Public Nature performance series presents an offering
Linda Austin – Dance
Catherine Lamb – Viola, Voice
Bryan Eubanks & JP Jenkins -Saxophone, Guitar
Friday August 9th 7:30pm
Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave
Donations lovingly accepted
Occurring monthly in roaming venues, Public Nature, curated by Danielle Ross and JP Jenkins, includes artists working across disciplines including dance, experimental performance, sound, and text. Meant to stay on the move in terms of place and people, Public Nature aims to bridge disciplinary communities, foster a scrappy, head first approach to performance, and allow for a risk-friendly space for artists to show improvised or in-process work.
Linda Austin has been making dance and performance for over four decades, in NYC, Mexico, and here in Portland since 1998, where she is the founding director of our city’s beloved Performance Works NorthWest. Awards include the 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Merce Cunningham Award and a Performing Arts Fellowship from RACC. Linda is currently working on a dance/music project premiering in February 2025 at PICA. Titled In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, it is made in collaboration with dancers Allie Hankins and Danielle Ross, plus NYC-based musicians Chris Cochrane and Kevin Bud Jones.
photo by Rachel Keane
Catherine Lamb one of the most celebrated and in-demand composers of her generation, exploring the interaction of tone, summations of shapes and shadows, phenomenological expansions, states between outside/inside, empathy, and the long introduction form. She currently resides in Berlin where she composes, teaches, and collaborates within the community (including the co-initiated Harmonic Space Orchestra).
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. He currently lives in Berlin.
Jean-Paul Jenkins (b. Chicago Illinois, 1973) His primary focus is improvisation. While improvising his attention moves from low to high, from soft to loud, from near to far, from narrow to wide. His attention is what your attention follows while listening to him, it is your attention following his. He plays guitar, a sampler and claves. His current focus is decoding the Tim Bradley Spatialization Cues and asking himself “How old does it need to be to be considered Old Music?” Jenkins currently resides in Portland Oregon. Contact him, he will probably invite you over for tea.
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