton

    July 14 || Austin & Trotter @ Ten Tiny Dances in Beaverton

    Linda Austin & Stephanie Trotter at Ten Tiny Dances | Beaverton July 14 10am-1:30pm | Central Beaverton, by The Round PWNW Out in the World Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances® presents the work of exemplary contemporary and traditional choreographers on a 4’ x 4’ stage in non-conventional sites. This event engages, surprises, delights, and perhaps challenges…

  • July 9 || Peter Redgrave & Shana Palmer plus “Champagne”

    July 9 || Peter Redgrave & Shana Palmer plus “Champagne”

    Peter Redgrave & Shana Palmer plus Champagne (Mia Ferm & Midori Hirose) July 9 at 8pm Tickets: sliding scale $8-$15 at the door Alembic Co-Production | PWNW Visiting Artists Peter Redgrave and Shana Palmer will be performing a duet, an improvised combination of music and movement. These two inter-dimensional artists have known each other for…

  • July 7 || Passion:Fruit Trans Variety Show

    July 7 || Passion:Fruit Trans Variety Show

    Genderbomb will be partying this summer in all the best ways. Sour, crunchy, Juicy, passion, Fruit! Relax and let your inhibitions melt with Portland’s freshest crew of underground trans performers. Age 18+ show.

  • June 29 || Duo Probosci: Timba Harris + Gyan Riley

    June 29 || Duo Probosci: Timba Harris + Gyan Riley

    Duo Probosci is a collaboration between New York guitarist Gyan Riley and violinist Timba Harris. Both composers, whose work is featured in John Zorn’s Tzadik Records Composers’ Series, contribute to the interplay between composition and improvisation, steeped with intricacy, subtlety, and shape-shifting energy.

  • June 16 || Eric Nordstrom Dance Film

    June 16 || Eric Nordstrom Dance Film

    Eric Nordstrom || Dance Film Double Feature: Standing on Gold (a work-in-progress showing) and Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past and Present Sat June 16 at 8pm Alembic Co-Production Standing on Gold documents eighty-two-year-old Simone Forti’s innovations in postmodern dance. This work-in-progress dance documentary includes never-before-screened work and choice photos from Forti’s own personal archive.…

  • June 13 || Notice Recordings || Composed Improvisations for Music & Dance

    June 13 || Notice Recordings || Composed Improvisations for Music & Dance

    Wed June 13 Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm $10-$20 sliding scale Notice Recordings presents, in collaboration with The Extradition Series, a night of contemporary music and dance by John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Toshi Ichiyanagi. Featuring Matt Hannafin, Margaret McNeal, Lee Elderton, Evan Lindorff-Ellery, Branic Howard,  and Brandon Conway. Joined by movement artists Emily…

  • June 3 ║ Leralee Whittle Open Workshop

    June 3 ║ Leralee Whittle Open Workshop

    Trans-Embodiment, the Body as Space Maker and the Hugeness of Instant Composition In this 3 hour workshop we’ll touch into somatic and tactile investigations for cultivating pleasure, apply images and tools to dancing with a space-oriented body and explore the magnitude of instant composition by practicing dance as a relational medium.

  • June 1-2║ J (()) Y by Leralee Whittle ║ work-in-progresss by Mizu Desierto

    June 1-2║ J (()) Y by Leralee Whittle ║ work-in-progresss by Mizu Desierto

    J (()) Y is a dance of trans-embodiment territories where the body connects with forces, embodies space, composes and arrives at momentary destinations of aesthetic pleasure.

  • May 5 || Meatsuits Trans Variety Show

    May 5 || Meatsuits Trans Variety Show

    Genderbomb presents Meatsuits Saturday May 5, 8-10pm PWNW Public Access Screaming right through existence. Genderbomb’s rebellion through art continues. Our band of trans performers is growing uncontrollably and they’re champing at the bit to present you more exquisite entertainment. Alongside original musical numbers, twisted stories, and comedy, there’ll be kinky performance pieces of a heartfelt…