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We've added a ticketed open dress dress rehearsal Thursday March 20 at 8pm.

Emma Lutz-Higgins presents her evening-length work, FLOOR, March 21st-23rd, 2025. With dancers Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, and John Niekrasz.

FLOOR looks at desire. How close can we get to having everything we want? Something changes and suddenly we are thrown into unfamiliar terrain, mucking through together but unsure if by the end we will know who we are to each other. The space is decorated and narrated by dancers Allie Hankins, Emily Jones, and John Niekrasz. As they move in playful and profound ways—trying to locate what they want most—there is a sense that time is running out. Who will be left on the dance floor? Who will find what they are looking for?

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Emma Lutz-Higgins (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher born and raised in Montpelier, VT and currently residing in Portland, OR. After completing her undergraduate degree at Bard College she moved to New York City where she worked as a freelance dancer and had the opportunity to perform at Danspace Project, Movement Research, Live Arts, SLAM, Triskelian Arts and Gibney Dance. Emma was an Alembic Resident (2023-24) through Performance Works NorthWest. The research collected from that residency was used to create her first evening length work, FLOOR. Learn more, emmalutzhiggins.com

John Niekrasz is an American artist working in sound, language, performance, and movement. Trained in poetry at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and percussion in India and Cuba, John composes for and performs in ensembles Methods Body, Ixnay, Orchestra Becomes Radicalized, and others. Improvisation and syllabic notation are at the heart of his music. He also creates sound for dance and film. John publishes poetry, fiction, and essays and is currently finishing his third novel. @Johnniekrasz www.Johnniekrasz.com

Emily Jones (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, movement teacher and bodyworker based in Portland, OR. Emily’s work emerges from sensitivity and intuition, she considers herself a researcher, forever seeking nuance and varied perspectives. Emily often works in artistic collaboration with Hannah Krafcik. Their work together has taken on a variety of forms including dance, video, sound, sculpture, and writing. Emily and Hannah’s work has been presented at New Expressive Works (Portland, OR), Art Klub NOLA (New Orleans, LA), Pieter Performance Space (Los Angeles, CA), Performance Works NW (Portland, OR), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), KH Fresh Festival (San Francisco, CA) and Paragon Arts Gallery (Portland, OR). Emily enjoys being in collaboration and community with other artists, admiring the ways their sensibilities disrupt the late-stage capitalist structures we must navigate.

Allie Hankins is a dancer, choreographer, and sound artist who has been producing and performing experimental works in Portland since 2013. Her work centers on deconstruction and the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, labyrinthine logic, and a razor-sharp wit. She has self-produced eight original works and toured her productions to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Berlin, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, and Cork. In the Pacific Northwest, her works have been commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and On the Boards in Seattle. In 2013, Allie co-initiated the ongoing Queer performance cooperative Physical Education (PE) with keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. PE produces festivals, hosts reading groups, and teaches workshops nationally. Most recently, Allie has danced for Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), and Portland choreographers Linda Austin, Danielle Ross, claire barrera, and Emma Lutz-Higgins. Her five-part performance series By My Own Hand, will conclude with Part 4: MELODY in the fall of 2025, and Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH in the fall of 2026.