FLOCK STEWARDS
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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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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current resident artists
Allie Hankins
Tracy Broyles
Lyra Butler-Denman
Tahni Holt
Linda K. Johnson
Danielle Ross
Sarah Parker
Rachel Slater
Kat Frey
Carl Annala
Joe Mclauglin
PAST STEWARDS
Muffie Delgado Connelly
Tracy Broyles
Past resident artists
Lu Yim
KT Kusmaul
Kye Alive
Dee Bustos
Jess Zoler
Andrea Parson
Jess Evans
Pepper Pepper
Stephanie Lanckton
Deann Carlson
Shaun Keylock
Noelle Stiles
Emma Lutz-Higgins
Sadie Leigh
Eliza Larson
Suniti Dernovsek
A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE DONATED IN 2018:
keyon gaskin, Kristan Kennedy, Nica DeMaria, Shannon Stewart, Erin Doughton-Boberg, Linda K. Johnson, Erica Christensen, Suba Ganesan, Shaun Keylock, Angelle Hebert, Darr Longster, Michael Chambers, Orna Hankins-Berkowitz, Helen Spencer-Wallace, Roya Amirsoleymani, John Niekrasz, Maggie Heath, Eugenie Frerichs, Mickey Sanchez, Madalina Dan, Rebecca Harrison, Cara Levine, Matthew Labadie, Allie Hankins, Leah Wilmoth, Holly Haddock, Taka Yamamoto, Stacey Tran, Alanna Hoyman-Browe, Sandra Lanz, Brendan McCracken, Karen and Ron Query, Katherine Longstreth, Kelli Kessler, Claire Olberding, Crystal Query + Ryan Linville, Jessica Hightower, Mary Oslund, Suzanne Chi, Toren Volkmann, Matthew Fielder, Mizu Desierto, Linda Austin + Jeff Forbes, Kasandra Gruener, Desi + Kurt Hudson, Mary Oslund, Nickels Sunshine, Jerry Tischleder, Muffie Connelly Delgado, Conrad Kaczor, Justine LaViolette, Doug White, Jackie Davis, L A Liverman, Toby Query, Renée Archibald, S. Baum, Kelly Nesbitt, Sara Naegelin, Chelsea Petrakis, Anet Riskelman, Stephanie Lanckton, LeBrie Rich, Sally Butler, Celine Bouly, Taylor A Eggan + Daniel Addy, Tracy Broyles, John W. Johnson, Kelly Rauer, Adrianna Audoma + Lauren Smith, Mark Koenigsberg Tere Mathern, Luke Wyland, René Smith, Lisa Degrace, Michael Chambers, Christa von Behren, Marty Gross, Erin Spens, Nicole Dalton, Patty Holt, Laura Sloan, Larissa Babij, Kate Bredeson, PDX Gallery, Lyra Butler-Denman and all of you who want to remain anonymous (you know who you are!).