In the studio, The FINGER Songbook brought “haunting madrigals about sex, death and produce”–multi-instrumentalist Julie Baldridge clowning musically with Queen Shmooquan’s Jeppa Hall, who clowns in every other way imaginable. From the opening ode to meat, with Hall stepping into too-large hiking boots and clomping around, the performance set a pleasantly whacked-out tone that felt positively Canadian.

Lori Hamar’s Blood Line was more serious, and a dance work that (it’s not immediately apparent) has to do with the internment of Ukrainians during WWI. Continue reading OtB’s Northwest New Works Festival, Take Two (Review)