Co-Artistic Directors:
Angelle Hebert and Phillip Kraft

Described as "evocative and incomprehensible" by the Seattle Weekly, Portland based contemporary dance/performance art company, tEEth continues to explore work that defies convention and comfort. Their latest project, *Grub, will premiere at On the Boards (Seattle, WA) February 12-14, 2009 as part of the Northwest Series and tour nationally to the Joyce SoHo (New York City) March 20-22, 2009, the Fuse Box Festival (Austin, TX) April 2009, and pending locations. Their most recent work, Normal and Happy, was presented as part of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time Based Art Festival (Portland, OR) in September of 2007, Reed College's Reed Arts Week Festival (Portland, OR) in March of 2008, and at On the Boards as part of the Northwest New Works Festival in June of 2007.

The collaborative team of Angelle Hebert and Phillip Kraft began in 1999 in Salt Lake City, Utah, moved to Portland in 2002 and evolved into tEEth in 2006. The seed of their work is generated through countless hours of documented collaborative improvisation, resulting in a refined live performance of skillfully crafted concepts, choreography, compositions and vocals. Their investigations explore the body's limitless expression through motion and sound. Morphing human gesture with animalistic qualities, a tense, contorted physicality and quirky, idiosyncratic intricacy emerge. Raw, gritty, extremes imbue the movement and music with a primal sense. The images revealed onstage capture the performance-goer, transporting them viscerally to places subtle and profound, intellectual and fantastical, familiar and scathing. tEEth aims to engage and challenge audiences with an innovative approach to performance through the integration of contemporary dance, theatre, new media, original sound, costumes and sculptural design elements.

In addition to performing in Portland & Seattle, tEEth has toured to Austin, TX as participating artists in the Fuse Box Festival and New Orleans, LA. Past work by Hebert and Kraft include the two full productions: Abracadaver in March 2005 and benumbed in April 2006. They have created works for Ten Tiny Dances (Splinter 2006, Orange You Listening? 2006 and Membrane 2004), Linda Austin's Richard Foreman Festival & Cabaret (Rash 2006 and Meat for Man 2005), 2Gyrlz Enteractive Language Festival (spit, leak, bellow... 2005), and Conduit's BamBam Festival (spit, leak, bellow... 2005). In addition to corporate and private funding, tEEth, has received two Project Grants and a Professional Development Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

*Commissioning by On the Boards and the National Performance Network. This new work is funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.