Portland, OR Headwaters Theatre January 16 - 17, 2015 Meshi Chavez's 3rd annual Being Moved performance workshop culminating in group and solo pieces. The dance ensemble performance called "Kintsugi" opened at Portland Oregon's Headwater's Theatre in Jan. 2015. 'Kintsugi' - the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold. "Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated...a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin...Mushin is often literally translated as "no mind," but carries connotations of fully existing within the moment, of non-attachment, of equanimity amid changing conditions." - Choreography: Meshi Chavez Dancers: Sara Alizadeh Brenna Jagne John Johnson Anita Kress Tanya McCoy Joe McLaughlin Video Documentation: Ian Lucero - Live electronic audio Sound by: Alter Structure and Adrian Hutapea 2.2 ch Sound Total Running Time: 48m 57s Filmed at: Headwaters Theatre - For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com For more info and to purchase sound here: soundcloud.com/alterstructure www.rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2015 Roland Toledo, Alter Structure, All rights reserved

Dance + Performance Festival Premiered July 10 - 19, 2014 @ Conduit in Portland, Oregon - REVIVIFY responds to the overwhelming history we have cataloged in this web based world of collected stories, past events, current trends and hyper-information. The sound artist internet surfs the emotional transitions from excerpts of our rising and falling through life captured in giant media outlets, YouTube, Google, and anything hyperlinked along the way. Reliving these events and leading us into an unfolding future world, a pair of dancers... Butoh dancers, Stephanie Lanckton and Mizu Desierto immerse themselves in the sculptural landscape of sound - receiving, reacting and connecting us all. It is an interaction between sound, space, and body. An installation of sorts where the music transforms the body, which in turn develops the movements / choreography as it adapts. - Concept and audio console design R o l a n d V e n t u r a T o l e d o Sound S T E M by A l t e r S t r u c t u r e Choreographer and dancer S t e p h a n i e L a n c k t o n Dancer and collaborator M i z u D e s i e r t o Camera Operators I a n L u c e r o a n d E r i c N o r d s t r o m Editing on full length video I a n L u c e r o Filmed at C o n d u i t D a n c e , I n c. D a n c e + P e r f o r m a n c e F e s t I v a l 2 0 1 4 - Full length video here: https://vimeo.com/109907508 For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com More info and to purchase sound here: https://soundcloud.com/alterstructure http://rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2014 Roland Toledo, All rights reserved

Dance + Performance Festival Premiered July 10 - 19, 2014 @ Conduit in Portland, Oregon - "before the dawn" explores concepts linked to the origins of Butoh called Ankoku - the spiritual aspect of the dance. This piece is inspired by Ankoku, and by imagery of moths, moonlight, longing and desire. It seeks to create a sense of something that has no beginning or end. "The music... was shattering, physically and emotionally." Dance critic Martha Ullman West - Choreography: Meshi Chavez Dancers: Joe McLaughlin, Teresa Vanderkin Live electronic audio Sound by: Alter Structure Song title: Normal Light 2ch sound 19'57" Video Documentation: Eric Nordstrom Filmed at: Conduit Dance , Inc. Dance+ Performance Festival 2014 - For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com For more info and to purchase sound here: www.soundcloud.com/alterstructure www.rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2014 Roland Toledo, Alter Structure, All rights reserved

Portland, OR Headwaters Theatre December 6, 7, 13 & 14, 2013 Excerpts from the evening length work of Mizu Desierto's American ME-- an absurdist, ensemble, butoh-theatre extravaganza into the underbelly of American culture. Premiering in December 2013 at The Headwaters Theatre, the Willamette Week awarded the work a "Top 3" of dance in Portland for the year (proving the city is still weird). - Collaborating Performers: Douglas Allen, Nathan HG, Stephanie Lanckton, Mizu Desierto Direction: Mizu Desierto Sound Design: Roland Toledo Light Design: Vanessa Janson Video Installation & Documentation: Ian Lucero - Live electronic audio and sound design: Roland Toledo 2.2 ch Sound Total Running Time: 1h 20m 29s - Filmed at: Headwaters Theatre - For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com For more info and to purchase sound here: soundcloud.com/alterstructure https://rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2013 Roland Toledo, Alter Structure, All rights reserved

Dance + Performance Festival Premiered July 18 -20, 2013 Conduit in Portland, Oregon - Epoch before birth, Amaranthine Beginnings, Eternity strung - Amaranthine Beginnings is a collaborative installation combining butoh influenced and contemporary dance, sound, architecture and set design. The interest lies in transforming the perception of time, place and space. We explore how a dancer and a sound artist can create a surreal-world situated in a fabricated celestial cosmos on earth. We awaken the imagination of an audience by expanding, contracting, slowing-down, speeding-up and freezing time through movement and sound. The concept of this piece is born out of the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...) and the golden ratio, which is found throughout the universe, nature, bodies, mathematics, architecture, sound and art. This piece was conceived at Studio2 @ Zoomtopia as part of the N.E.W. 2012 - 2013 artist residency with dancer and choreographer Stephanie Lanckton and sound artist Roland Ventura Toledo. - Set Design and Concept: Stephanie Lanckton & Roland Toledo Choreography and Dancer: Stephanie Lanckton Costume and Styling: Alenka Loesch Video Documentation: Eric Nordstrom & Ian Lucero Live Piano and Electronic Audio: Alter Structure Song Title: Amaranthine Beginnings 2ch Sound Total Running Time: 23m 24s Filmed at: Conduit Dance, Inc. Dance+ Performance Festival 2013 - Full length video here: https://vimeo.com/85004582 For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com For more info and to purchase sound here: www.soundcloud.com/alterstructure www.rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2013 Roland Toledo, Alter Structure, All rights reserved

Portland, OR

Headwaters Theatre November 30 - December 8, 2012 Underneath is a new evening-length work made in collaboration with Wobbly (Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson), performers Mizu Desierto and Nathan H.G. and musician Roland Toledo. Using a blend of contemporary dance, butoh, theatre and song, Underneath tells a tale of the subconscious with the fluid timing of a dream. Peeling back preconceived notions of beauty and belonging, Underneath reveals an inner landscape of isolation, deformity and domination as four individuals seek the possibility of a love that, perhaps, heals all wounds. This sometimes confrontational sometimes sweet new work manages to crack open the mind without leaving the viewer shattered. This work has been made during a yearlong residency at The Headwaters as part of Water in the Desert's AIR program. Underneath is also generously supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition and Oregon Cultural Trust. - Live electronic audio Sound by: Alter Structure 2ch sound Total Running Time: 46m 15s Video Documentation: Ian Lucero Filmed at: Headwaters Theatre - For inquires into booking, commissions and collaborations email: alterstructure@gmail.com For more info and to purchase sound here: https://soundcloud.com/alterstructure http://rolandtoledo.bandcamp.com/ ©2012 Roland Toledo, Alter Structure, All rights reserved