The Holding Project is a

dance company dedicated to movement language research and choreographic creation.

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Based in Portland, Oregon,

The Holding Project

has been creating thought-provoking live performance, dance for film,multi-media, and installation work since 2015. The company aims to explore gradients between effort and struggle, researching extremes of energetic physicality alongside the quiet volumes of minute detail. Led by founder and Artistic Director Amy Leona Havin, The Holding Project is rooted in Tel Aviv-based movement language methodics studies, encouraging collaboration and play within the artistic process.