Culture Machine is a dance performance (and research tank) that is performed and created by Tahni Holt along with Kaj-Anne Pepper, Robert Tyree, Sallie Garrido-Spencer, Thomas Thorson, Suzanne Chi, and Dicky Dahl.   Culture Machine uses the terms representing, referencing, rebounding, replicating, pretending, mimicking, remixing, retelling, re-doing, reflecting, repeating, replacing, imitating, faking and acting as jumping off points to explore the construction of meaning and ways to explore translations through the lens of director, documentarian, and character.  Culture Machine is sponsored by Disjecta, and is funded in part by individual artists’ grants through RACC.

photo by Eugenie Frerichs

SUNSHINE (in progress) APRIL 3RD: (it is possible that this will entail actual sunshine). I, along with ROBERT TYREE and sound composer THOMAS THORSON, have been pouring our hearts into our performance SUNSHINE for the opening exhibition of (Gallery 1) Dance: before, after, during. Preparatory materials and processes, documentation and performances by Linda Austin, Susan Banyas, Tahni Holt, and Linda K. Johnson.
Gallery 2: Past Moves. Selected archival footage of Portland dance performances in the 1970s and 1980s (YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!!!!!)
Where: At THE ART GYM
When: 3pm: (SUNSHINE goes on at 4:45pm-feel free to come and go as you wish with respect to the performers)
April 4th-May 15th normal gallery hours

TO GET A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION GO TO: HEAVY ROTATION

WEEKEND INTENSIVES
Weekend Intensives: $45 ea. (Sat./Sun.)
All 3 Weekend Intensives: $130
Intensive Drop-in: $30 (1 day drop-in)

Wendy Hambidge
Sat. March 26th 3-6p
Sun. March 27th 12-3p

Rebecca Harrison
Sat. April 16th 3-6p
Sun. April 17th 12-3p

Linda Austin
Sat. May 28th 3-6p
Sun May 29th 12-3p

MONDAY NIGHT SERIES (6-7:45p)
Pre-reg highly suggested. No drop-ins. To register email: heavyrotationpdx@gmail.com

Tahni Holt $60
Mon. April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & May 2nd

Kathleen Keogh $48
May 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

*Both Kathleen and Tahni: $90

LOCATION: CONDUIT DANCE, INC.

March 5th: Tahni Holt with Richard Decker, Sally Garrido-Spencer, Noelle Stiles, Robert Tyree and Noelle Stiles. Sound by Tom Thorson.

March 12th: Kathleen Keogh

March 19th: Linda Austin with Jin Camou, Keyon Gaskin and Danielle Ross.

Each have been asked to respond to the altered space through an improvisational form. In this context, curation is used as a framework for each of the artists to individually strategize and activate exactly what ‘respond’ means and to what they are responding. It also gives them autonomy to invite other performers and musicians to join them.  As individual artists, they have all worked in site specificity as means of producing information and, from the performer’s and viewer’s point of view, have used their bodies with place to construct different ways of seeing. In these Saturday performances nothing is taken for granted. A shift in the ordinary changes all relations. Shifting the ordinary does not inherently mean extraordinary but there is great potential.

Culture Machine is a dance performance (and research tank) that is performed and created by Tahni Holt along with Kaj-Anne Pepper, Robert Tyree, Sallie Garrido-Spencer, Thomas Thorson, Suzanne Chi, and Dicky Dahl.  Culture Machine uses the terms representing, referencing, rebounding, replicating, pretending, mimicking, remixing, retelling, re-doing, reflecting, repeating, replacing, imitating, faking and acting as jumping off points to explore the construction of meaning and ways to translate through the lens of director, documentarian, and character.  Culture Machine is sponsored by Disjecta, and is funded in part by individual artists’ grants through RACC.

CULTURE MACHINE: Performances October 14th-17th, 8pm, $15 general | $10 artists, students, senior citizens.

Opening reception after Thursday’s performance. Discussion after Saturday’s performance (the impersonation game)

DISJECTA 8317 N. Interstate Ave. Portland, OR. 97217 Reservations: reservations@disjecta.org Buy tickets directly online: www.disjecta.org/events/culturemachine.php

PORTLAND2010:
Presented by Disjecta and curated by Cris Moss

Portland2010 touches down this Saturday, March 13th.  Mark your calendar for the beginning of something special–a foray into the artistic landscape of the here and now–as we celebrate the rebirth of a monument.
Tahni Holt’s Culture Machine (In Progress)
Open Rehearsals: March 27, April 10,
April  17, 1:30-4:30 pm
Performances: April 23, 6 pm; April 24, 5 pm; April 25, 4 pm

Please go to Disjecta for more information on all the artists and openings around Portland.

Linda Austin and Tahni Holt are pleased to announce our Dinner Series fundraiser. Each dinner will host two Portland performers, artists or writers in discussion with each other and the dinner guests. There will be one dinner each month, with the first one kicking off on Feb. 27th. We do this for our love for communal eating, a desire for more discourse that touches upon performance as an art among other arts, and a curiosity about other people’s processes: what & how & why they make what they make and do what they do. Please help us realize our 2010 performance projects, Tahni’s CULTURE MACHINE and Linda’s PAIRED SPECTACULAR.

To make reservations please email Tahni at HELLO@TAHNIHOLT.COM.

All dinners start at 7pm and are at undisclosed locations (Portland bound).
Seating is limited to 20 people so please make your reservations now.

We hope to see you at one or many of our dinners,
Tahni Holt       Linda Austin