By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH
Coming to the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis
October 23 & 24, 2026!
By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH is the final chapter in choreographer Allie Hankins’ epic eight-year performance series. This work queers autobiography by deconstructing the systems we use to define ourselves, including psychotherapy, astrology, and dream interpretation. Where Parts 1-4 were created as a sequence of interconnected solo works, Part 5 marks the first time Hankins has directed a work for an ensemble.
Featuring acclaimed Portland artists Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim, INVISIBLE TOUCH reimagines Hankins’ material from Parts 1-4 through each performer’s distinct physical language and creative perspective. The piece unfolds as a wild collaborative rearticulation of the movement, text, sound, and imagery originally generated in Hankin’s solo works.
Voices calling from the dark. Lip synching and unison gestures that reveal the tension of attempts at “sameness.” Manipulation. Self-effacement. Resurrection. INVISIBLE TOUCH unfolds as a large-scale experimental environment rich with analog technologies and evocative scenic elements. Within the work’s architecture of alteration, tape loops of varying lengths create unstable rhythmic patterns—a wavering chorus of imperfect voices, a distorted landscape of relation. INVISIBLE TOUCH invites audiences into a shifting field of entanglement and transformation to confront notions of finality, authorship, and selfhood.
Photo by Rick Liu
October 23 & 24, 2026
Red Eye Theater
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