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Lin Hixson served as director of the recently ended Goat Island Performance Group for twenty-three years, exploring the relationship between movement and other forms of performance. She received her undergraduate degree in education and political science from the University of Oregon, and her MFA in performance from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. She was a founding member of the Los Angeles performance collective Hangers (1978-1981) and has mounted over thirty interdisciplinary performances since 1981. She co-founded Goat Island in 1987. She is a full Professor in the Performance Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has received three NEA fellowships in New Genres, one NEA fellowship in Choreography, and three Illinois Arts Council fellowships.
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Lin Hixson's project, They're Mending the Great Forest Highway is a dance for three men with a female DJ/classically trained pianist. The piece integrates movement, the process of musical structures, and the concept of abandoned practices to construct the work. |
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