"If you want to be utterly transported, look to choreographer Jay Carlon. His work is so theatrical, so absorbing that you forget where you are."
Dancer/choreographer/community organizer Jay Carlon and composer/sound artist/vocalist Micaela Tobin bring people together in their iterative performance practice known as TALAGA. This intimate and relaxed gathering combines performance, conversation, and food in the spirit of sharing and learning about unique cultural perspectives and lived experiences. Each iteration of TALAGA is tailored to our present moment and is a platform for the collaborating artists’ research and respective practices of experimental movement, music, and decolonization. The most recent recipient of the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s Choreographer Award, Carlon’s work facilitates shared healing and the exploration of post-colonial identity, ancestry, and the complex queer and Filipinx experience in relationship to site and space.
SHOW TIMES
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026 – 7 PM
MECHANICS’ HALL, PORTLAND
RUNTIME: COMING SOON
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SENIOR (65+): $40
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Modular wheelchair ramp to enter building. 35″ width elevator to the third-floor ballroom.
ASL interpretation available upon request.
