upcoming events
Community Process + Express at Champa Studio
Join HOLDTIGHT Company for a Free Community Workshop at The Champa Studio at The Arts Complex in Denver to ring in the New Year this Jan. & Feb 2025!
Process + Express guides attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. Participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express is designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, community, and nature. All are welcome.
These workshops are free with RSVP, and accessible to all bodies and levels (you do not need to be a dancer or artist to come!) This event is open to everyone who wants to have a fun and inspiring time. Come and join us at The Champa Studio in The Arts Complex (1245 Champa Street in Denver) for a workshop filled with creativity, sharing, and artistic expression. We can't wait to see you there!
Community Process + Express Workshop at Champa!
Join HOLDTIGHT Company for a Free Community Workshop at The Champa Studio at The Arts Complex in Denver this February 2025!
Process + Express guides attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. Participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express is designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, community, and nature. All are welcome.
These workshops are free with RSVP, and accessible to all bodies and levels (you do not need to be a dancer or artist to come!) This event is open to everyone who wants to have a fun and inspiring time. Come and join us at The Champa Studio in The Arts Complex (1245 Champa Street in Denver) for a workshop filled with creativity, sharing, and artistic expression. We can't wait to see you there!
December Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Sunday, December 15th, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up HERE!
Process + Express guides attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. Participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express is designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, community, and nature. All are welcome. Workshops are accessible to all bodies and levels- you do not need to be a dancer or artist to come!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (Copy)
In partnership with Presenting Denver & MCA, HOLDTIGHT will perform a new work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Sunday, December 8th between 1-2:30pm. This new work activates & accompanies an exhibiting artist, Ronny Quevedo’s, work titled “at the line”. HOLDTIGHT will perform a durational work where audience may come and go as they please as part of MCA’s larger Movements Toward Freedom exhibition.
“Linking physical and social definitions of movement, Movements Toward Freedom examines how the articulation of our bodies, collectively and singularly, informs and shapes a vital society. Showcasing recent work and new commissions that span genres of performance, sculpture, video, painting and installation, the exhibition considers the ways that physical movement plays an integral role in exercising personal and collective agency, as a means for community-building, civic change and liberation, as well as serving as an antidote to strife and a vehicle for healing and care.” (MCA)
"At the Line" is a floor installation by Ronny Quevedo made of reclaimed wood sourced from a professional basketball court. Quevedo breaks apart the floor and reconfigures it to make a new floor-based artwork where HOLDTIGHT will activate the piece.
The performance will take place Sunday, December 8th for 1.5 hours in the gallery, visitors may come and go as they please.
FREE w/ museum admission: https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/movements-toward-freedom
alone : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT presents the World Premiere of alone : un/tethered
Co-Presented by The Newman Center Presents Series
December 5-7, 2024 at The Byron Theatre at Newman Center for Performing Arts (2344 E Iliff Ave, Denver, CO 80210)
alone : un/tethered is a show about the miracles that arise when trying to hold seemingly contradictory concepts: magic vs logic, science vs story, nature vs human, alone vs together. Using dance, original live music, personal narrative with immersive and participatory elements, the audience explores how we are inextricably linked to each other and to the earth, even when we feel most alone.
alone : un/tethered is created, directed, choreographed and performed by HOLDTIGHT's founder and artistic director, Gwendolyn Gussman, with sound design and collaboration by Nicholas Caputo, lighting design by Alex Taylor, set design by Maki Teshima, and costume design by Gray Covert. un/tethered is a trilogy exploring interdependence and composed of three distinct parts: alone, mother, and together. This piece has been developed with support from the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Theater District, Denver Arts and Venues, Denver Performing Arts Complex, CreateArt, and Carroll Hall.
Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver
In partnership with Presenting Denver & MCA, HOLDTIGHT will perform a new work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, December 7th between 1-2:30pm. This new work activates & accompanies an exhibiting artist, Ronny Quevedo’s, work titled “at the line”. HOLDTIGHT will perform a durational work where audience may come and go as they please as part of MCA’s larger Movements Toward Freedom exhibition.
“Linking physical and social definitions of movement, Movements Toward Freedom examines how the articulation of our bodies, collectively and singularly, informs and shapes a vital society. Showcasing recent work and new commissions that span genres of performance, sculpture, video, painting and installation, the exhibition considers the ways that physical movement plays an integral role in exercising personal and collective agency, as a means for community-building, civic change and liberation, as well as serving as an antidote to strife and a vehicle for healing and care.” (MCA)
"At the Line" is a floor installation by Ronny Quevedo made of reclaimed wood sourced from a professional basketball court. Quevedo breaks apart the floor and reconfigures it to make a new floor-based artwork where HOLDTIGHT will activate the piece.
The performance will take place Saturday December 7th for 1.5 hours in the gallery, visitors may come and go as they please. Additional performances on Dec. 8th.
