tEEth

Choreographer Angelle Hebert and Composer Phillip Kraft began their artistic collaboration in 2000 and co-founded tEEth in 2006. Their work is generated through deeply collaborative processes, interweaving original music and movement through melodic and conceptual mirroring. Approaching the body with an eye for life's beauty and dark absurdity, tEEth offers a poignant and uncompromising glimpse of humanity, combining technical virtuosity with raw visceral impact. Hebert's precise, distinctive phrases push gestural dance to its limits, while Kraft's music merges gritty sound with hypnotic melody.

tEEth has toured to On the Boards (Seattle), Joyce SoHo (NYC), Fuse Box Festival (Austin), Living Arts (Tulsa), St. Ferdinand Church and Sidearm (New Orleans), Rose Wagner Theater (Salt Lake City), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Dance Truck (Atlanta), and Tumakat (Merida, Mexico). They have been commissioned by White Bird Dance, On the Boards, Fusebox, Living Arts, Dance Truck, among others. In Portland, tEEth has created and presented works for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, Portland Center Stage's JAW Festival, Ten Tiny Dances, Reed Arts Week, Performance Works Northwest, Conduit, and Water in the Desert Festival. In addition to private and corporate sponsorship and support, tEEth has received grants from the National Performance Network, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, and Westaf. In 2011, tEEth won the Joyce Theater Foundation's prestigious A.W.A.R.D. Show! at On the Boards and was voted Best Choreographer by the Willamette Week.