In Preparation for Disappearances to Come

PREMIERED Feb. 6-8 at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
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In Preparation for Disappearances to Come is a music/dance collaboration.
It is a machine to practice remembering and forgetting.
It is an arena in which we slyly, if futilely, enact strategies to sidestep the inevitability of our own future dissolution and the ephemerality of performance.
It is a prompt to consider how our lives and works will dissolve, replenishing the cultural compost that nourishes the future, even as we ourselves are forgotten.

Choreography is by Linda Austin in collaboration with dancers Allie Hankins and Danielle Ross. The music score will be composed and performed live by Chris Cochrane (guitar) and Kevin Bud Jones (electronics.)

Other collaborators:
Nan Curtis, visual artist/death doula, participated in a post-show panel.
Amanda Leigh Evans, artist, educator and cultivator investigating social and ecological interdependence, led a poetic will-writing workshop.