The all-stars of Portland contemporary dance are working with Linda Austin in her warehouse movement performance, circus me around. If you go to any contemporary dance this year, go to this.
In her superlative collaborative manner of making, Austin has not only lassoed in co-creators like Cydney Wilkes, Gregg Bielemeir, Margretta Hansen, and Linda K. Johnson, as well as Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner, she has enlisted architects Ean Eldred, Richard Garfield, John Kashiwabara and Peter Nylen to build the dance environment, her partner, Jeff Forbes to light the piece (Forbes is the best there is in PDX), Seth Nehil to do the sound-based score, and David Rafn to design costumes. Austin’s brand of contemporary dance/movement that embraces pedestrian movement, is utterly committed AND teeters on comedic edges is just the thing to address “fleeting and partial views” of activity in the city landscape, performed here in simultaneous dances.
The remaining performances are at PWNW OFF-SITE: the CIRCUS ME AROUND Warehouse (640 SE Stark) tonight and tomorrow night, November 2-3 at 8 PM.
