Allie Hankins’ performance series, By My Own Hand, threads together ideas of manipulation, suicide, slight of hand, self-reliance and queer notions of autobiography and self-reflection. In 2022 she debuted Part 1: GHOSTING and populated space with light, shadow, haunted objects, dancing and songs. Friday, August 25-Sunday, August 27 she brings Part 2: TRANSPARENCY to the New Expressive Works stage.
The show is a continuation of the excavation that began in Part 1 as a series of solos choreographed by Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamot and Lu Yim that Hankins performs. Each of the five solos is composed of elements from Part 1 and each solo may replicate, distort or exaggerate parts of Part 1. Through the slippery processes of deconstruction, distillation, resurrection and remembering, Part 2 reveals an aftermath of contending methods of makers and shared histories of friend and colleagues, confronting notions of finality, authorship and perception of self.
Sliding scale tickets for the 8 pm show available at alliehankins.com. New Expressive Works is located at 810 SE Belmont St.