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june 2008 PERFORMANCE |
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Matter of Reaction Movement Project -
IN BLOOM
Same Planet Different World Dance -
Vintage Modern
Julia Mayer -
Coffee Dance
Poonie’s Cabaret
Home Work, Sara
Thompson, & Tif Bullard -
2 Short, 1 Long
Elisa Foshay,
Sabrina Cavins, & Synapse Arts Collective -
Kinetic
Current
Against the Grain Dance Project -
Journey through a Phase
EVIDENCE/UPRISING -
Nicole Garneau
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Matter of Reaction Movement Project
IN BLOOM
Friday & Saturday, May 30 & 31, 8pm
Sunday, June 1, 7pm
$10
Rooted in collaboration and
improvisational methods, MRMP create dance with physicality and an interest in
humanity. Including work by co-artistic directors Kristin Balsamo, Kathleen
Hickey and Renee Murray, focusing on the exploration of everyday circumstances
ranging from career paths to nature to influential relationships to rain boots.
Collaborators: choreographer/sound
designer Mark Jamerson, lighting designer Chris
Martin. www.myspace.com/mrmpchicago |
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Same Planet Different World Dance
Vintage Modern
Thursday & Friday, June 5 & 6, 8pm
Saturday, June 7, 7pm & 9pm
Sunday, June 8, 5pm
$15
An intimate evening of works
celebrating SPDW’s tenth anniversary, choreographed
by Faye Driscoll, Colleen Halloran, Ashleigh Leite,
Shirley Mordine, and Zachary Whittenburg. SPDW
create a highly charged atmosphere containing complex character
relationships, stylized physical movement, and inspired performances by dancers Tarah Brown, Julius Carter, Charlie Cutler, Connie
Fagan, Liz Jenkins, Kirsty MacKellar,
Joanna Rosenthal, and Zachary Whittenburg. www.spdwdance.org
…outta this world - Dance magazine
…a beguiling celebration of wit and stark wisdom - Chicago Tribune
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Julia Mayer
Coffee Dance
Friday, June 6, 9:30am
Free
BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer
opens her weekly Friday morning solo movement practice to the public. In this
ongoing series of engaged, informal performances, her idiosyncratic
movement adventures are an invitation to watch, feel, and find creative
impulse in unexpected places. The performance will last approximately 20
minutes. Julia Mayer is a 2007/08 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist.
[her] movement is
refreshingly off the map - Chicago
Reader
a delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence - TimeOut Chicago |
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Poonie’s Cabaret
Monday, June 9, 8pm
$5
Poonie’s Cabaret features artists working in
varied creative realms including dance, music, puppetry, performance art,
theatre, voguing, freestyle rapping, drag, burlesque, cheerleading, stand-up
comedy, and more. Named in loving memory of Chicago dancer/choreographer Poonie Dodson, Cabaret proceeds support the Duncan Erley Coming Out of the Closet Fund. Hosted & curated
by Jyl Fehrenkamp.
Featuring performances by: Jan Erkert, Kirby Reed,
Paige Cunningham,
Marc Macaranas,
Amanda Timm and
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Home Work, Sara
Thompson, & Tif Bullard
2 Short, 1 Long
Friday &
Saturday, June 13 & 14, 8pm
Sunday, June
15, 7pm
$10 or pay
what you can
An evening of bold new works
examining the relationships between movement, improvisation and sound. Home Work is a collaborative group
directed by Aurora Tabar and Michelle Tupko. Their
piece A Foreign Gentleman is a gestural opera in four parts, incorporating Kabuki, maskwork,
and folk songs. Sara Thompson’s Flying
Things explores the loss of the physical body in dreams using sculpture,
video, and the body in graceful and violent gestures. Tif Bullard and max alexander’s Surround captures the expression
of a series of spontaneous moments and extrapolates them into a labyrinth of
sonic energy.
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Elisa Foshay,
Sabrina Cavins, & Synapse Arts Collective
Kinetic
Current
Friday &
Saturday, June 20 & 21, 8pm
Sunday
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22, 7pm
$12 ($10
students, seniors)
This program of new interdisciplinary performances
stimulates the senses as three women investigate memory, contrast, and
identity. Sabrina Cavins fuses movement and text to explore
themes of family and belonging. Rachel Damon's 2x2x2 is a suite of partnered dances blurring the edges of self by
intersecting aid with restraint, malaise with effort, and starting with ending.
Drawing comparisons to memory and portions of the palette, Elisa Foshay
presents a dance during which audience members will be invited to sample
creations from chef James Okuno. www.synapsearts.com
[Synapse Arts
Collective is] complex and inspired –The
Chicago Reader |
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Against the Grain Dance Project
Journey through a Phase
Friday & Saturday, June 27 & 28, 8pm
Sunday, June 29, 7pm
$10
Journey through a Phase is the premiere of Kara Rosengren’s dance company, Against the Grain Dance Project. A technically choreographed
tribute to the quarter-life crisis, three pieces lead the audience through the
experienced anxiety of young adulthood, from crumbling relationships to
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EVIDENCE/UPRISING
Nicole Garneau
Ongoing in 2008
June’s UPRISING is part of Links Hall’s Summer School
EVIDENCE is
a subscription-based project documenting a series of monthly performances by
Nicole Garneau. Subscribers to EVIDENCE will receive a monthly color postcard containing photographs and text that
document a performance that took place in the previous month.
UPRISING is a series of monthly,
site-specific performances throughout 2008 broadly exploring the practice of
revolution. Performances are directed by Nicole Garneau and co-created by
Nicole and performers. Events are purposely live, public, temporal, and
participatory. They are stagings of possibilities for
a humane world. They are attempts at making the world in which we want to live,
and then inviting people directly and immediately inside it.
EVIDENCE postcards throughout 2008 will
document performances in the UPRISING series. Contact nicolegarneau13@sbcglobal.net for information on how to subscribe. www.nicolegarneau.com
More information on
UPRISING and its partner project EVIDENCE, by Nicole Garneau. |
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