fashion from fall collections at Nordstrom plus contemporary dance in benefit for PICA
City Dance
ultra cannot make any higher recommendation than this: The most important Portland cultural event of the year happens Sunday, September 14 at 1 PM and 4 PM. City Dance takes place at four public spaces/fountains in Portland that are among our public treasures, if little known by many of us.
It delivers likely the only truly […]
Star Star Star
Two trios lit up the tiny stage at the Works among the Ten Tiny Dances at PICA’s TBA Festival: Hot Little Hands’ Didactic Identity and Lucy Yim’s Vuelto from a Future Dance. These are younger groups to keep an eye on, like Portland’s Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner.
We are particularly interested in Lucy Yim’s work; […]
Mr. Watts and Co.
The award for best use of a stage hand for PICA’s TBA Festival 2008 goes to Reggie Watts who employed a ski-masked stage hand in numerous clever and deadpan tasks.
Seattle performer Reggie Watt’s Transformation (playing again today and tomorrow) was essentially a smart musical variety show, funny/entertaining, not unlike Sonny & Cher (skits, stories, sketches, […]
PICA’s New Blood
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 […]
Here Be Dragons: Alaska
Argentine choreographer Diana Szeinblum’s new work Alaska is a raw and unapologetic piece of dance-theater that simultaneously inspires mystery, hope and a worrisome sense of helplessness (think of the voyeuristic discomfort of seeing Gena Rowlands’ unraveling in Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence). “Gloriously alive,”
Where My Wish List Overlaps With PICA’s
Tomorrow would be a very good day for you to buy me the red shiny Japanese schoolgirl bag (resized for a grownup) that I’ve always wanted. That’s because tomorrow, OFFICE PDX (2204 NE Alberta), where you’ll find this bag, is giving 20% of all proceeds on Wednesday, December 12 to the Portland Institute for Contemporary […]
Gonna Wrap You Up In My Love
PICA’s annual winter benefit, Unwrapped goes down this Thursday, December 6 at Aura with a performance by Reggie Watts
