Sophie Andrus
Ysabella Bonnieux Richard
Wolfgang Black
Sam Cimino
Nikki Cormaci
Heidi Kleder
Hannah Krafcik
Emma Lutz-Higgins
The ensemble is joined by creative coder Ashely Ona Bott. She created three non-human machines:
“Data Mosh”
“Perlin Noise Cloud Sim”
“POV Hacked Webcam,”
whose projections are choreographed alongside the ensemble using motion vector capture and live hacking techniques.
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Sophie Andrus has been dancing & creating dance in Portland since 2016. She enjoys working within improvisational scores as well as structured choreography and is always on the lookout for new projects.
Wolfgang Black is a non-binary performer, musician and filmmaker. Since 2017, they have been creating queer experimental pop music under the name Jan Julius, earning recognition from publications like Pitchformk and Tiny Mix Tapes. Their debut alubm, Meat Shot Idyllic, resists categories of gender and genre, reveling in unstable queer utopias born of our dystopian present.
Ysabella Bonnieux Richard feels most at home when they are dancing and exploring sound & music through movement. Growing up in a multigenerational Borinqueño household, Ysabella experiences dance as a form of cultural celebration and resiliency.
Sam Cimino is an intuitive artist working with visual art, music, and movement. Her work explores mysticism, the feminine, a return to earth based practices, and playful expression. She is also a practicing herbalist.
Nikki Cormaci works as a hotel maid. Her performance work recently was archived by the Center for Art and Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. Their essay on viscerality and the sea is forthcoming in Presence magazine.
Heidi Kleder is a human condition experiencer/perceiver. She is drawn instinctually toward movement and form-making, and away from rigidity.
Hannah Krafcik is an interdisciplinary neuroqueer artist and writer whose work emerges from ongoing reflections on social patterning and censorship, (over)stimulation, preservation, and intuition. Their practices span dance, new media, and sound design.
Emma Lutz-Higgins is a dancer and dance maker recently relocated from Brooklyn, New York. She’s now a resident of Flock Dance where she’s making a new piece “You Make Me Sick”
Ashley Ona Bott is a wild-at-heart noise girl, armchair gender theorist and creative coder. She toured as a DIY musician for over ten years before landing in the Pacific Northwest. Now, Ashley applied her DIY ethic to building a slice of the anarcho-internet, where everyone hosts their own services and computing power is shared. She dreams of open networks free from techno-billionaire influence. She is currently developing her second album, aob02, and is starting a tape label– monomicro.
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