TBA:16 Festival Program

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THIS PAGE: Allie Hankins, better to be alone than to wish you were. Photo by Ashley Clark COVER: Meg Wolfe, New Faithful Disco.

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With contemporary art that brings artists and audiences together, the 2016 Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival creates a vibrant community through live performances, music, film screenings, workshops, talks, and visual art installations.

EVERY GENRE, FROM EVERYWHERE : TBA champions artists who are challenging forms and working across mediums, from dance to performance to visual art. Our 14th edition features artists that urgently reflect our current cultural moment. Too, TBA exposes artists from regions not normally presented in the US, with projects hailing from Lebanon, Bulgaria, South Korea, France, and beyond.

TEN DAYS OF NON-STOP ART : This year’s slate of artists will fill the city and fill up your hours with morning workshops, daytime installations, noontime lectures, afternoon matinées, evening performances, outdoor happenings, and the most fun late night events out there.

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���� Festival Program MORGAN THORSON 010 CHRISTIAN RIZZO ⁄ ICI—CCN MONTPELLIER 012 IVO DIMCHEV 013 NARCISSISTER 014 LIBBY WERBEL 015 BRITT HATZIUS 016 MEG WOLFE 017 ROYAL OSIRIS KARAOKE ENSEMBLE 019 CARLOS MOTTA 020 LUKE WYLAND 021 ALI CHAHROUR 022 SACHA YANOW 023 ALLIE HANKINS 024 MOHAMED EL KHATIB 025 ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI 026 GEUMHYUNG JEONG 028 RINDE ECKERT 029 ON SIGHT : 030 A.K. Burns Bunnybrains Keijaun Thomas Dylan Mira INSTITUTE : 032 LATE NIGHT AT THE WORKS : 008 Opening Night with Kelly Pratt & Juliana Huxtable PMOMA at the WORKS Pepper Pepper: Critical Mascara Kelly Pratt: No No Soliciting Don’t Get Me Started DJ Klyph: Welcome to the Neighborhood Live burke jam presents Blind Coven Cinema Project: The Mechanics Laid Bare DUG & YGB: Gifted Grounds She’s in Parties Food, Booze, & TBA:�

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THE ���� TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL :

INTRODUCTION :

A letter from PICA Artistic Director Angela Mattox We welcome you into the 14th edition of the Time-Based Art Festival as we celebrate this auspicious moment in PICA’s history. We inaugurate our new home with a spirit of optimism and experimentation and invite you to immerse yourself in the imaginations of these artists who are defining our time.

The TBA Festival is our annual gathering of art and ideas—a coming together of diverse aesthetics and perspectives reflecting our current cultural and political moment. This convergence feels more urgent than ever right now. The values of STAFF & LEADERSHIP

TBA stand emphatically in opposition to the fear-inspired, narrow-mindedness and isolationism permeating this time. Now, more than ever, we must create physical

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and ideological spaces that embrace diverse identities, invite new experiences,

STAFF

and value freedom of expression. TBA does just that.

Victoria Frey, Angela Mattox, Kristan Kennedy, Erin Boberg Doughton, Roya Amirsoleymani, Sean Schumacher, Kirsten Saladow, Kim Crosby, Erika Osurman, Pam Cameron-Snyder, Eri Stern, Daniel Glendening BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ethan Seltzer, Chair; Susan Sterne, Vice Chair; C. Alex Miller, Treasurer; Kristin Bremer, Secretary; Eric Philps, Immediate Past Chair; Jason Bell; Lucinda Carmichael; Jenny Chu; Ellen Fortin; Allie Furlotti; Steve Galloway; Lisa Jarrett; Jonathan Malsin; Andre Middleton; Ryan Noon; Jill Sherman; Jeff Stuhr; Holcombe Waller; Dan Winter LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Howard Shapiro, Founding Chair; Gene d’Autremont; Leslie B. Durst; Pat Harrington; Kirk Kelley; Peter Koehler, Jr.; Sally Lawrence; Julie Mancini; Ethan Seltzer; Kathleen Stephenson-Kuhn; Michael Tingley NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Edward Albee; Linda Brumbach; Ann Carlson; Kristy Edmunds; Cathy Edwards; Carol Hepper; Philip Glass; Ralph Lemon; Mark Russell; Melissa Schiff Soros; Robert Soros; Rebecca Stewart; Sally M. Stillman; Elizabeth Streb; Dan Wieden; Paul Zumwalt

This year, we’ve invited an extraordinary group of artists who defy categorization and evoke response. The works explore complex identities, celebrate possibility, and acknowledge the fragility of human existence. TBA:16 opens with an epic music ritual entitled Fanfare: Birth > Rebirth, a celebration of new life and possibility. Britt Hatzius’ Blind Cinema asks the audience to see the world through the eyes of a child. Alessandro Sciarroni’s UNTITLED_I will be there when you die, makes you see the form of juggling in a completely new way, and poignantly asks us to stay in the present, together.

We emphasize TBA as a site for inquiry and exchange. In that spirit, we welcome ten artists from all over the globe into residence through our Creative Exchange Lab. We have also invited six Guest Scholars to immerse themselves in TBA for engaging conversations with artists and audiences focusing on new feminist performance, and complex themes around the intersections of race, gender, nationality, sexuality, and the body.

We are inspired by the creative energy of this city and are committed to ensuring generous spaces for expression, experimentation, and large-scale community gathering. Let’s embrace and explore this festival together!

2016 Time-Based Art Festival STAFF

Chris Balo, Bill Boese, Jeff Forbes, Cory Fox, Alley Frey, Daniel Granias, Robin Greenwood, Colin Murray, Cassie Skauge, Cassie Smith, Jason Winslow, Ryan Winters, Clark Young, Rozalyn Crews, Felisha Ledesma, Lev Anderson, Spencer Byrne-Seres, Margaret Heath, Helmy Membreño, Aaron Rosenblum, Van Pham, Lenka Becvar, Nicole Hoffman, Nicole Richwalsky, Chelsea Petrakis, Patrick Leonard, Jesse Card. Special thanks to Jillian Porten INTERNS

Jack Hochberg, Juliana Cable, Hilary Devaney, Joaquin Dollar, Elliot Eugenie, Claire Natter, Lola Shore, Eva Klos, Eileen Ruelas, Kieran Swann, Ali Perkins, Daphne Lyda, Avery Bloch, Kevin Holden, Emma Christ 005

SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS : SUPERHERO

Calligram Foundation ⁄ Allie Furlotti Leslie B. Durst Doris Duke Charitable Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts Meyer Memorial Trust Collins Foundation James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation PRESENTING

Dan Wieden and Priscilla Bernard Wieden Regional Arts and Culture Council including support from the City of Portland; Clackamas, Multnomah, & Washington Counties; & Metro Work for Art, including contributions from more than 60 companies and 1,600 employees in the region Oregon Arts Commission Sarah Miller Meigs & Andrew Meigs MAJOR

Linda Hutchins and John Montague Showdrape, Inc. Oregon Community Foundation Japan Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts Travel Portland Ecotrust Stephouse Networks National Performance Network French American Cultural Exchange UNDERWRITER

Patrick and Mariko Clark Kristy Edmunds and Ros Warby Jeff Stuhr and Peter Kallen Dorie and Larry Vollum Dan Winter and John Forsgren CHAMPION

The Boeing Company Ann and Mark Edlen Christy Eugenis and Stan Amy Rosine and Colin Evans Pink Martini ⁄ Heinz Records Twink Hinds and Graeme Harrison Susan Hoffman and Fred Trullinger Holst Architecture Chris Israel and Jason Bell McGraw Family Foundation NIKE North Star Civic Foundation Eric Philps and Laura VanHouten Jane Schiffhauer Ethan Seltzer and Melanie Plaut Howard Shapiro John Shipley Al Solheim Charlie and Darci Swindells Tonkon Torp LLP WESTAF White Label UK Wieden + Kennedy PATRON

Jana Bauman and John Baker Jane and Spencer Beebe Kristin Bremer and Steve Moore Laura & Kavin Buck Philip Cole Lisa Elorriaga Czysz

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MK Guth and Greg Landry Julianne and Tim Hershey Deborah Horrell and Kit Gillem Kirk and Jessica Kelley Stephanie Kjar and Adam Roth Peter Koehler, Jr. and Noël Hanlon Alex and Lynn Miller Perkins and Co Jill Sherman and Marc Monaghan Jody Stanhancyk Susan Sterne and Pete Kellers Stoel Rives LLP The Anne K. Millis Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Michael Tingley and Ellen Fortin SUPPORTER

Beam Development Geof Beasley Annie Bellman and Michael Woods Bora Architects Marianne Buchwalter Lucinda Carmichael Enterprise Holdings Victoria Frey and Peter Leitner Steve Galloway Katherine and James Gentry Pat and Kelley Harrington Robert and Terri Hopkins Beth Hutchins and Pete Skeggs David and Eileen Johnson Elizabeth Leach Kathleen Lewis Jonathan Malsin Casey Mills and Carmen Calzacorta Ryan Noon Kelly Saito Dennis and Debra Scholl Angela and Rex Snow Stephanie and Jonathan Snyder Kathleen Stephenson-Kuhn and Leigh Stephenson Cerinda Survant and David Kaplin George and Nancy Thorn ADVOCATE

Cynthia and Steven Addams John Andrews Golnaz Armin & Cayle Christiansen Michael Baker Byron Beck and Juan Martinez Lisa Berkson Platt and David Platt Christine Bourdette & Ricardo Lovett Claudia and Harry Bray Chris Brown Dennis Brown and Dave Meeker Jinnina Chiles Nan Curtis and Marty Houston Hugh d’Autremont Upfor Gallery Jennifer and Jon Dunn Mary Elliott and Mark Friedman Marilyn and Edward Epstein Alyce Flitcraft & Richard Solomon Gary Golla and Jeanie Lai Pam Greene and Hans Kretschmer Luisa Adrianzen Guyer & Leigh Guyer Gary Hartnett and Eloise Damrosch Anne Marie Johnson Caroline and Aaron Kahn Madeline and Steve Kokes Ross Lienhart Betsy Miller Ashish Mistry

Christie Moore Rob and Carol Murdock Lynne Naughton Carole Oberholtzer & Lynda Norton Alex Payne Stacey Richter Tina Skouras Lynn Tobias and Chester Edwards Sharon Urry and Scott Soutter Kricken and James Yaker ENTHUSIAST

Terry Bean Sean Bruich and Laurence Moore Christi Cawood Kim Dement Andrew Dickson and Susan Beal Jennifer Dzienis and Kevin Valk Cathy Edwards and Mike Wishnie Dick and Vicki Frey Kyle and Charles Fuchs Teri and Christopher Gelber Lorraine Guthrie and Erik Kiaer Diane Hall Melinda Hall David Hidalgo and John Bischof Molly and Dan Horton Kay Hutchinson Mara Indra and Jon Heppner Steven Klein Sally and John Lawrence John Light & Patricia Barnes-Light Pamela Lloyd and Renny Gleeson Mona McNeill & Randy Kleinhesselink Don Merkt and Missy Stewart Jeffrey Morgan Steven Neighorn Barry Pelzner and Deborah Pollack Garrett Price Lauren Ranke Nicholas Raethke Evan and Jennifer Reynolds Michelle Rowley Manya Shapiro Maria Shaplin Jill Souede Melissa Spain Deniz Tasdemir-Conger and Austin Conger Storm Tharp and Mike Blasberg Holcombe Waller CONTRIBUTOR

Rahim and Kathleen Abbasi Donald Abrams John Bissonnette & Virginia Smith Bettina and Fred Blank Robby Bricker and Don Voyles John Brodie Kim Carlson and Larry Shatuck Jae Carlsson and Patricia Phelps Kevin and Beth Cavenaugh Giacomo DiGrigoli Elizabeth Eckstrom & Rich Campbell Karen and Randy Feldhaus Nick Fish Daniel Fogg and Matthew Pearson Anna Friedoff Vallejo Gantner Randy Gragg Amy Harwood & Ryan Pierce Marjorie and Jon Hirsch Tahni Holt and Toby Query Jeanine Jablonski

Vanessa Johansson Mary Josephson & Gregory Grenon Peter and Karen Leonard Patrick Leonard & Amanda Peden Kate Merrill and Nicolas Gros Monograph Bookwerks Denise Mullen Martin Müller Trude Parkinson and Peter Ozanne Jessica Powers Mary Rechner and Barry Sims Steve & Wendy Rudman Daniel and Diane Sagalowicz Kathryn Sklar Sue and Stuart Smith Lydia Stacy The Mattress Lot Kim Thomas and John Morrison Barry Tonkin Robin Van Doren and Fran Rothman Kim and Jack Vidosh Timothy Wilson and Luan Schooler ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

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LATE NIGHT :

Critical Mascara.

Photo by Matt Houlemard.

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A late-night after-party where everyone’s invited.

DJ Klyph Welcome to the Neighborhood Live!

Tue Sept 13 Radio host DJ Klyph curates a

ALL AGES EVERY NIGHT, SEPT 08–17

Our late night stage comes alive at our new

home in Northeast Portland with an eclectic mix of hip-hop, drag, experimental cinema, a hundreds-strong brass ensemble, and more. Whether you want to chill out and get to know the Festival over a cocktail in our Beer Garden on Hancock St. or dance away the night, THE WORKS at Hancock has something for everyone. PICA AT HANCOCK: 15 NE HANCOCK ST. EVENTS BEGIN AT 10:30 PM EACH

Fanfare: Birth > Rebirth

($8 ⁄ $10)

burke jam presents Blind Coven

Dynasty Handbag (TBA:15) emcees with her absurd mix of improv, comedy, & movement; and radical trio Strange Babes offers an eclectic DJ set. ($8 ⁄ $10)

Wed Sept 14 Blind Coven will feature songwriter, songstress, and actor Amenta Abioto, whose raw improvisational live performances invoke elements of both theatrical surprise and magic through ancient African diasporic sounds and stories. The performance will feature a 10-channel surround sound system and lighting and visuals from DB Amorin. ($8 ⁄ $10)

Pepper Pepper

Cinema Project

Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Extravaganza

The Mechanics Laid Bare

Sat Sept 10 Critical Mascara returns for its

light shows of the ‘60s and ‘70s as well as the harsh noise performances of contemporary avant-garde rebels, Cinema Project, musician Matt Carlson, and friends will create a momentary light and sound environment, an immersive temporary dynamic installation. ($8 ⁄ $10)

NIGHT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

Kelly Pratt

night of hip hop featuring some of Portland’s finest including Ohmega Watts (Mello Orange), MC Brookfield Duece, Karma Rivera, and Trox, plus familiar elements of Klyph’s XRAY FM show.

Opening Night at TBA:16 THU SEPT 08, BEGINNING AT 8:30 PM

Commissioned for the opening night of TBA:16 and the opening of PICA’s new home, Fanfare: Birth > Rebirth is a celebration of new life. With each beginning comes an infinite amount of possibilities to change ideas, lives, and events.

The fanfare will be performed by an ensemble comprised of hundreds of local non-professional brass and woodwind players of all ages directed by Kelly Pratt. Within the piece, there will be several sections open to improvisation to reflect the shifting dynamics of the audience and ensemble. (FREE)

Juliana Huxtable Opening Night at TBA:16 THU SEPT 08, 9:30 PM Juliana Huxtable will

treat opening night audiences to a dynamic experience sonically and visually. The night will play between text, sound and video, questioning the parameters between club and gallery. In her work, Huxtable explores the intersections of race, gender, queerness, and identity. She uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media. Huxtable's work has been featured in presentations at MoMA PS1 (New York); White Columns (New York); the Whitney Museum (New York); Frieze Projects (London); among others. (FREE)

PMOMA at THE WORKS Fri Sept 09 Portland Museum of Modern Art curates a night of powerful and joyful performances. Tropic Green incorporates reggae, house, spirituals, and Afrofuturist themes;

fourth year serving a wild hybrid of dance, vogue, and drag competition unlike any other!

Hostess Pepper Pepper is joined by choreographer Kumari Suraj and MC Isaiah Esquire for the Pacific Northwest’s largest, queerest and most fabulous extravaganza. ($8 ⁄ $10)

Kelly Pratt No No Soliciting Sun Sept 11 In an event unlike any other, No No Soliciting will put several of Portland’s most talented and respected musicians and songwriters in a live creative match-up. Each songwriter will compose a tune based on audience suggestions, then hand it over to house band to play live.

Participating musicians are Kelly Pratt (Beirut), Dave Depper (Death Cab for Cutie), Erika Anderson (EMA), Holcombe Waller, Johanna Kunin (Thao and the Get Down Stay Down), Matt Sheehy (Lost Lander), Dana Buoy, and surprise guests! ($8 ⁄ $10)

Thu Sept 15 Referencing the psychedelic

Deep Under Ground and Young Gifted & Brown Gifted Grounds Fri Sept 16 Calling all overs, Creators, Change-Makers, Hustlers, Baby Mamas, Nation Builders, Dancers, Revolutionaries, Freedom Fighters, Spiritual Gangsters and Everyone in Between. DUG & YGB—who have been curating safe spaces for brown folks to congregate, express themselves, love one another, and move—join forces to create a multi-sensory community experience that will feel like no dance party you have ever stepped into. ($5–10 SLIDING SCALE)

Don’t Get Me Started!

She’s in Parties

Mon Sept 12 Your soapbox and microphone

Sat Sept 17 Indie electronic musician and vocalist Shannon Funchess has had her feet firmly planted in the fertile underground scene for two and a half decades. Funchess is a multidisciplinary performance artist with a gravitation toward the synthesis of dark, angular sound, and visual bisection. Featuring Funchess as Healing Crisis, Eran Haas, DJ Jackal, and visuals from Miranda L. Tarrow. ($8 ⁄ $10)

awaits in an evening featuring well-crafted rants by artists, comedians, activists and everyday citizens hosted by Andrew Dickson with producer Claudia Meza. After a series of presentations by invited guests, audience members will have a chance to participate in an open-mic style “speed round” of one minute rant. ($8 ⁄ $10)

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FESTIVAL : Morgan Thorson Still Life

Fri Sept 09 – Sun Sept 11 :: Tue Sept 13 – Wed Sept 14

Still Life is an ensemble dance

installation that uses time as both subject and practice to process loss, killing, and extinction. Structured as a dance/time cycle, Still Life explores the death of choreography by erasing material with each repetition. As the dance decays, the performers enact aliveness, endurance and anxiety to survive the changing, indeterminate composition of light, movement and sound. Staged in close proximity to the viewer, Still Life offers a space for contemplation, processes the violence of the present moment, and creates a long-form choreography that investigates dance as a living and dying thing. PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: 1219 SW PARK AVE. (INCLUDED WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION OR TBA PASS)

CREATION, CHOREOGRAPHY, AND DIRECTION

Morgan Thorson LIGHTING DESIGN

Lenore Doxsee and Morgan Thorson STAGE MANAGER

Valerie Oliveiro DRAMATURGY

Kristin Van Loon SOUND

Dana Wachs SCENOGRAPHY

Joel Sass and Morgan Thorson COSTUMES

Sarah Baumert, Mark Mitchell, and Morgan Thorson PERFORMERS

Linda Austin, Allie Hankins, Tahni Holt, Margaret Johnson, Sam Johnson, Pareena Lim, Kara Motta, Genevieve Muench, Valerie Oliveiro, Kristin Van Loon, Takahiro Yamamoto, Lu Yim

VENUES/PRESENTERS/PARTNERS Portland Art Museum and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s 2016 Time-Based Art Festival (Portland, OR); American Dance Institute (Rockville, MD); Cowles Center for Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN); P.S. 122 (New York City, NY)

BIOGRAPHIES

RIGHT: Performers Kristin Van Loon and Matt Wirsing at Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Valierie Olivero

Active in dance and performance since the 1980s, LINDA AUSTIN creates non-linear, poetic works— often laced with an eccentric wit—that have been presented in New York City, Mexico and throughout the Pacific Northwest. Linda is co-founder (with lighting wiz Jeff Forbes) and director of Performance Works North West in Portland, OR. Recent honors include a RACC Fellowship in the Performing Arts.

ALLIE HANKINS is a Portland-based performer who makes works that toy with the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, layered imagery, and a biting wit, all while trying to suppress her contentious eagerness to please.

Her current collaborators include Physical Education (Lucy Lee Yim, keyon gaskin, and Taka Yamamoto), Rachael Dichter (SF), Morgan Ritter,

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Rose Mackey, and Maggie Heath. Most recently, Hankins has performed with Julien Prévieux (Paris), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), Tahni Holt, and Suniti Dernovsek. She has participated in the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, and the New Expressive Works Residency at Studio 2.

MARGARET JOHNSON is a dancer and choreographer living in Minneapolis. From Jefferson City, MO, Margaret has a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota. A company member with Black Label Movement from 2012-2016, she has performed for Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum, Angharad Davies, BodyCartography, Deborah Jinza Thayer and Morgan Thorson. Her collaborative work with Kara Motta has been seen in Minneapolis, Madison, WI and in music videos for hip hop band Crunchy Kids. Margaret currently makes dances for stage and party atmospheres with a group of five called DaNCEBUMS. SAM JOHNSON is a performance-based artist living in Minneapolis. He holds a BS in dance performance from Skidmore College and an MFA in performing arts: dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a member of the performance collective SuperGroup, with whom he has created many works and performed with across the US. As an independent performer in NYC and Minneapolis he has worked with a range of performance makers, including: David Gordon, Daniel Linehan, Mariah Maloney, Natalie Green, Angharad Davies, Morgan Thorson, Chris Yon, BodyCartography Project, Nick LeMere, Judith Howard, and Justin Jones.

PAREENA LIM grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and received a BFA in Dance from SUNY at Purchase College. She has danced in works by Rosalind Newman, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Nelly van Bommel, Adriane Lee/Rosario, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Merce Cunningham, Lindy Fines/Greyzone, Ana Isabel Keilson, and Hilary Easton. Most recently, she has worked with Karen Sherman and Morgan Thorson in Minneapolis. Additionally, she has created dances that have been performed in New York (Movement Research at Judson Church and Danspace Project), Montana, and India.

KARA MOTTA is a Minneapolis-based dance artist who began by making dances for church musicals and services in Pell Lake, WI. She trained in ballet and went on to receive her BFA in Dance at The

University of Minnesota. She has performed with Time Track Productions, Threads Dance Project, Angharad Davies, BodyCartography Project, Morgan Thorson and John Mark. Her collaborations with Margaret Johnson have been presented across the country and in the music video “Avenues” for Crunchy Kids. Kara is part of DaNCEBUMS. Their work has been presented at Public Functionary, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis Theater Garage, Cowles Center for Dance, The Southern Theater, Kitty Cat Klub, Red Eye Theater, and broadcast live on CTV15 from the Lee & Rose Coliseum.

GENEVIEVE MUENCH is a Minneapolis-based performer and choreographer. She has had the pleasure of working with artists Leah Cox, Ferenc Fehér, Rosie Herrera, Chris Schlichting, Deborah Jinza Thayer, Morgan Thorson and Ming-Lung Yang.

She is the co-founder of Hiponymous with dance artist Renée Copeland. The choreographic duo has created nine original works since June 2012. Their most recent project, State of the Moon Address was commissioned by the Momentum New Dance Works program, and presented by the Cowles Center for Dance and the Walker Art Center.

VALERIE OLIVEIRO is a performer, photographer and hybrid artist based in Minneapolis. She has worked on performance projects with Deke Weaver, Jennifer Monson, Morgan Thorson and Julie Tolentino. Her photography work has been shown in Champaign, IL (Indigo Gallery), Chicago (Schneider Gallery), Singapore (OBJECTIFSCenter for Photography and Film Making) and Atlanta, GA (Murmur Media).

MORGAN THORSON has been making public dance performances since 2000. All of her projects, inspired by a subject, physical process or point of view, are born from interdisciplinary collaboration and respond to the site in which they are situated. She has been touring her work regularly for engagements in theaters and festivals since 2008. Her choreography is part of the body of contemporary work engaged in critical dialogue, crafting dances that respond and contribute to the choreographic production in her community as well as the broader culture of western concert dance.

KRISTIN VAN LOON is a dance artist based in Minneapolis since 1993. Van Loon grew up a competitive figure skater in Chicago suburbs, earned a BA in Geology from Colorado College and, upon graduation, formed HIJACK — a choreographic collaboration with Arwen Wilder. HIJACK dances have been seen in New York (at PS122, DTW, Dixon Place, Here Art Center, Chocolate Factory, La Mama), Russia, Japan, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Iowa, Ottawa, New Orleans and at Fuse Box Festival in Austin and Bates Dance Festival in Maine. Van Loon has danced in the works of Morgan Thorson, Chris Schlichting, Chris Yon, Body Cartography; was featured in the film installation “Triangle of Need” by Catherine Sullivan; and is a member of Steve Paxton + Lisa Nelson’s ongoing research/ study group Figure Space.

Originally from Shizuoka, Japan, TAK AHIRO YAMAMOTO is an artist based in Portland, working in live performance, sculpture, and photography.

Both his performance productions and visual art works have been presented nationally and

internationally. As a performer, he has worked with Xavier Le Roy, Opiyo Okach, Marten Spångberg, Keith Hennessy, Jmy James Kidd, Perseverance Theatre Company and others. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He co-directs the performance company madhause with Ben Evans, and is part of Portlandbased group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lu Yim.

SPECIAL THANKS Valerie Oliveiro, Lenore Doxsee, Sara Krajewski, Angela Mattox, Erin Boberg, Mark Mitchell, all of the MPLS performers—Kristin, Kara, Margaret, Pareena, Val, Sam and Evy—as well as the COMFORT team— Allie, Taka, Lu, Linda and Tahni; and also Ashanti Austin, Non Edwards, Ann Carlson, Eben Kowler, Linda, Penny and Petr Thorson.

PRESENTING SUPPORT Still Life is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned

by Performance Space 122 in partnership with American Dance Institute, Weisman Art Museum, INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts) and National Performance Network (NPN). Still Life has received support from the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University and the David and Leni Moore Jr., Family Fund; and was developed in residence at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the Weisman Art Museum, and The Cowles Center for Dance & The Performing Arts, and The Creative Exchange Lab at PICA. Still Life was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project.

NPN’s Creation Fund is supported by the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), for more information:

npnweb.org. National Dance Project receives lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Dance Project and the Creation Fund are supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. ::

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CONCEPTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, SCENOGRAPHY AND COSTUMES

Christian Rizzo PERFORMANCE

Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco, Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço and Roberto Martínez ORIGINAL MUSIC

Didier Ambact and King Q4 LIVE MUSIC

Didier Ambact and King Q4 LIGHTING DESIGN

Caty Olive ARTISTIC ASSISTANT

Sophie Laly GENERAL MANAGER

Victor Fernandes SOUND MANAGER

Vanessa Court LIGHTING MANAGER AND VIDEO

Arnaud Lavisse, Samuel Dosière

Christian Rizzo⁄ICI—CCN Montpellier

PRODUCTION AND TOURING

Anne Fontanesi, Anne Bautz PRODUCTION EDITING

d’aprés une histoire vraie

Bureau Cassiopée

BIOGRAPHIES Fri Sept 09 AND Sat Sept 10, 6:30 PM

2004, Istanbul.

A few minutes before the end of a performance, out of nowhere, a group of men erupt on stage, break out into a very short folk dance, and then immediately disappear.

I am overtaken by a deep and almost archaic emotion.

Was it their dance, or the void they left after disappearing that overwhelmed me?

Though hazy, this sensation has remained anchored in me ever since.

The starting point for this new project has been this memory, or more exactly, the quest to find what this memory had left in me.

I feel no interest in recreating a pre-existing dance in its entirety. I would rather understand why I felt such empathy with this very precise moment and with this form of dance and why its impact still resonates to this day.

ABOVE: Photo by Marc Domage.

RIGHT: Ivo Dimchev.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

It is therefore more a question of retracing the steps of my memory in order to invent the basis of an abstract form of writing; one where possible fictional snippets could find an inherent place in which to lodge themselves.

Accompanied by eight dancers and two musicians, I’ve been looking for a space where movement and its relationship to music

plays with the categories of «popular» and «contemporary». I imagine a dance that, while taking its cues from memories of folkloric practices, would find friction with my taste for falling and touch, allowing each and everyone to stand gracefully in the presence of others, or within his/her immediate contact.

The factual and decontextualized observation of movements and systems of composition, often common over several different dances (more masculine and Mediterranean), offers me the ideal terrain to once again question the notions of community.

How is a group formed at a given moment?

Being together, for a form belonging to no determined group or territory, and thinking up a collegial dance that digs into the ground while simultaneously looking for elevation.

Since the music is an essential part of the project, I entrusted the composition (and live performance) to drummer-composers Didier Ambact and King Q4. Two drum kits, at the extreme limits of tribal rhythms and psychedelic rock, will maintain a relationship between dialogue and «battling» in order to offer a zone of tension to the dance and to Caty Olive’s atmospheric lighting.

— C H R I S T I A N R I Z Z O, J U N E 2 0 1 3

LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL, PSU: 1620 SW PARK AVE. ($20 ⁄ $25)

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Born in 1965 in Cannes, CHRISTIAN RIZZO took his first steps as an artist in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and created a line of clothing before studying visual arts at the Villa Arson in Nice.

Serendipitous encounters led him to the stage.

In the 1990s, he performed with numerous contemporary choreographers, sometimes responsible for their soundtracks or costume creation, for instance with Mathilde Monnier, Hervé Robbe, Mark Tompkins, Georges Appaix, and then with Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Rachid Ouramdane.

In 1996, he created the “l’association fragile” and presented performances, dance pieces, alternating with other projects or commissions for opera, fashion and visual arts. Since then, over thirty productions have come to fruition. Christian Rizzo regularly teaches in art schools in France and abroad, as well as in institutions dedicated to contemporary dance.

On January 1st 2015, Christian Rizzo took over as the Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon-MidiPyrénées, which has been renamed ICI (International Choreographic Institute). He supports a crosscutting vision of creation, training, artistic education and openness to the public. Based on various practices and territories, this project is primarily a forward-looking space dealing effectively with inviting artists, creating the choreographic gesture and studying the forms that it can take when shared.

ICI—CCN MONTPELLIER–OCCITANIE ⁄ PYRÉNÉESM É D IT E R R A N É E direction Christian Rizzo is

subsided by le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Languedoc-Roussillon, le Conseil

Régional Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. (ici-ccn.com)

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Executive produced by ICI—CCN Montpellier– Occitanie/Pyrénées–Méditerranée. A co-production with l’association fragile, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris (FR), Festival d’Avignon (FR), Opéra de Lille (FR), le Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées (FR), la Ménagerie de verre – Paris (FR), la Filature, Scène nationale Mulhouse (FR), l’Apostrophe, Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise (FR), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape / direction Yuval Pick (FR). With additional support from Conseil régional NordPas-de-Calais, convention Institut Français + city of Lille, association Beaumarchais – SACD and Institut Français dans le cadre du fonds de production Circles, with the help of Le Phénix, Scène nationale Valenciennes.Residency for rehearsals was provided by Opéra de Lille (FR), Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape / direction Yuval Pick (FR), Centre chorégraphique national Roubaix Nord-Pas-de-Calais (FR).

Ivo Dimchev Songs from my shows

Fri Sept 09 AND Sat Sept 10, 8:30 PM

The exceptional Bulgarian performer Ivo

Dimchev gives one of his live concerts. His enormous musicality and remarkable vocal gift are part of all of most of his productions for the last 10 years. For this project, he has selected 15 songs from his performances, detached them from their original context, presenting them as independent, individual opuses.

WINNINGSTAD THEATRE: 1111 SW BROADWAY. ($20 ⁄ $25)

PERFORMED BY FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES

HIGHER EDUCATION, ARTS, FRENCH LANGUAGE

Ivo Dimchev PIANIST

SPECIAL THANKS All the team of the Opéra de Lille, l’Opéra de Lyon, le Théâtre du Nord, le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, centquatre-Paris, MarieThérèse Allier, Rostan Chentouf, Sophie Laly, Arthur le Fol, Frédéric Bonnemaison, Catherine Tsékenis and Stéphane Malfettes. ::

Dimitar Gorchakov

BIOGRAPHIES IVO D IM C H E V (1976) is a choreographer and performer from Bulgaria. His work is extreme and colourful mixture of performance art, dance, theatre, music, drawings, and photography.

Dimchev has authored more than 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theater and has presented his work across Europe, South America, and North America.

Besides his artistic work, Ivo Dimchev gives master classes in the National Theater Academy in Budapest, the Royal Dance Conservatorium of Belgium in Antwerp, Hochschule der Künste in Bern, DanceWeb in Vienna, and more.

He is founder and director of Humarts

Foundation in Bulgaria.

After completing his master studies on theatre at Dasarts Academy, Amsterdam, in October 2009, Ivo Dimchev moved to Brussels where he opened the performance space Volksroom, which weekly stills presents international young artists.

Beginning in January 2013, Ivo Dimchev has been an four-year Artist in Residence in Kaaitheater, Brussels.

In 2014, Ivo opened MOZEI in Sofia, Bulgaria, an independent space focused on contemporary art and music.

His first book Stage Works 2002–2016 will be available before and after his TBA:16 performance. ::

PRESENTING SUPPORT Support provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Parrilli Renison.

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Narcissister Narcissistic Advance

Fri Sept 09 AND Sat Sept 10, 8:30 PM

Wearing mask and merkin, Narcissister’s

spectacle-rich live performances tackle issues of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Humor, pop songs, elaborate costumes, contemporary dance, unabashed eroticism, and her trademark mannequin mask are her tools in deconstructing stereotypical representations and challenging the audience to question its own attraction and repulsion. Rather than abandon the contaminated site of sexual fetish, Narcissister dives headlong into the murky depths of fantasy and its racist and gendered dynamics, exposing and deconstructing their power.

LEFT: Narcissister.

Photo courtesy of the artist RIGHT: Julia Calabrese, performing as part of PMOMA’s Houseguest residency.

Image by Morgan Reedy

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PICA AT HANCOCK: 15 NE HANCOCK ST. ($16 ⁄ $20)

PERFORMANCE

Narcissister

BIOGRAPHIES NARC I S S I STE R performance, dance, art, and activism. She actively integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with her art practice in a range of media including photography, video art, and experimental music. She has presented work in New York at The New Museum, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, and at Abrons Art Center and at many nightclubs, galleries, and alternative art spaces. Narcissister was a re-performer of Marina Abramovic’s Luminosity piece as part of The Artist is Present retrospective at MoMA. Narcissister has also presented her work internationally at the Music Biennale in Zagreb, Croatia, at Chicks on Speed’s Girl Monster Festival, at The City of Women Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen’s first live art festival, and at the Camp/Anti-Camp festival in Berlin, among many others. Her art videos have been included in exhibitions and film festivals worldwide, including on MocaTV. Her film The Self-Gratifier won an award for “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at The 2008 Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival and her film Vaseline won the main prize of this festival in 2013. Interested in troubling the divide between popular entertainment and experimental art, Narcissister appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2011. Narcissister was in FORE at The Studio Museum and had her first solo gallery exhibition Narcissister is You at envoy enterprises in February 2013. She was nominated for a 2013 Bessie Award for her evening-length piece Organ Player, which debuted at Abrons Art Center in March 2013. Narcissister is a 2015 Creative Capital Fellow, a 2015 Theo Westernberger Grantee, and a 2015 United States Artists Fellow. ::

Libby Werbel Portland Museum of Modern Art: Houseguest

Sat Sept 10 AND Sun Sept 11, 11 AM – 7 PM Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA)

is a non-traditional art space founded in 2012. For this weekend-long residency event in Pioneer Courthouse Square, PMOMA transforms into a downtown open-air art museum that welcomes everyone, including you. Welcome!

Each day you can view an installation of visual art by local and national artists. Each afternoon and evening we present a series of performances by musicians and artists who exemplify the creative partnerships PMOMA has cultivated over the past four years.

The installation and events throughout the weekend showcases PMOMA’s spirit of self-organization and the potential of Portland’s growing creative community. By taking the idea of an art museum outside, making it free of charge and truly public, we aim to bridge the gaps in arts programming and invite cross-pollination between our many local cultural scenes. PIONEER COURTHOUSE SQUARE, 701 SW 6TH AVE. (FREE)

VISUAL ARTISTS

Amy Bernstein, Roz Crews, Mariah Garnett, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Rainen Knecht, Daniel Long, Rose Mackey, Dino Matt, Ralph Pugay, Richart, Vanessa Renwick, Blair Saxon-Hill, Kyle Simon MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE ARTISTS

Marisa Anderson, Fred and Toody Cole (of Dead Moon), Michael Hurley, Tropic Green, Dynasty Handbag, Secret Drum Band, Julia Calabrese, DoublePlusGood, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Larry Yes, MU PLANTS BY

Plant Daddy/Shawn Creeden PROJECT DESIGN AND COLLATERAL BY

Morgan Reedy/Reedy’s Hardware PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Rebecca Noon PRINTING BY

Container Corps CONTENT WRITING BY

Lily Hudson & Libby Werbel WALL AND PEDESTAL CONSTRUCTION BY

John Gnorski, Adam Zeek, and Allan Wilson ART IN THE PARK PROJECT COURTESY OF

Larry Yes

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sat Sept 10 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM

MU Dynasty Handbag Dragging an Ox Through Water Larry Yes Michael Hurley Marisa Anderson

Sun Sept 11 11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM

DJ Yolo Biafra Julia Calabrese DoublePlusGood Tropic Green

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

Secret Drum Band Fred and Toody

Art in the Park Engagement Area (both days) Sat Sept 10 AND Sun Sept 11, 11 AM – 4 PM

Facilitated by Larry Yes. Create your own painting to contribute to the PMOMA exhibit! An area designated for you to make work to be hung in the square as part of the weekend-long installation.

Free and open to all.

AS YOU ENGAGE… As you engage with the PMOMA’s Houseguest Residency, consider: – – This project grows from the direct needs of a city that, now more than ever, must cherish its cultural worth.

– – In an urban climate of dwindling affordable housing, studios and exhibition spaces for working artists, more concrete infrastructure is needed to support a thriving full-time arts community.

– – How does a city express its cultural value? How can we grow more art institutions in Portland?

– – How is Portland’s arts ecology viewed from the outside; how are our values apparent to the rest of the world?

– – Where are the city’s major meeting grounds, and how can we develop programming within them that harnesses the creative capabilities of our community?

– – Is it up to us to help Portland sustain its artistic interests during a time of rapid transition that threatens detrimental cultural displacement?

What measures do you take to support the arts?

BIOGRAPHIES PORTLAND MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (PMOMA) explores new possibilities for arts exhibition. It was founded in 2012 by artist and curator Libby Werbel as an alternative space that is not limited by the conventions of traditional museum or for-profit gallery models. Inspired by her own conceptions of an “ideal” museum, Werbel seeks to create dialogue around the current institutional

modalities for art exhibition and envision more inclusive ways to bring art to the public.

Over the past four years, PMOMA has defined itself through openness, connection, grassroots development and the holistic support and championing of artists.

In addition to facilitating events and residencies throughout the city, PMOMA exists as a physical space in the basement of Mississippi Records (5202 N Albina Ave, Portland, OR), which welcomes patrons from Noon–7:00 PM every day.

Although Werbel is cited as the artist, PMOMA is a community project born from the desire, vision and labor of many people. The artists sharing their work this weekend are all collaborators who have joined her in a vision of a community-built, neighborhood-oriented “Modern Art Museum.”

LIBBY WERBEL is an artist, curator, and social organizer living and working in Portland, OR. In 2012, she founded the Portland Museum of Modern Art project to create and instigate art and dialogue serving both artists and audiences. With an emphasis on accessibility and engagement, Werbel makes site-based works using community as her medium. Her investigation in space-making has included alternative exhibitions models in Barcelona, San Francisco, New York City, Joshua Tree, and Santa Fe. Werbel has received public and critical acclaim for her DIY organization methods and creative mobility within the PMOMA project.

PRESENTING SUPPORT HOUSEGUEST is a series of public art interventions at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland’s largest and most accessible public plaza. The juried program invites artists to work on-site at the Square for a long weekend to inspire and catalyze interaction among PCS’ diverse publics. Houseguest is made possible by support from Pioneer Courthouse Square, The Miller Foundation, and the Oregon Community Foundation. Info and application guidelines at houseguest.org. ::

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Britt Hatzius Blind Cinema

Sat Sept 10, Sun Sept 11, Sat Sept 17, Sun Sept 18, 3 PM :: Fri Sept 16, 7 P M

In the

darkness of a cinema space, the audience sits blindfolded. Behind each row of audience members is a row of children who in hushed voices describe a film only they can see. Accompanied by the soundtrack (which has no dialogue), the whispered descriptions are a fragile, fragmentary and at times struggling but courageous attempt by the children to make sense of what they see projected on the screen.

Blind Cinema as a live event is an experience where the act of watching a film becomes a shared investment: A collaborative and imaginative act between seeing children and blindfolded adults. It embraces the fact that the act of trying to find the right words to describe (even if at times being ‘at a loss for words’) and of trying to hold onto the consequently unstable images created in the mind’s eye, will always only be an approximation. To articulate in words in order to share experiences involves a struggle, a struggle that seems to be closest to those in the midst of discovering language’s potential and limits.

In focusing on that which lies beyond the sense of sight (leaving the illusory reality of cinema to re-enter that of the imagination), the attention oscillates between each shared but internal world guided by the whispering voice, and the shared physical space of the darkened cinema. HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, 4122 NE SANDY BLVD. ($20–40, RESTRICTIONS APPLY)

DIRECTION & CONCEPT

Britt Hatzius DRAMATURGY

Ant Hampton FILM

Britt Hatzius, Simon Arazi, Boris Belay, Maxim DESIGN & PRODUCTION

(blindfolds & contraptions): Britt Hatzius, Maria Koerkel, Gert Aertsen CREATIVE PRODUCER

Katja Timmerberg PORTLAND PARTNERS

Portland Public Schools (PPS), with the collaboration of Boise-Eliot ⁄ Humboldt School and King School. Special thanks to Kristen

LEFT: Photo by Britt Hatzius

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Brayson, Kevin Bacon, Jill Sage, and participating teachers at PPS for their enthusiastic support of this project.

LOCAL COORDINATOR

Patricia Vazquez

NOTE The film, which has been specifically made for this performance, will be seen by each group of children for the first time. Hence, each performance will have a new group of describing children aged between 8 and 11.

BIOGRAPHIES BRITT HATZIUS (DE/UK/BE) works in film, video, sound and performance, exploring ideas around language, interpretation and the potential for discrepancies, ruptures, and (mis/)communication. Her work has been shown internationally at performance and media arts festivals, institutions and galleries. Collaborations include cinematic installation Micro Events (2012) with Tom Kok, interactive performance This Is Not My Voice Speaking (2013) and site-specific installation As Never Before, As Never Again (2014) with Ant Hampton. (britthatzius.co.uk)

SPECIAL THANKS Thomas Tajo, Georgia Venetakis, Geertje De Ceuleneer, Axel Cleeremans, Campbell Works Gallery, LABO BxL, Susanne Dietz, Miila, Nico, Alice, Josh, Marina, Rebecca, Fay Hatzius, Anne Haaning, Dunkan Speakman, Houle, Cunio and Bown (music) and everyone who kindly attended the many try-outs.

PRESENTING SUPPORT A co-production between Vooruit (Ghent), Beursschouwburg (Brussels) and Bronks Theatre (Brussels). ::

Meg Wolfe New Faithful Disco

Sat Sept 10 AND Sun Sept 11, 6:30 PM

Disco is metaphor and meeting place; the

message is love. The revolution echoes and reverberates with where we are now. We can feel in our bodies, from our hearts, all that we believe.

WINNINGSTAD THEATRE: 1111 SW BROADWAY. ($20 ⁄ $25)

CHOREOGRAPHY

Meg Wolfe DANCERS

taisha paggett, Marbles Jumbo Radio, Wolfe MUSIC

Maria de los Angeles “Cuca” Esteves COSTUME DESIGN

Gregory Barnett LIGHTING DESIGN

Christopher Kuhl QUILTS/ROBES

Meg Wolfe SOUND DESIGN

John Coleman PRODUCTION MANAGER

Lorrie Snyder STAGE MANAGER

Teresa Hartmann TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Michaelangelo DeSerio REDCAT PREMIERE LIGHTING DESIGN BY

Ellie Rabinowitz LAX WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE LIGHTING BY

Katelan Braymer

BIOGRAPHIES MEG WOLFE is a Los Angeles-based dance maker.

Her work has been commissioned twice by REDCAT; and presented at the FRESH Festival, Live Arts Exchange Festival, Bootleg Theater, the New Original Works Festival, Confusion is Sex #3, Off Center Festival/Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Sea and Space Explorations, HomeLA, Highways Performance Space. Early work was presented in NYC at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop,

Danspace Project at St. Mark’s, Dia Center for the Arts, The Kitchen, The Living Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, Nuyorican Poets Café, and others.

She danced in the works of Vicky Shick from 19992003; and in projects by Jerome Bel, Molissa Fenley, Clarinda Mac Low, and Susan Rethorst.

Projects have been supported by the NPN Creation Fund and Forth Fund, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Show Box LA, ARC Grants from CCI and Durfee Foundation, CHIME, Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative and Meet the Composer; and by residencies at REDCAT, Performance Works NorthWest, the Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program, and the Hothouse Residency program at UCLA, among others. Wolfe is founder and director of Show Box LA; and most recently, has opened a studio called we live in space. taisha paggett‘s work for the stage, gallery and public space includes individual and collaborative investigations into the body and the phenomenology of race. paggett’s work interrogates fixed representations of Black and queer bodies through the construction of idiosyncratic structures and scores in which those subjects become agents, including her recent large-scale collaborative project, School for the Movement of the Technicolor People. Most recently as a dancer, paggett has worked with Every House Has a Door, David Roussève/REALITY, Yael Davids, Victoria Marks, Kelly Nipper, and with Ashley Hunt through their ongoing collaboration, “On movement, thought and politics,” amongst others. Project support has come through the generosity of CHIME, UCIRA, the Headlands, National Performance Network, Show Box LA, and the MAP Fund in conjunction with LACE, amongst other organizations. paggett was a co-instigator to the dance zine project and discursive platform, itch, and is currently an Assistant Professor in UC Riverside’s Dance Department.

MARB LES J UMBO R ADIO re-constellates the queer body from the margins to center through dance, physical practice and discussion-based platforms that engage with the politics of place, belonging, and embodiment.

GREGORY BARNETT is a performing and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Recent work includes A Home For Wayward Satyrs, part of Ann Magnuson’s Bacchanal at The MOCA Geffen; Edenic Idyllic: I Can Take You To Heaven, Let Me Take You To Heaven, presented by Show Box L.A.; and If This Were Any More Camp You Would Need A Tent/This Is What I Want/Our Technicolor Dream Dance at Human Resources. Most recently, he designed costume and objects for taisha paggett’s Mountain, Fire, Holding Still at the Getty Villa.

JOHN COLEMAN is currently the supervisor of A/V systems at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and has been involved in performance audio since the 80s; mixing all types of music, theater and dance from nightclubs to sports arenas. His design work has been instrumental in the success of venues like OZ in Nashville Tennessee, and Royce Hall in Los Angeles.

M A R I A D E L O S A N G E L E S “ C U C A” E S T E V E S

is from San Martin, Argentina, and currently based in The Netherlands. She studied piano and music education at the conservatory of San Martin, Buenos Aires, composition and electroacoustic music in Conservatoire régional de Paris, Ecole Nationale De Musique Edgar Varèse Gennevilliers and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She holds an MFA from UC Riverside in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. Recent works include music for Kronkel, a labyrinth-installation created with Marcel Kaars at the Theater aan het Spui, in The Hague, that later became Los Laberintos de Cleo, a children’s book and CD published by Meninas Cartoneras, Madrid.

C H R I S TO P H E R K U H L is a lighting, scenic, installation and conceptual designer for new performance, theatre, dance and opera. Recent work includes Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Kaai Theatre); The Source (BAM); This Was The End (Mallory Catlett, The Chocolate Factory); The Object Lesson (BAM, Sydney Festival, Edinburgh Fringe); The Elephant Room (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Philly Live Arts, Arena Stage); Quartier Libres with Nadia Beugré (New York Live Arts, Walker Art Center); Soldier Songs (Holland Festival); Ethel’s

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Documerica (BAM); John Cage Song Books (SF Symphony, Carnegie Hall). He has also had the pleasure of working and making art at REDCAT, Fusebox Festival, On the Boards, The Kennedy Center, YBCA, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Beijing Music Festival, Queer Zagreb, KVS Belgium, MAC France, and Santiago a Mil Chile. Kuhl was also the Production Manager and Lighting Director for Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? In 2011 he was the recipient of the Sherwood, Drammy, Horton, and Ovation Awards. In 2014 and 2015 Christopher and many of his closest collaborators received a pair of Bessie Awards for Outstanding Visual Design.

Chris is originally from New Mexico, a graduate of CalArts, an associate artist of Hand2Mouth Theatre, and helped launch Live Arts Exchange/LAX.

PRESENTING SUPPORT ABOVE: taisha pagett, Marbles Radio, and Meg Wolfe (left to right) performing New Faithful Disco. Photo by Steve Gunther ⁄ REDCAT RIGHT: Sean McElroy, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.

Photo by Maria Baranova

New Faithful Disco is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund and For th Fund Project co-commissioned by REDCAT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), DiverseWorks, Z Space, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Supported by the NPN Performance Residency Program. For more information: npnweb.org.

The creation of NFD was supported through development and technical residencies at REDCAT; Performance Works NorthWest Alembic Residency; UCLA World Arts & Culture/Dance Hothouse Residency; Show Box L.A. with support in part from the National Endowment for the Arts, 018

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Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot

Sat Sept 10 – Tue Sept 13, 7 PM

On May 23, 2014, in Isla Vista, California, Elliot

Rodger killed six people and injured 13 in a rampage motivated by his lack of success with women. He left behind a series of progressively dark confessional YouTube videos in which he recounted his frustrations with women and, eventually, his plans for the attack. Two weeks later, Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble left New York for a 9-week residency in the woods of Skowhegan, Maine, with a stack of VHS tapes and a hard drive full of YouTube downloads: guided meditations, shopping haul videos, dating advice videos, workout routines, and the confessional videos of Elliot Rodger. They spent the summer reflecting on the central question: what does it mean to look into the lens of a camera and share your experience with the world? BLACK BOX THEATRE, PERFORMING ARTS BLDG, REED COLLEGE: 3203 SE WOODSTOCK BLVD. ($20 ⁄ $25)

CREATED & PERFORMED BY

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble ASSOCIATE DESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTION BY

Eben Hoffer MANAGEMENT BY

Alexandra Rosenberg

ABOUT THE ART OF LUV The Art of Luv is a multi-part series addressing the mythologies behind popular codes of romantic conduct, and taking multiple forms, including performance, internet interventions, video, installation, and social practice.

BIOGRAPHIES ROYAL OSIRIS K ARAOKE ENSEMBLE (ROKE), the creative partnership of artists Tei Blow and Sean McElroy, is a musical priesthood that explores the metaphysics and mythologies of love, desire and courtship at the end of the 20th century, creating modern-day rituals from found text and video sources. ROKE has performed rituals at Under the Radar Festival, FringeArts, Under the Radar’s Incoming! Series, Gibney Dance Center, Kate Werble Gallery, Special Effects Festival at Participant Inc., Prelude Festival, AUNTS Arts@Renaissance, JACK, and The James Farley Post Office with Immediate Medium. ROKE has received a Franklin Furnace Fund grant (2013) and a BAX Space Grant (2014). They participated in The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group and PS122’s RAMP residency program.

They spent the summer of 2014 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture were 2015 CUNY Hunter Artists-in-Residence in ceramics. In 2016, ROKE received a Creative Capital award for The Art of Luv.

TEI BLOW is co-creator of Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, and a performer and media designer, based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Japan and raised in the US, Tei’s work incorporates photography, video and sound design with a focus on found media artifacts. He was recently awarded a Bessie Award for sound design in David Neumann/ Advanced Beginner Group’s “I Understand Everything Better,” and has also performed and made designs for The Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jodi Melnick, Ann Liv Young, Big Dance Theater, and others.

SEAN MCELROY is co-creator of Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble. He uses performance, sculpture, and installation to explore mythologies of love and selfhood in the internet age. His work has been exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles; and at JACK, Gibney Dance, the Public Theater and Kate Werble Gallery in New York. He studied Classics at Brown University and Painting at the University of Washington.

E B E N H O FFE R is a sound designer and performer, and creator of Tugboat Collective. His work focuses on an integrative approach to movement, music, and technology in live stage performance.

Collaborators include ROKE, Big Dance Theater,

David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group, 600 Highwaymen, Andrew Schneider, and others. He plays in the band The Copper Look.

ALEXANDRA ROSENBERG is a Brooklyn-based independent artist manager and producer. With a focus on contemporary performance, Alexandra currently represents Annie Dorsen, Maria Hassabi, Jen Rosenblit, Simone Aughterlony, and Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble. Since founding her company Rosie Management in 2013, Alexandra has fostered multi-disciplinary projects with these and many other artists, including Alex Waterman and Robert Ashley, Ann Liv Young, Dynasty Handbag, and Arturo Vidich. She worked for Performance Space 122 from 2014-15 as the Producer of Global Programs and, prior to founding Rosie Management, was a producer and administrator in NYC with ArKtype, The Chocolate Factory, and others. She is a graduate of Bennington College.

SPECIAL THANKS Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble would like to thank Maria Baranova, Theo Coulombe, Max Dana, Andrew Kircher, Lily Lamb-Atkinson, JJ Lind, Annie-B Parson, Mark Russell, and Meiyin Wang.

PRESENTING SUPPORT The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot was created with support from The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Gibney Dance Center, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and developed in residence with the Humanities and Entertainment Technology Departments at the New York City College of Technology.

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble is supported by Immediate Medium’s AGENCY program, which provides financial, administrative, and equipment support to emerging artists. Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s multi-part, multi-genre series, The Art of Luv, is a project of Creative Capital. ::

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Carlos Motta Nefandus

Sat Sept 17, 6:30 PM

Nefandus (2013) a narrative video that investigates pre-

Hispanic (homo)sexuality. While it has been widely documented that the conquistadores used sex as a weapon of domination of indigenous populations, little is known about the homoerotic indigenous traditions. How did the Christian morality, as taught by the Catholic missions and propagated through war during the Conquest, transform the natives’ relationship with sex? Nefandus, Latin for impious, abominable, or unnamable, was a common word used in Colonial Latin America in reference to sin. A pecado nefando (unspeakable sin) was a transgressive crime of sexual nature, such as sodomy, which was severely judged and punished. The video suggests that constructions of sexuality and the body can’t be projected onto cultures whose traditions and histories remain unknown and have been mediated by European classifications.

HOLLYWOOD THEATRE: 4122 NE SANDY BLVD. ($8 ⁄ $10)

A FILM BY

Carlos Motta WRITTEN BY

Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta SCRIPT CONSULTANT

Pablo Bedoya VOICES

Maya Mikdashi (Nour) Laura Riveros Sefair (Martina) WITH

Maya Mikdashi (Nour) Jennifer Lorena Jiménez (Martina) CAMERA

Mateo Guzmán (Colombia) Mark Khalife (Lebanon) VIDEO EDITING

Carlos Motta VIDEO EDITING CONSULTANT

Irit Batsry SOUND DESIGN

Zachary Dunham and Geoffrey Wilson

BIOGRAPHIES

LEFT: Photo by Ashley Clark for Allie Hankins RIGHT: Photo by Doug Gifford for Rinde Eckert

CARLOS MOTTA is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. His work is known for its engagement with histories of queer culture and activism and for its insistence that the politics of sex and gender represent an opportunity to articulate definite positions against social and political injustice.

Motta’s work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and MoMA/ PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museu Serralves, Porto; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute; Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin;

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Witte de With, Rotterdam; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; and many other public, private and independent spaces throughout the world.

Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg presented a survey exhibition of Carlos Motta’s work in 2015. In 2016 his solo exhibitions include: Histories of the Future, Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami; REQUIEM, MALBA—Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Beloved Martina, Mercer Union, Toronto; Deviations, PPOW Gallery, New York; and the performance Mondo Invertito at Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno. Motta will also participate in Incerteza Viva: 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2016.

Mot ta’s most recent film, D eseos/‫ت ا ب غ ر‬ was commissioned by Council premiered at the Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art in September 2015 and has since screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2015 Motta participated in group exhibitions at Migros Museum, Zürich, Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, MDE15— Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Medellín 5 and X Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. In 2014 his work was also included in Under the

Sun: Art from Latin America Today at Guggenheim Museum, New York and in the X Gwangju Biennale in 2014.

Motta’s renowned Nefandus Trilogy, three short films on pre-Hispanic and colonial sexualities, premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014 and screened at dozens of festivals and institutions since including Toronto International Film Festival; The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Secession, Vienna.

In 2014 Motta won the Main Prize—Future Generation Art Prize of the PinchukArtCentre. He has recently delivered talks and presentations at MoMA, Artists Space, New Museum, Frieze New York and Museo Jumex. In 2014 he delivered a keynote presentation during SF MoMA’s Visual Activism symposium in San Francisco. Motta guest edited the e-flux journal April 2013 issue, “(im)practical (im)possibilities” on contemporary queer art and culture.

Motta is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2006), was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2008), and received grants from Art Matters (2008), NYSCA (2010), Creative Capital Foundation and the Kindle Project (2012).

He is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design..

PRESENTING SUPPORT Commissioned and produced by Council (France).

Co-produced by Hordaland Kunstsenter (Norway), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Röda Sten Konsthall (Sweden) and

by Galeria Filomena Soares (Portugal), and Mor. Charpentier Galerie (France). Supported by Ashkal Alwan (Lebanon), DICRéAM (France), Göteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art (Sweden). ::

Luke Wyland AU and the Camas High School Choir

WED SEPT 14, 7:30 PM

Twenty years ago, I fell madly in love with music. I still vividly remember the moment my listening ears first came into focus, revealing landscapes of moving parts stretching out through time. My ceaseless curiosity for these dynamic spaces and the communities they have provided have been the primary driving forces of my life ever since. As I began dreaming up the music for this collaboration, I wanted to tap into that sense of new discovery,

to conjure my younger self refracted through the many lenses of the singers themselves.

When rehearsals began a year ago, my vision began to morph. The more I gave the music over to the students, allowing them to share in its creation while they grew as individuals, the more it began to shape itself into something entirely new and unpredictable.

—LUKE W YL AND

LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL, PSU: 1620 SW PARK AVE. ($15–30 SLIDING SCALE)

COMPOSER

Luke Wyland DIRECTOR

Ethan Chessin MUSICIANS

Holland Andrews, Joe Cunningham, Andrew Jones, Dana Valatka, Reed Wallsmith, Luke Wyland, and the Camas High School Choir SOUND & PRODUCTION

Jason Powers

BIOGRAPHIES LUKE W YLAND is an interdisciplinary artist and

composer based in Portland, OR. He is known primarily as the creative force behind the art-pop band AU, though he has been composing music for dance, film, and television for the past decade.

A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, he has presented his work throughout North America and Europe to critical acclaim.

ETHAN CHESSIN teaches music at Camas High School. His choirs have collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and community leaders including Sufi mystics, Venezuelan harpists, indie rockers, klezmer bands, capoeira troupes, and composers from Mexico and the Czech Republic.

Prior to his work at Camas High School, Ethan directed the Calcutta Foundation Orchestra, an orchestra of adult orphans in Calcutta, India, and the Dahoo Chorus, a psychedelic rock-opera choir in Portland, OR. He holds a B.A. in music from Yale University and an M.A. in music education from the University of Washington.

H O L L A N D A N D R E W S is a Portland based experimental vocalist and clarinetist who began performing as Like a Villain in 2009. Andrews’ uncommon brand of avant garde music is characterized by a dynamic voice, delving between opera, musical theatre and extended vocal techniques. The multifaceted nature of Holland’s music can be emotionally captivating as well as sonically dissonant.

JOE CUNNINGHAM is a Michigan transplant, who studied at Central Michigan University and Wayne State University. In addition to being a member of and composer for The Blue Cranes, Joe has played with, Wayne Horvitz, The Decemberists, Spoon, Laura Gibson, Laura Veirs, Cass McCombs, Point Juncture WA. among many others.

A N D R E W J O N E S is a musician working in Portland, OR where he plays, arranges and composes in a wide variety of musical contexts. Since studying double bass at Arizona State University he’s recorded, toured and/or regularly performed with such diverse artists as Tokyo-based electronic musician Coppé, former Count Basie Orchestra singer Dennis Rowland and art-rock band Barbez. His own project, a duo with drummer Christopher Johnedis called the Crenshaw, will be releasing their full length debut in 2016.

DANA VALATK A is a longtime member of AU. He has performed as percussionist with the likes of Aan, Mustaphamond, JOMF, Henry Kaiser and more. In his free time he obsesses over science fiction, pinball and the cosmic joke.

REED WALLSMITH is an alto saxophonist and Portland native. He leads and composes for the melodic-improvisatory group Blue Cranes, and has

collaborated with Wayne Horvitz, Laura Gibson, Edna Vazquez, Peter Broderick, Ethan Rose, and the Nicaraguan-based La Cuneta Son Machín.

JASON POWERS is a Portland, Oregon-based recording engineer and live sound engineer. He has been an owner and engineer at Type Foundry Recording since 2000, and has worked with such bands as The Decemberists, Grails, Scout Niblett, Moon Duo, and Blue Cranes. He has toured nationally and internationally with acts such as Matthew Dear, Cibo Matto,The Portland Cello Project, and Laura Veirs. Also an educator, Jason designed curriculum for, and teaches Live SET, a live sound engineering course for teens.

YOUNG AUDIE NC ES: Founded in 1958 as an affiliate of the country’s largest arts-in-education organization, Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington has grown into the region’s primary provider of in-school arts programs. Guided by our mission—to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts—we connect arts organizations and artists with schools and students to bring impactful arts-learning experiences to more than 70,000 young people in our community each year.

SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington, the Camas Education Foundation, Gina Altamura, Cary Clarke, Ben Hubbird, Nick Jaina, Casey Jarman, Curtis Knapp and Yale Union, Seth Nehil, Kelly Rauer, Taylor Ross, Nalin Silva, Owen Walz, Candace Young, the Camas Board of Education (Mary Tipton, President, Casey O’Dell, Julie Rotz, Connie Hennessey, and Doug Quinn), Camas High School Administration (Steve Marshall, Principal, Ellise Anderson, Associate Principal, Susan Asher, Associate Principal, Tom Morris, Associate Principal, and Brian Wilde, Dean of Students), Camas Music Coalition, Camas School District Administration (Mike Nerland, Superintendent and Jeff Snell, Deputy Superintendent), Community Foundation for SW Washington, and Camas High School parents, guardians, chaperones, and volunteers. ::

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CHOREOGRAPHED AND DIRECTED BY

Ali Chahrour ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Haera Slim MUSIC

Ali Hout and Abed Kobeissi PERFORMED BY

Ali Chahrour and Leila Chahrour DRAMATURGY

Junaid Sariedeen SCENOGRAPHY

Nathalie Harb LIGHTING DESIGNER

Guillaume Tesson COSTUME

Ali Chahrour

Bird on A Wire and Creative Space PRODUCED BY

Leila’s Death

Haera Slim

BIOGRAPHIES Thu Sept 15 AND Fri Sept 16, 6:30 PM

After she waited nights for them to pass by and they didn’t Leila prepares the ceremony of death She transcribes her grief and sings it through Ataba (songs of reproach) She digs out her mourning and her ululations Shaking the dust off her throat She gathers her men; tonight she will go on stage Leila relives the intimacy of separation and the fundamental reality of her position, as she holds the body of the Way ward hero in the family home.

“Leila’s death,” a celebration brought to life by

a mourner, a dancer and musicians, it’s a story whose threads are woven from Ataba song verses, elegies and ululations of women, longing for bodies that have fused with the soil.

The work is based on the celebration of martyrdom and the heroic death, borrowing elements from songs and poetic elegies documenting this cultural heritage which is almost extinct, addressing the relation of the body to religion and its metamorphosed rituals, and the quality of local movement resulting from it.

In Lebanon, there aren’t many mourners anymore. They can still be found in the south of the country, and in the Beqaa Valley, in the east. They are nonetheless the cornerstone of a ritual that serves both a religious and social purpose: condolences. During those ceremonies, they lament and recite poems they have written to commemorate the lost, determined to make their friends and ABOVE: Ali Chahrour and Leila Chahrour.

Photo courtesy of the artist RIGHT: Yanow in Dad Band, as performed at the New Museum in New York City in 2015. Photo

by Amanda Ryan

families cry, as dictated by Shiite tradition. “An aesthetics of the private” that wars and the economic situation have transformed; families are now made to celebrate the heroism of collective figures, thus substituting duty for emotion.

Mourner, such is the job of Leila, whom Ali Chahrour invited to come on stage with him and his musicians, in an attempt to come back to the regional roots and references of his dance. He asked her to share her experience by singing her relationship to death and, through it, this culture of mourning. For this duo, the choreographer has taken the time to observe in Leila “what makes her move, her whose body carries this sadness.” He then imagined a delicate score, able to slide between the interstices of this poetic lament which soothes souls.

WINNINGSTAD THEATRE: 1111 SW BROADWAY. ($20 ⁄ $25)

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Since his graduation from the theatre department in the Lebanese university, ALI CHAHROUR has been interested in researching his cultural religious heritage as well as the saturated religious environment, to which he belong on the one hand, and the modern art and its role in the reformation of this heritage on the other hand. This research was accompanied with his concern not to humiliate or misrepresent the relationship between what is sacred religious wise and what is tabooed wise.

After he was influenced by techniques from several European countries, Chahrour turned back to study the contemporary dance in the Arab world and the body movement that is related to the society’s memory and its local circumstances, which contributes to creating an identity for contemporary dance whose techniques and problematic are inspired by its surrounding and own history.

In 2009, Chahrour created On the lips snow, as a first attempt to study the vanishing of memories, its restriction, and relationship with the body on the level of personal family relationships. Later, he created Danas (profane/impurity) in 2010, in which he studied physical violence of daily life, in addition to the value of the body and ways of dealing with it, absenting it as a social and influential entity, and violating its privacy, to reach his work Fatmeh in 2014 and leila’s death in 2015, which purely studies the religious Shiite practices. In it, Chahrour searched in the voice of “Oum Kolthoum” for the state of Melancholy and grief among the Arab taste and culture, as well as looking for the covered and uncovered, the allowed and the forbidden religiously and socially.

PRESENTING SUPPORT Travel support provided by Al Mawred al thaqafi-tejwal. ::

“In becoming her father for the night, Yanow does more than get to know him, and all the things he likes… With her physical body, Yanow enters into a dialogue with her Dad, to both find the Dad within her, and give some of herself back to him.”

— S V E T L A N A K I T T O, W R I T I N G F O R T H E C O O L E Y G A L L E RY

Sacha Yanow Dad Band

Sat Sept 17, 6:30 PM

Dad Band is an intimate psychological portrait of the artist’s

father, her internalized dad, and patriarchy in general. “Dad” covers and lipsynchs to his favorite songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s, shares footage of his 1970s winning appearance on the To Tell the Truth game show, presents motivational speeches, and more. Dad’s button-down shirts become his costumes, his yellow notepad—usually reserved for stock market details—contains his set list, and his Agatha Christie novel collection and Wall Street Journal become his props. Over the course of the evening, we get to know Dad as he dances, sings, screams, and lectures. Dad Band is part of Yanow’s ongoing investigation of personal and social histories through queer embodying. BLACK BOX THEATRE, PERFORMING ARTS BLDG, REED COLLEGE: 3203 SE WOODSTOCK BLVD. (FREE)

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY

Sacha Yanow DIRECTING CONSULTANT

Leslie Strongwater DRAMATURGE

Morgan Bassichis

BIOGRAPHIES SACHA YANOW is a NYC based artist and actor. Her solo performance works include: Dad Band, New Museum, NYC (2015); Silent Film (In development), The Lab, San Francisco, Pieter, Los Angeles, and MAPP/Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY (2015), Dixon Place, NYC (2014), and Movement Research Festival, NYC (2013); and The Prince, Dixon Place, NYC (2013). Her residencies and awards include: LMCC Process Space (2016); SOMA, Mexico City (2015); Dixon Place, NYC (2014); Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012); and The Field, NYC (2011). She was creative consultant for Elisabeth Subrin’s feature film A Woman A Part (2016), and co-director and dramaturge for Dynasty Handbag’s performance piece Soggy Glasses (The Broad/REDCAT 2016, Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014). Yanow received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a graduate of the William Esper Studio Actor Training Program.

PRESENTING SUPPORT Originally commissioned by the New Museum, New York in 2015, Dad Band was conceived and premiered during Wynne Greenwood’s Kelly exhibition at the New Museum, curated by Johanna Burton, Stephanie Snyder, and Sara O’Keeffe.

CHERIE DRE September 9 – October 9, 2016 Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Reception with the artist: September 9, 4:30 – 6:30 PM at the Cooley Gallery. Sacha Yanow will perform at 5:15 PM in the Cooley.

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY

Sacha Yanow COSTUMES

Signe Mae Olson DRAMATURGE

Morgan Bassichis Sacha Yanow comes to Portland and TBA through her residency at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, where she presents Cherie Dre—an immersive new installation. The exhibition is part of a larger solo performance project about Cherie Dre, the showgirl alter ego of Yanow’s grandmother who suffered from bipolar disorder before modern diagnoses and treatment.

Developing the performance at the Cooley, Yanow transforms the gallery into an environmental stage set: a psychological, social, and physical landscape. At times, visitors may encounter Yanow working and rehearsing in the space.

Yanow embodies her own imagining of Cherie Dre through covers of Yiddish pop songs by the Barry Sisters, dance routines, monologues, and conversations with her grandmother. The space is simultaneously her grandmother’s bedroom in the

Bronx in the 1950s, Cherie Dre’s ballroom stage at the Concord resort hotel in the Catskills, and Yanow’s own research area.

As in Yanow’s previous work, Cherie Dre weaves together personal experience with broader queer and feminist social histories. Specifically, Cherie Dre excavates the artist’s relationship to gender and femininity, magical thinking, gambling, and performance, alongside the history of the Borscht Belt and Jewish entertainers in America.

Cherie Dre is curated by Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.

SPECIAL THANKS Wynne Greenwood, Jibz Cameron, Signe Mae Olson, Melissa Levin, and, most especially, Richard Yanow. ::

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Allie Hankins better to be alone than to wish you were

Thu Sept 15 – Sat Sept 17, 8:30 PM

Part lecture, part choreographic exposition,

better to be alone than to wish you were is a solo performance that affirms the anticlimactic futility of lust, from its first intoxicating charge to its subsequent, stumbling pursuit. While slyly humorous, Hankins unabashedly exploits and strips her body it of its poetic nature as it is offered up for consumption, judgment, and of course: desire. Created with an all-female identified production team, better to be alone… weaves seduction, stand-up comedy motifs, and forced voyeurism in an attempt to exhibit the extraordinary and cumbersome illogic of love and sex. BODYVOX DANCE CENTER, 1201 NW 17TH AVE. ($16 ⁄ $20)

CONCEIVED & PERFORMED BY

Allie Hankins COSTUMES

Rose Mackey SCULPTURE

Maggie Heath, I’m sorry for sending you photos of a straight-up fuck machine #1 & #2 LIGHTING DESIGN

Vanessa Janson SOUND OPERATOR

Chloe Alexandra Thompson ONGOING COUNSEL

Morgan Ritter TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Robin Greenwood PHOTOGRAPHY

Ashley Sophia Clark

BIOGRAPHIES ALLIE HANKINS is a Portland-based performer

ABOVE: Photo by Ashley Clark for Allie Hankins RIGHT: Mohamed El Khatib.

Photo courtesy of the artist

who makes works that toy with the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, layered imagery, and a biting wit all while trying to suppress her contentious eagerness to please. Her current collaborators include Physical Education (Lucy Lee Yim, keyon gaskin, and Taka Yamamoto), Rachael Dichter (SF), Morgan Ritter, Rose Mackey, and Maggie Heath. Most recently, Hankins has performed with Julien Prévieux (Paris), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), Tahni Holt, and Suniti Dernovsek. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, and the New Expressive Works Residency at Studio 2.

RO S E MAC KE Y is a costume designer who builds structurally complex costumes that both obscure and emphasize the shapes of the human body. Her most recent projects include COSTUME, a Halloween pageant and costume shop in collaboration with PMOMA, Alien Blossom of Horror, a play presented by Island Time Activities on Bainbridge Island, WA, and Leading Light, a dance work by Suniti Dernovsek. Now Then: A Prologue is Rose and Allie’s third collaboration.

MAGGIE HEATH is a Portland artist whose work currently rests in considering the space a body inhabits. Heath received her BFA from Portland State University in 2015. She has been awarded an honorable mention in International Sculpture

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Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Student Prize in the Arts, and received a 2015 Precipice Fund from Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Her work has been seen at various galleries throughout Portland including: Surplus Space, MK Gallery, AB Lobby Gallery, galleryHomeland, Timeshare Gallery, Autzen Gallery, 511 Commons, B10, Blackfish Gallery, Short Space, composition; and was part of a group exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University. In the summer of 2015, Heath and Emily Wobb co-founded Bronco Gallery, an exhibition tailgate that is based out of a 1991 Ford Bronco.

VANE S SA JAN SO N is thrilled to be a collaborator in creating this piece. She received her BA in Technical Theatre/Design from Mesa State College in Colorado. After two years as a Production Journeyman at Lexington Children’s Theatre in Kentucky, she is now a freelance Lighting Designer in Portland. Her most recent design work includes American ME, INDEPENDENT WOMEN, Rhinoceros, Wait Until Dark, Precious Little, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Trailer Park Christmas Musical, Dex Dixon: Paranormal Dick, In The Heights, and The Udmurts. (vanessajansonlighting.com)

CHLOE ALEXANDRA THOMPSON is a Canadian artist living in Portland, Oregon. Her artistic practice involves unearthing new realities through mis-represented mediums and publication work.

Thompson’s curatorial practice is focused around commissioning new work by domestic and international emerging artists in the form of site-specific installations, performance, and projects that stand both within and outside of existing genres and have manifested in/ as nomadic project spaces and galleries.

MORGAN RITTER has contributed ongoing conversation and a rotating hourglass sculpture to this performance’s previous iteration, Now Then: A Prologue. Ritter’s visual and written work has been exhibited at institutions and other unique cultural centers such as: Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland OR; American Medium, New York; LUMA Foundation, Zurich; Sunlan Lighting, Portland Oregon; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. She has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (2011) and works at Yale Union, an artist-run contemporary art center in Portland. She recently received a grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Art for her upcoming exhibition with Lisa Radon at a gallery called Rongwrong (Amsterdam).

SPECIAL THANKS Chris Rauschenberg & Janet Stein, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, RACC, Lu Yim, Physical Education, Tahni Holt and FLOCK, Kelly Rauer, Chelsea Petrakis, Shelley McLendon and The Siren Theater, Zac Pennington, Orna & David Berkowitz, Tim Hankins, Robert Tyree, Asaf Aharonson, Anne Carson, Dionne Warwick, and Burt Bacharach.

PRESENTING SUPPORT Additional support provided by Calligram. ::

Mohamed El Khatib Finir en beauté

Fri Sept 16 AND Sat Sept 17, 6:30 PM

French/Moroccan author and director

Mohamed El Khatib presents a solo lecture presentation on loss and remembrance, drawing from documents from his family’s past—newspaper clippings, emails, phone messages, scraps of exchanges with the father, recorded transcripts, videos. These snapshots of life evoke family, nationality, native language, memory, mourning and shift between documentary and fiction.

BOILER ROOM THEATRE, LINCOLN HALL, PSU: 1620 SW PARK AVE. ($16 ⁄ $20)

TEXT AND CONCEPTION BY

Mohamed El Khatib VISUAL ENVIRONMENT

Fred Hocké SOUNDSCAPE

Nicolas Jorio

BIOGRAPHIES M O H A M E D E L K H ATI B is an author, director, performer, and is based in France. His work has garnered success in such important arts events as the Avignon Festival. He attempts to confront drama with other media (films, installations, newspapers) and to observe the friction they produce.

After literature studies, and time at the CADAC

(Dramatic Art Center of Mexico) and a Ph.D in sociology about “the critique in the French press,” he co-founded in 2008 the collective Zirlib on a simple premise: aesthetics aren’t devoid of political sense. He has started with “Nowhere to Hide,” a reflection on the notion of grief, which will last for the next 15 years. Since 2011, Mohamed El Khatib has been supported by the L’L in Brussels—a place of research where he has been developing research around the writing of the intimate and attempts to explore, to the point of exhaustion, different modes of anti-spectacular exposition. In 2014–2015, he as an associate artist at the Centre Dramatique National Orléans/Loiret/Centre.

PRESENTING SUPPORT Supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. ::

FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES

HIGHER EDUCATION, ARTS, FRENCH LANGUAGE

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Alessandro Sciarroni UNTITLED_I will be there when you die

Fri Sept 16 AND Sat Sept 17, 8:30 PM

UNTITLED_I will be there when you die is a

choreographic and performative practice on the passing of time born out of a reflection on the art of juggling. This work represents the second chapter of a larger project entitled Will you still love me tomorrow?, which researches concepts of strain, perseverance, and endurance (Folk-s, (presented for TBA:15) 2012; UNTITLED_I will be there when you die, 2013; AURORA, 2015).

In this new work, the toss juggling (the throwing of objects) evokes the fragility of human existence. If Folk-s is a performance without eyes composed by ear, following the rhythm, I will be there when you die is like a work written with the eye.

The stunt of the juggler is made of different types of tricks. The patterns that can be created are almost endless, owing to the combination between the physical variations and the chosen pattern. ‘Passing’ is a mode of juggling with others. It’s the most important activity during the meeting with other jugglers.

Two, three, ten, twenty people can pass objects to each other, using tempos and rhythms that are now standardized worldwide.

The work strips away all the stereotypes that are commonly associated to this circus art in the collective imagination to allow its exploration as a language.

Practice, rule, discipline, commitment, and concentration, are the building blocks of this work that force the actors to stay in the present time—no chance to go back, again and again and again.

The piece has been presented at La Biennale Danza di Venezia, Romauropa Festival; Festival D’Automne à Paris, Le 104 Paris; Festival Spring Cherbourg; Festival Mirabilia; Julidans in Amsterdam; Abu Dhabi Art Fair Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Tanz Im August in Berlin; Zurcher Speaktakel; Festival Panorama Rio de Janeiro; Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne; Festival BIPOD Beirut; Athens Festival; PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland); and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), among others. LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL, PSU: 1620 SW PARK AVE. ($20 ⁄ $25)

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CASTING ORGANIZATION

Alessandro Sciarroni with Lorenzo Crivellari, Edoardo Demontis, Victor Garmendia Torija, Pietro Selva Bonino

Benedetta Morico

ORIGINAL MUSIC, SOUND, TRAINING

Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld

BIOGRAPHIES

LIGHTING DESIGN

ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI is an Italian artist active

Rocco Giansante

in the field of performing arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research.

His works are featured in contemporary dance and theater festivals, museums, and galleries, as well as in unconventional spaces and involve professionals from different disciplines.

His work goes beyond the traditional definitions of gender. He starts from a conceptual Duchamplike matrix, makes use of a theatrical framework, and he can use some techniques and experiences from dance, as well as circus or sports. In addition to the rigor, coherence and clarity of each creation, his work tries to uncover obsessions, fears and fragilities of the act of performing,

TECHNICAL MANAGER

Cosimo Maggini DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANT

Antonio Rinaldi, Peggy Olislaegers STUDY OF PROCESS

Lisa Gilardino PRODUCTION DIRECTOR

Marta Morico ABOVE: Photo by Alfredo Anceschi

PRESS OFFICE

Beatrice Giongo

ORGANIZATION

Chiara Fava

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through the repetition of a practice to the limits of the physical endurance of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and to an empathic relationship between the audience and the performers.

His works have been performed in 21 European countries, the US, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, and the UAE. Among the main events he has taken part in: the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Impulstanz Festival in Wien, the Venice Biennale, the Festival d’Automne and the Festival Séquence Danse at 104 in Paris, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Juli Dans Festival in Amsterdam, and he exhibited work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the MAXXI Museum in Rome.

His works have been presented at Antibodies Explo, Aerowaves, and Modul Dance. Over the years he took part in numerous European projects and research residences as Choreographic Dialogues (2010), Choreoroam (2011), Performing Gender (2014), and Migrant Bodies (2014-15): a research and choreography production project which aims to promote reflections and creations on the theme of migration and its cultural impact on the European and Canadian societies.

Sciarroni is supported by APAP - Advancing Performing Arts Projects - and his shows are produced by Marche Teatro in collaboration with

international co-producers such as the Comune di Bassano del Grappa / Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, the Biennale de la Danse / Maison de la Danse de Lyon, the Mercat de les Flors-Graner / Barcelona, Centrale Fies and the Association Corpoceleste_C.C.00# of which he is artistic director. It is also one of the artists of the Project Matilde, regional platform for the new scene in Marche.

Sciarroni is associate artist of le CENTQUATRE-Paris.

He will create in September 2016 a creation for the Ballet of National Opera of Lyon in the frame of the Biennale de la Danse de Lyon.

When LORENZO CRIVELL ARI discovered juggling, he fell in love immediately with the practice.

He has been juggling for 10 years and still now his favorite part of the day is the training. Crivellari studied in a circus school in Rome and has performed for with great contemporary jugglers such as Maksim Komaro, Stefan Sing, Ville Walo, among others. He started performing in 2007 and since then has work as a professional juggler and teaches juggling in Rome. He am also one of the organizers of the Juggling Convention in Rome, which is one of Italy’s largest juggling festivals.

EDOARDO DEMONTIS is a professional Juggler from Cagliari. Autodidact since 1998, he started to travel around Europe to learn and practice juggling.

He loves manipulating objects and the world of “balance.” Subsequently, he developed his own technique with clubs based on both these disciplines. In 2004/05, he approached to acrobatic in Madrid and in 2007 he studied for one year with Iris Ziordia. He was born as a street artist, but now he works as juggler and actor in circus, theaters, festivals, cabarets, and—of course—in street shows. He collaborates with the Italian trio RosselliCaspaniDemontis, with whom he performed in Poland at the European Juggling Convention in 2012, and Teatro Stabile della Sardegna, with whom is currently on tour in Italy performing Samuel Beckett’s Act sans paroles.

VICTOR GARMENDIA TORIJA studied sports until circus crossed his life. Torija studied circus in Madrid and before attending the University of Circus Arts in London. He has performed in Cirque du Soleil, Gandini Juggling, and for many others. “I remember this sentence: here you will learn technique, art you will learned in your life;” circus, like art, keeping the fight. Torija’s personal projects are about manipulation of circus/everyday objects as way of expression. Torija feels lucky to be part of this project and its message and would like to express his thanks to Alessandro and all the team that have made it possible.

PIETRO SELVA BONINO graduated in 2011 from FLIC Circus School in Turin, Italy, specializing in juggling and object manipulation. While in school, he attended many dance workshops with companies such as Les Slovaks, Ultima Vez, Rootlessroot, Bistaki, developing a strong interest in both movement and dance. In 2012, he attended the Ecole Internationale De Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Since 2013, Pietro has worked with the performer and choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni in UNTITLED_I will be there when you die, currently on tour. In January, he founded the company “SUGAR” with Andrea Sperotto, at the moment creating CANARDS_temporary title, which premiered in summer of 2015.

PABLO ESBERT LILIENFELD was born in Madrid.

He creates audiovisual and dance/performance work from 2005. His solo EDIT was selected by the European network Aerowaves and presented internationally. He has participated in the European projects Choreoroam Europe (2011) and Performing Gender (2013). He collaborates as musician, dancer, and assistant with Alessandro Sciarroni as well as other choreographers in Germany, Switzerland, and Spain. He also develops musical and video art projects. He studied audio-visual communication in the Universidad

Complutense de Madrid, contemporary dance in the RCPD, and music in the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid. (pabloesbertlilienfeld.com) After completing his degree in History of Art with a thesis in film studies, ROCCO GIANSANTE started working for Lenz Rifrazioni, an Italian experimental theatre company based in Parma. His lighting design brings a new visual dimension to the works of Lenz. Selected for the MA in Filmmaking at the prestigious Goldsmiths College, he moves to London to study sound design for film. While working as a freelancer in film and the performing arts, he also co-directs the film-making workshop of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, dedicated to the production of films and documentaries of Jewish interest. Since 2011, Giansante has lived in Jerusalem where he’s involved in a series of artistic projects focusing on identity and history.

Giansante is also a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include the Portuguese Nouvelle Vague, Israeli cinema, post-political Italian cinema, Badiou and cinema, and contemporary live art performances.

LISA GILARDINO is a live arts manager, producer and curator. After studying contemporary arts history in Italy and France, she has been responsible for the promotion and the international relations of Lenz Rifrazioni company and has worked as general manager and programmer at Natura Dei Teatri Arts Festival from 2001 to 2011 (Parma, IT). In 2011 she has been selected as partecipant of the one year training workshop project Festival lab for festival producers and curators. In the frame of this project she has been invited to Festival Baltic Circle (Helsinki, FI) as a curator in residence to develop her project Dreamcatchers. Since 2011 she works as a freelance manager with artists focusing on promotion, development and advice. She actually works with Motus and Alessandro Sciarroni. Since 2013 she gives workshops in Italy and abroad to artists and managers on strategies and practices to promote live arts projects.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT MARCHE TEATRO–CORPOCELESTE_C.C.00# with Comune di Bassano del Grappa/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea; Biennale de la danse/ Maison de la Danse de Lyon; AMAT; Mercat de les Flors/Graner (Barcelona); Dance Ireland (Dublin).

Realized in the frame of the EU Modul Dance project promoted by the European Dancehouse Network with the support of the EU Cultural Programme 2007-13; Centrale Fies; Santarcangelo dei Teatri •12 •13 •14 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza. Première: Ancona 17 July 2013. ::

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Geumhyung Jeong 7ways

Fri Sept 16 AND Sat Sept 17, 8:30 PM

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body and the machine? In an empty space, illuminated only with cold light, Geumhyung Jeong explores the potential of the human: the sensuality, power, and mutability of the body. In seven peculiar “duets” with mundane objects (ranging from household appliances to mannequins), Jeong bestows a bizarre and disconcerting life to the inanimate through an intense and risky interaction with her own body, Combining dance, puppetry, and a technical mastery of ABOVE: Geumhyung Jeong. Photo courtesy of the artist RIGHT: Rinde Eckert, performing as part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Off Center Festival. Photo

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theatrical conventions, the result is a moving choreography of the body and mind, crossing the dividing line between the human and inhuman, hallucination and reality. NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS, 810 SE BELMONT ST. ($20 ⁄ $25)

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the things surrounding it. Through intense, risky interactions with her own body, she bestows a strange, disconcerting life upon plain, everyday objects. Common things, once they meet with the artist’s body, come to life, become a partner in the game of pulling and pushing, and cause anxiety by their mysterious presence. The result is a moving choreography of the body and mind,

crossing the division into animate and inanimate, human and inhuman, hallucination and reality.

Her show remains poetic and amusing, provoking reflection on the divisions inside the human being: where does the boundary between the body and the machine lie?

Jeong studied Theatre and acting (BA) at Hoseo University in Asan, South Korea, dance and performance (MA) at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea, and Animation Film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in Seoul, South Korea. Her works have been presented by New Museum (New York/US), Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona(Spain), Seoul Museum of Art(South Korea), Tanz Im August Festival 2015 (Berlin/Germany), ImpulsTanz Festival 2014 (Vienna/Austria), Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2014 (Zurich/Switzerland) and many others.

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Rinde Eckert My Fools: A Life in Song

Sat Sept 17, 6:30 PM

Rinde Eckert has been writing, composing, performing, and

directing evocative and haunting performance pieces and plays that have pushed at the edges of recognized theatrical form since the early 1980s. My Fools: A Life in Song combines song, dramatic monologues, lecture, and video from his archive. Beginning with a montage of visually striking moments from his shows across the decades, My Fools is a series of variations on a smart, slightly cock-eyed Everyman who begins his journey with a pure sense of mission and descends into the maelstrom. WINNINGSTAD THEATRE (PORTLAND’5): 1111 SW BROADWAY. ($20 ⁄ $25)

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Rinde Eckert is managed by Susan Endrizzi Morris, California Artists Management (CalArtists.com)

ARTIST STATEMENT “I have been trying to build a theatrical logic that is fiercely interdisciplinary—a theatre that accepts various modalities of meaning and feeling without subordinating one to the other. My work occurs on stage with lights and sound, and usually music, and is deeply concerned with language. Using various theatrical forms to say what I have to say, I am interested more in poetic gestalt than in narrative, though there is usually a central narrative that I treat as a kind of fugue subject or governing metaphor. I need to feel I’m learning with each new project, and that each work is a piece of a much larger puzzle. I think I do my best work in an atmosphere of joy and critical thought, in that order. There is such a thing as soul and good theatre elevates it.”

MY FOOLS A Performance History They don’t disappear, the fools I’ve created, the losers with big ideas, big voices, hanging out in their narrow rooms, dreaming, dancing, contemplating the world as if they were the philosopher kings, the happy geniuses of their households.

They burrow into my psyche and wait, patiently until they’re called, asked to sing again, asked to play the ukelele, the slide guitar, the accordion.

Asked to remember something, speak some truth,

mourn. ponder, or stop the world from spinning for a second so we can all catch up. I love these fools, tender hearted and fierce, observant and silly, tragic and mighty. I love them for their strangeness, their wisdom, and their vulnerability. They embarrass me in the best way imaginable. They humble me. They insist I keep looking at their shapes and shadows: better selves, worse selves, broken selves, saved selves. My life is a blessing of holy fools. They guide me home on the darkest nights. —Rinde Eckert, 2016

performances during three off-Broadway runs, all with the original cast and director. Rinde Eckert’s work has received the Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk nominations.

Eckert and director David Schweizer’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Pericles premiered in April 2016 at Two River Theatre in New Jersey. Current theater and music projects in which he performs and writes include My Lai with the Kronos Quartet; the Beth Morrison Production Aging Magician with collaborators Paola Prestini and Julian Crouch; and Five Beasts with composer/performer Ned Rothenberg and beat box artist Adam Matta.

Rinde Eckert was the 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. An inaugural Doris Duke Artist in the performing arts, he has also been honored to receive the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Marc Blitzstein Award. Rinde Eckert lives in New York with his wife, the actress/playwright Ellen McLaughlin.

PRESENTING SUPPORT The performance of Rinde Eckert’s My Fools: A Life in Song is made possible through a generous performing artist award from the Doris Duke Foundation. ::

BIOGRAPHIES RIN D E EC KE RT has been writing, composing, performing and directing evocative and haunting performance pieces and plays that have pushed at the edges of recognized theatrical form since the early 1980s. His virtuosic command of gesture, language and song takes this total theatre artist beyond the traditional boundaries of what a ‘play,’ a ‘dance piece,’ an ‘opera’ or a ‘musical’ might be.

Eckert creates solo work, chamber pieces and through-composed operas with larger casts in collaborations with choreographers, composers, directors, and new music ensembles. His Opera/ New Music Theatre productions have toured throughout the US and to major European and Asian festivals.

Eckert’s art is formally inventive, emphatically theatrical, and asks difficult questions, a series of variations on a smart, slightly cock-eyed Everyman who begins his journey with a pure sense of mission and descends into the maelstrom. He describes many of his characters as “little men with big ideas whose consequences of their hubris are often disastrous.” His plays and theater writing credits include Highway Ulysses, Horizon, Orpheus X, and the award-winning And God Created Great Whales, which had 227

“Rinde Eckert is not the voice of reason. We need a name for the kind of character he creates. Call it Rindes. They’re losers for sure. A little odd. Not bad guys at all but a little out of whack. Eckert’s latest one-man show is a work of songs, dramatic monologues, lecture and video, his ‘anthology of theatrical loners.’” — M A R K S W E D, L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S

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ON SIGHT :

A letter from PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy Here we are, on the cusp of a new space. It is empty, and we have to fill it. Or, it is full, and we have to empty it out? It doesn’t (dark) matter either way, it is there, and the artists will do as they please.

There have been many debates about where to draw the lines and boundaries in this space: what is visual, what is performative, what is anointed, what is new, what is mainstage, what is centerstage, what is not “of” stage at all? These debates parallel those in the art world, the same world we simultaneously work for and against, the one we are trying to evolve.

In this year’s guidebook we chose not to draw distinctions between genres.

This is not a disclaimer; it is a position. I would say this is at the core of our curatorial mandate. She does what she wants. She being all things but especially that which changes the space just by considering the opportunity to do so.

Our programming, our festival, and our new building make up this “new space.” It is a body with concrete bones, a place to find art, ideas, and each other.

PICA’s floating heart and brain have been searching for this body for a long time.

In this body we will not rest, we will not wall the stuff of art in, we will not keep it orderly and clean, we will not abide by terms and boundaries that have long ago lost their meaning, we will not lock anybody or anything in. We will continue to respond to what artists are making in the moment. Our bodies old and new cannot contain us. Our bodies take us places. We will go with the flow.

Makeup on Empty Space* presents themselves as an exhibition inside of a festival. A body within a body. The video essays, installations, materials, and happenings of this exhibition are performing Ma (間). There is no negative space or in between, there is only progression, interval, and relationship. When that space is a person it comes and goes. When that space is a room of images and sound, it stays for a while. We can’t change that, we can’t curate that, we (as in the artists, you, and I) can just consider the substance of space.

