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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
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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
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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.
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October 28 || Imposter/Switch
Imposter/Switch is a newly launched quarterly interdisciplinary arts exhibition/performance (co-curated by Kennedy Barrett and Marissa Rae Niederhauser, celebrating the imposter syndrome living in each of us and inviting artists to courageously ‘fake it’ wearing the [creative] mask of another artist.
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November 17-20 || Marissa Rae Niederhauser || Record Rewind replay record…
Marissa Rae Niederhauser is joined by composerJuniana Lanning and actor Daniel Shaw for a devised theater work contemplating the slippery qualities of time, intangibility of self/relationships and the myth of memory, amidst a tangle of chairs, record players, paper airplanes and unspooled cassette tapes.
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Sept 25 || Shannon Mockli open showing
4pm—FREE—An indulgent series of collaborative duets facilitated by Eugene-based choreographer Shannon Mockli featuring sound artist Jon Bellona, and dancers Dakota Bouher, Karen Daly, Sarah Ebert, and Carlos Rassmussen, exploring our movement identities and histories, and how differences meld into distinct syntheses.
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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!
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2022 Summer & Fall Events
Performances, showings, residencies by old friends and new: Allie Hankins, LIMITS, Linda Austin, Alembic Resident Artists, and more!
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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.
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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.
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June 14 || Derek Jarman’s Blue + Plant Exchange
All are welcome to come and enjoy a special free screening of Derek Jarman’s final film, Blue, with an ongoing plant trade to celebrate life this Spring! In the spirit of Jarman’s garden, we encourage you to participate in an open plant exchange. Plant trade starts at 7pm, and the film at 8pm. FREE!
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 