Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance

An absurdist slapstick work-in-progress featuring Mo, a silent clown character, tasked with creating a performance for other humans to laugh at. Set in motion by sound, lights, props, and comedic expectation, Mo finds herself in a performative cycle of achievement and failure, tension and release, fast and slow, connection and disconnection, and so on and so forth

PATER_CIDA performance (™)
a multimedia mythos
Moons Break Orbits
Engineered, Yet
Illegitimate Displays
Terraforming Legacy
Assumption Denied
Heat Death
Of The Universe
Soon
We’ll All
Be ———

In ‘Here nor There’ a limited capacity audience is given the choice to observe the artist “Here”, dancing in the theater space live while casting sharp shadows on the wall behind her, or “there” in the back garden where the shadow play is projected from a live feed in an intimate open air cinema. The audience can move between the two spaces as they like.

“Apogee” is a sci-fi inspired multi-sensory stim—a personal reflection on the ways our own sensitive systems intertwine with surroundings, how they collapse time, find order, glitch and regulate. It was developed holding neurodiverse experiences in mind and includes video, sound, text, and movement collected and arranged over the course of the pandemic.