A field, A forest at Whitman College Artist Series 2025

A field, A forest  

Created and performed by Tahni Holt and shannon stewart

Sound design: Luke Wyland 

Costumes: Lee Kyle

Lighting: LD DeArmon  

For the past two years dance artists shannon stewart and Tahni Holt have woven their interests together creating a kinship in deeply researched embodied forms. It is a form of love and friendship that brings together creation and community, in a way that mirrors their individual practices as artists and organizers/builders in the respective places they live. Shannon and Tahni’s work resides in the study of interconnected systems–ecology, history, performative bodies (including non-human), and expansive understandings of communication. Together they have danced FOREST in Portland, OR, Lawrence, KS, New Orleans, LA. And now Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.  www.shannonstewart.org // @thsurrealshannonstewart www.tahniholt.com // @tahniholt    The Forest: Rebecca Allen, Cypress Atlas, Wes Chavis, paris cyan cian, Sierrah Dietz, Joanna Farley, Ann Glaviano, Rhi Jade, roni katz, Katey Coe, and garima thakur. Stephen Montalvo, xotchil musser and Serpentine choir: MaeDea Farrell Moon, Ariya Aladjem Wolf, Wells Minasian, Vanessa Degrassi, Laura Harris, Amanda Zapp.   Jen Mitas, Fritz and Caryln Mitas and the Corbett Farm, Whitman College Residency program, Renée Archibald, Peter De Grasse, LD DeArmon, and Nate Tomsheck.    Adam Sekuler, Vavara Degtiarenko, Leland Hull, John San Marco and the University of Kansas, Lowen Millspaugh, Suzanne Chi and The Dance Barn, Toby and Esmé Query.