THRU Magazine Archive
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 […]
Portland improvisers Dr. Catherine Lee and Matt Hannafin’s self-released LP Five Shapes Five Shapes lulls the mind with its gentle spaciousness into a personal creative space. It is five improvisations of nameless shapes, making one whole prime number. In case you forgot, five cannot be divided by any other whole number (hence prime). Recorded live in […]
Spooky electro artist Lota released the Amarantia EP last month on Pakapi Records The haunting introduction may lead you to believe that a droning synth-noise album is in store. As soon as you settle into that, the feeling changes. A beat drops and rhythms push out of that darkness. Psychoactive rain showers from sideways planes, […]
Remember the nineties by getting to know Clyde Peterson. Portland’s screening of Torrey Pines will be special for you if you choose to go. And why not? It’s a Monday night! Presented by Northwest Film Center at the cozy and acoustically ideal Whitsell Auditorium, it features a live band with Zach Burba, Jacob Jaffe, and […]