I am headed to Whitman College in Walla Walla WA. to work with Shannon Stewart on our on-going beginning-of project with the trees. We will be there from 1/08-1/14. ….”we connective tissue to roots and to branches and to sap and to wood and to bark and to slowed down energetic tree pulse.” We are planting the seeds for a community gathering research sharing at FRONT Gallery in New Orleans in February. More news to come…

Photo still from video by Shannon Stewart

Come to our First of a series of three Improvisation performances at Building 5!

Oct. 26th: Tahni Holt, Emma Lutz-Higgins and Luke Wyland

Nov. 2nd: Juma DeJesus + Yaara Valey

Nov. 9th: Linda Austin + Stephanie Lavon Trotter

“To infinite possibilities”: An interview with Muffie Delgado Connelly and Tahni Holt
Interview and editing by Kate Bredeson

On August 15, 2022, Muffie Delgado Connelly, Tahni Holt, and I sat down to talk about their dance collaboration Pulse Mountain, for which I am the dramaturg. Originally scheduled to open on July 21, 2022, Pulse Mountain was postponed due to COVID-19. We took advantage of the unexpected pause in production to think about this new work and the process of making it. Before we started our formal conversation, we chatted about Delgado Connelly’s work as choreographer on the upcoming production of Tick, Tick, BOOM! at Portland Center Stage, and how narrative and music as dramaturgical devices invite audiences to think and feel. Our discussion then segued into Pulse Mountain. What follows is an edited version of our conversation.