Lineage (Solo) December 7-9 and 14-16, 2023 Part of NEXT FEST NW 2023: Rupture/Reverence Presented by Velocity Dance Center Performed at 12th Ave Arts | 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA Buy Tickets/More Info
Past
Lineage
Lineage is my latest full-length, ensemble performance in collaboration with performers Muffie Delgado Connelly, Allie Hankins, Hannah Krafcik, and Emma Lutz-Higgins, sound designer Juniana Lanning, and lighting designer Brian Jennings.
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lineage/910757
June 1-3 | 8pm nightly
June 3 | 4pm
* Doors open 30 minutes prior to performance
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR, 97232
Photo: Sarah Marguier
Inspired by the loss of dance elders during the pandemic and the tenuous attempt to maintain connection through various registers of movement, this work investigates how dance, familial, and chosen lineages show up in our moving bodies. The work plays with the ways movement transfers and iterates across performers as they remain in motion. Performers enact structures of looping, transmission, and remembrance as they navigate forms of collectivity that shift as the dance unfolds. Lineage stems from considerations of dance ancestors and social and familial memory as it works with logics of transmission and slippage through performance. Throughout, we approach lineage as a site of complicated affects, including grief, trauma, nostalgia, joy, and ambivalence.
Danielle Ross + Ben Kates in An Evening of Improvisation
Danielle Ross (movement) and Kates (sound) have been a collaborative duo since 2014 and will be performing new material alongside electro-acoustic vocal improviser stephanie lavon trotter and Oakland-based saxophonist Wilson Shook with Portland-based musician Jean-Paul Jenkins. Ross and Kates will be playing with themes of disintegration, inspired by events in both of their lives occurring over the past year. They will investigate sensations of decomposition and undoing, as well as what those processes might catalyze, over the duration of this short performance.
An Evening of Improvisation
Curated by stephanie lavon trotter
Performance Works Northwest
4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, 97206
https://pwnw-pdx.org/2023/04/17/may-6-an-evening-of-improvisation/
Saturday, May 6th, 2023.
Doors at 7pm, Show at 7:30pm.
Sliding scale $5-10.
Extradition Plays Corner
Ensemble performance of works by Philip Corner (music + dance)
Curated by Matt Hannafin
Performance Works NW
February 11, 2023
Lineage (In Progress Material)
Curated by JP Jenkins
Xhurch
July 29th, 2022, 6PM
suggested donation at door
Crossings
Curated by Linda Austin and Douglas Detrick
Performance Works NW
with Mike Gamble, Rich Perrin, and more
June 10-12, 2022
Ticket info/further details coming soon
Yelling Choir
Performance, directed by Maxx Katz
Gonzaga University, ACDA conference
March 12, 2022
Tickets: nwacda.com
It’s OK Girl at Outset Series
Performance with Ben Kates
Creative Music Guild’s Outset Series
KEX Hotel, February 23, 2022, 7pm
$10-20 sliding scale at the door
Vaxx or negative covid test required
Ethos Episode II
Performance by Ayako Kato
South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago
October 11, 2021, 11 AM
Granular Peripheries
Performance
Created by Danielle Ross with Mike Treffehn
Edge Theater, presented by Pivot Arts Festival
May 21-June 6, 2021
Tickets: pivotarts.org
Moving From Memory: Training Towards the Ghostly, Resistant, and Collective
Workshop
The Dance Center at Columbia College, Chicago
November 16, 18, and 19, 2020, 2-3:20PM
How might bodily memory support radical togetherness? This workshop explores the moving body as a receptacle for personal and collective memory. Sessions will include movement exploration, writing, discussion, and practice-based prompts for generating material. We will use what we have in our somatic memories and impulses, domestic architectures and objects, and what is catalyzed via group discussion to create material. Each session will be centered around a theme (memory and the ghostly, collectivity, and embodied resistance). All levels of skill and experience are welcome.
There are three sessions in this Main Course, but participants can register for one, two, or all three.
You Are Not Alone
Performance (In-progress Solo Material)
W/ Jasmine Mendoza
Krause Studio, Annie May Swift Hall, Northwestern University
February 29, 2020, 7PM
Jasmine Mendoza, in the darkness she laid to rest (Photo: Kioto Aoki) /// Danielle Ross, You Are Not Alone (Photo: BMBO Creations)
A World, A World
Performance by Linda Austin (Performer)
Performance Works Northwest, Portland, Oregon
January 16-18 and 23-25, 2020, 8PM
Stay Tuned + Tickets: https://pwnw-pdx.org
Steps
Performance
W/ Ben Kates
Goathaus, Portland, Oregon
January 22, 2020, 9:30PM
You Are Not Alone
Performance (In-progress Solo Material)
W/ Biba Bell
Play House, Detroit, Michigan
October 25, 2019, 7PM
You Are Not Alone is a meditation on how bodies in motion soak up the architectures - people, pasts, materials, sonic vibrations, weather patterns - we move with and amongst; it explores the performing body as a momentary collector: one passing through rather than taking captive. Generated from my own research on forms of searching, liminality, and carriage of those “lost,” You Are Not Aloneplays with performance as an affective form and seeks a porous, relational body. Can I practice this relational body in performance as a move against the colonial? Can I remain both able to be saturated andavailable for blurring into those sites and witnesses around me? This “solo” has been generated anew at each site it has resided in based on the architectures, histories, and collaborators gifted by the space. It has been performed at Northwestern University, Research Project (Chicago), and Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago). Its lineage has been shifted by the presence of Mike Treffehn, Pepe Álvarez Colon, and Tuli Bera.
