Light. Sculpture. Sound. Dance.

Tomorrow, after you check out the block party at the DeSoto Building for the opening of the new Museum of Contemporary Craft, head north a bit. In a warehouse just north of the Fremont Bridge, a sculptor, three sound artists/composers, a lighting designer, three choreographers, and a half-dozen or so dancers perform three pieces in a massive barn-like warehouse stacked to the rafters (literally) with all manner of corrugated cardboard, packing peanuts, everything one might conceivably use to pack and protect a something as it makes its way from here to there or makes its home in a dark corner somewhere.

Choreographer Daniel Addy suspends his dancers from the ceiling, Carla Mann’s dancers inhabit platforms and a corrugated cardboard-lined environment, and Linda K. Johnson engages audience and a fragile bowl made by artist Dana Louis of mica, fool’s gold, at Carton Service Project tomorrow, Sunday July 22. Each dance happens in one of the oversized aisles normally traversed solely by forklifts. Meanwhile Luke Wyland plays toy piano and a piano harp for Addy’s piece, Heather Perkins creates an electronic soundscape for Mann’s, and Tim DuRoche creates a score from found sounds and a very big bass drum for Johnson’s work. Resident artist Louis sculptures engage the space as does a light sculpture (for Johnson’s piece) and environment by lighting designer Malina Rodriguez.

Why recommend it? If you want to get a bead on Portland dance now as delivered by some of our short-listed top dance makers, go to Carton Services tomorrow.

The dances happen at 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, and 9:00 PM. Adults $20. Students $15. We’re wearing white in defiance of the ambient grit.

POSTED: July 21st, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: art, art, dance, portland | No Comments »

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