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Theater bargain hunters often find their prey on the wilder side of the theater world, in the realms of performance art and late-night shows. Liminal, the group responsible for bothSuicide in B-flat and Handke Salmagundi last year, occupies the conceptual wing of the Portland theater scene. Theres no easy narrative line for this company: Its interested in more difficult conceptual matters, both intellectual and theatrical.

For its new show, Jowl Movements I-IX, for example, the company uses the avant-garde gesture and movement techniques of Russian director and theoretician Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, among others, to create a dinner party, which it promptly deconstructs. 

Oh, and theres vaudeville, too, and an original musical score by John Berendzen.

The show opens at 8 p.m. Saturday and continues at 8 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays, through Nov. 22, at the Portland Building, 1120 S.W. Fifth Ave.; $6-$15, sliding scale; 229-3851.