taylor knight and anna thompson are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger, a multidisciplinary performance organism founded in Pittsburgh, PA in 2013. slowdanger uses systematic approaches to movement, technology, sound, queer world building and ontological examination to produce performance work, utilizing process based practice to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. As a queer non-binary organization, we deconstruct gendered binaries in how audiences view and engage with performance and performers; actively reorienting the body and its relationship to power structures, architecture, conflict, emotion and sound. This queer world building practice creates form and instigates movement through situating the work in a defined sense of place, texture and embodied action. From engaging a multi-channel sound installation to teaching dance at a queer rave in the woods, they transform their shape to adapt to a variety of different containers.

slowdanger has performed across North America and Europe in venues ranging from proscenium theater and gallery to nightclub and dive bar. The name, slowdanger, was inspired by the Pittsburgh road construction signs that signify a demolition of old surfaces to build upon the remnants. We return to this overarching concept cyclically in performance creation; rebuilding, slowing down to examine the remains and re-imagine new futures.