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2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Dani Oblitas’ “Un/Rerooted” & Selena Lasley’s “TIMEShit”

  • Links Hall 3111 North Western Avenue Chicago, IL, 60618 United States (map)

Dani Oblitas and Selena Lasley present:

Un/Rerooted and TIMEShit

2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works

Fall 2024 Co-MISSION Residents Dani Oblitas and Selena Lasley present a split-bill evening of new pieces they created while in residency at Links Hall: Un/Rerooted and TIMEShit.

TICKETS $16-$42

DANI OBLITAS’ Un/Rerooted

An exploration of borders, community, and connection with our ancestral land. This is focused on reconnecting with ourselves our identity, and rebuilding cultural connections. Since land and cultural histories are so deeply intertwined, this also innately searches how we can reconnect with the environment.

SELENA LASLEY’S TIMEShit

A metaphysical and social collaboration about what it means to be living in this world.

This on going work is about questioning the existence of consciousness and the way we perceive ourselves. We as a collective should never have to conform or question ourselves,  we can freely express our identity in anyway shape or fashion. And to remind ourselves as humans ever evolving in this world. We do not need to think that material things, class, and wealth is the only way to identify ourselves. So let’s turn up! And have fun! 

Can’t make this performance? Oblitas and Lasley also perform on Thursday, June 26th at 7pm.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Dani Oblitas

FALL 2024 CO-MISSION RESIDENT

Dani Oblitas (she/they) is a dance artist, improviser, and educator currently based in Chicago, IL. She is passionate about making movement accessible to all, and views dance as a life affirming act of both community cultivation and individual embodiment. They graduated from St. Olaf College with a BA in Dance and Environmental Studies. Dani has performed with Liz Sexe Dance, KLJ Movement, We Are Collective, and Helen Lee. Currently, they are a collaborator and performer with 773 Dance Project, Sildance/Acrodanza, and Albany Park Theater Project's Port of Entry. Dani was a choreographer for the One Hour Project and is a Links Hall CO-MISSION Resident for 2024/2025. In 2024, she completed the Essential Level Spiral Body Techniques® teacher certification with Molly Shanahan/MadShak. 

Selena Lasley

FALL 2024 CO-MISSION RESIDENT

Selena Lasley (She/They) is a Chicago based artist. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Acting (2019). Selena also has studied Modern, West African, solo performance, vogue aesthetics, Physical theatre, and Improvisation. Selena continues performing and collaborating with multiple artists and has performed throughout Chicago. Being a research-based artist, Selena is constantly creating, exploring, breaking theories and ideologies with their ongoing research in Psychology of creativity, social and theoretical concepts. The constant shifts of cultural and social climates within the African diaspora, American Dream, Gender identity, and the ongoing questions of non conformity has always been an underlying theme within their research based works. This will be their first residency at Links Hall and is very excited to be sharing the space!

ABOUT THE CO-MISSION PROGRAM

This event is part of Links Hall’s 2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events.

Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, six artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2024-2025 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents Dani Oblitas, Selena Lasley, Kevin Michael Wesson, and Amanda Maraist; and Fellows Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas & Jacinda Bullie and Tuli Bera.

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June 26

2025 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works | Dani Oblitas’ “Un/Rerooted” & Selena Lasley’s “TIMEShit”