slowdanger | Co-Artistic Directors

taylor knight (they/them) & anna thompson (they/them) are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger, a multidisciplinary performance organism based in Pittsburgh, PA. slowdanger uses a systematic approach to movement, integrative technology, found material, electronic instrumentation, vocalization, physiological centering, and ontological examination to produce their performance work, which utilizes ritual practice to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. Through the process of making each piece, slowdanger works with an ever deepening understanding of energy, synergy, action, gender, time, and storytelling. As a queer, non-binary led organization, slowdanger is committed to deconstructing the binaries of how performance and performers are viewed onstage through their performances, workshops and public facing engagements. 

slowdanger’s work has been presented at Usine C, The Kennedy Center, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dance Place, The Andy Warhol Museum, Velocity Dance Center, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Carnegie Museum of Art and more. They have been featured in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2018) and were emerging choreographers at Springboard Danse Montreal (2018). They are recipients of the NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant (2022), NPN Creation Fund (2022) and NPN Development Fund (2023) for their work, SUPERCELL which toured the U.S. (2023-2024) and was named a Must-See show by Dance Magazine’s Dance Season Preview.