FREE w/ museum admission: https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/movements-toward-freedom
alone : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT presents the World Premiere of alone : un/tethered
Co-Presented by The Newman Center Presents Series
December 5-7, 2024 at The Byron Theatre at Newman Center for Performing Arts (2344 E Iliff Ave, Denver, CO 80210)
alone : un/tethered is a show about the miracles that arise when trying to hold seemingly contradictory concepts: magic vs logic, science vs story, nature vs human, alone vs together. Using dance, original live music, personal narrative with immersive and participatory elements, the audience explores how we are inextricably linked to each other and to the earth, even when we feel most alone.
alone : un/tethered is created, directed, choreographed and performed by HOLDTIGHT's founder and artistic director, Gwendolyn Gussman, with sound design and collaboration by Nicholas Caputo, lighting design by Alex Taylor, set design by Maki Teshima, and costume design by Gray Covert. un/tethered is a trilogy exploring interdependence and composed of three distinct parts: alone, mother, and together. This piece has been developed with support from the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Theater District, Denver Arts and Venues, Denver Performing Arts Complex, CreateArt, and Carroll Hall.
alone : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT presents the World Premiere of alone : un/tethered
Co-Presented by The Newman Center Presents Series
December 5-7, 2024 at The Byron Theatre at Newman Center for Performing Arts (2344 E Iliff Ave, Denver, CO 80210)
alone : un/tethered is a show about the miracles that arise when trying to hold seemingly contradictory concepts: magic vs logic, science vs story, nature vs human, alone vs together. Using dance, original live music, personal narrative with immersive and participatory elements, the audience explores how we are inextricably linked to each other and to the earth, even when we feel most alone.
alone : un/tethered is created, directed, choreographed and performed by HOLDTIGHT's founder and artistic director, Gwendolyn Gussman, with sound design and collaboration by Nicholas Caputo, lighting design by Alex Taylor, set design by Maki Teshima, and costume design by Gray Covert. un/tethered is a trilogy exploring interdependence and composed of three distinct parts: alone, mother, and together. This piece has been developed with support from the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Theater District, Denver Arts and Venues, Denver Performing Arts Complex, CreateArt, and Carroll Hall.
November Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up HERE!
Process + Express guides attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. Participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express is designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, community, and nature. All are welcome. Workshops are accessible to all bodies and levels- you do not need to be a dancer or artist to come!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
October Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Sunday, October 13, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up HERE!
Process + Express guides attendees through an abbreviated version of HOLDTIGHT’s unique creation process. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. Participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express is designed for bodies who want to move and explore, for individuals interested in developing new tools to use in their creative practice, and for those wanting to dive into the intersection between art, personal narrative, community, and nature. All are welcome. Workshops are accessible to all bodies and levels- you do not need to be a dancer or artist to come!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver
In partnership with Presenting Denver & MCA, HOLDTIGHT will perform a new work at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, September 28th between 1-2:30pm. This new work activates & accompanies an exhibiting artist, Ronny Quevedo’s, work titled “at the line”. HOLDTIGHT will perform a durational work where audience may come and go as they please as part of MCA’s larger Movements Toward Freedom exhibition.
“Linking physical and social definitions of movement, Movements Toward Freedom examines how the articulation of our bodies, collectively and singularly, informs and shapes a vital society. Showcasing recent work and new commissions that span genres of performance, sculpture, video, painting and installation, the exhibition considers the ways that physical movement plays an integral role in exercising personal and collective agency, as a means for community-building, civic change and liberation, as well as serving as an antidote to strife and a vehicle for healing and care.” (MCA)
"At the Line" is a floor installation by Ronny Quevedo made of reclaimed wood sourced from a professional basketball court. Quevedo breaks apart the floor and reconfigures it to make a new floor-based artwork where HOLDTIGHT will activate the piece.
The performance will take place Saturday Sept 28th at 1pm for 1.5 hours in the gallery, visitors may come and go as they please. Additional performances Dec 7th and 8th.
FREE w/ museum admission: https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/movements-toward-freedom
September Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Sunday, September 15, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up HERE!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
August Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Sunday, August 4, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up HERE!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Floor on Atlantic Ave, in Brooklyn, New York
Date: Sunday, July 28, 2024
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Sign up link coming soon!
Process + Express Workshop
Process + Express Workshop
Location: The Truss House in Rino Art Park, Denver, Colorado
Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Sliding-scale tickets starting at $5.00!
Sign up link coming soon!
Made possible by the Creative Grants Program of Rino Arts District
"Hello, Goodbye, I Love You" Immersive happening & performance festival
HOLDTIGHT is a featured artist in the upcoming workshop/performance festival, “Hello, Goodbye, I Love You” happening on Friday, June 28th from 6-10pm at The Sculpture Park at The Arts Complex in Denver, CO. Hosted by Japanese Arts Network & CDS Creative Productions, artists from around the country come together to create experimental, queer-celebrating, new collaborative work that will be presented in an immersive, festival style format on 6/28. Other lead artists include Nadhi Thekkek of Nava Dance Theatre & Black Benatar (aka Beatrice Thomas of Authentic Arts & Media), both from the Bay Area.
