Victoria Marks
Not About Iraq (2002-2007)

The recent work of Los Angeles based Victoria Marks, a former National Endowment for the Arts Grantee, has considered the politics of citizenship as well as the representation of both virtuosity and disability through movement. This evening-length piece questions the place of the body in matters of heroics, valor, and truth. As much as this work is about being a citizen and an artist, it is also an effort to find ways that dancing can conjure meaning and speak about the human experience. It is a set of reconciliations, attempting to understand what dancing can and cannot do as an agent for social change.

Post show discussion to follow each performance.

Performers: Noellie Bordelet, Maria Gillespie, Phithsamay Linthahane, Victoria Marks, and Taisha Paggett; with Peter Carpenter and Allie James.

A finely honed voice, one shot through with daring, innovation and unblinking vision...indelibly disturbing, dazzling art -LA Times

OFFSITE EVENT

An evening of Dance Films by Victoria Marks (US) and Margaret Williams (UK)
Monday, March 10, 6pm
At the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Room 1 Garland
Free

A program of award-winning dance films: Outside In leaves a lasting impression of continual movement; a seamless stream of images, imprints, and revelations. Men is performed by seven elderly retired miners, teachers, accountants, and lawyers living in Canmore, Alberta. Mothers and Daughters examines the potency and sensuality of this relationship, working with 12 pairs of mothers and daughters, many of whom had never performed.

Q&A with Victoria Marks during event.