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Salon du Garage #2 [ECP/garage]

Salon du Garage is an ongoing platform for work. Having performed in the grand spaces of German opera houses, festivals in Monaco, and New York City theaters, Dawn Stoppiello now presents intimate performance installations in her garage at 4511 NE Prescott Street, PDX 97218. A garage is a space where things get worked on. As a method of working on herself as a solo artist through group council, Stoppiello and audience together play out structured improvisational movement scores that are both silly and serious. Salon du Garage #2 will be the next iteration of her Enter Comma Prepare (ECP) series, an overarching structure for the creation of a work infused with the features/use/characteristics of the space in which it is performed. All iterations of ECP, while following the same set of rules for fabrication, generate a unique space-specific experience that will never and can never be repeated in another location with the exact same outcome. ECP/garage is a solo performance concerned with following the instructions, reading the manual, trying to fix things but making all the mistakes anyway.

Stoppiello asks you to join her for Salon du Garage #2 ECP/garage every Saturday in April 2013. The garage doors will open at 6:00PM, the performance runs one hour. Drinks and light snacks will follow. Free. No more than 20 guests will be included in the performance on each Saturday. Repeats are welcome. Please RSVP: dawn@troikaranch.org