Grammar of the Imagination is an evening-length dance performance conceived and directed by claire barrera. It features an intergenerational cast of performers: youth Jordyn Kubernick, Nila Kwa and Paloma Barrera Rodriguez and adults Linda Austin, Allie Hankins, and Hannah Krafcik. The work uses traditional children’s games as a platform to explore how play can be a site of imagining radically new social relations, or of disciplining and re-enforcing social norms. This project will be a deep inquiry into the ways power, discipline, care, and transformation arise in interpersonal dynamics, which is a subject matter that has motivated barrera's work for years.

As an activist and social worker who spends a lot of time with kids and parenting a child of my own, it has become clear to me how important play is to social movements, to healing, to creativity, and how play could serve us when we're asking ourselves, how do we create something new in the world?—director claire barrera

-an Alembic Co-Production
-created with the support of the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, and Greywood Arts.

May 20-22, 2022
Fri & Sat at 7pm
Sunday at 2pm — ASL Interpreted

Tickets $10-$20 Friday/Saturday
$0-$20 on Sunday

Performance Works NW
4625 SE 67th Ave.

photos by Chelsea Petrakis

COVID SAFETY POLICY
All ticket holders are required to show proof of full COVID vaccination or negative results on a PCR test taken within the previous 72 hours or a rapid antigen test taken the earlier that day. Please get boosted if eligible. Face masks completely covering nose and mouth are required to be worn while in the studio theater. Please wear a high-filtration efficiency mask with a tight fit to the face, such as a KN95 or N95.