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<\/a><\/p>\nThis production,\u00a0Now Repeat in Steinese , <\/strong>originated in New York and\u00a0was written about on this blog in May of last year, \u00a0Stein ‘n Wine, a Night of Steinese. <\/strong>What better tribute to the Mistress of Repetition than to repeat \u00a0Now Repeat in Steinese! <\/strong>And what better birthday gift could Alice ask for, other than maybe a well-ostrich-feathered chapeau<\/em>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ALEMBIC #13 \u00a0NOW REPEAT IN STEINESE <\/strong><\/p>\n THE DETAILS :<\/strong><\/p>\n WHAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n Drawing upon Gertrude Stein\u2019s reputation for repetition,\u00a0Now Repeat in Steinese<\/strong> is four back-to-back stagings of her early enigmatic one-act \u201cWhite Wines\u201d paired with four different white wines. Fruity? Dry? Acidic? Sweet?<\/p>\n Now Repeat in Steinese<\/strong> will be all this and more. By highlighting the role of the director,\u00a0Now Repeat in Steinese<\/strong> uses one of Stein’s most unstageable works\u00a0— no plot, no characters, no setting —\u00a0to reveal the myriad ways such material can in fact be interpreted.<\/p>\n " Give me a 'G!' Give me an 'E!' Give me an 'R!' Give me a 'T!' "<\/p><\/div>\n Under\u00a0performance artist\u00a0Drew Pisarra’s<\/strong> guidance, this concept was initially executed in New York in 2010 where it was hailed as an “entertaining collation of pure theater” (nytheater.com) and played for a month to sold-out houses.\u00a0Instead of remounting that original\u00a0show, however, this\u00a0production\u00a0reinvents the idea by having four West Coast theater artists\/choreographers\/filmmakers interpret the\u00a0play anew, thereby revealing a completely new set of artistic sensibilities. Pisarra, a fixture in Portland’s dance-theater landscape in the ’90s, returns from NYC to host this one-of-a-kind evening with his longtime collaborator Katherine Gray.<\/p>\n Alembic <\/strong>is an ongoing series of performances curated by guest artists from the worlds of dance, theater, visual and media arts invited to program and produce an event at Performance Works NorthWest.<\/p>\n WHO:<\/strong><\/p>\n Drew Pisarra, <\/strong>curator<\/p>\n Katherine Petersen<\/strong>, co-host<\/p>\n The SteinWays, <\/strong>musical collective<\/em><\/p>\n Kyle Delamarter and Starr Ahrens, <\/strong>theater artists<\/em><\/p>\n TouchMonkey: <\/strong>Carolyn Stuart and Patrick Gracewood,\u00a0dancers<\/em><\/p>\n Austin Newsom, <\/strong>filmmaker<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n WHEN: <\/strong>April 29 and 30. Friday and Saturday. 8pm.<\/p>\n HOW:<\/strong>Tickets $12-$15 (discounts for Boris & Natasha Fan Club)at the door or at\u00a0hulahub.com<\/span><\/p>\n WHERE: <\/strong>Performance Works NorthWest\u00a0\u00a0(<\/strong>www.performanceworksnw.org<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n 4625 SE 67th Ave., Portland, OR 97206<\/p>\n 503.777.1907<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PLAYERS:<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n The SteinWays <\/strong>are a collection of musicians from Portland and Seattle. Over the past 15 years, they have performed together in a variety of plays and musical cabarets in Portland. Lynn Ann Kister is a poet, a piano player, and a singer; Iven M. is coming out of her self-imposed exile from the Portland music scene to be a part of this most provocative production; LizM’s brings great devotion to low brass and voice and great cleavage; Jackie Sauriol is all about trombones and flugelhorns, trumpets and flutes and guitars; and Susie Schmitt is a fledgling\u00a0accordionist with\u00a0the experience\u00a0of playing the\u00a0roles of wild women in the works of such greats as Jean Genet, Holly Hughes, and Anton Chekov.<\/p>\n The SteinWays<\/p><\/div>\n Kyle Delamarter <\/strong>is from Sandpoint, Idaho.\u00a0 From 2000-2001, he worked as an animator,\u00a0music contributor, and\u00a0voice actor\u00a0at Flying Rhinoceros.\u00a0 In 2002, he was\u00a0cast\u00a0in Imago Theatre’s\u00a0Biglittlethings<\/em> where he regularly performs to the present.\u00a0 He toured\u00a0internationally\u00a0with Imago’s productions\u00a0FROGZ<\/em> and\u00a0Biglittlethings<\/em>, and hasperformed in a number of Carol Triffle’s\u00a0original plays, including\u00a0Hit Me in the Stomach<\/em> and\u00a0Backs Like That<\/em>.\u00a0 While raising his two daughters, Kyle\u00a0has\u00a0developed a fascination for women characters in children’s stories.\u00a0 Baba Yaga (the crone) relate to a facet of older women past their child-bearing years, who impart wisdom to girls uninitiated into womanhood.\u00a0 Through the filter of time and changing social mores, Baba Yaga has been portrayed as a villain.<\/p>\n Kyle Delamarter<\/p><\/div>\n Nathan H. G.<\/strong> lurks about\u00a0Imago\u00a0Theatre on a regular bases, appearing in past productions of\u00a0Uncle Vanya, Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, The Cuban Missile Tango,Tick Tack Type, Stage Left Lost, and PSU’s\u00a0Kabuki\u00a0and Butoh performances. At one time in his life a\u00a0professional ballet dancer, he now studies Butoh and is in the process of fusing the two dance forms together to create a new ballet noir the first of which was performed last weekend in the Under the Influence benefit for Japan, at Headwaters Theatre. Nathan has also preformed with Wobbly, The\u00a0Wonderlust\u00a0Circus, Bogville, Socitas Insomnia, and\u00a0Mizu\u00a0Desierto Butoh Theatre.<\/p>\n Starr Ahrens<\/strong> was raised in the unincorporated village of Rockdale, Wisconsin. She moved west to Portland where she studied theatre and gender studies at Lewis & Clark College before moving to Los Angeles where she enjoyed Southern California’s “no winter” policy. While in LA,\u00a0Starr completed Second City’s writing and conservatory programs. She improvised, wrote\u00a0and performed comedy in and around Los Angeles,\u00a0notably at Second City, The Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and Improv Olympic. Her work was featured on\u00a0Wisecrack!<\/em> on MTV’s LOGO network. She’s taken her solo show and sketch shows to festivals nationwide. Happy to be back in the City of Roses, Starr can be found teaching long form improv at Comedy Sportz Portland. TouchMonkey<\/strong>, Carolyn Stuart and Patrick Gracewood, have been investigating, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for over 20 years. They currently offer classes, jams and retreats at Gracewood Studio in Portland, OR.<\/p>\n TouchMonkey<\/p><\/div>\n Austin H. Newsom<\/strong> Is a San Francisco based artist, working primarily in Film and Mixed Media. He is currently a member of the Tart House Gallery Collective, an avant-garde group of artists and craftsman displaying regularly at a flat in the Mission District of San Francisco and annually at the Burning Man festival. His work is perception-driven as he plays with the different lenses that people put on to see the world from unique perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
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