Dance review: A BodyVox Halloween
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
October 29, 2021
The Portland contemporary dance company gets spooky—and silly—with “BloodyVox,” its seasonal splurge of the macabre.
The Portland contemporary dance company gets spooky—and silly—with “BloodyVox,” its seasonal splurge of the macabre.
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From “Hip Hop Nutcracker” to “Cinderella,” Keylock & Bielemeier to Linda Austin’s explorations, dance is live and on the move again.
A clear-eyed view of the city’s swinging scene and the turmoil under the glamour, with fine performances by its young stars and a trio of ’60s veterans.
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The opera opens with a new artistic director, a new interim music director, a fresh slate of forward-looking priorities – and an old standby in “Tosca.”
K.B. Dixon begins a new series with photographic portraits of eleven people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
The new month brings book festivals aplenty and other events offering virtual and in-person talks, workshops, and author readings, from Louise Erdrich to Eric Kimmel.
About that little Covid break: It’s time for the new choir to get down to business and sing for an audience.
Robert Ham gets out & about to where the music was, and where it’s going to be.
How does the French-Canadian director of “Dune” terrify, thrill, and inspire audiences? Let us count the ways, from 1998 to now.
Joyce Centofanti and Robert Conway’s community-based creative space will have a soft opening Wednesday
In Celine Song’s play about a tight-knit clan of half-siblings, hell is other people, and they seem to be all in the family.
A redesign of the ArtsWatch site brings many more options to the home page. Plus a reawakening performance scene, contemporary Japanese prints, and more.
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The owners of the Eugene gallery have always been smitten with prints from Sōsaku-hanga or Creative Print movement. A new exhibit showcases standouts from the gallery’s permanent collection.
As the dance film genre gains momentum, Portland Dance Film Fest returns to the Clinton Street Theatre to feature filmmakers from across the globe and encourage innovation.
David Danzmayr’s inaugural in-person season opens with Mahler, Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, and the massive “Constellation” sound system; Open Music finally commences at The Old Church
Season opening concerts October 23rd and 24th feature music of Aaron Copland, Stacey Philipps, Morten Lauridsen, Naomi LaViolette, Carlos Guastavino, Matthew Lyon Hazzard, Santiago Veros, and Kim Andre Arnesen
Wes Anderson’s “Dispatch” is about as Wes Anderson as a movie can be. And Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the Victorian polymath Wain, an artist who paints psychedelic cats.
Longtime Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge, philanthropist and friend to artists Debi Coleman, and youth music leader Ian Mouser have died. In their productive lives they helped make Portland a better place.
Back in the theater for the first time since February 2020, the company shows fine form in a program highlighted by Balanchine’s classic “Four Temperaments.”
Jarran Muse becomes the dancing legend Bill Robinson in the ebullient premiere of the new musical “Bojangles of Harlem.”
A fortuitous partnership results in “a brilliant LP that calls to mind the mood of vintage alt-country classics.”
Vanessa Severo’s virtuoso turn onstage joins a rush of Kahlo from the opera to a coming museum show.
José González and Dañel Malán lead the resurgence of the Northwest’s only Latinx theater company.
Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik’s experimental performance “apogee” explores themes of nature and intuition.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
Vanessa Severo talks about “becoming” the famed Mexican artist; Martha Washington bakes again.
Ridley Scott directs a Rashomon-like 14th century tale; marriage neo-Bergman style; a soccer team’s rescue.
A tale of time: The Oregon composer gave herself 10 years to decide if she was good at this. She is.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
The ballet company, disrupted by Covid and an abrupt change in leadership, opens a new season on Friday.
Niki Price of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hiking the Coast to raise money for the center and awareness of public art.
Eyelids release a live album; Sour Deez, Wavy Josef, MadgesdiqCEG, and Hinnessy Da Goon at The Thesis.
On Stage & Studio, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with perhaps the most influential benefactor of Oregon arts.
An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.
The painter’s show “Carnival of the Animals” features dinosaurs, pigs, butterflies, and a revised outlook.
PICA’s TBA:21 Festival featured a diary-like, released-by-mail mini zine created by Eileen Isagon Skyers.
In Mulieribus celebrates Pauline García Viardot in season-opening concert
Cygnet Productions takes to the airwaves with “The Wild Party,” a risqué and salacious 1920s narrative poem.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
As the stage world begins to bustle, Marty Hughley rides herd on the scene, from Shakespeare to Bojangles.
It’s their baby (but is it human?); a feel-good film about a transgender child; Daniel Craig’s final go-round.
Broadway Rose’s new “Loch Lomond” is a majestic musical tragedy about love, obsessions, and duty.
Spoon Benders burst out, Kadren busts a rhythmic rhyme, Kiefer tumbles forward
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