Pearlann Porter is building a new nightspot here in town -- for just one weekend. Called The Swank Easy, it's a "hip little jazz club that has a twist of dance."

		'The Swank Easy' Who: Pillow Project Dance Company at Construction Junction, Point Breeze. When: 8 and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $12 general admission, $10 with student ID; 412-661-8110 or www.pillowproject.org.

The Easy is inside Construction Junction, that intriguing collection of historic Pittsburgh bits and pieces in Point Breeze, where the owners gave Porter and her Pillow Project Dance Company "free rein" to use anything they wanted to build the set. So the bar, the staircase and the tables are all made of hardware, wood and the "strange things we found lying around."

Porter calls it "more than a dance concert -- we're creating an environment for what we're doing. It's very site-specific -- this wouldn't have worked on a stage." With cabaret seating and the band located among the dancers, it will tie together the feel of the place, the art and the music.

Porter was also inspired by the name. Apparently, Construction Junction jostled loose a number of words ending in "tion." "The whole concept of the show is collaboration, variation and adaptation," she says with the inflection of someone who is existing on strong coffee at this point and not much else.

After concerts that focused on French video and classic rock, Porter has turned her considerable attentions to jazz: be-bop, classic, New Age, funk and blues -- with the idea of adding more layers to original recordings.

It all began with Charlie Parker -- Porter titled her remix "The Parker Recontextualization Experimentation."

"This piece really is the backbone of the show, the piece that inspired all of this to get going," says Porter, who hints that it "dances through a bunch of different scenarios that are quite different from anything else I've done before."

She covered the Junction's back wall in chalkboard paint, the point being that the dancers can write down their ideas and improvise from there. "It's about coming up with the process, not a finished product," explains Porter. "The audience gets to see the choreographing instead of choreography."

The Parker piece will be accompanied by another "ion" -- a video installation titled "Situation Location" and filmed in three different Pittsburgh settings.

Also on the program is "Give Me a Five," set to Dave Brubeck's classic "Take Five." Only this will have three different stylizations, from rock and funk to synthesized digital.

Those dances will be surrounded by "Swank," what Porter calls "the whole essence" of the show -- tiny bite-sized pieces that can move from song to dance like a slick musical transposition. She compares them to film noir with color added.

All in all, The Swank Easy is a set of performances as fleeting as a puff of smoke in any jazz club. But Porter isn't worried, despite late-night rehearsals followed by hours of film editing. "It's been a lot of fun," she says. Then, already getting ahead of herself, adds, "I hope we can do this again."