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Spring 2012: Troika Ranch performances in Portland
Troika Ranch and Reed College present
Enter Comma Prepare
Dates: March 2 - 4, 2012
Time: 8:00PM
Location: Kaul Auditorium/Reed College (click for directions)
This performance will move between two adjacent locations. Chairs will be provided but audience is encouraged to sit, stand and move around.
Tickets can be purchased via PayPal from the front page of our site.
Enter Comma Prepare (Premiere 2012)
Conceived and Directed by Dawn Stoppiello
Performers: Suzanne Chi, Nancy Ellis, Jonathan Krebs, Carla Mann, Dawn Stoppiello, Vanessa Vogel
Enter Comma Prepare is a playful exploration of the situation of performance and examines how meaning is created in the encounter between performers and viewers. Drawing inspiration from Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the piece toggles between the two simultaneous realities that occur in a performance situation and intentionally encourages a heightened awareness of these realities for both performer and viewer.
Enter Comma Prepare examines the process of making "meaning" from performance by presenting numerous "accidental narratives". The performers are propelled into action through computer-generated commands.Their improvised responses to these random commands in combination with the commands themselves result in unexpected narrative relationships and scenarios. Each viewer's resulting sense of "meaning" is the real one and always has been.
Enter Comma Prepare was funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), the Reed College Dance Department, Reed Arts Week, and the Wolfe Fund.
Kaul Auditorium
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR
Free parking is available in Reed College parking lots for all Kaul Auditorium concerts. There are several lots that are a short walking distance from Kaul Auditorium. Please note that street parking is not allowed on most streets surrounding the campus, and you will be ticketed!
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Click here to see Kaul Aditurm on the Reed College Campus Map (See location 22)
TriMet: Line #17 (to 28th & Holgate) or #19 (to 28th & Woodstock)
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