Friday through Saturday, March 28-30, at 8pm
Sunday March 31 at 2pm*
*Sunday’s performance will be livestreamed
Tickets $12-$25
a limited number of $5 tickets are available for Oregon Trail Card holders
Celebrating our 10th Alembic Resident Artist cohort, in residence since June 2023, Performance Works NorthWest presents dance and performance by JmeJames Antonick + Patsy Morris, Katherine Longstreth, and Emma Lutz-HIggins.
The Body Veil
The final installment of a three-part series investigating practices of healing through the body, The Body Veil taps into the magic of our body, using movement to connect with the universe and each other and explore what ritual means in our bodies as a way to promote healing.
Co-directed and danced by JmeJames Antonick and Patsy Morris.
Sound design by Geovanny Vega.
JmeJames Antonick (they/them) is a dance artist, somatic practitioner, musician, comedian, and nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter. Jme creates through a lens of neurodivergence, queerness, and hidden disabilities.
@JmeJamesAntonick
Patsy Morris (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, musical theater enthusiast, comedian, writer and costume designer dabbler. @endlessbossabilities
Geovanny Vega is a DJ and beat maker. Hip hop, Soul, funk, Latin.
Let’s Dance
Equal parts academic lecture, existential dialogue, and somatic investigation Let’s Dance explores the role of dance in our culture, authenticity in the creative process, the neurochemistry of embodiment, and what it means to know something in your bones. Using video, text and movement, Katherine Longstreth, along with collaborators Marilys Ernst (video) and Jen Mitas (dramaturgy), wonders what a future fully entangled with AI might mean for the physical self.
Katherine Longstreth grew up in Manhattan, where she began dancing at the 92nd Street Y. She makes dance, video and installation work which has been presented in New York City, by among others, Dance Theater Workshop, David Parker/The Bang Group, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the 92nd St. Y and in Portland by Ten Tiny Dances, the Risk Reward Festival, The One Festival, The White Box and Reed College, and in San Francisco by CounterPulse.
Jen Mitas (she/they) has worked in theatre and performance for 25 years. They began as a solo performer in New York, receiving commissions from Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Dixon Place. In 2003, Jen moved to the UK and completed a PhD in Performance with a fellowship from the University of London. After a decade of research, teaching, and performance-making, including a commission from Battersea Arts Center, Jen returned to the US. Currently, Jen works with performance collective, Slumber Party. and supports arts, culture, and place-based organizations through grant writing and fundraising strategy at CONE.
Marilys Ernst is excited to be part of Katherine Longstreth brain trust in collaboration with Jen Mitas to bring Let’s Dance to life at Performance Works NW. Regarding theatrical design, as a seasoned editor, animator and video producer, Ernst has created projected content for numerous venues and screens around the world; with a range of single and multiple point installations and 360 projections for performance in the round. HorseandHay.Media is Ernst’s newly formed West Coast multimedia production company.
You Make Me Sick
The dancers are on a deserted island, there is no escape. An exploration of vast isolation and desire that permeates us in chaotic circumstances, the pressure mounts, this is the final dance. Who will be the last one on the dance floor? Who will find what they’re looking for?
Choreographed by Emma Lutz-Higgins and performed by Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, John Niekrasz and Helen Spencer-Wallace
Emma Lutz-Higgins is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Portland, OR. She is interested in translation- how “The Dance,” an ever-present phenomenon where dance is always happening, can be collected and shaped into an organized performance through research into the interiority of her dancers. She hails from Brooklyn, NY where she’s performed at Movement Research, Danspace Project, Live Arts, SLAM, Gibney Dance Studios and The Brick Theater. Emma graduated from Bard College in 2016.
Performance Works NorthWest || Linda Austin Dance engages artists and audiences of the Pacific Northwest in the process of experimentation, creation and dialog around the presentation of contemporary performance. As an artist-focused incubator for new time-based work, we nurture local artistry while linking Portland audiences and artists to regional, national and international artists whose work challenges and inspires.
Based in its S.E. Portland home since 2000, PWNW was founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Linda Austin and Technical Director Jeff Forbes.
photo courtesy of JmeJames Antonick
You Make Me Sick || photo by adhphotographyvideo
Katie Longstreth || photo by Linda Austin