Christina Sukhgian Houle has studied and worked at The Second City in Chicago, Illinois as well as performed at Second City's Donny's Skybox. Her performances
and videos have received multiple awards and honors, including being named by
the Austin Chronicle as one of the Top Ten Dance Phenomena and given an
Honorable Mention by Alex Freeman at the FASA show. Her choreography has appeared at the Southwest American
College Dance Festival, Perpetual Motion Dance Festival, Big Range Dance Festival
and Fuse Box Festival.
Additionally, her original, full-length theatre dance piece, “Science of
Suggestion”, premiered at Frontera Festival, and used community input and
interaction to create a work of art that acknowledged the environment in which
it was developed
Ms. Houle has toured nationally with multiple theatre companies and performed in both Spanish and English while part of Salsation Theatre Company (IL) and at the Latino Laugh Festival. She worked with Creative Time (NY) and Rodney McMillian on the political performance project “Mime’s a Thud”, was a visiting artist to Spelman College (GA) and an intern and assistant to Deborah Hay and the Deborah Hay Dance Company.
Last year she presented her performance and paper ”Digesting the Other”, on the construction and deconstruction of identity, at the Feminism and Visual Representation Student Conference and this year was a guest lecturer for the class of the same name. Most recently she participated in "Everybody Tour" with Harrell Fletcher and her duration performance "16 Conversations with Escape Bird" was streamed to Antena Gallery in Chicago.
In July of this year her performance and photo installation show, 1/24, opened at Co-Lab and after further development and expansion, will be re-exhibited there again next year. Her video installation “Incantations of Help” was recently recreated with 50 high school students at KIPP, while Ms. Houle was a guest artist there. At the end of the year she will screen her upcoming video “Migration Patterns During Wartime” at Justice Works, Red Space, and Red Victorian (CA) and next year her as of yet untitled film will be screened at 222Lodge Extern in the Netherlands.
Ms. Houle is a member of the Austin Project and interested in the ways that the process of art making can foster growth in communities and shift personal paradigms of perception. She furthermore believes that acting as a performer and witness are vital components of what define the human experience.
For questions comments or additional information please contact Christina Sukhgian Houle at beingbelushi@gmail.com.
Ms. Houle has toured nationally with multiple theatre companies and performed in both Spanish and English while part of Salsation Theatre Company (IL) and at the Latino Laugh Festival. She worked with Creative Time (NY) and Rodney McMillian on the political performance project “Mime’s a Thud”, was a visiting artist to Spelman College (GA) and an intern and assistant to Deborah Hay and the Deborah Hay Dance Company.
Last year she presented her performance and paper ”Digesting the Other”, on the construction and deconstruction of identity, at the Feminism and Visual Representation Student Conference and this year was a guest lecturer for the class of the same name. Most recently she participated in "Everybody Tour" with Harrell Fletcher and her duration performance "16 Conversations with Escape Bird" was streamed to Antena Gallery in Chicago.
In July of this year her performance and photo installation show, 1/24, opened at Co-Lab and after further development and expansion, will be re-exhibited there again next year. Her video installation “Incantations of Help” was recently recreated with 50 high school students at KIPP, while Ms. Houle was a guest artist there. At the end of the year she will screen her upcoming video “Migration Patterns During Wartime” at Justice Works, Red Space, and Red Victorian (CA) and next year her as of yet untitled film will be screened at 222Lodge Extern in the Netherlands.
Ms. Houle is a member of the Austin Project and interested in the ways that the process of art making can foster growth in communities and shift personal paradigms of perception. She furthermore believes that acting as a performer and witness are vital components of what define the human experience.
For questions comments or additional information please contact Christina Sukhgian Houle at beingbelushi@gmail.com.
