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Claire Willett: Linda, in addition to your company Linda Austin Dance, you also direct Performance Works NorthWest, an interdisciplinary, artist-run hub for new work, which you and your husband Jeff Forbes co-founded 15 years ago. How did this come about? LINDA AUSTIN: When I moved back to Portland from New York, I knew I wanted to have a space in which to create my own work, which was made possible by selling an apartment that I had bought for an unbelievably cheap p ɥ