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Judy Dunaway + Linda Austin
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--Tickets available at the door for $15 if show is not sold out.
--Upon purchase of your advance ticket, you will get a code to purchase a discount ticket to the Nov. 13 & 14 performances of "it's really hard" our 2015 Alembic Artist Showcase.
Judy Dunaway (Boston) and Linda Austin (PDX) knew each other in the NYC experimental music and performance scene of the late 80s/90s. Now they reunite for one night only at PWNW with a special double bill: Judy's balloon music + Linda's new solo version of her 2012 ensemble dance work "A head of time."
JUDY DUNAWAY performs avant-garde compositions and free improvisations on amplified latex balloons played as musical instruments. She is known internationally as a "virtuoso of the balloon." She plays a variety of shapes and sizes of balloon instruments, each with it's own special qualities, pushing the extremes of both pitch range and artistic limits. Her large rubbed "tenor" balloon gives Jimmy Hendrix's guitar a run for the money and her giant balloon pulsates into the depths of the subaudio. Her abstract music and sounds are difficult to equate with other forms, depending upon the perception of the individual like the images seen in fire or clouds.
LINDA AUSTIN performs A head of time, a solo version of a 2012 ensemble work that the Portland Monthly described as "a multimedia feast for the senses." This new iteration, which premiered last summer in Morelia, Mexico for the XVIII International Festival of Contemporary Dance of Michoacán, sifts movement; text; video; objects including blankets, a balloon and a hammer; and sound by Seth Nehil, into a piece that is part ritual and part poetic-scientific examination of loss, mortality, and the shifting landscapes of time.
Bios:
JUDY DUNAWAY has presented her works for balloons at many major venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe, including Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Cologne), Avant-Garde Schwaz Festival (Austria), Alternative Museum (NYC), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art Museum (Syracuse), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Frau Musica Nova Festival (Cologne), Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), CEAIT Festival (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Krems, Austria), SoHo Arts Festival (NYC), STEIM (Amsterdam) and Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe). She has also performed on balloons with many outstanding musicians including Roscoe Mitchell, Jennifer Walshe, John Hollenbeck, Yasunao Tone, and the FLUX Quartet. CDs of her works for balloons have been released on the CRI (Composers Recordings Inc) and Innova labels, among others.
LINDA AUSTIN delights in and is provoked by how her dance practices and obsessions contradict each other. She has been choreographing and performing, often with a strong visual component and a commitment to original music, for more than 3 decadesin New York City, Mexico and throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent honors: a 2014 award of $20,000 as a RACC Fellow in the Performing Arts; performing alongside Lucy Yim at a dance festival in Morelia, Mexico; and working with the performers of her ongoing project, (Un)Made. Austin is co-founder (with lighting wiz Jeff Forbes) and director of Performance Works NorthWest, celebrating 15 years of avid experimentation in the live arts at its Foster/Powell location.
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4625 SE 67th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206
United States
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