About
Allie Hankins is a dancer, choreographer, and sound artist who has been producing and performing experimental works in Portland since 2013. 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 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and On the Boards in Seattle. Allie’s interdisciplinary practice has led to her professional engagements with choreographers Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), Julien Previeux (Paris), and Ruairi Donovan (Cork); and Portland artists Linda Austin, Tahni Holt, Danielle Ross, Emma Lutz-Higgins, and claire barrera. 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, promoting accessibility and critical engagement with performance in Portland and beyond. She’s been awarded residencies at Base, Centrum, Ucross, Headlands Center for the Arts, Caldera, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency. Her work has been funded by The Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Performance Network, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and she is a recipient of the 2025 Miller Foundation Spark Award for Performance.
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