PETE-ICP Festival

The culmination of the ICP program is the ICP Festival Without Walls, a blossoming of new site-specific performance created and produced by each year’s cohort.

PAST ICP FESTIVALS

2023-2024 Cohort: Tree of Vice

PETE’s ICP 2023-24 cohort presented their Tree of Vice festival May 9-12, 2024. The festival focused on the process of learning, growing, fighting and finding each other again and again, and on the wild and sacred discoveries made as we collide with one another.

Performances in Tree of Vice were:

Amelia & [Hen]Rietta by Sizheng Song & Amelia Sommer

In The Stead Of A Burnt Family Tree I Stand by Sizheng Song & Amelia Sommer

NINA by Kasia Caravello, Naomi Bowers, Daye Thomas, Rachel Wells, Dylan Hankins, and Wy DeShong

Jane Says by Daye Thomas & Naomi Bowers

Give Us Collision! by Jerilyn Armstrong, Travis Abels, and Daye Thomas

2022-2023 Cohort: a/void/fest

PETE’s ICP 2022-23 Cohort was thrilled to present a/void/fest, an amalgamation of responses to a theoretical impending apocalypse. The four-day festival of contemporary performances showed May 11-14, 2023, and explored forbidden and encouraged love, solitude in vastness, and Brunch, in site-specific locations across Portland.

Performances that made up a/void/fest:

BRUNCH by Emily Smith, Becca Wirta, Zoe Brouwer, and Claire Aldridge

Big League Chew by Lily Alice Linz, Keshav Eldurkar, and Isabel McTighe

Hello From The Children of Planet Earth by Emily Smith

The Lovers, Or: I Saw God The Other Day And They Looked Like You by Tamera Lyn, Isabel McTighe, and Keshav Eldurkar

SKINSHOW by Claire Aldridge, Rachel Routh, and Kora Link

Songs For The End Of The World by Kora Link, Rachel Routh, and Ken Yoshikawa

We Who Are About To Die by Ken Yoshikawa, Zoe Brouwer, Lily Alice Linz, and Becca Wirta

2021-2022 Cohort: Fleshed Out Festival

PETE’s ICP 2021-22 Cohort was thrilled to present “Fleshed Out Festival,” a composite of seven new works born from a shared language built over the course of a year. The festival ran May 7th - May 15th, exploring endurance, butoh, lecture theater, scavenger hunt, ritual and possession.

The performances in the Fleshed Out Festival were:

thundercake by Lilja Owsley and India Roper-Moyes at Belmont Library, Rain or Shine Coffee, and Mt Tabor.

exuviae by Kai Hynes, directed by Annabel Cantor at Mt Tabor Park

Between the Two of Us by Leiana Petlewski and Olivia Mathews, directed by Kai Hynes at Mt Tabor Park

ENDURANCE [the boat] (the show) by Olivia Mathews and Akitora Ishii, directed by Leiana Petlewski at CoHo Theatre

There is Darkness, and There is Darkness by Sofia Marks, directed by Kamala Woods at Sunnyside Community Center

VOID by Kamala Woods, directed by Sofia Marks at CoHo Theatre.
HUM201 Wretched Surfaces: Corporeal Perspectives on Victorian Literature by Annabel Cantor & India Roper Moyes, directed by Akitora Ishii at CoHo Theatre

2020-21 Cohort: Together Apart

PETE’s ICP cohort of 2021-22 present Alone Together, a festival of new, site-specific work exploring isolation and eros. The festival ran May 12-16, 2021, featuring the following performances:

Today by Claire Rigsby, directed by Rose Proctor at Grant Park

Imaginal Cell by Dylan Hankins and Kelsea Ashenbrenner at Holman House

REM by Rachel Wells and Dylan Hankins, directed by Elsa Dougherty at the Holman House

I Hope You’re Well by Rachel Wells, at the Holman House

Dead, End Ahead by Logan Starnes and Kelsea Ashenbrenner, directed by Dylan Hankins at Laurelhurst park and surrounding neighborhoods

Alone by Rose Proctor, directed by Claire Rigsby

ab intra by Rachel Wells and Claire Rigsby, directed by Elsa Dougherty at the Peninsula Park fountain

2018-19 Cohort: Lost. Found.

PETE’s ICP cohort of 2018-19 present Lost. Found., a collection of short performances playing at CoHo festival May 16-19 2019.

2017-18 Cohort: Very Poorly Indeed

PETE’s ICP 2017-18 cohort presents: Very Poorly Indeed, an ensemble-created performance based on the Donner party. Performances ran June 21-24, 2018 at the CoHo Theatre.