Look, y’all, here’s the truth: this is Risk/Reward’s biggest Festival of New Performance yet: the most artists, the biggest footprint, and the fullest nights. Portland, it’s time to pARTy.
FESTIVAL OF NEW PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, JUNE 21st THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd: 7pm
Our mainstage event – the Festival of New Performance in PICA’s Annex Theatre. These artists were chosen by our fantastic panel of curators to create 20-minute pieces for the Festival.
Including:
Sarah Finn – “Keynotes from Underground” – a keynote speaker at an annual anthropocene conference presents her latest achievement: her metamorphosis into a mushroom.
Olivia Camfield – “Unwinding” – sisters Olivia and Celeste Camfield use movement, live music, and film to explore the Alien, Mvskoke stories of beyond the stars, and their own selves – as family – navigating through space.
The Clown Mystics – “Seers of the Savant Garde” – an occult, gender-bending ensemble clown performance from Given Davis, Urks Io, and Zai Outlaw that uses the Tarot to play with the hands of fate.
Paul Susi – “The Great Minotaur” – A living digression on emergency homeless shelters in Portland, the inescapable labyrinth of immigrant identity, and confronting the monstrousness of being.
Drama Tops – “DADS” – Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue explore their complex thoughts on getting a daddy and/or turning into a daddy in this sarcastic, inflatables-fueled piece of nightlife and modern dance.
LATE-NIGHT SHOWCASE
SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd AND SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd: 10p
Stay after the Festival for the R’n’R Bar and a selection of music, film, and ritual in PICA’s Warehouse.
Trash Witch Trio – A vocal mantra, a folklore documentary, and a powerful statement on the ecological trashing of sacred lands.
Drama Informed – Live electronic dance music duo; radical queers; old friends and allies: Vera and Miau envision an empowered queer utopia together.
Sarah Turner – Cam girl priestess, glitch_bitch, takes the hotties to the fat ASStral plane through a guided sonic meditation over house beats.
SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
TAHNI HOLT + EMMA LUTZ-HIGGINS
SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd and SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd at 6p
Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins dance through the space of the PICA Warehouse; twinning, twining, and rocking into ways of seeking, dispersing, and disappearing.
BUT IT’S EVEN BIGGER!
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Friday, JUNE 21st, 10p |
