Allie Hankins
Base Residency Entry Point
Saturday April 12, 2025
Allie Hankins (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and sound artist who has produced and performed experimental works in Portland since 2013. Her work centers on deconstruction and the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, labyrinthine logic, and a razor-sharp wit. She has self-produced eight original works and toured her productions to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Berlin, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, and Cork. In the Pacific Northwest, her works have been commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and On the Boards in Seattle. In 2013, Allie co-initiated the ongoing Queer performance cooperative Physical Education (PE) with keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. PE produces festivals, hosts reading groups, and teaches workshops nationally. Most recently, Allie has danced for Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), and Portland choreographers Linda Austin, Danielle Ross, claire barrera, and Emma Lutz-Higgins. Her five-part performance series By My Own Hand, will conclude with Part 4: MELODY in the fall of 2025, and Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH in the fall of 2026. She is a recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Performing Artists from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.
[Image Description: Allie, a white woman with short dark brown hair, lunges forward with one arm bent in front of her body. She is wearing a white tank top and white jeans. On the theater wall behind her are five drawings of her face on white paper, a microphone on a mic stand, and a rolling light.]
Photo provided by West Smith
[Image Description: Allie, a white woman with short dark brown hair, wears a white tank top and white jeans. She is seen from behind, with her face turned to the right speaking into a microphone. Surrounding her is the darkness of the black box theater.]
Photo provided by West Smith