Culture Machine

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 referencing, rebounding, replicating, pretending, mimicking, remixing, retelling, re-doing, reflecting, repeating, replacing and faking as jumping-off points to explore the construction of meaning and ways to explore translations through the lens of director, documentarian, and character. We pay attention to gender as costume (acting), image as identity (representing), gesture as meaning (imitating). Culture Machine is sponsored by Disjecta, and is funded in part by individual artists’ grants through RACC.