Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance

March 26-28 || Austin + Hankins: /ə ˈsiŋgəl piŋk klɑʊd/

Linda Austin & Allie Hankins
/ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɪŋk klɑʊd/
Fri-Sun, March 26-28
7:30 pm Pacific Time
Tickets—pay what you will: HERE

Sunday’s performance is Closed Captioned.
Sunday also features a post-show talk-back with Linda and Allie on Zoom, open to all who attended any performance.
Links for the performance on Vimeo and Sunday talk-back provided upon registration.

In this virtual version of /ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɪŋk klɑʊd/, Austin and Hankins dive pleasurably into the gap of their own comings and goings. They conjure a space lush with twinings and branchings, nurtured by the energetic life of their bodies and the imaginative and material phenomena they investigate. Landscapes populated by seemingly incongruous concepts, structures, and desires arise and dissolve. Inspired by surrealist artists Gertrude Abercrombie and Leonora Carrington, and the “uncanny fictive spaces” in the writing of Jen George and others, Austin and Hankins juxtapose movement, object, words, and song to celebrate (or is it bemoan?) the unstable and precarious grounds of existence.

Dance, song, shadows, onions, a hyena, and more.
A live project will be premiered (finally) later this year—we hope!
Hyena construction by Maggie Heath.
Sound by Juniana Lanning.
Technical assistance by Jeff Forbes.


Supported in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council

Linda Austin deploys movement, sound, text, visuals, and props to create non-linear, poetic works laced with an eccentric wit, teetering on the edge between the immediately apprehensible and resolutely mysterious. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Performance Works NW in Portland, Oregon. As an active participant in the downtown New York dance and performance community of the 80s and 90s, Austin presented work at Performance Space 122, the Danspace Project, and Movement Research at Judson Church, as well as in NDA’s Performance Mix. From 1992 to 1994 she lived and made work in Mexico, and has been based in Portland since 1998. Awards include the 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Merce Cunningham Award,  2019 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and the 2014 Individual Artist Fellowship from Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Allie Hankins is a Portland-based performer who makes works that toy with the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, wry wit, and skillfully layered imagery, all while trying to suppress her contentious eagerness to please. She is an inaugural member of FLOCK: a dance center and creative home to Portland’s experimental dance artists. In 2013 she founded Physical Education with keyon gaskin, Taka Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. Physical Education hosts open reading groups and lectures, curates performances, and teaches workshops nationally. Most recently, Allie has worked with Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), Linda Austin (Portland), and Ruairi Donovan (Ireland). She has been an Artist in Residence at the Ucross Foundation, Caldera, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, and the Wassaic Project.

  • Plaster cast hyena body with a ledge sticking out where the head should be. On the ledge, a pile of onion skins. More onion skins spread atthe hyena's feet.
  • Person in red pants crawling and pushing a box with their head. The front of the box has an image of someone in white pants and green jacket sitting on a blue chair. Their head is above the frame of the image. The head of a string mop is on top of the box, sort of where the head of the person in the picture would be.
  • A white femme with curly dark brown hair faces straight at us with arms outstreched from shoulder. Some mist partially fills the left side. She is front of a painted background with a crescnet moon and a pink cloud in the sky. A ladder connects the pink cloud to the green field. Under her left hand (to our right) is the shape of a hyena head, pink.

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