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