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//slowdanger\\ is a multidisciplinary performance duo comprised of Baltimore native Anna Thompson and Dallas native Taylor Knight. They combine improvisational and choreographed dance with their original electronic soundscapes generating a vulnerable, evocative, and authentic performance experience. Anna and Taylor have each trained as professional dancers for over twenty years and have performed with companies all across the U.S., Canada, and Paris. Their performance work has been featured across the States in venues ranging from proscenium theater settings and galleries to night clubs and dive bars. Knight and Thompson’s process of creation is akin to the construction zone that the name "slowdanger" was birthed. Using old structures to innovate a new concept or construction, slowdanger breaks ground to build upon the demolished surface. This is physicalized in their sound by the sampling of their past sounds, songs, field recordings, and thick layers of vocal production generating a lush and atmospheric sound. slowdanger is heavily influenced by the work of FKA twigs, baths, and Radiohead. slowdanger has played at the VIA Festival, Honcho, The Kahlon Party, The Silent Barn, TEDx After Party, the Andy Warhol Museum, and more. 'What I love about watching slowdanger, both as performers and as creators, is that in just about every instance, I am asked to reframe something about my assumptions regarding performance and/or creation.’ -Mark Taylor www.slowdangerslowdanger.com https://vimeo.com/astarfish http://slowdanger.bandcamp.com/ Artists: Anna Thompson / Taylor Knight for bookings contact: dario@dmepromo.com mgmt: http://dmepromo.com :upcoming dates: may/20 The Big Wig Ball - Pittsburgh Opera - Pittsburgh PA may/23 DANS Pareee/Showing 3 - The Woods Collaborative - Queens NY July/15 Jailbreak - Warehouse - Pittsburgh PA July/20 Live Set - PHÂRMÂCY - Philly PA July/28 Blush + Brews - The Crown - Baltimore MD

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Taylor and Anna are independent performance artists located in Pittsburgh, PA. They use their bodies as mediums to express through movement, sound and visual images from an energetic and sensual connection to body and spirit. Taylor and Anna use performance as ritual practice to delve into patterns of the circular rhythm of life.


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