About
Allie Hankins is a Queer dancer, choreographer, and facilitator who has been producing and performing experimental works in Portland since 2013. Her work centers on deconstruction and the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, labyrinthine logic, and a razor sharp wit. 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 powerful stage presence and 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, Takahiro Yamamoto, keyon gaskin, Tahni Holt, Danielle Ross, and claire barrera. Allie has performed with these artists at esteemed venues such as New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts, DiverseWorks in Houston, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. 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, contributing to the culture of cross-disciplinary discourse and promoting accessibility and critical engagement with performance in Portland and beyond. Allie is a co-steward of FLOCK Dance Center, where she serves as a key facilitator of Portland's experimental dance community through residency and public engagement programs. She’s been awarded residencies at 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, The Oregon Community Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is a recipient of the 2024 Miller Foundation Spark Award for Performance.
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