Grub
Thursday through Saturday, 7:00pm and 9:00pm
General Admission $15
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”...The most intellectually challenging and forward-thinking dance troupe around…” – the Portland Mercury
A collaborative, multimedia dance performance, Grub explores the complexities, oddities, and layers of group dynamics, human relationships, and the relationship to self. In a world where human contact is no longer a necessity for survival, disconnection and isolation thrive, causing individual existence to drift and obscure from reality and manufactured experiences become dominant. Identities are warped and fabricated, and interaction becomes a series of misfires, a foreign and precarious playing field. Performed as a sextet, this new work investigates emotional extremes, associated intimacies, and awkward encounters. Equipped with cameras, the performers cinematically reveal through projected images a new, filtered perspective, isolating or intensifying moments on stage. Tense, contorted, idiosyncratic movement and an original sound score of arresting melodies, raw dissonance and live vocalization and singing complete this exploration of identity and complex relationships, navigating a clumsy path toward human reconnection and truth.
Described as “evocative and incomprehensible” by the Seattle Weekly, Portland based contemporary dance/performance art company, tEEth continues to explore work that defies convention and comfort. The collaborative team of choreographer Angelle Hebert and composer Phillip Kraft began in 1999 in Salt Lake City, UT, moved to Portland in 2002 and evolved into tEEth in 2006. Hebert and Kraft immediately immersed themselves in the Portland dance scene, presenting two full productions, benumbed in April 2006 and Abracadaver in March 2005. Their most recent work, Normal and Happy, was presented as part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival in September 2007, Reed Arts Week Festival in March 2008, and at On the Boards as part of the NW New Works Festival in June 2007. They have created works for Ten Tiny Dances, Linda Austin’s Richard Foreman Festival & Cabaret, 2Gyrlz Interactive Language Festival and Conduit’s BamBam Festival.In addition to performing regionally, tEEth has toured to New Orleans, LA and Austin, TX as participating artists in the Fuse Box Festival, 2008.
Grub will premiere at On the Boards (Seattle, WA) February 12–14, 2009 as part of the Northwest Series and tour nationally to Joyce SoHo (NYC) March 19–21, 2009, the Fuse Box Festival (Austin, TX) April 2009, and pending locations.
Commissioning and Creative Residency by On the Boards. Grub is funded in part by 