Photo by Adrian Hutapea
We are twinning (across two decades of age), sometime twining, and rocking into ways of seeking, dispersing and disappearing. We commit to residing here, inside the devotional rigour of dancing together.
Risk/Reward’s shift to PICA’s warehouse and annex theatre this year means we have the space and time to do some unconventional pieces, and we’re ecstatic that Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins are going to be one of those. Pairing the rawness of the warehouse with “conventional” theatrical fixtures like a red curtain and lighting instruments, Twin Mash Rock will be a great bridge between the Drag Theatre Workshop and the Mainstage.
Intentionally constructed into sections, the audience is invited to stay for just one part or all of the piece. Maybe you’ll catch the first section on your way out to the nearby food carts, then see how it’s developed as you return, sated, for the evening? Maybe you stick around for the full time and marinate in the full evolution. Or maybe you catch a mere glimpse as you show up for the 7p show on Saturday and find it interesting enough that you stay after the Drag Theatre workshop on Sunday to see the full thing!
Emma Lutz-Higgins is a performer, choreographer and teacher residing in Portland, OR. Emma is interested in translation – how “The Dance,” an ever-present phenomena where dance is always happening, can be collected and shaped into an organized performance through research into the interiority of her dancers. It is through this concept that she begins every process. Tahni Holt was born and raised in what is now known as Portland, OR. Tahni has spent her adult life in service to dance, through performance, teachings, community gathering, on-going collaborations, somatic studies and building organizations. For Tahni, dance making is a way to imagine and question and reside in the liminal space, where unraveling is not a marker of failure but one of great power and intrigue.