Saturday, August 21, 2004
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Last night we performed as part of the Second Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Fest, a fundraiser for Performance Works Northwest. PWNW is a great local venue that supports a wide variety of dance, theatre, and music in Portland.
Several local artists signed up to take part. A section of Foreman's notebooks, which are published online, were given to us a week before the show, along with a few rules, and we had to come up with a new work based on the text and the rules.
All the performances were pretty great, but we'll make a special mention of Liminal's piece, which was a great combination of silly, poignant, and linguistic.
Our piece was a new song. We had visuals behind us taken from a fantastic revolutionary Chinese-American dictionary, which has the most propagandist sample sentences imaginable. ("Fat": "The capitalists grow fat on the blood of the proletariat.") Casey Seyb of the Tuftees joined us to help sing.
Hopefully we'll unearth a picture from the event at some point!
1. Tangshan
