TBA All The Way!
Tiago Guedes at PICA’s TBA Festiva. photo: Patricia Almeida via PICAl
Performance highlight of the year, TBA is here. The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s (PICA) Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) continues through next weekend with daily and nightly performances, panels, workshops, and more. What are we looking forward to?
Phillippe Quesne/Vivarium’s L’Effet de Serge is top of our list. Dear god, yes, let us have open-ended, indeterminate theater with a lower-case “t.” Jack Kerouac said, “But I want to be sincere.” Can sincerity translate to the stage? Yes in Quesne’s hands. He makes us feel mighty real. This is a return engagement of these TBA All Stars. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
We’re clearing the decks for Tiago Guedes’ two pieces Um Solo at PNCA and Materiais Diversos at the Winningstadt, task-based work that is a clear, cool drink of water in contrast to performative histrionics one might find elsewhere on the schedule (are we showing our hand? well yes.) and we can’t wait. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
In general, a performance described as including “sonic manipulation, stereophonic effects, live video interactions, geometric movement sequences” would get us to check out a performance. Reggie Watts has wowed TBA audiences in the past, so our curiosity is piqued, and we’ll give him an hour.
Khris Soden who was one of the performance group the M.O.S.T. and whose solo work has included his beloved comic the City of Roses is overlaying the city of Tillburg in the Netherlands with Portland for what will prove, if we know Khris, to be in interesting tour. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Most of Portland’s heavy-hitting contemporary dance makers (Linda K. Johnson, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, and Tere Mathern) are working with Third Angle Music and writer Randy Gragg for City Dance, taking inspiration from the work of dancemaker Anna Halprin’s work in and around several of the fountains that her husband Lawrence Halprin designed for Portland like the Keller (Forecourt Fountain) and the Lovejoy. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Sojourn Theatre’s placemaking work at the South Waterfront is an ambitious and according to our spy who saw the dress rehearsal, intriguing participatory pieceabout the city we love. Additional benefits include humanizing and more importantly, personalizing city and regional planning…kind of like a Portland-centric analogue Sim City.
POSTED: September 5th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »