THRU Magazine Archive
SubRosa Dance Collective in promo image for Living the Room. Movement and Flow offers six Portland dance films worth seeing. Tonight at Whitsell Auditorium, Northwest Film Center shall put on a concert of a half dozen contemporary dance performances. By “concert” I mean screening, and by “performances” I mean movies. It is an important distinction, but […]
I dropped in for the “sneak peek” preview night for Interlude, “Unleashed and Unexpected.” Tonight and tomorrow afternoon, PDX Contemporary Ballet is presenting the work of six choreographers at Coho theatre in Northwest Portland. I’ve been out of the arts review circuit for a few months. But on Thursday night, some personal stuff had me winding […]
Pieter Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565), on which the performance, Sisters in the Snow, is based. All text written by Kathleen Dolan. Listen to the artists talk about their work at Fertile Ground 2017. The Fertile Ground Festival is back for its 7th year, presenting new works that run the theatre gamut: circus arts, staged […]
NW Dance Project opens its 13th season on a high note with Bolero + Three world premieres opened NW Dance Project’s 13th season last night at Lincoln Hall and the stage transformed with each, holding what felt like three completely different worlds. The range of everything and everyone involved was far reaching: dance, lighting, costumes, […]
Malpaso Dance Company offers the dove to Portland. Cuba, for me, has always been a far away neighbor, some mysterious paradise, and a land of armed revolutionaries. Americans are pretty much informed of Cuban identity from Fidel Castro and Ricky Ricardo: Both are outdated. These notions will evolve into a more honest portrayal of Cuban culture as […]