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Performing Precarity: Young Boy Dancing Group at Pageant

The discomfort of navigating precarity is not merely a state of being, but more truthfully, a continuous fact of life.

the single most remarkable work of 2022

600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly” is one of 2022’s most remarkable works of theater.

“Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Sifting through that experience over time we keep finding ourselves holding out our hands, cupped, like we had caught a firefly. It’s the gesture that says we too received a gift.

Sha Creative Outlet: XS at The Center at West Park

Like a giant notebook portfolio or a crumpled map in the glove box of a borrowed car, the paper endures, holds the changes, shows the history of Sha and Sarah’s togetherness— and our witnessing of that togetherness.

The National Gallery’s “Homecoming” and a Love Letter Between the Lines

Let us, then, be the dreamers of the empty space between repetitions that sows fertile soil for difference and kinship.

PAGEANT Presents: Duet Night

For us, the dancers translate a shared archive into movement.

the land remembers, do you remember the land?

maura re/members with george emilio sanchez’s “In the Court of the Conquerer” & zavé martohardjono’s “TERRITORY: the Island Remembers” – audio version link available at top of post

Francesca Dominguez’s “Galvanizing Steel” is Capable

“…one dancer’s hands on the foreheads of the other two, leading the paths of their movement; a dancer leaning on another who was kneeling on the floor, using them as an anchor, stability; the soloist connecting with the floor as the other dancers stared into her…”