time . space . place

Spectacle Garden 8: Solstice

Portland, OR

At The Headwaters Theatre

Live electronic audio: Roland Ventura Toledo

Concept: Stephanie Lanckton

Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton

“Inspiring Amity” A Ten Tiny Dances Fundraiser for N.E.W New Expressive Works (N.E.W)

Costume Design: Carina Borealis

Live electronic audio: Roland Ventura Toledo

Concept, choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton

Photo Credit: Intisar Abioto

Butoh Ad Lib II
At Headwaters Theatre
Portland, Oregon

Performer: Stephanie Lanckton

Sound improvisation: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Audio credits: Chopin Nocturne in F Minor Op. 55, No. 1(Variation) by Chad Lawson

Video documentation: Nicholas Boxwell

Choreography and Performance by Stephanie Lanckton
Sound improvisation: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Audio credits: Chopin Nocturne in F Minor Op. 55, No. 1(Variation) by Chad Lawson
Performed at The Headwaters Theatre

Video documentation: Nicholas Boxwell

"I'm Going to Walk Over That Bridge Like I'm Walking Over A River of Bones" is a work in progress, solo dance piece that was conceived while I was traveling in France during the of summer 2015. It is inspired by my personal memories from the journey as well as from my past, the weight of my body, gravity and the space-between. Essentially, it reflects the process of becoming. It involves connecting to my standpoint, my center, and at every moment I have 360 degrees of possibilities, and as soon as I step away from my standpoint I can never return to that point again.

Spring Sprung
At Headwaters Theatre
Portland, Oregon

Performers: Stephanie Lanckton, Douglas Allen, and Mizu Desierto

Sound improvisation: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Audio credits: Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (1913)
Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yoel Levi

Video documentation: Roland Ventura Toledo

Yocto Theatre presents CockTales
Headwaters Theatre
Portland, OR

Directed and written by Sean Bowie
Selected choreography by Stephanie Lanckton

Richard Serra's "Áfangar" in Iceland

Image credit: Roland Ventura Toledo

HYDE is a new piece of dance/theater that explores our attraction to the dark side and internal struggles, while posing the question- how do we move past duplicity? Abstracted from the iconic tale of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", HYDE is tender, funny, alarming and compelling. HYDE uses the language of the body in tandem with sound, vocalization, costume and video projection to create a recognizable and visceral piece about the human experience.

HYDE is created by choreographer/director Tracy Broyles with dancers Stephanie Lanckton, Mark Kline, Niko Thomas, Rebecca Harrison, Douglas Allen; musicians Adrian Hutapea, Lisa DeGrace, Videographer Stephen Miller, lighting designer Vanessa Pearl Janson, and costume designer Elodie Massa Allen

Photography: Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley

Schloss Broellin, Germany
Exit ’15 International butoh exchange and performance festival

Choreography by Yukio Waguri

Dance + Festival
Conduit Dance Inc
Portland, OR

Concept, Live electronic audio, and sound console design: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Choreography: Stephanie Lanckton in collaboration with Mizu Desierto
Videographers: Ian Lucero and Eric Nordstrom
Photography: Jim Lykins

Dance + Performance Festival
Conduit Dance Inc
Portland, Oregon

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REVIVIFY responds to the overwhelming history we have cataloged in this web based world of collected stories, past events, current trends and hyper-information. The sound artist internet surfs the emotional transitions from excerpts of our rising and falling through life captured in giant media outlets, YouTube, Google, and anything hyperlinked along the way. Reliving these events and leading us into an unfolding future world, a pair of dancers... Butoh dancers, Stephanie Lanckton and Mizu Desierto immerse themselves in the sculptural landscape of sound - receiving, reacting and connecting us all. It is an interaction between sound, space, and body. An installation of sorts where the music transforms the body, which in turn develops the movements / choreography as it adapts.

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Concept and audio console design
R o l a n d V e n t u r a T o l e d o

Sound
S T E M by A l t e r S t r u c t u r e

Choreographer and dancer
S t e p h a n i e L a n c k t o n

Dancer and collaborator
M i z u D e s i e r t o

Camera Operators
I a n L u c e r o
a n d
E r i c N o r d s t r o m

Editing on full length video
I a n L u c e r o

Filmed at
C o n d u i t D a n c e , I n c.
D a n c e + P e r f o r m a n c e F e s t I v a l 2 0 1 4

StudioM13
Disjecta Art Center
Portland, OR

Direction, set design, projections and film: Stephen Miller
Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Musician: Lisa DeGrace
Costume Design: Alenka Loesch and Elodie Massa
Lighting Design: Daniel Meeker
Videographer: Ian Lucero

Director - Set - Visuals
STEPHEN A. MILLER

Dance - Choreography
STEPHANIE LANCKTON

Soundscape - Production
LISA DEGRACE

Lighting Design
DANIEL MEEKER

Costume Design For Video
ALENKA LOESCH

Costume Design Live Show
ELODIE MASSA

Light Board Operator
MEAGHAN EDWARDS

Video Documentation
IAN LUCERO FILMS

Editing
StudioM13

Performed Live in Portland, Oregon
October 17,18, 24, 25

DISJECTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

Dance + Festival
Conduit Dance Inc
Portland, OR

Concept and set design: Stephanie Lanckton and Roland Ventura Toledo
Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Live electronic audio: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Costume Design and stylist: Alenka Loesch

