The Pilot Dance Project PRESENTS ITS FIRST EVENING-LENGTH WORK SINCE THE START OF THE COVID-19 Pandemic, Tether, a New work by Ashley Horn.  

For the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pilot Dance Project will unveil an in-person, evening-length dance experience! Choreographed by Ashley Horn, Tether will run April 24 and 25 at the Live Oak Friends Meeting at 1318 W 26th Street, 77008. The piece will be performed outdoors and with social distancing protocols.

Ashley Horn’s Tether is an attempt to find a sense of mooring in a turbulent time and place. The Pilot Dance Project's company and community dancers represent the interconnectedness of the human experience, the tenuous ties that create the world’s ecosystems, and the people that inhabit them. In a world suffering from mass isolation, Tether attempts to offer an alternative perspective in which these ties can be healed, reaffirmed, and strengthened.

Tether features performances by six company artists, including Adam Castan͂eda, Lindsay Cortner, Jade Devault, Mia Pham, Ke'Ron Wilson, and Lena Yeh.

In addition, Tether includes two sections choreographed by Adam Castan͂eda featuring 15 members of the greater Houston community, including Vanessa Alanis, Courtney Allen, Ana Barrios, Ashley Boykin, Nicola Bennett, Angela Brown-Collins, Hannah Dunning, Katherine Garcia, LaDondrea Harrison, Jaredd Martin, Kayla Mason, Paul McNeill, Tory Pierce, Becky Selle, and Shylah Sylas.

Seating will be provided, but audience members are encouraged to bring blankets and foldable chairs for an intimate picnic-style arts experience.

About the Choreographer:

Ashley Horn is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, dance educator, costume designer, and artist from the Houston area. She has shown choreography and films at ACDF, The University of Houston, Big Range Dance Festival, The Texas Weekend of Contemporary Dance, Third Coast Dance on Film Festival, The Houston Fringe Festival, and Dance Month at the ERJCC among other venues and events. She has created costumes for FrenetiCore, Frame Dance Productions, Open Dance Project, Sara Draper, Teresa Chapman, The Pilot Dance Project, Hope Stone Dance, and her own works. Ashley is a two-time recipient of an individual artist grant from the Houston Arts Alliance for choreography. She has been the artist in residence at Hope Stone, Rice University, and Dance Source Houston. Ashley is the Early Childhood Education Specialist at Hope Stone, Inc.