DanceWatch: Jan-bruary is the resilient month
Jamuna Chiarini
January 31, 2021
We are still dancing, but mostly we are watching dance on screens. And we are getting better at it, too.
We are still dancing, but mostly we are watching dance on screens. And we are getting better at it, too.
A dance troupe navigates Covid-19 shutdowns in a new studio and looks to Portland’s modern dance elders for direction.
Fertile Ground 2021: Lisa Collins’ “Be Careful What You Ask For” delves into a Portland killing and issues of race.
Fertile Ground 2021: Don Wilson Glenn and Damaris Webb take a spin through the first First Lady’s kitchen.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland’s festival of new performance goes online, finding the people in the picture, more.
A baking show and an augmented reality game at the Fertile Ground festival mix viewing with performing.
Rian Dundon has been photographing Oregon protests since 2019. Blake Andrews gets the lowdown on his busy year.
Eleven artists will benefit from nearly $14,000 awarded by the Lincoln City Cultural Center.
Marc Mohan’s movies-at-home column begins with “One Night in Miami,” then heads for the hills.
A McMinnville retrospective shows the late artist’s range, from echoes of the Holocaust to Fauvism.
In a divided nation, a photo exhibit at Blue Sky celebrates the many faces and stories of immigrant Americans.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, running Jan. 28-Feb. 7, has become a garden of virtual theater.
The veteran broadcaster and writer brings her podcast “Stage & Studio” to ArtsWatch starting Feb. 23.
Lindsay Costello ventures out to Fuller Rosen Gallery to review the current show, NO SANCTUARY.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A young poet and a steady voice highlight the clarity of ritual and the art of governance.
The pioneering composer’s shimmering new album with Roomful of Teeth caps a career devoted to the beauties of musical tunings — and started in Oregon
On portraits and phrenology: Meet Phil, who’s been hanging around the house and has a lot on his mind.
Coastal painters Katia Kyte and Victoria Biedron agree that flowers “exist to give you joy.”
Adrian Chitty’s work celebrates the unseen people who “work so very hard to get that wine in your glass.”
Sometimes it’s better to think of different things, and this edition of Streamers has some excellent movie options to capture your attention.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Tumbling toward Inauguration; Carrie Mae Weems’ billboard campaign; Zoomy theater.
As the pandemic shuts down in-person shows, director Patrick Nims blazes a trail in live video theater.
The images of the insurrectionists invading the Capitol were complicated by the backdrop: the art on the walls.
Robert Ham’s monthly Bandcamp search finds metal, meditative music, hip-hop, and more for your digital library.
Portland Opera’s virtual recitals from Martin Bakari and Vanessa Isiguen dig into the heart and soul of the music.
Many events are canceled or scaled back for 2021, as gathering in crowds remains unlikely, but it’s not all bad news.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Capitol insurrection; Barry Lopez’ connected world; galleries; new literary year.
Blake Andrews goes into the forest, literally, with photographer David Paul Bayles and Forest Service Scientist Fred Swanson.
A show at the Chehalem Cultural Center considers the ramble of clutter that makes up home.
In January, writers write and readers read and the twain often meet. LitWatch has some ideas about where and when.
New art to welcome the new year! Galleries and virtual spaces alike offer a wealth of viewing opportunities for January.
The ups, downs, disasters, trends, outrages, and triumphs of Oregon arts & culture in a tortuous year.
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