SMALLER | Karen Nelson, Nica Portavia & Evan Strauss

Name: SMALLER | Karen Nelson, Nica Portavia & Evan Strauss
Start: 2025-01-17T19:30:00-08:00
Location: 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97206

Schedule

Fri, 17 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97206 | Portland, OR

Performers: Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson (dance) and Evan Strauss (music)
This example carries the big picture. A small touch carries the vibration dance of inside life and inside music. The gift of gravity, we SMALLER performers share the inside and outside impacts of social change, the wealth. We give dance where a tangible touch can equal an intangible result. And invisible communications touch and clarify, confuse, and discover the already there. Thanks to Steve Paxton (1939-2024) for his groundbreaking practice of the small dance “can it be smaller?” (SP)
This revolution of body presence is a quiet, breathing one. It is an exultant, joyous and fierce one. As we do the deep, hard, personal and collective work to reclaim our bodies from a human-made sea of corporate greed, planet destruction, gender inequity and ignorance of race and religious prejudice, we have to ask, what does our art and embodiment labor bring to the social and environmental change movements? In SMALLER even as we question, we perform with the confidence that being in the room together practicing presence, we are in community action. Ultimately, we are all improvising, the performers and the observers of the performance. Gravity, the profound, constant sensation that connects us with our home, is a force we each experience whether giving attention to it or not. The earth is always here. The substance of our work hopes to materialize and illuminate that felt sense in community.