LINGO

Join Lingo and CPT for a social art feast has “left critics and audiences beguiled” (Seattle Magazine) and allows guests a range of proximal vantage points to watch the performance unfold. INHABIT dissolves barriers between audience and performer, giving guests 360 degree access to renowned choreographer KT Niehoff’s signature movement style, combining hypnotic states of inversion, lushly virtuosic partnering, and hyper-mobile, spinal delicacy.

Lingo is an inspired group of contemporary artists, athletes, actors, brave hearts, lunatics…and yes, dancers. They are drawn to the circumstances that provide common ground, inspire surprising connections and shift the entry point of how the public interfaces with dance. They seek platforms for work outside the limitations of proscenium-based performance, such as art “events” including food, drink, gathering and dancing, museum installations and one on one encounters in urban, public settings. Their new show INHABIT is a culmination and celebration of such a circumstance.

Based in Seattle, WA since 1998, and under the Artistic Direction of KT Niehoff, Lingo’s work has toured internationally in Canada, Japan, Ecuador and Cuba. The company has been presented by venues throughout the United States including Nashville’s Vanderbilt University, the University of Mass, Amherst, Seattle’s On the Boards, NYC’s Joyce SoHo, UC Riverside, Minneapolis’ The Southern Theater, San Diego’s SUSHI performance gallery, OR’s Britt Festival and Delta State University in Mississippi, among others. The company was one of four chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2004 Tanzmesse in Dosseldorf, Germany.

Lingo’s artistic integrity has been recognized by The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Dance Project, The National Performance Network, Meet the Composer, Seattle, Washington and King County Arts Commissions, Arts International, and others.

Nearly a decade into creating, touring, collaborating and teaching, the members of Lingo are consummate professionals, generous mentors, magical performers, inspired teachers, just damn fun to be around and deeply invested in meaningful, creative exchanges between the giver and the receiver.