THRESHOLDING
a [ ] by the PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe
Performance Works Northwest & Bridgespace, Portland OR
December 13, 14, & 15th, 7pm
Unfolding at the intersection of ritual, play, and inquiry, Thresholding is a performative exploration of liminality—the dynamic borderlands between order and chaos, art and therapy, sense and nonsense, performer and audience. At its core, the piece weaves together a series of structured improvisational games and ceremonies designed to engage the mysteries of presence, transformation, and collective imagination.
This debut performance by the Deep Play Institute’s PDX Performance Troupe draws on psychodramatic techniques, surrealist language games, rule-based improvisational systems, conversation scores, and vocal experiments. The troupe operates as a living laboratory for "deep play," inhabiting the fluid space between safety and risk, individuality and collectivity, buoyancy and heaviness, centeredness and marginality.
Performances run approximately 60–90 minutes and feature varying levels of audience participation.
Please note: on-time arrival is mandatory.
Performances Details:
Tickets:
Sliding scale: $12–$25
$5 tickets available for participants with a SNAP card.
Locations:
Performance Works Northwest: 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR 97206
Bridgespace: 133 SE Madison St, Portland, OR 97214
The PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe is:
Aaron Finbloom (director) is a philosopher, artist, therapist, and educator whose work aims to expand transformative inquiry through relational games, role play, performance art, and conversation scores. bloom davis is an artist, facilitator, and storyteller dedicated to creating spaces for transformation, connection, and play. Katie Eichner is a therapist whose spiritual practice is her naked ass in the river. Kathryn Frey is a Portland-based performance artist, yoga teacher, and aspiring cartographer of liminal spaces who channels creative angst into embodied resistance. Sarah Radelet has a curiosity for growth and understanding that spurs ongoing movement in her thoughts, emotions and physical body and is reflected in this Deep Play.
This debut performance by the Deep Play Institute’s PDX Performance Troupe draws on psychodramatic techniques, surrealist language games, rule-based improvisational systems, conversation scores, and vocal experiments. The troupe operates as a living laboratory for "deep play," inhabiting the fluid space between safety and risk, individuality and collectivity, buoyancy and heaviness, centeredness and marginality.
Performances run approximately 60–90 minutes and feature varying levels of audience participation.
Please note: on-time arrival is mandatory.
Performances Details:
- Friday, Dec 13, 7pm at Performance Works Northwest*
- Saturday, Dec 14, 7pm at Performance Works Northwest
- Sunday, Dec 15, 7pm at Bridgespace
Tickets:
Sliding scale: $12–$25
$5 tickets available for participants with a SNAP card.
Locations:
Performance Works Northwest: 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR 97206
Bridgespace: 133 SE Madison St, Portland, OR 97214
The PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe is:
Aaron Finbloom (director) is a philosopher, artist, therapist, and educator whose work aims to expand transformative inquiry through relational games, role play, performance art, and conversation scores. bloom davis is an artist, facilitator, and storyteller dedicated to creating spaces for transformation, connection, and play. Katie Eichner is a therapist whose spiritual practice is her naked ass in the river. Kathryn Frey is a Portland-based performance artist, yoga teacher, and aspiring cartographer of liminal spaces who channels creative angst into embodied resistance. Sarah Radelet has a curiosity for growth and understanding that spurs ongoing movement in her thoughts, emotions and physical body and is reflected in this Deep Play.