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The Pillow Project The Pillow Projects are jazz.

Founded by Artistic Director Jaka Pearl Porter (formerly Pearlann Porter) in in 2004, The Pillow Project is a project-based dance company of improvisational/ multidisciplinary/ experimental collaborations created within our own postmodern-jazz philosophy and language of THE ELLIPSIS CONDITION™. We create feature-length performance-installations, projected light-specific concert work, live improvisational jazz-happenings, and enact public durational-performance concepts in Pittsburgh and internationally to challenge the ideas of "What is Dance?", "Who is a Dancer?", and "How can Dance be experienced?". Since 2006, The Space Upstairs has been our permanent artistic residence and location of most of our deepest investigative work, performances, and teachings. The Space Upstairs is both our creative laboratory for navigating artistic risks and our forum for sharing what we learn, innovating wholly new audience experiences and continually seeking new expressions of our jazz. It is here we choose to perform without the formal division of a traditional stage so that intimate, inclusive interactions can occur with our audiences, and the nuances of our human experiences can be witnessed and felt

For more information about The Pillow Project
visit: www.pillowproject.org

Pillow Project and Space Upstairs Founding Artistic Director, JAKA ZAKAJINN, leads this open level class in The Ellipsis...
10/11/2026

Pillow Project and Space Upstairs Founding Artistic Director, JAKA ZAKAJINN, leads this open level class in The Ellipsis Condition improvisational movement method. Get a foundational and practical hands-on experience in this unique physical-musicality and motion vocabulary, giving access to play like a jazz musician.
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Who is this class for?
This 2-hour workshop is open to absolutely all bodies and all levels of experience from total beginner to professional​
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What to wear?
Anything that you feel comfortable in (socks/shoes/barefoot optional)

*please arrive at least 10 minutes early - no late entry please

Enrollment limited — Register on thespaceupstairs.org

SECOND SATURDAYS 10.10.26
10/11/2026

SECOND SATURDAYS 10.10.26

10/05/2026

Ben & Sadie at SECOND SATURDAY 9.12.26 feat. THOTH TRIO

09/15/2026

Sadie at SECOND SATURDAY 9.12.26 feat. THOTH TRIO

RIP to our Pittsburgh-Paris poet in jazz, Moe Seager. The Pillow Project performed many times with Moe and we will never...
06/16/2026

RIP to our Pittsburgh-Paris poet in jazz, Moe Seager. The Pillow Project performed many times with Moe and we will never forget the wild times we had together.

Moe Seager at SECOND SATURDAYS [march 2012

-photography by Cassie Kay Rusnak-

06/06/2026

As the 2026-27 dance season begins, TABLE contributor Karen Dacko highlights a few must-see dance shows throughout the year.

03/15/2026

Jade at SECOND SATURDAY 3.14.26 feat. Throckmorton Plot

SAT FEB 14: Celebrating The Space Upstairs’ 20th Anniversary Season, it’s our signature monthly event SECOND SATURdAYS —...
02/08/2026

SAT FEB 14: Celebrating The Space Upstairs’ 20th Anniversary Season, it’s our signature monthly event SECOND SATURdAYS — the place where music and dance meet in the jazz!

This months special guests
PAUL THOMPSON TRIO
featuring physical-jazz performances by
THE PILLOW PROJECT

doors 8pm | music 9-11pm | $15

tickets:
https://www.thespaceupstairs.org/second-saturdays

Applications NOW OPEN!
02/08/2026

Applications NOW OPEN!

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+14122259269

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