Tahni Holt

Tahni Holt is a choreographer, performer, Alexander Technique teacher and founder of FLOCK. Holt has been creating dances in Portland for the past 20+ years and is deeply committed to this region's arts ecology and its communities. She has traveled extensively as a choreographer, performer and teacher, most recently to perform her work in Bulgaria and Portugal. Her creative practice follows her curiosities by asking questions that demand rigorous specificity yet remain open to a terrain of inquiry-inviting rather than prescribing interpretation. Holt's work uses destabilization as a tactic to never quite reside in certainty. Her dance making, teachings, and organizational endeavors all aim toward a central goal: to create important conversations - be they in movement or in language - that allow us to pause, think and feel into the complexities of our world.

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Muffie Delgado COnnelly

Muffie Delgado Connelly is a dance artist. She is a chicago born chicanx, who’s daily rituals include the balancing and integration of dance, somatic practitioning, mothering and community activism. Her artistic practice digests these systems to create original works of dance that meet at the intersection of indigenous cell to spirit mycelial networking, colonial dance education, somatic ideologies and experimental performance practices. Her choreographic work has been presented at LINKS HALL (Chicago), Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago), The Art Institute of Chicago,  Movement Research Festival (New York), The Gibney Dance Center (New York) and The Newmark Theater (Portland, OR). She has been a resident artist at NEW Expressive works (PDX), Ponderosa (Germany), and Happydog Performance Gallery (Chicago). Currently she is in an extensive dance research process called “Veulve: en la concha de tu madre,” a work that explores relational lineages and survivor resilience.

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Allie Hankins

Allie Hankins is a Portland-based dancer, performer and performance maker, and is an inaugural resident artist of FLOCK. Her current collaborators include Physical Education (Lu Yim, keyon gaskin, and Taka Yamamoto), Linda Austin, and Rachael Dichter (SF). Most recently, Hankins has danced for Milka Djordjevich (LA), and Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis). She's currently reading Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai, Calamities by Renee Gladman, all the Ali Smith she can get her hands on, and she is eagerly awaiting her turn on the library's waitlist for In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. She loves book recommendations.

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lyra butler-denman

Lyra Butler-Denman (she/her) is a dancer, actor, choreographer, visual artist, and teacher. She has been preforming in Portland since 2007 and has trained and performed as a dancer and actor in the US and Europe. She has been a resident artist at FLOCK since 2017. In addition to choreography and performance, Lyra pursuers her somatic inquiry through visual art and teaching. She holds a degree in Studio Art and currently works in alternative process and platinum photography. Lyra is also a Contemporary Alexander Technique teacher and is on the faculty of the Contemporary Alexander School and the Alexander Alliance International. 

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