THRU Magazine Archive
Malpaso Dance Company offers the dove to Portland. Cuba, for me, has always been a far away neighbor, some mysterious paradise, and a land of armed revolutionaries. Americans are pretty much informed of Cuban identity from Fidel Castro and Ricky Ricardo: Both are outdated. These notions will evolve into a more honest portrayal of Cuban culture as […]
Kyle Abraham brings Black Lives Matter to the center stage in a provocative performance on racial violence. I’m sitting in front of my computer screen, hunched and tired and frustrated. I’m re-watching the brutal video of the death of Eric Garner for the first time since the video came to light and tears are streaming down my face. […]
A couple of hours after experiencing Hervé Koubi’s choreographed defiance of neat and sterilized political boundaries, What The Day Owes To The Night continues to spin in my head and ripple throughout my body. This production unfurled from a deeply personal space, exploring cross-cultural intersections between masculinity, identity, and colonialism. The journey began when, […]
L-E-V pummels theater walls with fine dance and street music. Political activism has gotten so fracturous — possibly because it is so ignored by politicians — that radicals on the left have turned against their strongest potential allies. It was seen when unofficial Black Lives Matter protesters shut down a Seattle Bernie Sanders rally in […]
It was a dance-off last night at the Arlene Schnizter Concert Hall, or a tap-off, to be specific. The show starts with tappers merging from both sides of the stage, five on one side and four on the other, making the nine members of Dorrance Dance, a tap troupe from New York City. The sound mounted […]