6-8pm Ticketed Immersive Happening
8-10pm Free Celebration!
together : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT Company, with support from Denver Arts and Venues, presents the world premiere of together : un/tethered
Performance details:
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2024
Time: 7:00pm MT, (approx. 90 minute run time)
Location: The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House (1400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO, 80204)
together : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT Company, with support from Denver Arts and Venues, presents the world premiere of together : un/tethered
Performance details:
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2024
Time: 2:30pm MT, (approx. 90 minute run time)
Location: The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House (1400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO, 80204)
together : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT Company, with support from Denver Arts and Venues, presents the world premiere of together : un/tethered
Performance details:
Date: Friday, April 5, 2024
Time: 7:00pm MT, (approx. 90 minute run time)
Location: The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House (1400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO, 80204)
together : un/tethered performance
HOLDTIGHT Company, with support from Denver Arts and Venues, presents the world premiere of together : un/tethered
Performance details:
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Time: 7:00pm MT, (approx. 90 minute run time)
Location: The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House (1400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO, 80204)
Open Rehearsal with Talk Back
Join HOLDTIGHT Company for a sneak peak inside the creative rehearsal process for their newest work, together : un/tethered. Included will be time for an open dialogue with Director Gwendolyn Gussman, and the collaborating cast of artists. HOLDTIGHT’s latest climate-focused immersive dance-theater work will premiere from April 4-6th at Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House at The Denver Performing Arts Complex. This creative residency and performances are supported by Denver Arts & Venues.
Process + Express Community Workshop
Process & Express Community Workshop #2
HOLDTIGHT company presents Process + Express Community Workshops in development around their latest immersive dance-theater work, together : un/tethered. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. In this free, all-levels/all-bodies workshop, participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Process + Express Community Workshop
Process & Express Community Workshop #1
HOLDTIGHT company presents Process + Express Community Workshops in development around their latest immersive dance-theater work, together : un/tethered. Incorporating physical movement, meditation, prompted writing, and open dialogue, participants delve into questions surrounding the beliefs that hold us back from change, our wishes for the future, and how all of this relates to our balance & relationship with the earth. In this free, all-level/all-bodies workshop, participants will find openings for exciting and fulfilling ways to discover creative material from their personal, lived experiences and receive glimmers of how that fits into our greater, collective world.
Natural Dye Party with HOLDTIGHT & Maki Teshima
HOLDTIGHT & collaborating artist, Maki Teshima, are hosting a Community Natural Dye Party to help HT prepare for our upcoming performance season! Join us on Saturday, March 2nd from 11-4pm at the Champa Studio at The Arts Complex in downtown Denver, for a food-waste & flower scrap Dye Party (plus rope weaving). Come for an hour or stay all day, and let’s dye together! All participants will go home with a unique hand-dyed piece, plus we will provide light snacks and drinks donated by Spinelli’s Market.
Over the course of the day we will show you how to dye and weave materials, working with our hands in preparation for HT’s upcoming performance premiere of together : un/tethered. This new piece will premiere April 4-6th at The Studio Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Arts Complex with support by Denver Arts & Venues. Maki is a core creative collaborator on un/tethered and the performance incorporates Maki’s natural dye scenography.
Experience a taste of natural dyeing, rope weaving, and a fun afternoon with the HOLDTIGHT community!
All proceeds go directly towards supporting the premiere of together : un/tethered. Limited tickets available. $10/ticket
Stir & Settle
A Fall Dinner Soiree
in collaboration with Chef Arianna Shaljian. Spend an evening with us enjoying a beautiful, 5-course seasonal meal seeded with intentional conversation, & a special musical performance by a HOLDTIGHT collaborator.
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
6:30-10pm
Private Parlor in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Ticket includes: 5-course seasonal meal, welcome drink (N/A version will be available), table wine, a short musical performance by a current HOLDTIGHT collaborator, and impeccable times with new & old friends.
This evening serves as a nod to HOLDTIGHT Company's Nourishment beginnings where we incorporated food with performance experiences to tantalize all five-senses through unique happenings. While this is more of a fall soiree (and a full meal!), HOLDTIGHT is thrilled to share this new collaboration with the amazing Chef Arianna, who has been putting on regular "Family Meals" to bring people together under the guise of a dinner.
Recipes are inspired by old family dishes, precious ingredients, and new culinary ideas. We want to make you feel like family, bonding over the experience of new and old dishes, passing the bread, musical interludes, food for thought, + sitting together on a autumnal night.
Creative Residency Performances, Evening 2
Join HOLDTIGHT for creative residency performances at Carroll Hall: Works-in-Progress Performances of our newest work Un/Tethered (working title) with support from CreateART.
Creative Residency Performances, Evening 1
Join HOLDTIGHT for creative residency performances at Carroll Hall: Works-in-Progress Performances of our newest work Un/Tethered (working title) with support from CreateART.
Process + Express: Summer Event
An evening of guided movement, prompted writing, forest-bathing, & tea to tickle all the senses, foster connection with Mother Earth, & cool down in the heat of summer.