• November 2, 3: Battles at Hawthorne Theatre & Ghostface Killah at Roseland; FREE MP3s
• Oct 26- Nov 3: circus me around–dance + architecture + light + sound
• Like or Interested in Buddhism: 3 Events —"I assure you it will be a monumental experience."
• Nov 3: Seoul Brother #1 and King Tim 33.3 at Beuhlaland (Free/No Cover)—"Robot Dance Party

• Nov 3: Muu Muu's—Atom 13, 6′2", 215, needs a posse.
• November 3 JACKPOT RECORDS 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE at Lola's Room. (FREE)
• Nov 3: Various at Branx (Dub, Dubstep, Jungle, Ruckus)

As the fall cultural season cranks up even more, we are wishing you a HAPPY ALL HALLOW'S EVE- and hope to see you out and about at the following November events!

1. Linda Austin Dance: circus me around – 3 more performances!

2. Minh Tran & Company: Forgotten Memories

3. Summer Morgan Dance: Evolver

4. Agnieszka Laska Dancers: The Fall '01

Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea: Encuentros Terminales

5. Performance submission for ScratchPDX

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1. Linda Austin Dance: circus me around – 3 more performances!

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A great time was had by all last weekend for the opening weekend of “circus me around” by LINDA AUSTIN DANCE

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 the 13 performers are stunningly enhanced by Jeff Forbes' lighting.

Heather Wisner of the Willamette Week covers the show:

http://wweek.com/editorial/3351/9882/

Julian Chadwick of PDX Pipeline covers it here:

Daily Stank Image Bank: “Circus Me Around” by Performance Works NorthWest

Here is some audio and interviews

http://www.focusfree.net/stuff/dance/circus.mp3

Three more shows!Thurs-Sat Nov. 1, 2, 3 @ 8pm –Come by early or stay late for wine, snacks, DJ, and art in our lobby, affectionately dubbed the King Sets Lounge!

Below is the information to get your tickets–plus a from lighting designer/op Jeff's 3 points of view — 2 through slits in the set and 1 on his video monitor:

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

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2. Minh Tran & Company: Forgotten Memories

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Who: Minh Tran & Company

http://www.mtdance.org

What: Forgotten Memories

When: Friday through Sunday, November 2,3,4 @7:30PM & 9PM

Sunday, November 4

Post-performance discussion w/ guest facilitator Kilong Ung, President of the Cambodian-

American Community of Oregon, Minh Tran & Company, and collaborating artists.

Where: Imago Theater

17 SE 8th Avenue (Corner of SE 8th & Ankeny)

Portland, OR 97214

Tickets: $20 / $18 / $18 (General / Student & Senior/Working Artist)

http://www.brownpapertickets.com or 503.838.3006

Information: 503.998.0381, www.mtdance.org

Back by popular demand, and once again in a proscenium setting, Minh Tran & Company presents Forgotten Memories at Portland's Imago Theater.

Called "a blistering evocation of genocide's ghosts," by the Oregonian at it's 2005 work-in-progress premier, Forgotten Memories centers on Tuol Sleng [hill of the poison tree], an abandoned suburban Phnom Penh high school that was code-named S-21and transformed into a Khmer Rouge interrogation center from 1975-1979. Headed by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge combined extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a disregard for human life to produce murder on a massive scale. Approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population) under the Pol Pot regime. Over 17,000 prisoners were interrogated, tortured, and executed inside the walls of S-21. Tran toured Tuol Sleng in 2004 while on exchange in Cambodia with the Mekong Project, a program of Dance Theater Workshop in New York. After the first work-in-progress showing of Forgotten Memories in 2005, Tran returned to Cambodia to conduct additional research in order to complete the work. Endeavoring to engage the audience viscerally through the combined mediums of film, original music, sets and movement, the completed Forgotten Memories is per formed in the intimate setting of Imago Theater, inviting audiences acquire a first-hand taste of the horrors associated with war.

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3. Summer Morgan Dance: Evolver

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Summer Morgan Dance presents the premiere of Evolver. The performances will take place at The Historic Firehouse Theatre which is located at 1436 SW Montgomery Street in Portland, OR. The opening night performance is on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 8pm. The performance schedule is as follows:

Friday-Sunday

November 9-11th

8pm

Admission is $15. Tickets can be reserved in advance by calling (503) 239-5350

Evolver begins with a woman wearing an enormous skirt. Beneath its folds she creates a world where people are continually changing from humans in their most repressed forms into monkeys, and back again. During their metamorphoses and encounters we try and determine which is the more desirable state. The movement contains forced and awkward commercial/pop gestures in juxtaposition with animalistic ones. By forcing these extremes we try to illustrate what it is to be human, we wonder if we really like the direction some evolution seems to take, and we relish in the happy accidents that seem to occur in the meantime.

Disclaimer: Summer's work, as with most dance, is a visual language. None of the above should be taken too literally, as it is, in fact, written with words.

Evolver will be performed by Sonya Barker, Arti Boyd, Robyn Conroy, Mathew Ellis and Summer Morgan with lighting design by Joshua Westhaver and live music by Douglas Shepherd.

After graduating with a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, Summer started SMD in New York City where she presented work at the Merce Cunningham Studio, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Williamsburg Art Nexus, Dixon Place and The Mulberry Street Theatre. Since living in Portland she has presented her work at Conduit and in Ten Tiny Dances.

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4. Agnieszka Laska Dancers: The Fall '01

Las Pleyades Danza Contemporanea: Encuentros Terminales

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“THE FALL '01″ [US premiere] November 11 @ 8:PM Imago Theatre

Agnieszka Laska Dancers

Veterans Day – Closing Event in the Pacific Northwest Labor Arts Festival – Veterans admitted free – All other ticketing starts at $10

At 45 min. in duration, THE FALL '01 is a choreographic multimedia drama on terror, war and torture, depicting the wholesale dehumanization of the Global War Of Terror – a civilization at the precipice of its fall – not for the faint of heart.

“…one of the most potent artistic responses to war and state terrorism perpetrated by our government I've ever seen…” Brett Campbell – Eugene Weekly

tickets: www.artixpdx.com

ENCUENTROS TERMINALES [US premiere] Nov. 16-17-18 @ 7:30 pm

Las Pléyades Danza Contemporánea

ALD is proud to present, with support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council's Special Opportunity Grant, Encuentros Terminales, Luis Arrenquín's newest multi-media work to music of Ernesto Martinez and Ludwig von Beethoven. Arreguín explores through striking partnerings the alienation of modern life and redemption of love.

Agnieszka Laska Dancers will fill out the program with a work from their repertory – to be announced.

Imago Theatre

17 SE 8th Ave.

Portland

tickets: www.artixpdx.com

“Dance without tension” workshop with Luis Arreguín

Luis Arreguín is one of the top dancers and teachers working today in Mexico. In previous collaborations with ALD, first rate productions have resulted, as well as engaging workshops. Las Pléyades will be in the Pacific Northwest for about 2 weeks in November, working in collaboration with Agnieszka Laska Dancers.

Nov. 12-14

@ Polish Hall

3832 N Interstate

reserve spot: http://www.a-laska.com/dwt.html

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5. Performance submission for ScratchPDX

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This email is a call for submissions for this season's opening of ScratchPDX, Portland's performance lab, which will play monthly (November-May) at Hipbone Studio on NE 18th & Burnside. Opening show is on November 17.

ScratchPDX is an open stage for performers of all genres. **See www.scratchpdx.com for photos from last season and other info.**

The mission is to provide a venue for a growing performance community in order to promote turning ideas into action, to play with concepts of performance, and to produce a stimulating environment for open exchange. ScratchPDX offers: a venue, an audience, a host and minimal tech. There will be beverages available for purchase. Also, in line with our mission, there will be time each night for people to come together and talk. We can't wait for your contribution.

Submission Guidelines:

Email: contact@scratchpdx.com

With the intention of providing a meeting ground for a growing Portland performance community, ScratchPDX is a place for people to experiment with their work, advance their practice, be inspired by the good, some bad and the unlikely performance and to talk about it all. Seasoned performers and others stepping onto the stage for the first time are all welcome. As a performer you may also invite feedback if desired. We are opening the stage for 2-10 min slots for any kind of performance. In the past, people have come with dance, storytelling, clown, puppetry, poetry, stand-up, short plays, improvisation, music… If you are interested in performing please send your submission to contact@scratchpdx.com Please include the type of performance and describe it in as much detail as you can at this point, including length.

Other Details

Venue: Hipbone Studio, a beautiful space offering life drawing and painting, rehearsal space, and performance

Date: November 17, 2007

Time: 10pm

Tech: Minimum tech provided includes basic lights and sound.

Email: contact@scratchpdx.com

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Well, I can't tell you that I am able to fully describe this performance. One quote (very positive) was “a flock of birds with OCD“. All I know is that I am not necessarily Mr. Modern Dance and I had a great time. These pics are not the best–I am no pro photographer–but there are about 75 of them and a you can get a decent thought about what to expect.

It also gives a good idea of what it is like to watch “a flock of birds with OCD”. I definitely reccomend seeing this show before it ends this weekend.

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

Info and more thumbnail pics after the “more” jump.

Info provided by Linda Austin:

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)