OBT: Change partners and dance
Bob Hicks
August 12, 2021
ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.
A lavish portrait of a “hot mess” heroine; a look beyond the tabloids at Billy Tipton; a sexy, updated “Snow White.”
Portland future-pop/R&B artist Jan Julius talks with Robert Ham about music, life, a new album, and utopia.
Angela Allen talks with the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival’s multifaceted resident composer.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
A Lincoln City exhibit calls attention to “living laboratories” set aside for conservation and research.
From a barn studio in Ashland, the sculptor creates works infused with the spirit of his native Japan.
Friends of the beloved Portland arts figure, who died in March, will gather on Thursday at The Armory.
Morocco’s “The Unknown Saint” and South Korea’s “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” spin beauty from fable.
In his continuing series of portraits of Oregon artists, photographer K.B. Dixon profiles 11 outstanding writers.
Part one in a series about how theater companies are transitioning back to in-person performances.
Once a flight attendant, Sora O’Doherty soars with her large-scale calligraphic performance art.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
Adam Driver in a busy musical, a searing documentary about news in the sky, a tale of philosophical gravy.
It’s a busy August of album-release shows, neighborhood concerts, a renamed synth library, Hip Hop Week & more.
The Lincoln County clay sculptor, who has a show opening Saturday, says faces are more alike than different.
“Once upon a time not everyone in the lively arts was versed in ZOOM.” How singers zing through the pandemic.
A lush retelling of a Nancy Mitford novel, a winner from New Zealand about the travails of three Maori cousins.
In Aki Onda’s exhibition at PICA, the collections find their spirit and fly toward the future.
The McMinnville actor and construction contractor says he is selective about the roles he accepts.
Marianne Nicolson’s “A Feast of Light and Shadows” is a fitting last exhibition for Yale Union as ownership of the building transfers to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
Stage & Studio: Talking culture, music, health, vaccinations, and the free outdoor Pacific Islander celebration.
Now Hear This is a monthly column that scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp, looking for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. This time around, that includes smoldering hip-hop, unaffected bluegrass, experimental music
In its sixth season, the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival will go hybrid this year, with live and virtual concerts from Aug. 7 through Sept 4. For safety’s sake, live concert audiences in Oregon wine country are limited — cut in half
Lindsay Costello reviews Jeanine Jablonski’s (of Fourteen30 Contemporary) latest curatorial project at the Courtyard House in Aurora.
August offers a virtual poetry open mic, a mystery-novel release, and a lecture on the metaphysics of deep gossip.
Steph Littlebird talks with Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) about making art, representation, and Indigenous identity.
At the JAW New Play Fest, playwright Kate Hamill takes her updated Watson & Holmes mystery for a trial spin.
Renegade Opera’s “Orfeo in Underland” chronicles a tragic and transcendent journey to the afterlife.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
A new movie of a very old tale creates a world of foreboding, romanticism, and sometimes cheeky fun.
Making a compelling movie about “folks who don’t normally get the Hollywood, or even the ‘Portlandia,’ treatment.”
After COVID and wildfires, Yaacov Bergman felt compelled to recognize the pain, as well as the courage.
August’s offerings draw inspiration from diverse areas of lived experience, a refreshing respite from the slow dog days of summer.
A Portland gathering honors the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Here’s what one of her best friends had to say.
From world premieres to brilliant performances, highlights of July’s Chamber Music Northwest Festival.
Portland’s new creative laureates, Leila Haile and Joaquin Lopez, talk about the state of the arts.
As the world begins to waken, K.B. Dixon and his camera rediscover the pleasures of an arts & crafts fair.
Imago takes Carol Triffle’s newest play offstage and onto radio. A cast member explores how and why they dunnit.
Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye Clark discuss the concert version of a musical about a woman who fought in the Civil War.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
push/FOLD gets back to performing with a rethinking of a recent dance, “Early,” for a Mexico City festival.
Third Angle is coming out swinging for the return to live music, kicking off on July 11 at Topaz Farm with the three mini concerts of Fresh Air Fest. It was a much-needed retreat up to Sauvie Island for a midsummer Sunday
Director Amy Dotson is refreshing and reshaping the art museum’s movie program, from Tik-Tok to rooftops.
Stacy Jo Scott’s work in “Lo, A Vase in the Dark” explores the potential for technology to help us understand past, present, and future selves.
Priti Gandhi, who comes from Minnesota Opera, will be one of the few top woman artistic leaders in the opera world.
And in Lincoln City, a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 becomes a gallery for landscape paintings.
The new “Vesper Flight” is inspired by the soar of Vaux swifts, who alight in Portland every year.
The 28th annual anthology features the work of adults and children in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
The chamber music festival’s brilliant version of “Appalachian Spring” will also be available to view from home.
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