Come be the 12th Man at 12 Minutes Max!
$6 tickets Sun, Feb 2. Tickets available at the door.
$8 tickets Mon, Feb 3.

12 Minutes Max, a showcase for new performance, gives regional artists the chance to test out new ideas and audiences the opportunity to see works-in-progress first. OtB’s longest running program has benefited artists in the Pacific Northwest for more than 30 years, and has become known as one of the country’s best experimental performance labs.

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Making their 12 Minutes Max debut Rosalynn De Roos/Choroloco, serves up some vintage Brazilian jazz called ‘Choro’. Pronounced “shoro” in Portuguese, Choro translates to “cry” or “lament”. Although the name sounds melancholy, Choroloco will whisk you off your feet with breakneck tempos, jubilant rhythms and heartfelt melodies.

Dancer/Choreographer Maya Horowitz gives a unique and personal look into the struggles of learning disabilities in Self Portrait. This solo dance uses 3 overlapping voices talking about how they learned to cope with learning disabilities throughout their real life and the dance world.

Smarter Than I uses stand-up and storytelling to reveal the trials and tribulations of fatherhood. Writer / performer Forrest Baum debates about being a single parent, a bad parent, a worst parent, but ends up being a perfectly fine parent with plenty of jokes to tell.

In What was…, Color Lines Dance Ensemble creates a tender portrait of daughters laying to rest the relationship with their fathers. Dancers from ages 12 to 17 shed the negative thoughts of their fathers in order to accept love and give love.

Part theater, part cabaret, orbé orbé, returns to the Max with Invisible Kingdoms. Singer / songwriter Cristina Orbé converges celestial pop with circus pomp culminating in music bound to delight and captivate.

Victoria Jacobs, along with Laura Aschoff, use memory and projected imagination as the catalyst for Was Here. This tightly knit improvisational dance with music looks at the intangibility of the present and past with live accompaniment by composer/musician Nico Tower.

In their 12 Minutes Max debut, Town Forest generates Narrative Landscapes, an exploration of sound and projection captured by three performers in one harmonious endeavor.

Curated by Ambassador Team Three:
alma khasawnih
A visual artist and an academic from Detroit via Far West Asia, alma is currently working on her doctorate at the University of Washington's Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department, studying the process of work of Egyptian women artists' during the Arab Spring. alma is also a member of the online publication the Seattle Globalist, is an artist, arts writer and academic with networks in Arab, Filipino, African American communities around the globe. Her experience with a broad range of artists has given her the opportunity to be critical of the diversities of art works and how they may be read within different cultural and social contexts.

Robert Hutchison
Born in North Carolina, Robert spent his youth in Luxembourg and Germany and his teenage years in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Robert was a Partner for the award-winning architecture firm Hutchison & Maul Architecture from 2001 to 2013. Recently he formed his new practice Robert Hutchison Architecture. He has been volunteering in the social sector as a 4culture Public Art Advisory Committee member since 2008, and with Space.City as a board member since 2007. His practice has placed a primary emphasis on engaging and interacting with artistic disciplines in cultures outside of Seattle. These experiences include a research scholarship in Scandinavia, a Creative Artist’s Fellowship in Japan, and serving as the Program Director and Professor for the ongoing University of Washington’s Architecture in Mexico program for the last three years. As an architect, he has worked on projects in Mexico, Montreal, China, and Chile.

Yonnas T Getahun
Yonnas was originally raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and having lived for a period of time in refugee camp in Kenya before living in the states my perspective is centered in concepts of assimilation, otherness and agency. After resigning from the pursuit of engineering degree at the University of Washington he discovered the power of poetry. Since then Yonnas has written and performed poetry to express his ideas and observations. Love for the arts has also led Yonnas to be an advocate and promoter to the talents of those around him.