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march 2010 PERFORMANCE |
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March 5-21
Fri & Sat at 8 pm / Sun at 7pm
post show opening night reception
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
DIRT: LAND/USE
curated by Links Hall Artistic Associate Deke Weaver
Three weekends of performance, dance, readings and videos about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us.
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Weekend One, March 5
Fri at 8pm
talk back led by Daniel Tucker
post show opening night reception
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
Public Phenomena
featuring Temporary Services
From roadside memorials to makeshift barriers, Temporary Services presents an “absolutely fascinating and incredibly life affirming” (The Wooster Collective) photo performance of the ways people push past the original planned design of cities. |
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Weekend One, March 6-7
Sat at 8pm* / Sun at 7pm
*talk back led by Daniel Tucker
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
The Mountains of Illinois
featuring Bonnie Fortune, Mike & Al Fleming, Kevin Hamilton, Audrey Petty and Temporary Travel Office
Go on a parking lot tour of Wrigleyville (bring your mittens) then call up the ghost of a landscape destroyed by mountain top removal coal mining (mittens optional) in a literal and figurative journey of shifting landscapes, performances and readings. |
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Weekend Two, March 12 – 13
Fri & Sat at 8pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
Water
featuring Jennifer Monson and BD Collier
Dance and science unite in choreographer/performer Jennifer Monson’s new Mahomet Aquifer Project while BD Collier’s darkly comic performance/lecture traces the deadly flying carp taking over Illinois waterways. |
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Weekend Two, March 14
Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
Oranges and Snowstorms
featuring Karin Hodgin-Jones, Nadia Jassim, Daniel Rudin, Steve May and Ryan Thompson
A family farm bisected by I-74, a Nicaraguan fortress turned municipal dump, and oranges in winter do-si-do in an evening of live performances and short film screenings. |
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Weekend Three,
March 19-21
Fri, Sat & Sun from 6am to 7:30am
Tickets $20 ($18 online) not included in festival pass
Gong Lab 03:
Suite for Dreamers
Dirt:
Vernal Equinox Sunrise Celebration
Shu Shubat and Oliver Seay ( Directors of Jellyeye Drum Theatre), with Mike Oleon and Amalia Bussion.
Welcome spring with a Shadow Puppet Show / Gongbath / Dream In. Bring your own mat, pillow and blanket and immerse yourself in a storytelling journey that is at once sonic, visual and visceral; a celebration of the return of Spring. You'll be bathed in the reverberations of a 38" Earth Gong as it unites the waves of shadow, light, and Earth, taking you on a journey of discovery and rebirth. Featuring unique and fantastic puppets, poetry, ritual, and masterful gong performance, this event is guaranteed to be unlike any performance you have ever experienced. |
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Weekend Three, March 19
Fri at 8pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
Leaves of Silent Spring Grass
featuring Jennifer Allen, Nadia Jassim, Steve May, Chris Peck, Marissa Perel, and Zoe Schwartz, and Ryan Thompson
An evening of short performances inspired by Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass—bring a musical instrument if you've got one! |
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Weekend Three, March 20 – 21
Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online)
DIRT CHEAP FESTIVAL PASS $25 (good for all performances)
The Land of Plenty
featuring Deke Weaver, Chris Peck and Jennifer Allen
DIRT concludes with curator Deke Weaver, joined by Allen and Peck, in a video-sound performance (crop circles, cowboy songs, evil bunnies) hopping back and forth over the fuzzy line dividing New Age cheese and the breathtaking, the haunting, the disturbingly beautiful. |
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