A life in the dance theater
Bob Hicks
April 18, 2021
Former Oregon Ballet Theatre star Gavin Larsen’s “Being a Ballerina”: a memoir to sweep you off your feet.
Former Oregon Ballet Theatre star Gavin Larsen’s “Being a Ballerina”: a memoir to sweep you off your feet.
It’s the top of a new day for heads in hat-happy Portland. K.B. Dixon’s street portraits show off the evidence.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
Eugene’s Oregon Composers Forum is taking its Music Today Festival online – with more than 60 new works.
In the final of a three-part series, Pat Rose talks with photographer Susan Bein abut her influences and her iPhone art.
Streamers: The indie fest rolls out a virtual and live-event 20th season with a lineup strong on documentaries.
Sue Taylor considers the work of Dennis Cunningham, whose deft linocuts of Oregon fishing reflect the fabric of life in the state. Cunningham died last week.
Part two of a three-part profile of creative Portland photographers features Laura Kurtenbach.
Pacific City author Ben Moon’s memoir, “Denali,” is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award.
Pat Rose profiles three of Portland’s most creative photographers. Part 1: Grace Weston.
How a monologue series about race, gender, and sexual identity leapt from stage to screen.
Dance on screen: It’s not the same as watching a live performance, but when theaters are shut down, it’s a balm.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
Looking forward to a wild summer where the masks start to come off and the concerts slowly start coming back.
Ready or not, movie theaters are starting to open again in time for the Oscars and summer blockbusters.
The Lincoln City Cultural Center gathers photography and items culled from the rubble of last fall’s fire near Otis.
“… Maddy called me up a year ago, and she was like, let’s start this thing. I have an idea, it’s called Renegade Opera.”
The artist’s eco prints, at the Chehalem Cultural Center, are an earthy mix of abstraction, symbolism, and collage.
Though each of the six pieces is contemporary — written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries — Geter chose somewhat established works as well as freshly minted ones…
Stage & Studio: The noted artist talks about friendships, mentoring, and the Indigenous traditions that shape her art.
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