Core Artist

Gregg Bielemeier is an Oregon-born dance artist who has worked on the West Coast and in Europe as a featured choreographer, performer and teacher for over 50 years. He is a frequent improvisor/collaborator with musicians, actors and visual artists, creating suave, witty dance works that have been described as “wonderfully inventive,” by the Los Angeles Times, and as “marvelously goofy,” by the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Core Artist
Director Emerita

Tere Mathern has been an educator, choreographer, and performer of contemporary/modern dance for over 25 years. She began her career in dance as a founding member of The Company We Keep, a resident company at Portland State University. She has performed as a company member of Oslund+Co, Minh Tran & Company and in works of numerous choreographers. Mathern holds an M.A. from NYU in Contemporary Dance and Performance, and is a Certified Movement Analyst (C.M.A.) in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in NYC. Her project-based company Tere Mathern Dance, formed in 2002, was commissioned by White Bird Dance for the inaugural Uncaged Series (2010).

Co-Founder
Director Emerita

Mary Oslund was a dance artist, choreographer, artistic director, and teacher. Throughout her career, she advanced the discipline of contemporary dance through the exploration and creation of new work with choreography marked by physicality, movement invention, specialized group work, and a unique approach to partnering. Oslund's choreography evolves from physical and intellectual research and exploration, building from elemental movement invention towards an orchestration of the individual performer within ensemble choreography. From an interactive studio process involving the dancers and collaborating artists, the choreography that emerges is urban and contemporary, rigorous, and singular. Oslund founded and directed Dance Works Studio in Eugene, Oregon and co-founded Conduit Dance, both of which provided a home base for Oslund +Co/Dance.

Core Artist

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Core Artist

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Co-Founder

Linda K. Johnson, co-founder of Conduit, has been a professional dance artist based in Portland for over 30 years.  She has taught, performed, created and produced extensively throughout the region. Her concerns as an artist are social and environmental, and her projects have often addressed these interests in unconventional compositional forms, formats and venues. Her teaching and making is informed by her interest in improvisation, somatic practices, architecture, biodynamics and sustainability.