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events.
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(773) 281-0824.
Give us your cash at the door!
LINKS HALL studio theater seats 65. |
Cupola Bobber
Petitmal
September 3, 4, 5 and 10, 11, 12, 2004
Fridays and Saturdays, 8pm
Sundays, 7pm
$10
A highlight of the 2004 PAC/edge Performance Festival, Petitmal (now
in a slightly modified form) opens the Sep/Oct season at Links Hall.
One of most innovative performance groups working in Chicago, Cupola
Bobber (Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) fuse image and text to create
layered, subtly ironic metaphors to describe existence. Intimacy and
confusion are important, and exhaustion is deployed to dramatize minutia.
Cupola Bobber: “If we could just dance, perhaps everything would
be okay. And while we are dancing we could think about nature, we
could think about how nature is outwardly AND inwardly infinite, and
about how a two dimensional image of the landscape is like our relationship
to nature (flat and in forced perspective); there certainly is more
there than meets the eye … It's important to us for our performances
to slow down time and thought: make a moment a monument.”
“…as playful as it is demanding…
Fiehn and Myers show enormous maturity in trusting the simplicity
of their vision” - Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, on Cupola
Bobber’s Subterfuge
www.cupolabobber.com
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Erin
Carlisle Norton
High Ceilings
September 24, 25, 26, 2004
Friday and Saturday 8pm
Sunday 7pm
$12, $10 students/seniors
Real life and real people: High Ceilings connects
memories and situations to the rooms and hallways in which they
occur. As a portable wall continually modifies the space, storylines
and relationships develop in the changing rooms, with each dancer
carrying a personal thru-line defined by movement and text. Choreographed
by Erin Carlisle Norton, with performers Carleen Healy, Dana Horstein,
and Stacy Thomas, High Ceilings is a work that encompasses the everyday:
relationships, ideals, dreams, and humor. With text by Rachel Shapiro,
music by Jimmy Morehead, and lighting design by Megan Slayter.
Synapse Arts Collective
hush
September 30, October 1, 2, 2004
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 8pm
$5 or pay what you can
hush is an exploration of silence - there will be no music,
dialogue, or sound other than the incidental. In this state of quiet,
the audience (who should also remain silent) will be free to move
around a collage of improvised movement, choreographed dance, theatrical
performance, photography, projections, sculpture, writing, and stage
design, all responding to the subject of silence. This project strives
to create a silent space to explore the effects and implications
of quiet. How will a group experience and react to their surroundings
in silence, how might this shift one’s focus onto other senses?
Synapse’s founders (Rachel Damon, Bethany Betzler, and Kristin
Helfrich) will work with many other contributors to quietly activate
the Links Hall space. Food and drink will be served.
hush is partly funded by The Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship
Foundation
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