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PERFORMANCE/CHOREOGRAPHY
2024 FOREST in collaboration with Shannon Stewart / Front Gallery (New Orleans)
2023 Thursday Night improvisation Series inside installation AUXART’s Highwater, in collaboration with Emma Lutz-Higgins and Luke Wyland /Building Five
2022 Pulse Mountain, in collaboration with Muffie Delgado Connelly (PDX) / Building Five
2021 Tatehuari choreographed with Muffie Delago Connelly, a film in collaboration with Blue Cranes, Edna
Vasquez, and director Sarah Wheldon. Premiered at Portland Art Museum (PDX) A Kaddish for Bernie
Maddox choreographed for the award-winning feature film written and performed by Alicia Jo Rabbins
and Directed by Alicia J. Rose. Screened: PIFF (PDX), POFF (Estonia), Denver JAMM Festival, Centre Film
Festival (PENN state, Ohio), Black Mountain College Museum (Ashville), Austin Jewish Film Festival, Port
Townsend Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Washington DC JXJ Film Festival, Sarasota Film
Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival, and New York Jewish Film Festival.
2020 The Great Convergence Solstice Ritual in collaboration with Muffie Delgado Connelly (PDX)
2019 Rubble Bodies with Luke Wyland / Treefort Festival (Boise), Forum Danca (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018 Rubble Bodies with Luke Wyland / PWNW (PDX)
Sensation/Disorientation with Luke Wyland / USA Spotlight (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2017 Sensation/Disorientation with Luke Wyland / White Bird Dance (PDX)
2015 apples & pomegranates with Luke Wyland / (Portland Art Museum)
Duet Love with Luke Wyland / DiverseWorks (Houston)
2014 Duet Love with Luke Wyland / Velocity (Seattle), PICA TBA Festival (PDX)
2013 Sensation Emotion with Madalina Dan / Zona D (Bucharest, Romania)
2012 SUN$HINE / BodyVox Dance Center (Portland), On the Boards (Seattle), Movement Research at Judson (NYC)
Artist Talk / Portland Art Museum
2011 Untitled is a choice / the Lucky Penny (Atlanta), Headlands solo 1 Festival (PDX)
SUN$HINE / Marylhurst Art Gym (Marylhurst)
SUNSHINE art object / Movement Research Festival (NYC)
2010 CULTURE MACHINE / Disjecta Arts Center (PDX), PORTLAND2010 Biennial
CULTURE MACHINE excerpt / PICA’s TBA Festival-Ten Tiny Dances (PDX), NAUU Gallery (PDX)
Here Now /open flight space/ Seattle
The Gravediggers with Elizabeth Ward / Dance Truck (Atlanta)
2009 Transformers by Eszter Salamon / ImPulstanz (Vienna, Austria)
.EVENT.SPACE / Ace Hotel event space (PDX)
The Gravediggers with Elizabeth Ward / Pa-f (St. Erme, France)
2008 Freedom of Information by Miguel Guitierrez / PWNW (PDX)
Information Studio / PSU Residency (PDX)
Endless Ocean with Andrew Kudless / Fusebox Festival (Austin TX)
2007 The Party Project / SOWA Residency (PDX)
Endless Ocean with Andrew Kudless / Pacific Northwest College of Art (PDX)
I am a bomb / RAKE Gallery / Portland
The Swallows with Marty Schnapf / Stumptown Café / Portland
Room / Fusebox Festival (Austin TX), Reed College RAW art Week (PDX)
Passing out Heart Game with Emily Bulfin / RAW Art Week (PDX), PDX Film Fest
25 Dances That Saved My Life / Lewis and Clark College (PDX), Plazm at Disjecta (PDX)
25 Dances Lecture / Drop Collective / Boise
2006 Room / PICA’s TBA Festival (PDX)
The Swells with Marty Schnapf / Reed College RAW Art Week (PDX)
Island Desk with Marty Schnapf / On The Boards (Seattle), Disjecta (PDX)
2005 Island Desk solo / Ving Theater (Bellingham), Drop Collective (Boise)
Island Desk Duet / Crow Bar (Seattle)
2004 Under an Hour with Marty Schnapf / PICA’s TBA Festival (PDX), On the Boards (Seattle), Bumbershoot (Seattle)
The Events Preceding with Marty Schnapf / PDX Cont. Gallery (PDX)
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2019 Foundation for the Arts Grant
Individual Project Grant (RACC): Collaboration w/Muffie Delgado Connelly
2018 (E)Motion Residency at Forum Dança (Lisbon, Portugal)
Art Klub Residency (New Orleans)
Derrida Dance Center Residency (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2016 The Lucky Penny Residency (Atlanta)
Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2015 Individual Project Grant (RACC): apples & pomegranates
Whitman College Residency + Commission (Walla Walla)
RAWDance Commission (San Francisco)
2014 White Bird Commission-Barney Award: for Sensation/Disorientation
Co-commission by PICA + Velocity Dance Center: Duet Love
Caldera Artist Residency
Individual Project Grant (RACC): Sensation Emotion part 2
Professional Development Grant (RACC)
2013 Artistne(s)t Residency in Romania for US choreographers (Bucharest)
National Dance Project Touring Award: Duet Love
2012 Individual Project Grant (RACC): SUN$HINE
2011 The Drachma Project Residency (Athens, Greece)
Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
University of Alaska Residency (Anchorage)
Balance Dance Residency (Boise)
2010 Choreographer's Venture / Impulstanz (Vienna, Austria)
Individual Project Grant (RACC): CULTURE MACHINE
Dance Truck Residency (Atlanta)
2009 P-af Residency (St. Erme, France)
Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
Individual Project Grant (RACC):.Event.Space.
2008 Portland State University Residency / OAC percent for Art Program
2007 SOWA Residency (Portland)
Critics Table Award for performance of Room (Austin)
Oregon Individual Artist Fellowship
Individual Project Grant (RACC): Endless Ocean
2006 Individual Project Grant (RACC): Passing out Heart Game
Caldera Art Residency (Sisters, OR.)
2005 Deborah Hay’s Solo Performing Commissioning Project (Scotland)
Professional Development grant awarded through worksystems, Inc.
Individual Project Grant (RACC): Island Desk
Space Grant through Conduit's Charged program.
TEACHINGS, ORGANIZATIONS, PUBLICATIONS
Holt continues to teach at many different institutions and spaces. She has been guest teacher at Reed and Lewis and Clark College, The University of Oregon, The University of Alaska and The University of Houston, to name a few, as well as private studios throughout the United States. She taught underserved populations through Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Outreach program from 1999-2005 that included many Portland Public Schools, Morrison Center breakthrough, Rosemont facility for girls and the Transitional school-a school for homeless youth. Currently she teachers wherever her work tours and at her home studio-FLOCK.
FLOCK: FLOCK is a dance center for movement exploration, creation and artistic practice, dedicated to Portland's contemporary and experimental dance artists. FLOCK re-imagines methods of economic sustainability in the performing arts community. It provides an accessible creative hub where the most urgent contemporary issues take shape in both choreographic works and educational engagements. Tahni Holt is founder and currently on the stewardship team. www.flockodx.org
FRONT (2012-2015): FRONT is a-first-ever-of-it's-kind in Portland newspaper. FRONT relies on the old-school tactics of the newspaper infused with new, current, future energy of dance theory and practices in the field. Tahni Holt is one of four of the founding members. www. frontpaper.tumblr.com
EDUCATION
BFA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY / 1997