ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2017

LAB ARTIST 2009

Lin Hixson co-founded Every house has a door in 2008, the Chicago-based performance company. She was director of the performance group Goat Island (1987 – 2009). Every house has presented both nationally and internationally including Prague, Helsinki, Glasgow, New York, and Chicago. She has received awards from the United States Artists and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her writing has been published in the journals Poetry, Performance Research, and Parallax, as well as the anthologies The Creative Critic – Writing as/about Practice (2018) and The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (2019). She is Full Professor of Performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.