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ProLab Dance x Hungry Mantis x Portland Panorama - Program

Duet with Chat GPT

I use dance to make sense of the world. When I know things with my body they become real to me in a way that theoretical thoughts and words are not. The question is not do I like AI or will I use AI in my life. The question is what kind of relationship will I let it have with my being? How much choice do I get? Are we still dancing?

Shapes in this image were generated using AI.

Dancers: Laura Cannon and Chat GPT

Music by Chopper with vocals by Jana Crenshaw

borrowing “Skylark” by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael

Origins XR

What state are we in when we are sharing the same physical space but existing, in that moment, in separate realities? What is the act of watching someone who is physically with you and experiencing a separate reality at the same time? What responsibilities do we have to each other when we are simultaneously together and not together?

Directed by Laura Cannon

Choreography by Laura Cannon and ProLab Dance

Preformed by Laura Cannon and Leiana Petlewski

Seed Pod Chairs by Laura Cannon

Origins External video installation by Fernanda D’Agostino using video shot by Hungry Mantis and Brian Foulkes

Origins External Music by Chopper

with vocals by Lynne Piper and Laura Cannon

Origins External video dancers: Laura Cannon with Flo Buddenbaum, Adrian Davy, Anna Hooper and Willow Swanson

Origins VR 180 Directed by Laura Cannon

Choreography by Laura Cannon and ProLab Dance

Shot and edited by Hungry Mantis

Origins VR 180 Performers: Flo Buddenbaum, Laura Cannon, Gwen Chura, Roman Norfleet, Lynne Piper and Bevin Victoria

Origins 180 VR music arranged and produced by Chopper

featuring Roman Norfleet, Lynne Piper and Bevin Victoria

Big Things

Set in Portland’s historic Zidell Shipyard, Big Things is a colorful and quirky meditation on humanity’s drive to build bigger and bigger, without end.

Directed by Laura Cannon

Choreography by Laura Cannon and ProLab Dance

Shot and Edited by Hungry Mantis

Dancers: Katie Betts, Flo Buddenbaum, Laura Cannon, Gwen Chura, Lindsay Dryer, Autumn Ginty-Wheeler, Sara James, Jordan Kriston, Bree Kostelnik, Colleen Loverde, London Mahiña, Rhen Molly-Miles, Roman Norfleet, Emily Running, Bevin Victoria, Chenise Vonne, Jennifer Wright

Music By Chopper featuring vocals and lyrics by Lynne Piper

additional vocals by Pearl Fisher

Bathtub percussion by Johnny Fisher

Narration by Laura Cannon and Pearl Fisher

Words by Laura Cannon

On the gallery walls

Still from After the Anthropocene

Performed by ProLab Dance at Zidell Yards July 2024

Directed by Laura Cannon

Choreography by Laura Cannon and ProLab Dance

Photo by Rowdy Webb

Dancers pictured: Gwen Churra, Flo Buddenbaum, Willow Swanson and Annabel Kaplan

Video installation pictured by Fernanda D’Agostino using underwater dance footage directed by Laura Cannon and shot by Hungry Mantis featuring ProLab dancer Annabel Koral