Thank You for an incredible 21/22 Season!
Graveyards & Gardens
@Bodecker Foundation
2360 NW Quimby Street
Portland, OR 97210
Thu, Fri, & Sat, Apr 28, 29, 30, 2022 | 7:30pm
+ matinee performance Sat Apr 30, 2022 | 3:00pm
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw returns to Portland with dancer-choreographer Vanessa Goodman to present Graveyards and Gardens from the Bodecker skate bowl. Co-produced by Shaw and Goodman, this new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions.
“A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album of reconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquated innovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the body remembers.”—Nicole Mion
photography by Sara Wright
System as Object
@Oregon Contemporary
8371 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
Main Exhibit in Gallery 2: Feb 25 - Mar 20
Open hours: Fri / Sat / Sun Noon—5pm
Free and open to the public / ADA accessible
Live Shows:
SUN, MAR 20 — Closing Night - Live Deactivation | 7:30
Third Angle announces a month-long partnership with Oregon Contemporary, activating the North Portland art center with a FREE immersive audio-visual installation. System as Object runs February 25 - March 20, 2022 and will be open to the public Fridays through Sundays from 12-5 pm. Third Angle will also present a ticketed live performance on March 20 at 7:30pm where the artists will be deactivating the installation.
Little Things
@Bodecker Foundation
2360 NW Quimby Street
Portland, OR 97210
Thu & Fri, Feb 10 & 11, 2022 | 7:30pm
Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón creates music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, vegetables, and electronics, as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras. Now she joins forces with 3A artists Sarah Tiedemann, flute; Valdine Ritchie Mishkin, cello; Chris Whyte, percussion; and Maria Garcia, piano to present a live performance of electro-acoustic works that sparkle, shimmer, and inspire, including the world premiere of Espacios, objetos, sonidos y tiempo, a new work commissioned by Third Angle.
*Supported by Linda Czopek in memory of Vern Rifer
SANCTUARIES: A JAZZ CHAMBER OPERA
September 7, 8, 9, 2021
Location: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music. This world premiere, site-specific opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon. Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theater, Sanctuaries speaks to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland's historically Black Albina district. Originally set to premiere in April of 2020, Sanctuaries will now debut at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion on September 7th, with two additional performances on September 8th and 9th, all beginning at 8:30 pm.
Work
DARRELL GRANT | Sanctuaries
Cast
DAMIEN GETER | bass-baritone | The Reverend
EMMANUEL HENREID | baritone | The Artist
MARILYN KELLER | alto | The Returner
ITHICA TELL | alto | Carpenter
JASMINE JOHNSON | mezzo-soprano
DERION LOMAN | dancer | White
Creative Team
DARRELL GRANT | composer and co-creator
ANIS MOJGANI | librettist and co-creator
ALEXANDER GEDEON | director and co-creator
SARAH TIEDEMANN | music director
LARS CAMPBELL | conductor
YUKI IZUMIHARA | set designer
CARL FABER | lighting designer
BRANIC HOWARD | sound engineer
ALISON HERYER | costume designer
photography by Intisar Abioto
FRESH AIR FESTIVAL
AKIHO & ROSENBAUM—TECHNICOLOR—THE WHYTE ALBUM
July 11, 2021
Location: Topaz Farms, Sauvie Island
“Fresh Air Fest”, a new outdoor music festival. For audiences craving a summertime live music experience, Third Angle New Music presents “Fresh Air Fest” an outdoor new music mini-festival located at the idyllic Topaz Farm, just 10-miles from downtown Portland on Sauvie Island. The fun all starts on Sunday, July 11 beginning at 3:30 pm and includes three one-hour sets (with breaks in between), featuring some of your favorite 3A artists. “Being able to breathe the fresh air together, performing outside under a wise old oak—this is as dreamy it gets.”
Musicians
Andy Akiho, percussion
Ian Rosenbaum, percussion
Sophie Baird-Daniel, harp
Wendy Richman, viola
Sarah Tiedemann, fluteChris Whyte, percussion
Valdine Mishkin, cello
photography by Sara Wright
