Performing in Linda K. Johnson’s work last October.

Untitled (RealTime Interspecies Assemblage for PNW Native Plant Species, dancing humans, COVID space realities, Bill Will’s mind, and the particular circumstances of Oct. 15th, 2020)

Choreography: Linda K. Johnson
Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, Polka Dot installation by Bill Will
Performers: Gregg Bielemeier, Tracy Broyles, Mizu Desierto, Celine Bouly, Wendy Hambidge, Leah Wilmoth, Chelsea Petrakis, Sarah-Luella Baker, Jamuna Chiarini, Tahni Holt, DeeAnn Nelson, Noelle Stiles, Stephanie Schaaf, Tere Mathern, Joan Findlay, and Hannah Krafcik
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The Year of Living Cautiously: Martha Ullman West looks back on a year of Covid isolation and moments of movement that vividly broke the spell; FEBRUARY 20, 2021 // DANCE, FEATURED // MARTHA ULLMAN WEST

”IF ANYONE HAD SUGGESTED TO ME that a dance with the words “RealTime Interspecies Assemblage for PNW Native Plant Species” in its title would give me a Champagne high, I’d have told them they were already high, and not on Champagne.   

That, however, is  precisely what happened when,  after eight months of starving for live performance, and three months of semi-confinement indoors because of the pandemic and Portland’s wildfire-polluted air, I happily went to see  Linda K. Johnson’s  “Untitled [see above]” dancing humans, Covid space realities, Bill Will’s mind, and “the particular circumstances of Oct. 15th, 2020…”