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Ave. 3 pm Sunday, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. $15-$39 from 503-222-6000 or www.pbo.org.) Z go \ Towne Lounge throws a Cinco de XSUp Mayo Dance Party featuring DND (Do N Dudes), covering diva classics while incorporating choreography, theatrics and visuals; Atole, presenting skits challenging the macho Latin's view of homo sexuality and the current situation against immigration; Hooliganship; and DJ Tiger stripes. (9 pm. 714 SW20th Place. $4.) SAT • MAY 6 cordially invite you to the ISRC Spring Ball at Embers. This year's theme is “Come Rodeo with Us—The Bull Stops Here!” (7 pm. 110 NW Broadway $10.) Q-LAND and LoveTribe show men how to use play, movement, laughter, creative communication and healing/ nurturing touch to discover the amazing abundance of Kindred Spirits in our lives. (7 pm-midnight. RSVP to 503-223-8822 or www.lovetribe.org/menspirit.) Pink Martini joins the Eugene Ballet Company through May 7 at Eugene's Silva Concert Hall. (8 pm Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday. 1 Eugene Center. $20-$47 from box office, 541-682-5000 or www.hultcenter.org.) Dance to the big band sounds of Rose City Swing while supporting Senior Housing and Retirement Enterprises during Sharing an Evening for SHARE at Ambridge Event Center. This year's fund-raiser features performances and lessons from Out Dancing, a silent auction and mistress of ceremonies Poison Waters! (8-11 pm. 300 NE Multnomah St.) Pilar French and Casey Stratton perform at Mississippi Pizza Pub. (9 pm. 3552 N Mississippi Ave.) Urban cowboys and girls are in abundance during DJ Crystal's country western dance at the Portland Metro Club (PPAA). (9 pm-1 am. 618 SE Alder St. $5.) Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer airs April 26 on HBO. I Booty, an altema-queer night held every Thursday at Porky’s Pub, presents a special performance by the electronic/ fashion/sex show Fleshtone. (9 pm. 835 N Lombard St. $3.) ' 5 FRI • MAY 5 Elder Resource Alliance hosts a field trip to McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale to check out the artwork, gardens and massage. Van service available from Friendly House. (1:15 pm. 2126 SW Halsey St. Rachel 503-224-2640 eracoordinator@yahoo. com.) Out Dancing's beginning foxy class starts tonight and continues every Friday in May at Ankeny Street Studio. Intermediate fox trot class follows. (7-8 pm foxy ($25 for month], 8-9 pm fox trot [$24 for month]. Southeast Ninth Avenue and Ankeny Street. 503-236-5129. out dancing@yahoo.com.) Portland Baroque Orchestra presents Mozart Celebrated through May 7 at First Baptist Church and Reed College's Kaul Auditorium. (8 pm Friday and Saturday, 909 SW 11th Help the Multnomah County Democrats rock the Oregon House and turn it blue! The Dick Celsi Awards Dinner features a silent and live auction, political speakers and entertainment by blues stars at the Hilton Hotel. (5 pm. 921 SW Sixth Ave. $120 from www.multdems.org/celsi.) Swan Island performs totally triumphant pop metal grooves with Psychic Ills and Blood on the Wall at Holocene. (9:30 pm. 1001 SE Morrison St. $7.) SUN • MAY 7 Come to Wieden + Kennedy for p:earblossoms IV featur ing a performance by Aviator Aerial Dance, an oral auction and appetizers and wine provided by Pazzo Ristorante. Proceeds benefit p:ear, a nonprofit organization that addresses youth homelessness. (6-9 pm. 224 NW 13th Ave. $75 from 503-228-6677.) Get lucky during the Fox & Hounds' Monthly Charity Bingo. (3:30 pm. 217 SW Second Ave.) The Egyptian Club gives away full camping setup during its monthly Texas Hold 'Em Tournament Championship. (4 pm. 3701 SE Division St.) ■ ;||| The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents Tada, a patron dinner at Audio Cinema featuring a lively auction, fabulous food from Simpática Catering and amazing enter tainment by Music Population Orchestra and DJs Anjali and The Incredible Kid. Followed by a PICA birthday party feat uring entertainment by Fleshtone and DJ Copy. (6 pm dinner [$150], 10 pm party [$5-$10 members, $10-$ 15 nonmem- bers], 226 SE Madison St. For tickets call 503-242-1419) A goj Doug Fir Lounge presents Xj^/ an evening with enigmatic singer/songwriter Melissa Ferrick. Rachel Cantu and Tyler James open. (9 pm. 830 E Burnside St. $17 at the door, $15 in advance from TicketsWest.) (GO\ Imperial Sovereign Rose Court Prince XXXI Craig Hollywood and Princess XXXVI Fiona Flash Foxx True Margrit performs April 29 at Mississippi Studios. Do Jump! Surrenders to Color, Shape For an artist, structure can be freeing. With the skeleton already in categories and definitions, a “complete surrender to and delight in light place, one’s energy can he used to explore creative ways to flesh out the and color and shape.” body. And Then... is a collaborative work. Lane conceived the idea and Robin Lane, artistic director of Do Jump! Extremely Physical composed the choreographic structure, then the performers came up Theater, used the paintings of Marc Chagall as the backbone for her with the-movements. Lane calls it a laboratory in which they are all latest creation for the company. She has always loved Chagall’s paintings, creators. and she knew his work would be a perfect fit for Do Jump! The team of creators also includes visual artist Mary Ellen Pinfold, Lane sees many similarities between the painter’s and Do Jump!’s who painted one of the major sets, and Marc Rickets of Guildworks, aesthetics. For one, Chagall portrayed a unique relationship who designed a fly-away room. Original music has to gravity in his paintings, a sensibility that Lane can’t help been contributed by talents such as Klezmocracy but appreciate. and Mark Orton. “When I’m making up a show, I’m looking at how you fill Longtime Do Jump! composer Joan Szymko the space from floor to ceiling.... So visually, the way he uses also collaborated on the music for And Then..., space is so similar to what we do,” explains Lane, who calls fitting the work in between rehearsals for her oth Chagall a master of organizing space. er projects. In addition to directing Aurora Chorus, She also admires the wonder and magic with which the Szymko has recently formed Pleiades, a seven painter regarded everyday objects, saying he celebrated “the woman chamber music ensemble that will have its extraordinary in the ordinary.” inaugural concert 7 p.m. April 23 at The Old But most of all, Lane loves how Chagall did not follow Church, 1422 S.W. 11th Ave. Tickets are $15. society’s conventional divisions. “He didn’t separate himself And Then... runs 7:30 p.m. Fridays and from the earth, the animals, what flies, what doesn’t fly—it Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through May 21 at Do Jump! composer Joan didn’t matter to him." Echo Theatre, 1515 S.E. 37th Ave. Tickets are Szymko's new chamber Lane aimed for that same unconstrained feel in her new music ensemble, Pleiades, $15-$22from 503-231-1232. work, And Then.... She describes the one-act show as free of debuts April 23. —Rebecca Ragain And Then... is a new work by Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theater inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall. Jeffrey Palladini show runs may 1 thru 31 opening reception friday, may 5,6- 9pm "currents" - oil on wood jeffrey palladini 70% OFF HANDMADE PERSIAN CARPETS! 900 AW 5th Ave (at 5th and Taylor) • Portland. OD 97204 FREE shipping and delivery 503.222.1230 • a rto f_ pe r « ia @ h o tm a il. com BRIAN MARKI FINE ART & FRAMING 503-249-5659 | 2236 ne broadway | mon • sat 10 to 6 | www brianmarki.com
