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Links Hall presents
Mad Shak Dance Company Eye
Cycle: Arithmetic of Shadows
June 2-5 and 9-12, 2005
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm
Admission $15 (Students $12)
Post-show discussions after all performances
Links Hall presents the premier of Arithmetic of Shadows, an expanded
version of Eye Cycle, accompanied by the publication launch of "GLANCE:
Molly Shanahan’s Eye Cycle" - free copies of the book
will be distributed to audience members at these performances. Since
1994, Mad Shak has supported the creation and performance of contemporary
dance by Molly Shanahan, whose work is based in the fluid architecture
of pure movement and anchored by her collaborations in process and
performance. Mad Shak is the 2004 recipient of the Chicago Dance
and Music Alliance Elizabeth F. Cheney Award for Artistic Achievement
in their 2003-04 season and Shanahan is recognized by her peers
in the field as one of the most prolific, tenacious, and compositionally
skilled dance artists in Chicago.
With a trio of collaborators (dancer Kristina Fluty, composer Kevin
O’Donnell, and lighting designer Josh Weckesser) Eye Cycle
began as an investigation of the impact of light, shadow, framing,
and perspective on the experience and perception of both live and
recorded movement.
Eye Cycle was commissioned by Links Hall and Denison University,
with a Creation Fund Award from the National Performance Network;
in June 2004, presentations of an earlier stage in Eye Cycle’s
development took place at Links Hall.
“Magnificent discovery…It is rare for
a critic of dance to be suddenly in front of a singular universe,
new, with clean and unclassifiable language, resulting from a fusion
of genres and references reinterpreted with maturity and audacity...This
is the case with Eye Cycle… In beautiful complicity with her
companions of creation, Molly Shanahan has succeeded in creating
not only one new dance, but a new way of looking at dance.”
- Aline Apostolska, La Presse (Montreal)
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RELATED EVENTS
Public Workshop with Molly Shanahan
Saturday June 4, 2005
1.30pm-4.30pm
$20
Open to all levels of experience, this workshop integrates the multiple
documentation processes explored in GLANCE. Shanahan will encourage
participants to be curious about the very notion of geographical
center and to view themselves as epicenters that shift in time rather
than as fixed spatial configurations; illuminating relationships
between external sight and internal sensing, present moment awareness
and memory. For workshop information/registration: (773) 281-0824
or info@linkshall.org
GLANCE: Molly Shanahan’s Eye Cycle
Publication Launch
Sunday June 5, 2005 – 5pm
Free
GLANCE: Molly Shanahan’s Eye Cycle documents from multiple
perspectives the creative development of Eye Cycle. Including an
interview with Shanahan by Lucia Mauro, journal extracts, audience
responses, design sketches, video stills, and a CD featuring O’Donnell’s
score, GLANCE has been developed to spur ongoing dialog about the
nature of documentation of live performance. This event includes
the participation of contributors to GLANCE, and audience discussion
Masterclass with Molly Shanahan
Tuesday June 7, 2005
10.30am-12.30pm
$12
This masterclass will focus on the experience of the eyes in shaping
spatial connections in contemporary movement. Participants will
be encouraged to shift their attention from the body's formal outcomes
toward ocular curiosity about the shifting landscape of the studio
environment. Always inviting individual adaptation and interpretation
of sequences, Shanahan tends toward an attention to gravity and
flow, poly-articulation of the body's spirals, and a gentle allowance
of the ball-and-socket joints. For masterclass information/registration:
(773) 281-0824 or info@linkshall.org
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