Mike Barber – Ten Tiny Dances at South Waterfront. photo Daniel Addy
Ten Tiny Dances goes al fresco this Saturday, August 2 beginning at 4 PM, with ten dances performed ten times each on ten 4′ x 4′ stages scattered throughout the South Waterfront neighborhood.
The Ten Tiny series, programmed by Mike Barber, began because the performances were held in little bars or restaurants where there was only room for the tiniest stage. Here, the juxtaposition of scale, of tram tower, skyrise, freeway, river, and wide openness of the unfinished ‘hood to human dancing in circumscribed space opens up interesting possibilities. And the stroll from one performance location to another gives time between dances to breath, react, reflect, and bounce the experience off the surroundings. Each one of the dances, by an all-star roster of innovative Portland choreographers and artists, will be performed ten times so that audience members can see one dance, find the next location, and see the next.
You’ll see work by Linda Austin, Mike Barber Hand2Mouth Theater, Hot Little Hands, KO & Co., Tere Mathern, POV Dance, Rhiza A + D, Sojourn Theater, and Cydney Wilkes.
Maps of the performances will be available at SW Moody Avenue & Curry Street. The performances last about 7 minutes each and begin every 15 minutes, so the whole show ends at 7 PM. There will be food vendors, but you might want to bring something to sit on and some sunscreen!
POSTED: July 31st, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: art, contemporary dance, dance, mike barber, performance, portland, ten tiny dances | No Comments »
a photo of Apparatus Theater Group from the International Festival of Arts & Ideas where Edwards is Dir. Programming. We’re just into images of falling right now.
The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) announced its new Guest Artistic Director for the 2009 and 2010 Time-Based Art Festivals: Cathy Edwards who is Director of Programming for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT and had been Artistic Director of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) and Co-Director of Movement Research in New York. This is very good news for those of us who like adventurous, innovative movement/dance. C’est super, in fact.
For fun, check out Arts & Ideas’ DAISY which appears to use the same technology (almost said, “technogoly,” what’s that?) as our beloved Visual Thesaurus…a good thing for intuitive, weblike thinkers when your software thinks like you do.
POSTED: July 29th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: art, dance, performance, pica, portland | 1 Comment »
photo: Yalcin Erhan
Tomorrow night, July 19. South Waterfront. The Big Field (SW Moody and Curry). An hour before sunset. (Sunset, incidentally, on July 19 is at 8:52 PM.) Cast of dozens. Installation meets contemporary dance.
As part of the Artist in Residence Program at the South Waterfront, artist Bill Will has created an installation called “20 x 20.” Choreographer Linda K. Johnson has made a piece for dancers Daniel Addy, Katie Arrants, Tracy Broyles, Rebecca Harrison, Tahni Holt, Kathleen Keogh, Eric Nordstrom and Noelle Stiles. Lighting designer Bill Boese and sound artist Seth Nehil have lit and scored the longform piece (it lasts until moonrise).
Also, the sound is delivered by bicyclists with portable amps, there’s a pedestrian movement choir, and Gregg Bielemeier, Lyndee Mah, Linda Austin, Wendy Hambidge, Margretta Hansen, Caroline Oakley, Paul Scheer, Lila Hurwitz are all doing “interventions.”
We, audience, are invited to bring a picnic, hang out, bear witness.
See you there.
POSTED: July 18th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: air, art, performance, south waterfront | No Comments »
It may not be too late for you to participate in “Information Studio” by Portland-based choreographer, Tahni Holt. You’ll need to make reservations ahead of time and can reserve a spot every half-hour from 3-7:30 PM Friday, 5-9:30 PM Saturday, and 2-4 PM on Sunday. Reserve a spot by emailing Tahni at hello@tahniholt.com or phoning 503.708.5801. Holt is creating the piece with musician Thomas Thorson, lighting designer Jess Bollaert, videographer Dicky Dahl, with assistance from Forrest Loder, and of couse, you.
POSTED: June 27th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: art, dance, performance, portland | No Comments »
A hyper-extended web of performers and musicians loved by contemporary dance collaborative Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner are throwing a blowout, party, performance extravaganza tonight March 2 at 8 PM at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison). The night will be a dim sum menu of sensational performance with music in the back room from Starfucker, Evolutionary Jass Band, Cexfucx, Tara Jane O’Neil, and Bryce Panic and performance in the front with Ten Tiny Dances special presentation of 4 Tiny Dancers: Woolly, Linda Austin & Tuning Friends, Rush-N-Disco, and Fever Theater plus a silent auction.
This headspinningly good night is going to help send Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner to Mexico, where they’ve been invited to teach and perform at an international performance art festival Performatica, where every student (from all over the world) attends any class for free.
myspace.com/woollymammothcomestodinner
Read Woolly’s answers to the ultra q
POSTED: March 2nd, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: art, contemporary dance, dance, performance | No Comments »
