17 February 10
Linda Austin and Tahni Holt are pleased to announce our Dinner Series fundraiser. Each dinner will host two Portland performers, artists or writers in discussion with each other and the dinner guests. There will be one dinner each month, with the first one kicking off on Feb. 27th. We do this for our love for communal eating, a desire for more discourse that touches upon performance as an art among other arts, and a curiosity about other people’s processes: what & how & why they make what they make and do what they do. Please help us realize our 2010 performance projects, Tahni’s CULTURE MACHINE and Linda’s PAIRED SPECTACULAR.
To make reservations please email Tahni at HELLO@TAHNIHOLT.COM.
All dinners start at 7pm and are at undisclosed locations (Portland bound).
Seating is limited to 20 people so please make your reservations now.
We hope to see you at one or many of our dinners,
Tahni Holt Linda Austin
03 February 10
Tuesday | Feb. 9th | 9:00pm
Danielle Ross | Jean Paul Jenkins (and performers Keyon Gaskin, Leah Wilmoth, Lillian Rossetti, and Robert Tyree)
Linda Austin
Paige McKinney (and performers Esther LaPointe, Beth Loy, Bonni Stover, Taylor Young)
Tahni Holt | Thomas Thorson (10:50)
Future Death Toll
Little Friction Dance
and Suniti Dernovsek
Valentines | 232 SW Anken
03 February 10
Friday | Feb.5th | 5:30pm | FREE
Heather Vergotis (music) | JP Jenkins (music) | Tahni Holt + Tom Thorson (dance)
Harmelodic Haus (Heather’s house)
4519 N. Kerby
Start Friday night right with a little performance in a little house. Wine provided but do not feel shy to bring your own drink.
03 February 10
PLEASE GO TO: HEAVY ROTATION FOR A COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES BEING OFFERED.
TUESDAYS: 6:30-8:30
LOCATION/S: TBD 10 WEEK RESEARCH LAB: $100
HR CARDHOLDER DISCOUNT: $80
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: heavyrotationpdx@gmail.com
This class is a laboratory and it is a construction site. What is constructed and possibilities of research depend on the participants. We decide what space we create. Is it an open space, or a closed space? Is it one space, or several? Is it a public space or a private one? Like scientists we work with functions, like philosophers we work in concepts and as artists we compose blocks of space-time. It is a forum for possibilities, a production of communications and situations. It is a performance. Not because I say so but because you say so. It is a class. Not because I say so but because you say so. I say: perform more,
share more, perform more, share more, talk more, think more, pretend less, pretend more? You say: Yes.
Things that could possibly take place in our lab: reading, writing, discussing, viewing, doing, eating, drinking, sharing, dancing, performing. Your first assignment is to find three more things that could possibly take place and share one of these things with the rest of us. In the end, as in the beginning, I am sure this will help us define the space. What if the way it is taught is what is being taught. You say yes. I say yes.
06 January 10
The Gravediggers, a project initiated by Elizabeth Ward and Tahni Holt, is an intersection: An attempt to make possible new spaces for dance and conversation. As global travelers,The Gravediggers takes place where ever the two intersect. These experiments of possibility are a way to build community, give meaning to travel, and not feel so alienated by the market of dance making. It is an attempt to solve a riddle, to understand the crime, to work through the construction of dance with different lenses. What is our place? What is our time? What is possible?
After a 3 week residency at Pa-F (performance Art Forum) in St. Erme, France in February 09, we constructed a workshop with local dancers at Conduit Dance in Portland, OR in November.
We have coined the term “the strings” as a way to pay attention to the emotional, contextual, psychological, and compositional components as well as to the performativity of dancing with others in space. By using methods of inquiry through “the scientist”, “the detective” and “the reporter”, we tap into different languages that can be used as interpreting devices. The dance becomes the crime scene.
On Saturday January 9th we team up with Atlanta’s dance enthusiast and designer, Malina Rodriguez, and perform as part of Dance Truck. Come one come all, dress for the weather at 6pm at Eyedrum: 290 Martin Luther King Junior Drive Southeast. For this performance we are thinking of: gender as costume; image as identity; gesture as meaning; how to dance in a box truck without any sense of entrapment or hostility.
