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Sept 6 || Paratheatre: What is it?
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: Lecture/Demo by Antero Alli discussing the basic methods of his Paratheatre medium while several members of ParaTheatrical ReSearch demonstrate them.
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Aug 18-29 || The Last Five Years
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: The inaugural production of Colorful Collective! This unorthodox and touching modern musical chronicles the five-year-long relationship between Jamie and Cathy, two twenty-somethings in New York City, from meeting to breakup and from breakup to meeting. Jamie moves forward in time while Cathy tells her story in reverse.
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Aug. 3-5 || Guenevere of States
PWNW PUBLIC ACCESS: “Guenevere of States” is a NU-DADA pseudo-Shakespeare play about a fictional queen and her struggles in the shadow of her predecessor. Written and directed by Jake Gonnella.
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June 30-July 1 || Andrea Kleine + Linda Austin @ CMG Improvisation Summit
PWNW Artistic Director Linda Austin joins the multifaceted writer/artist/wayward dancer Andrea Kleine in two works at the upcoming edition of the Creative Music Guild (CMG) Improvisation Summit of Portland (ISP). Friday, June 30, 2017. 7pm Andrea Kleine & Linda Austin w/ Fabian Rucker & Mike Gamble Saturday, July 1, 2017. 8:15pm Andrea Kleine: “Ships” w/ dancers…
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July 17-19 || Bob Eisen Open Workshop
Visiting artist Bob Eisen, after performing in Rantum Scoot, July 14 & 15, offers interested dancers a chance to join him in his studio process in our air-conditioned studio! Through the use of various improvisational structures and choreographic tools, these three days of open workshops will deal with aspects of performing and creating work. Open…
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July 14-15 || Rantum Scoot
Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by a visit to Portland by the peripatetic and amazing Bob Eisen, PWNW puts together a mid-summer dance outing comprising three solos by veterans Eisen, Gregg Bielemeier, and PWNW director Linda Austin, plus a duet by the Leah Wilmoth and Sada Naegelin.
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June 8-18 || Good with People
Our Shoes Are Red / The Performance Lab Presents David Harrower’s Good With People Two strangers attempt to overcome a divisive event from their past. All that stands in their way are their upbringings, their outlooks, their long-harbored conclusions and their conflicting versions of what exactly happened. Directed by and featuring Devon Allen and Matt…
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June Performances || Linda Austin Dance
Linda Austin Dance is performing in two June Festivals, sharing a work-in-progress excerpt of her current project, “a world, a world.” In this excerpt, five dancers channel and splice moments of heterogeneous movement and text in a performative interrogation of a world saturated with image and language. They dance, hum, mutter, and mumble; deploy sandbags,…
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May 12-14 || Bardoville
ParaTheatrical ReSearch presents BARDOVILLE. A place between places, the old world collapsing behind us, the new world nowhere in sight, a drunken poet bangs out a torrent of poems unleashing spirits, demons, angels of the era. Fri/Sat/Sunday May 12, 13, & 14. 8pm sharp (doors open 7:45pm) Performance Works NW * 4625 SE 67th Ave.…
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May 5 || Alice Gosti showing & reception
Seattle artist Alice Gosti, who shared her work Protecting the Herd with us in December 2015, returns to PWNW for a 9-day residency to work on her newest project, Material Deviance In Contemporary American Culture (MDICAC). We are extremely pleased that Alice will be offering a glimpse into her work on May 5 with an informal showing, talk and reception here at…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 