Performance Works Northwest/Linda Austin Dance presents
“circus me around”
Oct. 26, 27, 28 (Fri-Sun)
Nov. 1, 2, 3 (Thurs-Sat)
at 8pm

Come by early or stay late for wine, snacks, DJ, and art in our lobby, affectionately dubbed the King Sets Lounge!

PWNW OFF-SITE:

the CIRCUS ME AROUND Warehouse

640 SE Stark

Portland, OR

Tickets $12-$25 sliding scale.

Thursday Nov. 1 — All tickets $10

Advance prepaid tickets available at brownpapertickets.com

Reservations 503.777.1907 or info@performanceworksnw.org

Performance Works NorthWest/Linda Austin Dance is pleased to announce the premiere of “circus me around” at a spacious warehouse at 640 SE Stark, in Portland's Central Eastside. Conceived and directed by Linda Austin, circus me around is inspired by the zings of pleasure and pricklings of curiosity aroused by fleeting, partial views of activities in the city landscape. For this multi-disciplinary work, architects Ean Eldred, Richard Garfield, John Kashiwabara and Peter Nylen create an environment assembled of skeletal scafflolding and a translucent shrink wrap skin, yielding various vantage points for the viewing of three simultaneous dances amid the clattering, dripping, clicking, whooping, and fluttering of Seth Nehil's spatialized sound score. Costumes are by David Rafn and the performers. The set and bodies are stunningly enhanced by Jeff Forbes' lighting.

PWnw/LAD is proud to be working with the following performers, all of whom are collaborating on the creation of their own movement material for the work:

Linda Austin, Anne Furfey, Esther LaPointe, Paige McKinney, Katrina O'Brien, Gregg Bielemeier, Cydney Wilkes, Jenn Gierada, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner (Kathleen Keogh, David Rafn, Rikki Rothenberg) Margretta Hansen, Noelle Stiles (Oct 26-28 & Linda K. Johnson (Nov. 1-3)

VISUAL ART & DJ IN THE LOBBY (DJ: JP Jenkins (FRI 10/26 & Asa Gervich SAT 10/27)

theodore holdt will be showing parts of his miniature robot series. “ever sense his brain was replaced with a plastic yogurt container his paintings have become a reflection of the vastness of the multiverse in miniature. theodore paints as we sleep.”- cyborg press

Rikki Rothenberg and Lauren Hobson will be showing 2-d work as well as providing an extraordinary wood-paneled room with a few installations. Color and absurdity will be in abundance.

The mixed media sculpture and installation work of Diana Lang is an ongoing search for the irony of the temporary versus the infinite. Her current series, entitled Heavenly Bodies is a study on the formal implications of containing space and potentiality. The site specific installation created for Circus Me Around literally relies on the potential energy coursing through an unused room. Diana Lang was born in NYC, educated at Massachusetts College of Art in Sculpture and now calls Portland, Oregon her home.

Partially supported by RACC, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Circus Me Around Commissioning Club

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WORLDWIDE THRILL THE WORLD

On saturday, oct. 27 at holocene, portland zombies will gather together in the name of all that is holy and dancedancedance to michael jackson's classic, “thriller.” at the same time, all across the world, other zombies in other cities will be doing the same thing. workshop starts at 11:30 a.m. sharp, worldwide dance at 3 p.m. we're going for a world record here. all proceeds for the pdx event go to portland's smyrc (sexual minority youth resource center). come to holocene

at 11:30 a.m. (for the workshop – doors at 11 a.m.)

and 3 p.m. sharp for the worldwide dance

(spectators are welcome, 21 and over)

$5 donation for SMYRC

I hope all of you have the chance to come see, at long last, “circus me around“– a project a great number of talented people are currently living and breathing and dancing and constructing (along with a lot of warehouse dust).

check out an intriguing photo below as well as more at the circus me around website:

Performance Works Northwest/Linda Austin Dance presents
“circus me around”
Oct. 26, 27, 28 (Fri-Sun)
Nov. 1, 2, 3 (Thurs-Sat)
at 8pm

PWNW OFF-SITE
Warehouse @ 640 SE Stark
Portland, OR

Tickets $12-$25 sliding scale.
Thursday Nov. 1 — All tickets $10
Advance tickets available at brownpapertickets.com
Reservations 503.777.1907 or info@performanceworksnw.org

COME AS EARLY AS 7PM FOR A DRINK, A SNACK and THEO's ART!
HANG OUT AFTER THE SHOW FOR MORE OF THE SAME PLUS DJ!

Performance Works NorthWest/Linda Austin Dance is pleased to announce the premiere of circus me around at a new site: a spacious warehouse at 640 SE Stark, in the Central Eastside. You are welcome to visit (or at least take a peek in the window) and check out the set-construction in progress!

Conceived and directed by Linda Austin, circus me around is inspired by the zings of pleasure and pricklings of curiosity aroused by fleeting and partial views of activities in the city landscape. For this multi-disciplinary work, architects Ean Eldred, Richard Garfield, John Kashiwabara and Peter Nylen create an environment assembled of skeletal scafflolding and a translucent shrink wrap skin, yielding various vantage points for the viewing of three simultaneous dances amid the clattering, dripping, clicking, whooping, and fluttering of Seth Nehil's spatialized sound score. Costumes are by David Rafn and the performers. The set and bodies are enhanced by Jeff Forbes' lighting.

PWnw/LAD is proud to be working with the following performers, all of whom are collaborating on the creation of their own movement material for the work:

Linda Austin, Anne Furfey, Esther LaPointe, Paige McKinney, Katrina O'Brien, Gregg Bielemeier, Cydney Wilkes, Jenn Gierada & Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner (Kathleen Keogh, David Rafn, Rikki Rothenberg), Margretta Hansen, Noelle Stiles (Oct 26-28 & Linda K. Johnson (Nov. 1-3)

Partially supported by RACC, the Oregon Arts Commission and the Circus Me Around Commissioning Club

For more information on the architecture, check out the Portland Architecture blog.

There will be an open house on Friday,July 6th from 5:30 to midnight.

Barfly Info:The man behind some of the best and most creative cocktail menus in town, master mixologist, Russell (late of Crush, Besaws), is lending his talents here.