A casual backyard bullshit match becomes enlightening radio at Dan Ohara’s house in North Portland. We happily glaze over a gamut of topics as the beers crack. Andrew joins us as well. This is the soft opener of Season 2 for Horizon at End Times. Rus Archer was the first and most heard guest of […]
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Director’s Choice Show by NW Dance Project
I recently attended the 10th Anniversary Director’s Choice performance by NW Dance Project. The event was in itself a compelling collection of contemporary dance, created here in Portland, Oregon. It also provided a great digest in to the company itself. Relatively young in the standard of things, I hope to see Ten More Years of […]
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Ten More Years
Director’s Choice Sweeps Away Anniversary with Debut Will NW Dance Project fans fill the house for a series of reruns? Probably. It’s not like a bad movie that for some reason you just keep seeing on TV or can bring up on Netflix any time. What if a debut was added to the balance? Definitely. […]
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Dance as Transcendence
NW Dance Project 10th Anniversary Performance begins with a piece entitled, “State of Matter.” As the title suggests, this work explores the melancholy beauty held in the contemplation of human impermanence. Dancers seem to melt and move into one another while spoken word implores the viewer to contemplate the transient nature of existence, ever altering […]
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I Am Winston Smith
I have come to see myself as Winston Smith. Every morning, I rebuild my civilization through the news, fed through a little screen with cameras pointing at me. On Twitter, I repost the news. I create nothing. I investigate nothing. I simply read the article, post my own propaganda in less than 140 characters and […]