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Dance Interdisciplinary

The Crucial Movement of Insignificant Specs

The Word Hand is a Reminder of Temporality Imagine that a line is drawn everywhere you move and this line follows you, leaving a permanent impression wherever you are. This trail would become a rod between my writing desk and the kitchen—it would circle the couch and spin off to the bathroom with more regularity […]

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Report War & Peace

Deconstructing ISIL (Part 3)

Official White House photo by Pete Souza The Red Line: Intervention in Syria and Iraq On August 21st, 2013, a chemical attack targets a Syrian rebel-held territory near Damascus, with surface rockets containing sarin, a deadly gas, killing more than one thousand civilians at once, and wounding more than three thousand. War cries for airstrikes against […]

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Theatre

Family Ties and The Mariel Boatlift

Five men and one woman traveling from Cuba to Florida are stranded on a fishing boat aimlessly drifting off course after a troublesome storm. They are exiles from Cuba during the summer of 1980. Captain Rolando Conesa is rescuing estranged family members with his son, Roli. They are not aware that they have been set […]

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Report War & Peace

Deconstructing ISIL (Part 2)

The Arab Spring On the seventeenth day of December, 2010, in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself aflame  after a lifetime of struggle with oppressive police conditions and poverty. Mohamed’s final act of life came outside the municipality building of Sidi Bouzid in protest to the confiscation of his street vending wares as well as his inability to talk […]

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Live Music

Live Recordings of Collin McKelvey and PDX Electronic Musicians

Four electronic music artists with varying backgrounds assembled at the Alice Coltrane Memorial Coliseum and Wazoo on October 4th, 2014. Headlining was Collin McKervey, and supporting was Soul Ipsum, Terror Apart, and Subdwarf. Collin McKelvey (aka ORBLESS) is on Soundcloud as @c-mck. He is a San Francisco based artist working with sound and video to […]