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Lucy Guerin’s Split Returns the Choreographer to Her Minimalist Roots.

Two performers—one nude (Lilian Steiner) and one clothed (Melanie Lane)—take their places on a stage. Then something strange happens. After 20 minutes of dancing, they bisect the floor with tape and continue with the show, each confined to one half of the stage, for another 10 minutes. The available room continues to shrink, until both space and time have dwindled to nothing and the bodies of the two dancers are pressed ever closer together.

Whiskey Dixie and the Big Wet Country is a Sexed-up Musical—and so Much More

Whiskey Dixie initially seems little more than a string of gleefully crude jokes. But thanks to a series of brash narrative left turns, the show becomes an excitingly volatile chronicle of the characters’ sex lives.

Jamondria Harris’s Dreamy LP and Book of Poetry Doesn’t Want to Be Strangled By Interpretation

“Quaerere”—which is being released alongside a companion LP of electronic music composed by Harris—has the elusive and meditative quality of an entrancing dream. You don’t always understand what you are encountering, but it’s impossible not to look and listen.

Skeleton Crew Goes Inside the Break Room of a Doomed Auto Plant During the Great Recession

Skeleton Crew, set during the height of the Great Recession, in 2008, is about many things—race, class, economic injustice—but above all, it unveils the unspoken love and fear hidden behind the worn faces of its characters.

Miranda July Takes a Break from Directing to Play a Tormented Parent in Madeline’s Madeline

Miranda July stars in Josephine Decker’s kaleidoscopic new indie, Madeline’s Madeline. In it she plays Regina, a woman buckling under the pressure of caring for her daughter Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard), who is struggling with a mysterious mental illness.

TriptheDark Aims to Make Modern Dance More Accessible With Whoopee Cushions and Twin Peaks References

TriptheDark is one of Portland’s boldest and zaniest dance companies.

A Mysterious Stranger Unveils His Soul in Imago’s Title and Deed

Imago Theatre’s production of Title and Deed is an attention-getting play that bulldozes through the fourth wall and invites us to experience everything about the sole character.

Please Underestimate Me is a Terrific Tour of Jay Flewelling’s Mind

If you think the title of Jay Flewelling’s autobiographical extravaganza Please Underestimate Me is meant to be self-deprecating, think again. As Flewelling explains when the show commences, he relishes being underrated because it puts him in an uncanny position of power.

The Strange, Singular Cinema of Joshua Churchill and John Davis Comes to Portland

Vibrant colors, eerie music and an exhilarating embrace of the unknown are among the many joys to be found in films by Joshua Churchill and John Davis. But there are two things you won’t find: story and character.

A New Documentary Chronicles the Struggles and Successes of Minority Winemakers in Oregon

Directed by Jerry Bell Jr., Red, White & Black chronicles the struggles and triumphs of Oregon’s minority winemakers. Remy Drabkin of Remy Wines, who is lesbian, once went to a trade show where a man refused to acknowledge her presence. Jarod Sleet, who is a member of the cellar team at Argyle Winery and is black, says purveyors who come into the winery have asked him if he knows someone who works there.

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