Protests Will Not Halt Performances

For Immediate Release
Contact: Bryan Markovitz
Phone: 228-7231

Portland, Ore. - Despite rumors that Liminal’s production of Jowl Movements I-IX would be canceled because of angry protests and vandalism by a small but vocal reactionary extremist group at last weekend’s performances, the company fully intends to continue its performance run as scheduled. 

Liminal’s resolve is clear: the company will not bow down to those who hold differing opinions, nor will one single performance be canceled or delayed because of the intolerance of a few radical factions wishing to squelch free expression in a manner reminiscent of colonial Salem witch hunts.

In fact, it is just such societal unraveling that fuels Liminal’s desire to produce a new and fearful genre of performance for a new and fearful time. As the artifice of the modern era crumbles around us, Liminal will continue its current theatrical exploration of the myth, mysticism, sorcery, and phantasmagoria of what will someday be known as the Neo-Gothic Age. 

“We are prepared to call upon the aid of Hell itself,” said company member Nigel Robeson, “in our battle for free expression and our preparation for a new dawn. We will persevere undaunted by those who remain ignorant to our crumbling millennium.”

Liminal would like to thank Cascadia Holdings Corporation, Inc. for its continuing support of this endeavor.

Saturday and Sunday nights, Continuing through November 22, 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $6-15 on a sliding scale, cash or checks. For reservations, call 229-3851. 

The Portland Building, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Main Entrance

Liminal
PO Box 86215
Portland, OR 97286
Phone: 228-7231, Fax: 228-8840, E-mail: liminal@valise.com

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Jowl Movements I-IX

For Immediate Release
Contact: Bryan Markovitz
Phone: 228-7231

Portland, Ore. - Since they first burst onto the scene, Portland’s performance group Liminal has become a phenomenon. Now, after spending a politically controversial year in Nigeria studying the maverick techniques of famed choreographer, Inu Bisiriyu, Liminal returns to the Portland scene with the premier showing of an original new work commissioned by the Institute for Performance Research at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. 

Drawn both from the shamanistic traditions of Nigeria’s Yoruba cults, and from the meticulously notated physical mysticism of fifteenth-century Iberian scholar Abraham Abulafia, Jowl Movements I-IX tackles diverse human topics ranging from the sacred ritual of the daily meal, to the popular modern traditions of erotic dance. Set in a post-industrial landscape of juxtaposition and intertextual pastiche, Jowl Movements I-IX extends the limits of the senses with a dazzling multimedia array of technical wizardry that, as with much of Liminal’s art, refuses definition. 

Jowl Movements I-IX is, above all, a very human convergence of cultural planes, addressing such issues as race, gender, age, religion, and socioeconomic displacement with an all-engulfing fin de sicle anxiety.

Liminal’s Portland performance of Jowl Movements I-IX is made possible by the generous support of Cascadia Holdings Corporation, Inc.

The Portland Building, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Main Entrance
Saturday and Sunday nights, October 24-November 22, 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $6-15 on a sliding scale, cash or checks. For reservations, call 229-3851. 

Liminal
PO Box 86215
Portland, OR 97286
phone: 228-7231, fax: 228-8840, e-mail: liminal@valise.com

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