"Madcap imagination & seriousness..." Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
"A genius for the unexpected..." Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
"A dancer you want to watch forever..." Joan Acocella, The Village Voice

I. Film Showing & Artist's Reception
Tuesday, September 17th at 7:30pm
Tickets $5 at the door. Refreshments served.    
Performance Works NorthWest
4625 SE 67th Ave.
Reservations 503.777.1907
Silvers will show collaborative works made with noted experimental filmmaker Henry Hills & composer John Zorn:
Little Lieutenant, a festival favorite and winner of numerous awards, recreates the optimism and ambiguities of the Weimar era through innovative usage of rear screen projections, and was storyboarded and cut to a Zorn arrangement of a Kurt Weill song.
Mechanics of the Brain, a "remake" of Pudovkin's first film (a documentary on Pavlov's experiments), is a dance film in the guise of a science documentary; the original Zorn soundtrack is available on FILMWORKS VI (Tzadik). 

II. Workshop: "Film as a Language for Dance & Improvisation"
Saturday September 21st , 1-5pm
Conduit Dance 918 SW Yamhill, 4th Floor
Fee: $40 Reservations 503.777.1907
The language of cinema provides a springboard for moving and thinking differently.Transposing filmic structural elements (multi-angularity, parallel action), editing and camera techniques (jump cuts, wipes, pans, etc.) to movement creates rich, unexpected forms and juxtapositions for improvisations and compositions. Students will also translate scenes from film storyboards (such as Hitchcock's The Birds) to group and solo structures and set movement phrases as source material for explorations.


III. Performances --Tijuana Picnic
New dance works by Sally Silvers, Cydney Wilkes & Linda Austin
Lighting by Jeff Forbes
Friday-Sunday, September 27-29 8:30 pm
Conduit Dance 918 SW Yamhill, 4th Floor
$15 general; $12 students, artists, seniors
Reservations 503.777.1907

A new quartet commissioned by Performance Works NorthWest and created by Sally Silvers during her Portland residency, Tijuana Picnic zigzags across the border and into the unknown with a staging of nerves and romance in a vivid city of the imagination. With her classically angular style and out-of-joint inventions, Silvers choreographs a space between an unforseen future and a juicy layercake of the past. With precision, exuberance and wit, Tijuana Picnic flirts with impossibility while catching us all by surprise. Performed by Linda Austin, Jesse Berdine, Jim McGinn & Cydney Wilkes with original music by Bruce Andrews.

Zany, defiant, and charged, Silvers's solo, Shouting Out Loud is a tribute to grrrl group music and spirit, performed to 1980's British groups including The Raincoats, The Slits, and Penis Envy.

In her new solo Of Monsters & Marvels, Linda Austin plunges into a riotous world at once medieval and pop, exploring zones of the imagination and body where the monstrous, the beautiful, and the absurd converge and mutate. Inspired in part by Ambroise Pare's 16th century treatise of the same name, the piece is set to an original score by L.A.-based composer Daniel Baruch.

Cydney Wilkes presents a new (as yet unnamed) duet using predominately floor-bound movement which reveals intentions of effort, bridging being-ness and struggle. The piece is performed by Wilkes and dancer/choreographer Mike Barber.