Inspired by the loss of dance elders during the pandemic and the tenuous attempt to maintain connection through various registers of movement, this work investigates how dance, familial, and chosen lineages show up in our moving bodies. The work plays with the ways movement transfers and iterates across performers as they remain in motion. Performers enact structures of looping, transmission, and remembrance as they navigate internal forms of collectivity that shift as the dance unfolds. Lineage stems from considerations of dance ancestors and social and familial memory as it works with logics of transmission and slippage through performance. Throughout, we approach lineage as a site of complicated affects, including grief, trauma, nostalgia, joy, and ambivalence.

Lineage is the latest performance by Portland-based choreographer and performer Danielle Ross in collaboration with performers Muffie Delgado Connelly, Allie Hankins, Hannah Krafcik, and Emma Lutz-Higgins, sound designer Juniana Lanning, and lighting designer Brian Jennings.

Performances:

June 1 | 8pm

June 2 | 8pm

June 3| 4pm and 8pm

$20

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR, 97212

Photo Credit: Sarah Marguier