Catch This: Megaphones, flamenco and almost-child stars at On the Boards

Today in local theatre...

You can see a variety of cutting edge artists test out new material and works-in-progress tonight at On the Boards' 12 Minutes Max (12MM).

Here's the lineup for tonight's show (from the press release):

Two 16MM projectors run direct-animation of stars producing both a visual and aural landscape for Eric Ostrowski’s megaphone-amplified violin.

Growing up in Hollywood has its advantages. Listen and watch as Erin Shafkind (left) explains the wonders, the trials and tribulations of almost being a child star.

Victoria Jacobs bridges modern dance and flamenco by using a quizzical eye on rhythm, meaning, character and gesture.

The A-hole Barishnikovs return to 12MM! Richard Lefebvre, Otis P. Otis & Erin Jorgensen bring us 2 new works of amplified words and music entitled Why I Like Drugs.

AFMB (Honk West Division) perform a street-style musical blowout of well-known tunes delivered by 6 wildly uniformed band members.

VAM | Veronica Mendonca use water as inspiration in this excerpt of A Parenthesis in Time, a new evening length dance work that is all at once athletic, calm and reckless.

Making his 12MM debut, Nathaniel Boggess (Portland,OR) tells the hilarious and tragic experience that is his life, with particular attention to a series of ill-fated dates and the comedy of errors that ensued.

Tonight at On the Boards, 7:00pm. $8 at the door (no advance ticket sales).