MOVING SPACE INC., 215 S.E. 9th, Poqland, OR 97215, 503/235-2138. The Moving Space collective was started in 1974 by 10 members who at that time called themselves the Portland-Dance Collective. Six years later they have seven members, and share a common space as well as the common perception of dance and movement as healers. In this shared space they perform, practice and teach T'ai Chi, gymnastics and several movement approaches. "The teaching is generally not performance oriented; its purpose is participation, to help people gain more physical il'!,telligence." They also make their space available to other communify artists as well as guest artists that they bring to town in collaboration with other Portland groups. B.G. We didn't have a v~ry wealthy patron. You have to be very wealthy to start-a gallery, and the one thing we wanted was to start a.gallery. -We wanted to have control over that gallery. We wanted to promote our own work. • Because you have the power. Other outfits, the.board of trustees and the directors-they make the decisions. Here, we make the_decisions. THE BLACKFISH GALLERY, 325 N_.W. 6th, Portland, OR 97209, 503/224-2634. The Blackfish Collective came together in the winter of 1978 to begin to dream about and plan for the Blackfish Gallery. The Gallery ope.ned in March of 1979with 13 members. There are currently 24 members who exhibit in the space. During the past year they also exhibited the work of non-member regional artists in four invitational shows. Each show is accompanied by a slide lecture presentation by the artist. They're·still in the planning stage with some of their other ideas for the space, such as having dancers, musicians and poets perform there.
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