DANCE

My Year in Tango: Dénouement

I am wondering if you are inspired to try tango, or exhausted from the sheer thought of it?

It is our last chapter together. I am wondering if you are inspired to try tango, or exhausted from the sheer thought of it? Or wondering how on earth people engage in such odd behaviors…and for what?! Have these weeks …

 

Dancing to the how and why of ‘It’

Katherine Longstreth in "O Where." Photo: Marv Johnson

By MARTHA ULLMAN WEST

What is the “it” in “The How and the Why of It,” the title that Katherine Longstreth and San Francisco choreographer  Christy Funsch bestowed on their new show, which opened in Studio 2 at Zoomtopia on …

 

MUSIC

Choral climaxes

Anna Song led In Mulieribus's singers up the aisle to open the ensemble's May 5 concert.

by Bruce Browne

 “The Spectacular Now” is the provocative title of an upcoming movie. It can also apply to the “now” of the time we are sitting in a concert hall. Last Sunday, it did exactly that for this listener.

 

Weekend MusicWatch: Season swan songs

Portland Opera's "Falstaff":  Caitlin Mathes as Meg Page, Eduardo Chama
as Falstaff, Angela Niederloh as Dame Quickly;.© Portland Opera / Cory
Weaver

To everything – except the NBA playoffs, which seem to stretch on forever (especially if the Trail Blazers aren’t involved) – there is a season, and in Oregon classical music, it pretty much ends now, just in time for outdoor …

 
 

THEATER

“Aloha” Absurdity, “Crooked” Congruity

To say Theatre Vertigo's "Aloha Say the Pretty Girls" overdoes it, is an understatement.

Okay, here’s what I hoped: to come away from Theatre Vertigo and CoHo this weekend feeling sorry for having recently strayed from them in favor of shiny newer toys (Action/Adventure, Post5, Capital I). While half of my findings inspired such …

 

Where the wild thoughts are: in the theater, it’s all political

Portland Opera's "Falstaff":  Caitlin Mathes as Meg Page, Eduardo Chama
as Falstaff, Angela Niederloh as Dame Quickly;.© Portland Opera / Cory
Weaver

When you walk into the theater for a night out, do you leave your politics at the door? Or do you expect to see the big issues of the day reflected on the stage?

After a busy run that included …

 

VISUAL ART

Back to the land: Possum or chicken?

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By MARK FELDMAN

One of the most striking photos in Lucas Foglia’s “A Natural Order” is the large-scale color portrait of Acorn, who stands partly obscured in scrubby woods, shirtless, hip thrust to the side, holding a cast iron skillet. …

 

Two Transcendental Animations

This BAFTA-winning, thought-provoking short is a flagship of the 2013 NW Animation Festival's great curation.

Aha! An insect…
is a metaphor for a man,
who is a microcosm of the universe,
which metes out measures of time that can only be perceived subjectively,
depending upon the current length of one’s life and the richness of …