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LomBaRÒ ¿03.247.1066 moments and scenarios along the way, ending up with hours of footage, some o f which she incorporated into a duet for herself and long During the question-and-answer sessions time collaborator Ellie Sandstrom. following dance performances, audience members often ask choreographers, “Where O ’Neal brought in a video editor and two do you find your inspiration?” composers with whom she’d never worked. In the case of two dance performances The resulting piece, too, is essentially two debuting at this year’s Time-Based Art Festi works under one name. The portion set to Ivory Smith’s music is a collage o f mostly val, part of that answer is film. 1 rural, daytime vignettes. Ollie Glatzer’s com Brooklyn-based dance artist Miguel G uti errez drew inspiration from James Dean’s positions accompany video scenes featuring a karaoke party at a Japanese love hotel. films East o f Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and s O ’Neal has plenty of Giant to create Last Meadow, which premieres at TBA Sep experience juxtaposing film tember 4. “ and dance. The combination UJ Just Out caught up with £ has always been a key part Gutierrez as he took a break o f locust, a collaboration from shopping for wigs for that O ’Neal founded in 2000 Last Meadow. “The costum with composer/musician ing is very specific,” Gutier Zeke Keeble. locust’s proj rez says, since 70 percent of ects include five full-length the material o f Last Meadow works— such as mockumen- comes from the trio o f Dean tary, featuring zombies— as films. well as shorter projects, like It started on a trip to crushed, to be performed at France. Gutierrez borrowed TBA September 7-8. a Dean movie and ended up Whereas too— O ’Neal’s watching the special features. first project under the name The wardrobe tests were like AM Y O /tin y rage— grew “really beautiful, exciting out o f film footage, locust’s Seattle-based chore little dances...[Dean] was so ographer Am/ O Neal crushed actually lessens the who juxta p o se s film demanding and weird and emphasis on video, compared and dance will androgynous and sexy,” says to the group’s other recent present her new work Gutierrez. work. Keeble performs all too at T B A 09 There’s much more to o f the music for crushed live, Gutierrez’s interest in Dean. As an icon, as five dancers explore the idea o f being Dean represented concepts that Gutierrez blind-sided. wanted to explore: mythology, fathers and “I t’s 45 minutes— a short punch in the sons, and collapsing empires. face— and the most straightforward and “I decided to sort o f say he’s like Amer stripped-down technical show we’ve done in ica— this impossible figure,” says Gutierrez, a while,” says O ’Neal. “The movement and who makes his thoughtful comments at what the music is really the focus and heart o f this seems like 200 words per minute. “H e’s too work.” big for anyone to actually understand, and TBA’s dance offerings also include work he’s kind o f dead in the water.” by guests from Europe. Raimund Hoghe, a Gutierrez performs in Last Meadow with German-born choreographer who specializes two other dancers— Michelle Boulé and in reinterpreting classic dances, is bringing Tarek Halaby—who have long worked with his Bolero Variations for its U.S. premiere. his group, Miguel Gutierrez and the Power Meg Stewart, a New Yorker who relocated to ful People. Brussels, then Berlin, has collaborated with For this project, Gutierrez also brought Austrian choreographer Philipp Gehmacher onboard TBA favorite Neal Medlyn as sound to create Maybe Forever. designer. Primarily a solo performer, Medlyn TBA’s guest artistic director, Cathy gave this new opportunity his foil attention. Edwards, has followed Stewart since first Gutierrez says that working with Medlyn seeing her perform in 1994. O n TBA’s blog, was “a frickin’ magical situation” with excit Edwards describes Maybe Forever as “gentle ing results: “I love what he’s done, adore it— I but disillusioning, simultaneously touching think he’s nailed it.” and uncomfortable, created by one o f this Amy O ’Neal is another choreographer generation’s most accomplished dance art- n fV whose newest work was inspired by film IStS. v l « footage. Over the past few years, O ’Neal, who lives in Seattle, has traveled extensively for For details on all TBA:09 performances, various artistic projects. She filmed different locations and pricing, visit www.pica.org/tba. By REBECCA RAGAIN ^ R E S T A U R A N T * llriiif’ tins ml lor BUY I GET ONE F R E E w ith (Hire lia se ot an a p p e tize r Offer Valid Monday thru lliu is d a y t |0 i > m , y itim lu y K i Sunday ll:.'t()ui di'M Vino. Pasta. Vino. Repeat Hinieo Simple Italian Food In the Beaverton Round 503.646.6464 mingowest.com
