THRU Magazine Archive
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Now getting deep in to the brush and organic material is clinging to your clothes, sweat is on your brow and the mirage of relief is beginning to appear lucid in your imagination. It is day four at the festival. Initially, you look forward to the weekend of activities, but on Sunday, you realize there […]
Forty years ago, on September 11th, the Presidential Palace in Santiago was attacked. The elected President of Chile was ousted by coup, replaced with a CIA backed sham democracy under the dictator Pinochet. The name is familiar to many, but few understand the story. I had read about it for the first time in the […]