Conceived during an inaugural six month long NE.W. Artist Residency @ Studio2 Zoomtopia with Roland Ventura Toledo

Dance + Performance Festival
Conduit
Portland, Oregon
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Epoch before birth,
Amaranthine Beginnings,
Eternity strung
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Amaranthine Beginnings is a collaborative installation combining butoh influenced and contemporary dance, sound, architecture and set design. The interest lies in transforming the perception of time, place and space. We explore how a dancer and a sound artist can create a surreal-world situated in a fabricated celestial cosmos on earth. We awaken the imagination of an audience by expanding, contracting, slowing-down, speeding-up and freezing time through movement and sound. The concept of this piece is born out of the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...) and the golden ratio, which is found throughout the universe, nature, bodies, mathematics, architecture, sound and art.

This piece was conceived at Studio2 @ Zoomtopia as part of the N.E.W. 2012 - 2013 artist residency with dancer and choreographer Stephanie Lanckton and sound artist Roland Ventura Toledo.
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Set Design and Concept: Stephanie Lanckton & Roland Ventura Toledo
Choreography and Dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Costume and Styling: Alenka Loesch
Video Documentation: Eric Nordstrom & Ian Lucero
Live Piano and Electronic Audio: Alter Structure (Roland Ventura Toledo)
Song Title: Amaranthine Beginnings
2ch Sound

Total Running Time: 23m 24s

Filmed at:
Conduit Dance, Inc.

Dance+ Performance Festival 2013

Headwaters Theatre
Portland, OR

American ME - an absurdist, ensemble, butoh-theatre extravaganza into the underbelly of American culture

Direction: Mizu Desierto
Collaborating Performers: Douglas Allen, Nathan HG, Stephanie Lanckton, Mizu Desierto
Sound Design: Roland Ventura Toledo
Video Installation & Documentation: Ian Lucero
Lighting Design: Vanessa Janson
Photography: Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley

SOAK Festival
CAVE
Brooklyn, NY

Concept and set design: Stephanie Lanckton and Roland Ventura Toledo
Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Live electronic sound design: Roland Ventura Toledo
Video and Photography: Shige Moriya

The1 Festival
The Headwaters Theatre
Portland, OR

Concept and set design: Stephanie Lanckton and Roland Ventura Toledo
Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Live electronic sound design: Roland Ventura Toledo
Videographer: Ian Lucero

Ten Tiny Dances
Beaverton Library - Outdoor 4’ x 4’ Stage
Beaverton, OR

Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Electronic sound composition: Roland Ventura Toledo
In honor of my friend and fellow dancer, Keith V. Goodman (RIP 1955-2009)
For more info about Keith, please visit: www.dancegatherer.org

Lo Tengo
The Shala
New York City

Choreographer and dancer: Stephanie Lanckton
Electronic sound composition: Roland Ventura Toledo and SUIT

Photography: Jon Abbott - Intellifoto, Inc 2010

New York Butoh Festival
Dixon Place
New York City

Choreographer: Ko Murobushi in Collaboration with Ximena Garnica
Musicians: Various Artists
Photography: Yana Kraeva

Created during an Artist Residency at The National Museum of Dance with Butoh Master Ko Murobushi and LEIMAY

Statement by the work’s creators: “The ball of movement was born amid the fire of the furnace blast. It is a great hybrid, a miscellaneous of species. Today we are at the center of the furnace again, new transformation upland.”

Kinodance
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA

"Butoh America", choreographed by the acclaimed Akira Kasai at Japan Society in New York City on Wednesday night, October 24, 2007.  The performance was part of "Kazuo Ohno 101: 3-Week of Butoh Parade" and the 2007 New York Butoh Festival.

This image: Akira Kasai (center) with, from left, Stephanie Lanckton, Sara Baird, Alissa Cardone and Erin Dudley.

All Photos by Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images

Choreographer-director Kasai writes “for me, America symbolizes the setting of the sun of history, a golden twilight in the journey of humanity.”

In program notes Mr. Kasai writes, “Butoh in America is the most beautiful and fragile, the most complete form that contains both fulfillment and destruction, the life and death of the dance.”

Aviator aerial dance
Weiden + Kennedy
Portland, OR

Choreography: Stephanie Lanckton
Dancers: Stephanie Lanckton, Meshi Chavez, and Tracy Broyles

Slings and metal egg designed and created by Stephanie Lanckton

LIGHTSCAPES II
Commissioned by the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and premiered at the Fremont Street Experience
Las Vegas, Nevada

by Portland filmmaker
Jim Blashfield

Stephanie Lanckton as Lucy, a young woman who enters carrying some personal baggage, conveniently attached to a handle.  She meets Hyram, a handyman, and a story unfolds.

Echo Theatre
Portland, OR

By Linda Austin
Stephanie Lanckton dances with Linda Austin