Support for Makeup on Empty Space is provided by PICA’s Visual Art Circle: Jeanine Jablonski, Founding Chair; Dan Winter, Founding Co-Chair; John Forsgren; Allie Furlotti; Katherine Gentry; Linda Hutchins and John Montague; Sarah Miller Meigs; Topher Sinkinson; Stephanie Snyder; Jeff Stuhr and Peter Kalen.

PICA’s Visual Art Circle is a group of patrons providing dedicated support for visual arts programming year round.

To learn more about PICA's Visual Art Circle or join, email kim@pica.org Additional support for PICA’s visual art programs provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Keijaun Thomas Distance is Not Separation: Section 1. Selective Seeing: Corners, You, Section 2: Painted Images, Colored Symbols: She’s Hard, She Q SUN SEPT 11 – TUE SEPT 13, 8:30 PM

Thomas investigates the black femme body in relation to the athletic body, thinking about value and skills, rethinking and rebalancing how we see and observe sports imagery, the labor and value of craftsmanship, the hairdresser, the janitor, the ‘exotic’ dancer and how language constructs and transcribes symbols on to the black femme body.

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Butters Gallery Ltd 157 NE Grand, 97232 503-248-9378 buttersgallery.com

SE MARTIN LUTHER KING

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R ose G a rden Arena

Blackfish Gallery 420 NW 9th, 97209 503-224-2634 blackfish.com

417 NW 9th, 97209 503-224-0521 elizabethleach.com

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Augen Gallery 716 NW Davis, 97209 503-546-5056 817 SW 2nd, 97204 503-224-8182 augengallery.com

134 NW 8th, 97209 503-287-3886 hartmanfineart.net

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Ampersand Gallery 2916 NE Alberta, 97211 503-805-5458 ampersandgallerypdx.com

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Visit each venue’s website or padaoregon.org for up-to-date listings. Ask your hotel concierge for the current issue of PADA’s Portland Art guide.

padaoregon.org 13 The Art Gym

Marylhurst University 17600 Pacific Hwy, 97036 503-699-6243 marylhurst.edu/theartgym

14 Blue Sky

Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts 122 NW 8th, 97209 503-225-0210 blueskygallery.org

15 Center for Contemporary

Art & Culture

Pacific Northwest College of Art 511 NW Broadway, 97209 503-226-4391, ccac.pnca.edu

16 Disjecta Contemporary

Art Center

8371 N Interstate, 97217 503-286-9449, disjecta.org

17 Douglas F. Cooley

Memorial Art Gallery

Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock, 97202 503-517-7851, reed.edu/gallery

18 The Hoffman Gallery at OCAC Oregon College of Art and Craft 8245 SW Barnes, 97225 503-297-5544, ocac.edu

19 Newspace Center

for Photography

1632 SE 10th, 97214 503-963-1935 newspacephoto.org

20 Portland Institute for

Contemporary Art (PICA)

415 SW 10th, 97205 15 NE Hancock, 97212 503-242-1419, pica.org

21 Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park, 97205 503-226-2811 portlandartmuseum.org

22 Ronna and Eric Hoffman

Gallery of Contemporary Art

Lewis & Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill, 97219 503-768-7687 lclark.edu/hoffman _gallery

23 White Box

University of Oregon in Portland 24 NW 1st, 97209 503-412-3689 whitebox.uoregon.edu

24 Yale Union

800 SE 10th, 97214 503-236-7996 yaleunion.org

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART Oregon’s premier college of art and design since 1909, Pacific Northwest College of Art has helped shape the region’s visual arts landscape for more than a century.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS DESIGN ARTS - Communication Design - Illustration MEDIA ARTS - Animated Arts - Intermedia - Photography - Video + Sound STUDIO ARTS - Painting - Printmaking - Sculpture

HALLIE FORD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES MFA PROGRAMS - Applied Craft + Design (in partnership with OCAC)

- Collaborative Design - Print Media - Visual Studies - Low-Residency Visual Studies MA PROGRAM - Critical Theory + Creative Research

LIBERAL ARTS - Creative Writing

Fall Open Houses on November 19, 2016 More information/RSVP at pnca.edu/admissions/c/admissions_events PNCA offers evening and weekend continuing education classes and children/young adult programming in the summer. The campus also houses the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture and its professional and student galleries are open to the public daily and during First Thursdays.

Pacific Northwest College of Art 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR 97209

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PNCA.EDU

1300 W Burnside St, Portland OR

www.aesop.com

1001 se water ave at taylor clarklewispdx.com

503 235 2294

Show your TBA pass and receive 10% off your next meal

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Featuring 100+ authors including

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Nov. 5, 2016

9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Portland Art Museum

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advance

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TBA DAY-BY-DAY : ON STAGE : ON SCREEN : ON LOCATION : ◣

ON SIGHT:

■ THE WORKS :

Thu Sept 08 H

6:30 PM ■ Opening Night Dinner

$100

A

8:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

8:30 PM ■ Kelly Pratt, Fanfare: Birth > Rebirth

Free

A

9:30 PM ■ Juliana Huxtable

Free

A

◆ INSTITUTE :

PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL ON PICA.ORG OR WITH OUR APP: Visit pica.org/tba to learn more about this Festival’s artists and projects, and plan your schedule. Too, you can follow TBA anywhere using our brand new iOS app, keeping all the latest Festival updates close-at hand. To download the app, visit pica.org/app on your iPhone or iPad, or search the App Store for “T:BA:16”.

PIONEER COURTHOUSE SQUARE 701 SW 6TH AVE

D PORTLAND ART MUSEUM 1219 SW PARK AVE

F WINNINGSTAD THEATRE 1111 SW BROADWAY

G BODYVOX

1201 NW 17TH AVE

H PNCA

511 NW BROADWAY

I

B

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Panel Festival as Platform

Free

B

**

D

6:30 PM

Christian Rizzo, d’aprés une histoire vraie

8:30 PM

Ivo Dimchev, Songs from my shows Narcissister, Narcissistic Advance

10:30 PM ■ PMOMA at THE WORKS

K BLACK BOX THEATRE,

REED COLLEGE 3203 SE WOODSTOCK BLVD

L COOLEY GALLERY,

REED COLLEGE 3203 SE WOODSTOCK BLVD 046

Free† $20 ⁄ 25 E $20 ⁄ 25 F

$12 ⁄ 15

I

Free

H

Free

C

Free

A

**

D

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Narcissister

Free

B

2:00 PM ◆ Lectures Guest Scholars

Free

B

3:00 PM

$20–40‡

J

3:30 PM ◆ Panel Portland’s Next Wave…

Free

B

6:30 PM

Christian Rizzo, d’aprés une histoire vraie

$20 ⁄ 25

E

Meg Wolfe, New Faithful Disco

$20 ⁄ 25

F

7:00 PM ◆ Field Guide Narcissister

Free†

7:00 PM

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Art of Luv…

$20 ⁄ 25*

8:30 PM

Ivo Dimchev, Songs from my shows

$20 ⁄ 25

F

Narcissister, Narcissistic Advance

$16 ⁄ 20

A

$8 ⁄ 10

A

K

Sun Sept 11 10:00 AM ◆ Workshop Roberto Martinez

$12 ⁄ 15

I

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Free

H

Free

C

◣

A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Morgan Thorson, Still Life 12:30 PM ◆ Conversation A.K. Burns

Free

A

**

D

Free

B

2:00 PM ◆ Panel Black Queer Feminist Performance…

Free

B

3:00 PM

Britt Hatzius, Blind Cinema

$20–40‡

J

6:30 PM

Meg Wolfe, New Faithful Disco

$20 ⁄ 25

F

7:00 PM ◆ Field Guide Keijaun Thomas Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Art of Luv…

Free $20 ⁄ 25*

8:30 PM ◣ Keijaun Thomas, Distance is Not Separation Free 10:30 PM ■ Kelly Pratt, No No Soliciting

$8 ⁄ 10

K

Free

H

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Britt Hatzius

Free

H

Thu Sept 15

$12 ⁄ 15

I

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Free

H

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Morgan Thorson

Free

H

Carlos Motta, Nefandus and Deseos

$8 ⁄ 10

J

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Art of Luv…

$20 ⁄ 25*

K

8:30 PM ◣ Keijaun Thomas, Distance is Not Separation Free

A

$8 ⁄ 10

A

Free

H

12:00 PM

◣

Free

A

**

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble Free Free

B

7:00 PM

$20 ⁄ 25*

K

8:30 PM

◣

Keijaun Thomas, Distance is Not Separation Free

10:30 PM ■ DJ Klyph, Welcome to the Neighborhood

F

Free

K

Free

A

Allie Hankins, better to be alone…

$16 ⁄ 20

G

$8 ⁄ 10

A

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Free

H

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Ali Chahrour

Free

H

5:00 PM ◆ Field Guide Ali Chahrour

Free†

H

6:30 PM

Ali Chahrour, Leila’s Death

$20 ⁄ 25

F

Mohamed El Khatib, Finir en beauté

$16 ⁄ 20*

E

7:00 PM

Britt Hatzius, Blind Cinema

$20–40‡

J

8:30 PM

Allie Hankins, better to be alone…

$16 ⁄ 20

G

Alessandro Sciarroni, UNTITLED…

$20 ⁄ 25

E

Geumhyung Jeong, 7ways

$20 ⁄ 25

I

$5–10

A

Fri Sept 16

10:30 PM ■ DUG & YGB, Gifted Grounds

Sat Sept 17 10:00 AM ◆ Workshop Dylan Mira

$12 ⁄ 15

I

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Free

H

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Alessandro Sciarroni

Free

B

2:00 PM ◆ Conversation Munyaneza ⁄ Michael

Free

B

3:00 PM

$20–40‡

J

3:30 PM ◆ Lecture Maya Mikdashi

Free

B

4:00 PM ◆ Lecture Junaid Sarieddeen

Free

B

6:30 PM

Mohamed El Khatib, Finir en beauté

$16 ⁄ 20*

E

Rinde Eckert, My Fools: A Life in Song

$20 ⁄ 25

F

Allie Hankins, better to be alone…

$16 ⁄ 20

G

Alessandro Sciarroni, UNTITLED…

$20 ⁄ 25

E

Geumhyung Jeong, 7ways

$20 ⁄ 25

I

$8 ⁄ 10

A

8:30 PM

Britt Hatzius, Blind Cinema

10:30 PM ■ She’s in Parties

Sun Sept 18 10:00 AM ◆ Workshop Untitled_Juggling…

$12 ⁄ 15

I

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Free

H

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Free

A

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Cekwana ⁄ gaskin

Free

B

3:00 PM

Britt Hatzius, Blind Cinema

$20–40‡

J

Mohamed El Khatib, Finir en beauté

$16 ⁄ 20*

E

Free

H

Free

A

SEPT 19 – OCT 15 See pica.org for hours

◣

Bunnybrains

$8 ⁄ 10

See pica.org for hours

◣

A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

D H

5:30 PM ◆ Lectures Creative Exchange Lab Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, Art of Luv…

$20 ⁄ 25

Sacha Yanow, Dad Band

SEPT 22 – OCT 20

◣ Bunnybrains

Morgan Thorson, Still Life

Ali Chahrour, Leila’s Death

7:00 PM

8:30 PM ◣ Dylan Mira, Duty Free

Tue Sept 13 11:00 AM

A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

6:30 PM

A

10:00 AM ◆ Workshop Marbles Radio

10:30 PM ■ Don’t Get Me Started

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

A

Mon Sept 12

7:00 PM

A

10:30 PM ■ Cinema Project, The Mechanics Laid Bare

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

10:30 PM ■ Pepper Pepper, Critical Mascara

A

$16 ⁄ 20 A A

Sat Sept 10

Britt Hatzius, Blind Cinema

Free $8 ⁄ 10

$8 ⁄ 10

10:00 AM ◆ Workshop House of Aquarius

NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS

4122 NE SANDY BLVD

A

Free

810 SE BELMONT ST

J HOLLYWOOD THEATRE

E

Free

11:30 AM ◆ Conversation Juliana Huxtable

E LINCOLN HALL, PSU 1620 SW PARK AVE

$15–30

8:30 PM ◣ Dylan Mira, Duty Free 9:30 PM ◣ A.K. Burns Record Release Party

◆ Field Guide Morgan Thorson, Still Life

H

Free

Luke Wyland, AU and the Camas HS Choir

10:30 PM ■ burke jam presents Blind Coven

Morgan Thorson, Still Life

D

Free

7:30 PM

H

3:00 PM

**

6:00 PM ◆ Field Guide A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

I

12:00 PM

415 SW 10TH AVE

12:30 PM ◆ Conversation Visual Artists

Free

A PICA AT HANCOCK

C

A

Morgan Thorson, Still Life

$0–15

Libby Werbel, PMOMA

B PICA AT WEST END

H

Free

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Morgan Thorson, Still Life

15 NE HANCOCK ST

Free

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

10:00 AM ◆ Workshop Father Stephaun Blahnik

12:00 PM ◣ A.K. Burns, A Smeary Spot

Our Central Box Office at 15 NE Hancock is also the hub of Festival activity, so you can pick up tickets or passes when seeing a show or stopping by our late-night Beer Garden.

Visiting from out of town?

Visitors receive generous discounts on passes, so you can see more on your trip and still save.

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

Fri Sept 09

Libby Werbel, PMOMA

VISIT THE BOX OFFICE FOR TICKETS, PASSES, AND DISCOUNTS:

Wed Sept 14 Free

11:00 AM ◣ Bunnybrains

A A

*

Reservations required for TBA pass holders.

** Included with museum admission or TBA pass. †

Purchase of ticket (or Museum admission/TBA pass access for Morgan Thorson) to associated performance is required. ‡ Pass holder and other restrictions apply. See pica.org for details.

pica.org

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