The following description comes from the event organizer.

Portland-based dance company The Holding Project presents ‘precious cargo (days of old)’, their sixth evening-length world premiere performed at Shaking the Tree Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

Choreographed and produced by Artistic Director Amy Leona Havin, this 70-minute long performance takes place in-the-round and features a combination of movement styles derived from Havin’s Gaga Movement Language methodology background, classical post-modern dance training, and contemporary partnering practices. Throughout this work, company dancers Heather Hindes, Carly Nicole Ostergaard, Elle Sevi, and Whitney Wilhardt step into four principal roles that encompass non-stop performances of solos, duets, trios, and group pieces exemplifying Havin’s signature visceral, effort-based, and nuanced movement style.

Accompanied by the lighting design of Portland-based production artist Spencer Fork, ‘precious cargo (days of old)’ takes place within a warm landscape fueled by the natural imagery and pathos-driven urgency of life along the Pacific, embarking on a trip down the nostalgic coastline of a changing landscape that has shaped generations. Through winding gestural patterns, task-oriented movement scores, and live-feed multi-media object activation, each performer demonstrates a personalized real-time negotiation of their position within this honest dance –resulting from a year-long creation period involving extensive cultural research based on the 1960s-1990s non-fiction works of west coast authors and pop icons, along with the lived experiences of Havin and the participants.