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PWNW Welcomes the 10th Alembic Resident Artist Cohort!
PWNW welcomes our newest Alembic Resident Artists: JmeJames Antonick, Katherine Longstreth, and Emma Lutz-Higgins
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2023 || Spring/Summer Events
Mau, June and July performance at PWNW brings us music, dance, theater, a book signing, and genre-switching!
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Support Linda’s artist’s book
Dear friends and fans—Please support the creation of an artist’s book/catalog to be offered in tandem with September performances of 3 miles of possible. I need some bucks to pay for designer fees, contributor fees, printing and binding!
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June 3 || Elsewhere/Otherwise || Kristen Yeung and Sadie Leigh
Elsewhere/Otherwise is a dance theatre performance, featuring original choreography and sound co-created by Kristen Yeung and Sadie Leigh. This work is a vehicle and a vessel for processing the deeply personal and universally shared experience of moving from one place to another.
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Pieces of Earth We Eat || online
A short form audio-play and experimental opera written and directed by Lu Yim over the course of 2021-2022. It was recorded one performer at a time to create the illusion and possibility of chorality and togetherness. In its 12 minute run time, poetic narratives of care, where they entangle and complicate, create an erotics of…
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February 18 || Imposter/Switch #2
Imposter/Switch is a newly launched quarterly interdisciplinary arts exhibition/performance (co-curated by Kennedy Verrett 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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February 11 || Extradition Plays Corner || music + dance celebrating the work of Philip Corner
PWNW hosts an evening of music + dance as part of a Extradition’s multi-weekend, multi-venue festival celebrating the work of composer Philip Corner, who since the 1950s has composed thousands of works exploring the intersection of the classical tradition, post–John Cage experimentalism, and a desire to forge true creative collaboration between composer and performer.
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THANK YOU FOR 2022
Dear friends of PWNW, Thank you for 2022! You have made possible the Alembic Residency of Adrianna Audoma, dee bustos, Blue McCall, and Pepper Pepper; our inaugural Alembic Parent Artist Residency with Corrie Befort + Jason Anderson; the co-production or hosting of works by Jennifer Gwirtz, claire barrera, Allie Hankins, and Marissa Rae Niederhauser; our…
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ALEMBIC PARENT RESIDENCIES 2023: Request for Proposals DUE JAN. 20
PWNW || LAD invites parent artists from Oregon or Washington, working in original and contemporary time-based performance, whose work engages a strong movement, body or dance-based component, to apply for one of our 2023 Alembic Parent Residencies. DEADLINE Jan. 16, 2023
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November 11-13 || Alembic Artist Series || Adrianna Audoma & Pepper Pepper
Our four Alembic Artists have been in residence at Performance Works NorthWest since January, researching, dancing, vocalizing, creating video, brainstorming, and sharing ideas and snippets of work with each other. They are now ready to share work-in-development with a larger circle of people. Weekend Two features an ensemble dance by Adrianna Audoma and The Moon…
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November 4-6 || Alembic Artist Series || dee bustos || Blue McCall + Jamondria Harris + Ensemble
Our four Alembic Artists have been in residence at Performance Works NorthWest since January, researching, dancing, vocalizing, creating video, brainstorming, and sharing ideas and snippets of work with each other. They are now ready to share work-in-development with a larger circle of people. This first weekend features MOLT by dee buston Touch System by Blue…
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October 28 || Imposter/Switch
Imposter/Switch is a newly launched quarterly interdisciplinary arts exhibition/performance (co-curated by Kennedy Verrett 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 composer Juniana 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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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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2022-23 Fall & Winter 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
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 