You could say Pearlann Porter rocks around the clock. Dancing by day and dreaming by night, the Pittsburgh choreographer never seems to stop.

		The Pillow Project Where: Hunt Armory in Shadyside. When: Sept. 8-9 and 15-16 at 9 p.m. Tickets: $10-$12; call 412-661-8110 or go online at www.pillowproject.org.

"I fall asleep to ideas," Porter says in a deep, rather restful way over the phone. "I've dreamt about ideas for so long -- ever since I was a kid." Now she takes the dreams right off the pillow and into her company, appropriately name The Pillow Project.

That creative process has moved Porter in a "Kinda Sorta" way, then through a classic rock-inspired "The Concept Album Tour" and into a very cool "The SwankEasy" last spring.

This weekend she is heading back to the Hunt Armory in Shadyside for "Striped," also aptly named for its own inspirational source, Grammy-winning band The White Stripes.

For Porter, it will be like coming home. The Armory housed the "Concept Album" rock concert last year. After a comfortable respite at Construction Junction for "SwankEasy," she decided to return.

"We looked all over the city and couldn't find a place big enough," Porter says, ticking off the elements in "Striped" -- an 80-foot stage, four "rooms" 12 feet by 12 feet and installations with the audience in the middle, like "sitting in a doughnut of art."

It all stems from Jack White and Meg White, he being the former John Anthony Gillis who took his wife's name, although the two are now divorced. The rest of the band's title came from Meg's penchant for peppermint candies.

They drive the band, mostly punk inspired, with some American blues and country music, but labeled garage rock for its raw, low fidelity sound. Jack provides guitar, piano and lead vocals, while the Ringo-esque Meg a steady beat on drums.

The duo is riding a current revival of garage rock and capitalized with a Grammy for Best Rock Song ("Sweet Nation Army") and Best Alternative Music Album ("Elephant") in 2004. They followed that up with the Alternative award for "Get Thee Behind Me Satan" in 2006.

"I felt that their music left a lot of room to interpret and play around it," Porter says. "It's simplistic, not to the point where there isn't a lot of complexity to it, but it's also very elemental ... with heavy bass lines."

On top of the Stripes' "very identifiable, distinct sound," they limit their colors to black, white and red, a theatrical sense that cuts across their "albums, looks, image ... everything." It's readily traceable to Jack's interest in the Dutch art movement De Stijl (pronounced "duh-STILE") and the color block abstractions of primary artists like Piet Mondrian. "But we're not as strict," quips Porter.

However they will try to create the same "great chemistry onstage" and the Stripes' "really honest sound." Last November Porter told her company that they were going to do a show about "honesty -- in the moment, in the situation, in your element, in your environment, in your relationships. We learned a lot about ourselves, and to be honest with you, I learned a lot about myself."

And Porter reveals, "There's so much more to learn." It is another process where the audience will participate. Is the dancer doing it just to fit in with the group? Is he doing it to just get a response? " He's doing it for himself," Porter reveals. "It's not about where he's supposed to be -- but where he is."

In a rock 'n' roll dream world that began with a Pillow.