Culture Machine
Now is the time.
Tahni Holt‘s latest dance work, Culture Machine, opens tonight, October 14, at 8 PM and runs through Saturday night, October 17 at DISJECTA (8371 N Interstate Avenue).
We saw a preview of this, a work-in-progress, for the Portland 2010 Biennial in spring, and it was going all kinds of good places with regard to medi-a-tion and the making and mistaking of meaning, movement, feedback, and remix. It’s going to be good.
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.
I wrote a note about the work-in-progress Culture Machine for the Portland 2010 Biennial here.