March 7th, 2012
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
The LINE UP OF PERFORMANCES:
TAHNI HOLT with Robert Tyree, Lucy Yim and musician Thomas Thorson: Hot off their performance at Movement Research at Judson Church in NYC, Tahni and Dancers perform an excerpt of SUNSHINE, a duet between performers Robert Tyree and Lucy Yim. SUNSHINE Stages a pile of cardboard boxes and two dancers. It seduces many logics into embodiment: sculpture, glamour, little cities, mass production, homeless camps and resourcefulness.
TAHNI HOLT + NATE QUERY: A rare opportunity to experience a duet between Nate with his stand up bass and Tahni with her 8 ½ month pregnant belly. A quartet of sorts, Nate and Tahni have constructed a dance of obstructions, destinations and shapes.
LINDA K. JOHNSON: Long time Portland favorite, known for her creative, interdisciplinary approach to dance that has led her to infuse her passions of social and environmental justice in unconventional ways, will perform her TEDX dance Lecture The Habit of Being. In the wonderful tradition of master dance artist Simone Forti, she will be moving dancing, otherwise known as dancing and talking. Linda will present her dance lecture at the TEDX talks: http://tedxconcordiauportland.com/index-3.html before performing it for us at the mOuth.
AMY O/tinyrage: Known to Portland audiences for her groundbreaking performances in PICA’s TBA Festival (2003 + 2009) as well has her work with Reggie Watts, she brings the work in progress The Most Innovative, Daring, and Original Piece of Dance/Performance You Will See this Decade. It is a solo dance performance structured like a non-verbal lecture demonstration. The piece deconstructs some of Amy O’s past and recent influences (Hip Hop culture, classicism, Cyndi Lauper, Ciara, Big Boi, MTV, You Tube, Dub Step, money, feminism, the economics of the body) and questions the way performance is sold and bought through the female perspective.
All proceeds go directly to all the artists involved in the making and performing of SUNSHINE, to premier in Portland in Fall 2012 and SUNSHINE’s tour to NYC and On The Board’s NW New Works Festival in June.
SUNSHINE is supported in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Technical Director/Lighting Designer for the event: Alex Gagne-Hawes
February 9th, 2012
Movement Research @ the Judson Church
Where: Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York
When: Monday, February 13th, 8pm, FREE!!!!!!!!
What: Robert Tyree and Lucy Yim will be performing my work in progress of SUNSHINE. SUNSHINE will premier in the Fall of 2012. We would love to get any feedback you might have at this stage of the game.
Much love to you all and I hope to see you on Monday night.
November 9th, 2011
Tell your Atlanta Georgia friends about the amazing event that The Lucky Penny has curated this Friday at the Arts Exchange (750 Kalb St. SE). Atlanta’s very own Helen Hale will be performing my solo, Untitled is a choice. Untitled is a choice was first performed at The Headwater’s 1 Festival by myself this past summer.11.11.11 Spectacular! Spectacular! has a great line-up with many Atlanta artists involved. It is a mere $11 for a night of good performance, visual art, food, music and dancing. If you are in Atlanta come down and join me for The Lucky Penny’s premier event.
November 9th, 2011
Culture Machine is a dance performance (and research tank) that is performed and created by Tahni Holt along with Kaj-Anne Pepper, Robert Tyree, Sallie Garrido-Spencer, Thomas Thorson, Suzanne Chi, and Dicky Dahl. Culture Machine uses the terms representing, referencing, rebounding, replicating, pretending, mimicking, remixing, retelling, re-doing, reflecting, repeating, replacing, imitating, faking and acting as jumping off points to explore the construction of meaning and ways to explore translations through the lens of director, documentarian, and character. Culture Machine is sponsored by Disjecta, and is funded in part by individual artists’ grants through RACC.
March 31st, 2011
photo by Eugenie Frerichs
SUNSHINE (in progress) APRIL 3RD: (it is possible that this will entail actual sunshine). I, along with ROBERT TYREE and sound composer THOMAS THORSON, have been pouring our hearts into our performance SUNSHINE for the opening exhibition of (Gallery 1) Dance: before, after, during. Preparatory materials and processes, documentation and performances by Linda Austin, Susan Banyas, Tahni Holt, and Linda K. Johnson.
Gallery 2: Past Moves. Selected archival footage of Portland dance performances in the 1970s and 1980s (YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!!!!!)
Where: At THE ART GYM
When: 3pm: (SUNSHINE goes on at 4:45pm-feel free to come and go as you wish with respect to the performers)
April 4th-May 15th normal gallery hours
March 14th, 2011
TO GET A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION GO TO: HEAVY ROTATION
WEEKEND INTENSIVES
Weekend Intensives: $45 ea. (Sat./Sun.)
All 3 Weekend Intensives: $130
Intensive Drop-in: $30 (1 day drop-in)
Wendy Hambidge
Sat. March 26th 3-6p
Sun. March 27th 12-3p
Rebecca Harrison
Sat. April 16th 3-6p
Sun. April 17th 12-3p
Linda Austin
Sat. May 28th 3-6p
Sun May 29th 12-3p
MONDAY NIGHT SERIES (6-7:45p)
Pre-reg highly suggested. No drop-ins. To register email: heavyrotationpdx@gmail.com
Tahni Holt $60
Mon. April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & May 2nd
Kathleen Keogh $48
May 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
*Both Kathleen and Tahni: $90
LOCATION: CONDUIT DANCE, INC.
March 4th, 2011
Sculptural Installation by Karl Burkheimer at Disjecta: http://www.disjecta.org
March 5th: Tahni Holt with Richard Decker, Sally Garrido-Spencer, Noelle Stiles, Robert Tyree and Noelle Stiles. Sound by Tom Thorson.
March 12th: Kathleen Keogh
March 19th: Linda Austin with Jin Camou, Keyon Gaskin and Danielle Ross.
Each have been asked to respond to the altered space through an improvisational form. In this context, curation is used as a framework for each of the artists to individually strategize and activate exactly what ‘respond’ means and to what they are responding. It also gives them autonomy to invite other performers and musicians to join them. As individual artists, they have all worked in site specificity as means of producing information and, from the performer’s and viewer’s point of view, have used their bodies with place to construct different ways of seeing. In these Saturday performances nothing is taken for granted. A shift in the ordinary changes all relations. Shifting the ordinary does not inherently mean extraordinary but there is great potential.