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Lucky 13: Ten Tiny Dances at Bluehour

Cydney Wilkes performs at Ten Tiny Dances

By the numbers: 4 feet squared, ten dances, thirteenth iteration.

It’s the thirteenth time that Mike Barber has produced Ten Tiny Dances, a cabaret-like showcase of Portland dance and choreographic talent in 15 minute increments on a 4 foot by 4 foot stage. Ten Tiny Dances has been to Seattle, has been featured in PICA’s TBA festival, and has carved out space for dance in restaurants and clubs like Crush, Bernie’s Southern Bistro, the Doug Fir, and Bluehour.

Ten Tiny Dances 13 is this Sunday May 27  at 7:30 at Bluehour (250 NW 13th Ave) in Portland. The doors will open at 6:30 at which point, if past experience is any indication, every available seat and non-seat will soon be filled with an audience member. Tickets are available at the door only for $15.

This program features both Ten Tiny vets and new blood: Michael “Shoehorn” Conley, Robyn Conroy, Anne Furfey, Jenn Gierada + Laura Robbins, Margretta Hansen, Agnieszka Laska, Tere Mathern, Summer Morgan, Katrina O’Brien, Cydney Wilkes + Mike Barber.

Highly recommended.

For more on Ten Tiny Dances (and why we love it) read this review on ultra and this from the TBA blog.

POSTED: May 22nd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: , , , , | No Comments »

$15 Million to PNCA

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Portland’s cultural landscape is poised to receive a brilliantly transformative boost in the form of a $15 million gift from Hallie E. Ford to the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Reported today by D.K. Row, the gift will fund the new Ford Institute for Visual Education, allowing PNCA to bring world-class artists and designers to live, work, and teach in Portland…good for the students, great for the college, and phenomenal for the city.

The amping up of a program like this can only be exciting for the existing, talented faculty — artists like MK Guth and David Eckard — and students. For us non-students, the energy ripples outward: imagine exhibitions, panels, lectures, workshops, Q&A’s, little chats here and there with visiting artists. This will do for the visual arts over a longer term, what PICA’s TBA festival does in a short burst once each year for the performing arts. It energizes Portland artists and helps forge connections with artists and arts professionals from elsewhere.

Stay tuned for more on this.

POSTED: May 22nd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: | No Comments »