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Choreographing Coalitions
is a month-long festival featuring body-based artists who share
a curiosity for art making around themes of social justice. These
local and national artists use their own sense of identity as a
means to try to understand the historical, social, cultural, or
physical circumstances of another. The festival assumes that the
dancing body is a uniquely qualified instrument with which to explore
the complexities of the social world.
Choreographing Coalitions will reinvigorate a conversation regarding
the possibilities of performance to act as an agent for social change
within the dance community of Chicago and beyond and as a means
to create models of socially relevant coalition. – Peter
Carpenter, Curator
WEEK ONE:
GESEL MASON, DARRELL
JONES, & DAVID ROUSSÈVE
WEEK TWO:
VICTORIA MARKS, NOT
ABOUT IRAQ
WEEK THREE:
KRISTEN SMIAROWSKI,
LISA GONZALES, &
JYL FEHRENKAMP
WEEK FOUR:
DENISE UYEHARA, BIG
HEAD
WORKSHOPS
Peter Carpenter is an independent
choreographer whose physical theater performances have often intersected
with political activism and critical theory. Often acclaimed for
his choreographic staging of queer theatricality, Carpenter has
dedicated the majority of his career to tracking the complex ways
in which identity has been shaped in subaltern communities by HIV/AIDS.
He is currently working on the creation of dances which articulate
coalitions across identifiers of race, gender, sexuality and class.
Carpenter is a full-time faculty member at the Dance Center of Columbia
College, Chicago.
Choreographing Coalitions has been made possible
with support from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago,
The Boeing Company, and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
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