Sky Poole / Strange Enough Dance (Portland, OR): TWINK
Dance, Theater
Photo of Sky Poole by Jason Thrasher.
PERFORMANCE SYNOPSIS
TWINK is an exploration of gender expression, simple acts of subversion, and returning to your roots. You are handed cards at birth, yes, but you get to decide what you do with them. In this solo, Sky will reckon with their intersectionality, their belief systems, and the impact that has on their true self. To what extent can conformity protect us before we start drowning?
BIO
Sky has a choreographic voice described as whimsical, intriguing, and occasionally comical. A gender queer individual born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, they are particularly curious about identity, intersectionality, the contrast of the cards we are dealt at birth, and how they are woven together by the passage of time. They thoroughly enjoy working with text, both visually and verbally, in their creative process. Sky attended the University of Georgia, where they graduated with a B.A. in Dance and a social work minor, and is currently training under Open Space Dance in Portland, Oregon. They have created work for Now You See Me Choreographer’s Intensive, the Contemporary Dance Choreography Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the American Collegiate Dance Association, and most recently Open Space Too. Sky hopes that their viewers find unique worlds, visceral feelings, and distant memories within their work.
CREDIT
dancer & choreographer: Sky Poole