For the 28th annual Northwest New Works Festival (June 10-12, 17-19; tickets: $14), On the Boards has selected 16 companies from Washington, Oregon, and Victoria BC. Audiences get to see either new or in-progress performance works, all of which clock in under 20 minutes–if you don’t know the names, that’s all right. Discovery is actually the point. (OtB has recordings of the artists interviewing each other here.)
A few dance highlights in the studio this weekend: Alice Gosti brings her “Spaghetti Co.” and its memories of home and belonging (see Jeremy’s interview with Gosti here, my review of the work at NW Film Forum here), and Coriolis Dance Collective (Natascha Greenwalt Murphy and Christin Call) present Call’s “Try to hover,” which is both said to be surreal and about “aspects of illness.” Seattlest instructed you to look out for Coriolis in 2011, so here is your chance.
In dance on the mainstage, Paige Barnes (who has a geography minor, which I mention as a non sequitur) presents “War Is Over,” a solo piece in which a boxer goes three rounds with herself; Jessica Jobaris & general magic present “you’re the stuff that sets me free,” which features wrestling with “the metaphysical and psychotherapy”; and Part & Parcel’s Allie Hankins appears in “By Guess & By God.”
Portland’s Holcombe Waller also appears with “Surfacing,” which is “monologues, original songs and movement.” (Here he is on YouTube.)
