This is event is free and open to the public. Performances will be 20 - 25 minutes long and will take place at 2 & 3 pm. The choreography is designed so that the public can move through the exhibition while the performance is taking place. 

"To make it visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what had been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or in our dreams." Anni Albers.

Inspired by the Patrick Dougherty exhibit and the weavings of Anni Albers, Taryn Griggs and Chris Yon (the Yoggs) will present a new work for six dancers at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum during the Blowing Rock Winter Festival. The Yoggs are galvanized by Albers and Dougherty's use of a simple element, for Albers the thread, for Dougherty the sapling, to make intricate works that invite the audience to engage, interact and dream of possibilities. In response the Yoggs  will use simple everyday movements like walking, running and skipping to create a physical tapestry. 

Bio:

Taryn Griggs and Chris Yon create original dance works that are deadpan slapstick, understated melodrama, autobiographical science fiction, cubist vaudeville, asymmetrically consonant explorations of magic and virtuosity in everyday movement.  They met at the Bessie Schönberg Artist Residency at The Yard in 2002 and have been working together ever since. They were participants in the dance communities of New York City, Minneapolis, and Iowa City, before moving to North Carolina. Chris and Taryn’s choreographies have been presented across the US, Canada, Ireland, and France. In New York, in addition to the presentation of their work at La MaMa, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, The Kitchen, and Danspace Project, they appeared together in the work of David Neumann, Yoshiko Chuma, Karinne Keithley Syers, and Sara Rudner.  During their years in the Twin Cities, they were both McKnight Fellows, co-curators for Choreographer’s Evening at the Walker Art Center, and their work was presented as part of the Walker’s Momentum Dance Series at The Southern, Red Eye Theater’s Isolated Acts, Jaime Carrera’s Outlet Performance Festival, and 9x22 at the Bryant Lake Bowl. Since moving to North Carolina, their work has been commissioned by the North Carolina Dance Festival (NCDF), American Dance Festival (ADF), and they have developed a platform for new work and collaborations, Interstitial: A site specific dance during the changeovers between art exhibits. Their most recent work, Yoggs Family Newsletter, was presented as part of the LaMama Moves Festival in New York, at the Modes of Capture conference at the University of Limerick, and at the Nasher Museum of Art as part of the American Dance Festival. They were awarded aTrillium Arts Choreographic Residency in 2024 and Gallim Moving Artist Residency in 2025. Yon and Griggs live in Boone with their daughter, Bea and teach at Appalachian State University. 

This performance is in conjunction with Patrick Dougherty: Pilgrimage.