PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Physical Education (PE) is keyon gaskin, Allie Hankins, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. Co-created in 2013, PE organizes and hosts performances, reading groups, workshops, artist talks, and dance parties. Originally started in 2013 as a private reading group and discussion date over dinner and drinks, PE has curated and facilitated public programming since 2014. PE’s vision is to offer contemporary artists and audiences, as well as curious individuals, immersive modes through which to engage with artworks that center around performance and performativity. PE acknowledges and scrutinizes the perceived illegibility and messiness of the performing body, and seeks to collaboratively confront and embrace questions about it with a community.
On this night, each individual of PE will share their practice in the form of a performance presentation.
I. too big to live alone in
too big to live alone in is a haunting of materials that have been used or will be used in Allie’s five-part performance series, By My Own Hand.
By: Allie Hankins, with echoes of direction and choreographic input from keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim
By My Own Hand, Part 4: MELODY will premiere in Portland in 2025. By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH will premiere in 2026. The first three parts are viewable at Allie’s website: alliehankins.com
*Accessibility note: loud, repeated sounds may emerge briefly during this performance.
II. Hollow Center Version I
Rather than there being something situated at the center, several things circle around the center without one ever really occupying it. This work attempts to have the revolutions to be endless and the center point to never be reached.
Choreographed and performed by Takahiro Yamamoto
Sound by Erik DeLuca
III. Form I (ecxerpt)
A process, a negotiation, a creation of a structure, a form that is not benevolent. An endurance poem.
Chorepgraphy + Performance: Lu Yim
Sound Score: Lu Yim
10 Minute Pause to
IV. uncty
A midlife existential performance
A performance of keyon gaskin
Sound design: Audio Jack or Who is Erin…
*Loud amplified music and lavender scented lotion will be a part of this performance*