ALL - A Physical Poem of Protest
Performance by Mia Habib (Performer)
Part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival
September 6 (Pioneer Courthouse Square, 6:30pm) and September 7 (PICA, 3:30pm), 2019
It’s Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather: John Cage and Dance
Exhibit
Curated by Danielle Ross, Greg MacAyeal, and Jill Waycie
Deering Library (2nd floor exhibition space), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
August 8-11, 2019
Part of the Dance Studies Association annual conference: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/conferences/dancing-in-common
It's Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather highlights artist and composer John Cage’s prolific work with dance and choreographic practices. This exhibit features letters, photographs, scores, interviews, and more from Cage’s varied collaborations with choreographers beginning in the 1940s.
It's Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather centers Northwestern University’s John Cage Collection, a rich archive of Cage’s work and personal memorabilia. This exhibit follows the personal and professional arc of John Cage’s work with Merce Cunningham, beginning with their initial works premiering at Bennington College in 1942. Additionally It's Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather displays Cage’s collaborations with choreographers including Pearl Primus, Jean Erdman, Bonnie Bird, and more. Finally, this exhibit incorporates documents telling the story of Cage’s own artistic approach to composition, including scores and writings on his practice.
The Ancestral Dance: Blurring the Historic in Poor People’s TV Room
Conference Paper
Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, Northwestern University
August 11, 2019, 8:30 AM
For Updated Schedules: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/conferences/dancing-in-common
Dwellings
Performance
Curated by Danielle Ross, with solo performances by Ross, Pepe Alvarez Colon, Joanna Furnans, and Anna Martine Whitehead
Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
June 27, 2019, 7 PM Doors /// Performances at 7:30 PM)
FREE
Dwellings is a collection of in-progress solos by choreographers Pepe Álvarez, Joanna Furnans, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Danielle Ross. Each of these works explore the body and the self in deep relationship to a myriad of other factors: to others, to the material landscape around us, to the past, and to audience. Curated by Danielle Ross as a collection, these works have an interesting potential to talk with and to illuminate one another. Ross is interested in the relationality of performance, and each of these artists deeply works with the body, the self, and the interior in relation to the multifaceted worlds it inhabits.
Images (From Top Left, Clockwise): This is NOT a piece by Viveca Vázquez by Pepe Álvarez, photo by Antonio Ramirez /// Joanna Furnans by Christine Wallers /// Apparatus by Danielle Ross, Photo by Chelsea Petrakis /// Anna Martine Whitehead by Sara Pooley
To The Shore: ETHOS, Episode I
Performance
Directed by Ayako Kato w/ Tuli Bera, Aquarius Ester, Lesley Keller, Amanda Maraist, Jasmine Mendoza, Margaret Morris, Danielle Ross, Wilson Tanner, and Jason Roebke
Colvin House, Chicago, IL
June 1-2, 2019
Part of Pivot Arts Festival, Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4204894
Movements: A Response to The Leopard
Performance
Directed by D. Soyini Madison w/ Jennifer Ligaya, Gervais Marsh, Andreea Micu, Michell Miller, Danielle Ross, Rachel Russell, and Chaunesti Webb
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
April 4, 2019, 6pm, FREE
https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2019/isaac-julien-the-leopard-western-unionsmall-boats.html
After
Performance
By Andrew Schneider and alicia-ayo ohs
Lincoln Hall, Part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival, Portland, OR
September 14 and 15, 2018
http://pica.org/tba/
Alter Ego (in progress)
Performance
Research Project at Outerspace
1474 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60622
July 22nd, 2018
$10 Suggested Donation
Survival Dance: Choreographies of Resonance
Presentation of Research
Contra: Dance and Conflict (Dance Studies Association Conference)
University of Malta, Malta
July 7, 2018, 11 AM
Alter Ego (in progress)
Performance
In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders (Interdisciplinary Conference + Performance Festival)
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
April 27-29, 2018
Information (updated schedule coming early April): https://sites.northwestern.edu/inmotion/
he moves like the ocean: a performance
Performance
By Amy Conway, Performed by Mike Barber, claire barrera, Danielle Ross, Doug Theriault, Stephanie Lavon Trotter, and Reed Wallsmith
Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR
March 26th, 7:30 P, $10-20 sliding scale (Limited tickets remaining)
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3354679