slowdanger, an artist talk

Join us in the STUDIO on Friday November 7th at 5:30 for an artist talk by slowdanger.

The artist talk and process sharing will explore the multidisciplinary continuum that slowdanger resources in performance across movement, sound and technological systems. Within this slowdanger will share excerpts of recent works, discuss horizontal and co-collaborative process modalities and share a process sound and movement demo.

bio:

slowdanger is a multidisciplinary performance entity, co-founded in 2013 by artistic directors and life partners anna thompson and taylor knight, that creates interdisciplinary and co-devised performance work at the intersection of contemporary performance, electronic music, found material, and bespoke technological systems. Their work, SUPERCELL, was awarded a NEFA/National Dance Project Production Grant 2022 and NPN Creation Fund 2022. They were resident choreographers for Springboard Danse 2025 and have received awards and residencies via the Opportunity Fund, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and more. They have performed internationally in venues such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Park Ave Armory, the Warhol Museum, Usine C, Les Instants Chavirés,Honcho Campout, Mattress Factory, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, the Flea and more. In addition to their performance work, they tour as musicians and DJs and have composed soundscores/licenses music in dance and theater for artists such as Sidra Bell, Nile Harris, Ogemdi Ude, Roderick George/kNoname Artist, Ailey II, Kyle Abraham and more. Recently, slowdanger was awarded a NPN Creation Fund, New Music USA grant, the inaugural Texas A&M New Work Development Artist in Residence, and Jacob’s Pillow-Pillow Lab for the creation of STORY BALLET that will premier in fall 2026. In early 2026, slowdanger’s performance methods chapter ‘Embodying the Apocalypse: spectral strategies for creating performance at the end of the world’ will be published in the Routledge Handbook for Health and Environment Humanities.