Susan Banyas in Dance Poems

Friday, November 13, 2026

7 pm - 9 pm

Words, movement, music, and video are arranged into a suite of four compositions that call forth the elemental energies of gravity, shadow, balance, and harmony through the characters of dancer Steve Paxton, journalist Anas Al-Shariff, tribal leader Jeremy Red Star Wolf, composers Ornette Coleman and David Ornette Cherry, her Grandmother, Grace Lydia Edwards Rhoten, and others.

The show celebrates the 50th anniversary of SO&SO&SO&SO, the performance project launched in October 1976 in Portland, Oregon, that has continued to spawn dance, music, and word experiments in various forms: books, essays, theatre, spoken word. Collaboration is the love language at the heart of SO&SO art.

Susan Grace Banyas began experimenting with documentary art and performance in the 70s, co-founded SO&SO&SO&SO, a movement-based storytelling practice, and continues on & on as a cultural detective, writer, and everyday dancer. She is the author of The Hillsboro Story/a kaleidoscope history, various essays and performance texts, and is a choreographer for stage and street.

Tickets: $20

All Ages Welcome. | Tickets are nonrefundable.