Allie Hankins | By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH

October 23-24, 2026

Allie Hankins is based in Portland. Minneapolis has shaped her — she has spent years dancing and teaching — Allie has taught in MN, danced in the work of MN choreographers and was a participant of SCUBA (now closed) when the program was grounded at the Southern Theater. Her return through KIN brings By My Own Hand, Part 5: INVISIBLE TOUCH — the final installment of a five-part performance series that queers autobiography and self-reflection. A quintet featuring Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Lu Yim, and Takahiro Yamamoto, the work moves through deconstruction, distillation, resurrection, and re-membering to confront finality, authorship, and the perception of self. This ensemble tells a story: these are longtime collaborators, co-organizers, and co-stewards of experimental performance communities across Portland and beyond.

https://www.alliehankins.com/

Red Eye presents KIN Artists Partnerships, a four part series of artists that pass through Red Eye with one animating principle: relationship. Enduring relationship.

Red Eye is part of a national network of artistic inquiry — and KIN is a significant step toward showing up to that conversation with intention and honesty. KIN is a response to the shifting needs of commissioned work, an experiment in interrupting the transactional way we value artistry.

Every artist that is a part of KIN brings something different — different resources, histories, forms of capital. Every artist has a relationship to real people, to Red Eye, Minneapolis, to the Twin Cities, to people and practices and communities that make this ecosystem what it is.

If KIN is about relationships– relationships to people and places - KIN is also about relationships to commissioning models, and artistic inquiry as transcontinental experimentation. KIN artists are sifting through the tethered immediacy of today. KIN is about queer tragedy, reflection, bending autobiography, and grief. KIN is about what is summoned through difficulty, what we owe ourselves, and what happens after collective life changing conditions. KIN is the most hopeful survival strategy we can muster: make it up again and again. Believe in body, dancing and each other.

Accessibility

Red Eye’s space is fully wheelchair-accessible. Masks are highly encouraged. Some events require masking and masks will be available at the venue if you don't bring your own. Please only attend if you are feeling well, and if not, we are happy to change your tickets to a different day at no charge.

Photo by Hannah Krafcik