Currently in process: WHELMING
WHELMING is an experimental dance-based project generating two evening-length works—a group piece and a solo—whose surging and ebbing energies reflect the instability, porosity, and fluidity of individual identities navigating the passage of time.
Both solo and group iterations mingle dance, heightened everyday actions, spoken or sung text, abstract vocalization, and activation of objects (e.g. a collection of glass block vases, an old black and white TV, and popcorn!); with live sound, music and lighting generated and controlled by the players. Water is present as a tactile and visual “character—suggestive of multiple associations: protean, flowing, refractive, and a threatening and threatened force of nature.
Linda is collaborating with a stellar group of accomplished performer/creators: claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Allie Hankins, Maxx Katz, John Niekrasz and Danielle Ross; plus technical director Jeff Forbes.
RECENT PROJECTS
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In Preparation for Disappearances to Come
In Preparation for Disappearances to Come is a music/dance collaboration. It is a machine to practice remembering and forgetting. It’s an opportunity for us to slyly, if futilely, enact strategies to sidestep the inevitability of our own future dissolution and the ephemerality of performance. It is an arena in which we consider how our lives…
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3 miles of possible
A durational dance performance exploring the poetic and practical associations of “the possible” in a world of fluctuating personal, material, political and artistic contingencies. Austin animates and travels along a series of spatial paths envisioned as giant drawings, spells, and/or runes. These paths are threaded through with a variety of movement scores, choreographies, tasks, interactions…
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/ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɪŋk klɑʊd/
/ə ˈsɪŋgəl pɪŋk klɑʊd/ by Linda Austin & Allie Hankins weaves movement, object, words, and song to celebrate (or is it bemoan?) our unstable, unpredictable world and the revelations yielded by a rigorous yet playful devotion to unlikely pairings and (re)combinations.
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Ordinary Devotions
An intimate drama of gesture and sensation unfolds alongside an unorthodox use of everyday objects: a large white tarp, a lamp worn on the body, a twig, rocks, and spools of thread
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a world, a world
a world a world, presented at PWNW in January 2020, invited audiences into a an extravagantly immersive landscape saturated by shards of movement, sound, image, and language—a hyperactive tumult that stutters and sputters out, yielding to a spacious, luminous, and meditative world.
