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Dance Festival

T:BA Day 8 | We Are Powerful People

Wondering why I haven’t spent more time at the Ace Hotel next to PICA. Here now writing. I realize numerous artists are staying here or nearby and this happens to be a hub for creative people, offering an aesthetic that is both welcoming and creative. I could have conducted interviews here just by waiting for […]

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Dance

T:BA 9/20 Miguel Gutierrez

Hopelessly lost on my bicycle, somewhere in the vicinity of OMSI and a confusing jumble of construction sites, I found the extremely poorly-labeled Hampton Opera Center just in time to be let in.  The stage was in the round.  Lit up luminous white and stark, with several blank screens set at  peculiar angles on the various sides.  […]

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Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA Mid-Week | Standing on the Bubble

T:BA has been and continues to be roughly a month-long program including the visual art. The feature performances on two successive weekends create an expanding bubble that pops on the Saturday night preceding final events on Sunday. The broadest curve happens during mid-week; this is also when things start to reach maximum tension. Being a […]

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Festival Music

T:BA Day 5 | Don’t Blow It

The Blow is a girl making up girls with another girl. At least that’s what I gathered from last night’s performance We Put It Together So We Could Take It Apart. Melissa Dyne seems to be an important source of inspiration for Khaela Maricich as they interact entirely from the voice of Khaela. Set upon […]

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Dance Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA 9/14 Trajal Harrell | Critical Mascara

Biking in the crisp autumn from ne forty-second down to the river, across the Broadway bridge, to plunge into my first attempt to navigate the new bike lanes recently carved into the Pearl, I arrived at the performance of Trajel Harrell’s Made to Measure a bit sweaty.  Things becoming sweaty were to become a theme of the evening, as […]