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November 2010 PERFORMANCE

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		November 1 Mon at 7:30pm Tickets $15/$12 online/ $10 Students the dialogues # 6 Curated by Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard A series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other - and the audience uses headphones to listen in... Nine Monday nights this fall, a new set of two award-winning performers are put "on the line" with someone they don't know and cannot see. What ensues is a live and lively conversation lead only by voice and meaning - dreams, stories, humor, controversy, and communion in 50-minutes of totally unplanned dialogue. A guest sonic artist live mixes a hypnotic underbed to the tones of the conversation. After every performance, the entire audience is welcome to come out for a drink and a chance to "continue the conversation."
		November 5-7 Fri & Sat at 8PM, Sun at 7pm Tickets $15($10 online)/ $10 Students Don't Hang up on Me! Featuring Suzy Grant, Marissa Perel, and Anthony Romero Don’t Hang Up On Me! is a performance weekend created by 3 independent performance artists who have come together in the midst of their cultural identity crises. Preaching the gospel of self-love, these two-spirited masters from another planet glamour the audience with fantastical wig-wearing, heart-bearing and ass-working. Audience members can count on a shower of glitter and kisses amidst some group therapy through dance pop ecstasy. Yes, there is narrative. Yes, there is dance. Yes, there are music videos. There are no hidden costume changes. There are no breaks between numbers. There is no stopping spontaneous transformation or instantaneous combustion. Rocco Granite (Suzy Grant) is constantly unwrapping but has yet to reveal the warm nougat center. Collecting memories and inspiration from classic soul music, classic American sitcoms, and classic hairstyles, Rocco understands the complex nature of showmanship and is curious about the argument of what people think they want vs. what they actually want. Marissa Perel will present Workout Girl in multiple renditions for Don’t Hang Up On Me! Hard-core performance therapy in the flesh, consisting of spread thighs (both human and chicken), over-sharing and compulsive chewing comes together with videos of virtual workout girls who act as Perel’s doubles, mirroring aspects of the live work. Anthony Romero builds performance and video works that use a rotating cast of mystical beings to question the place of gender, sexuality and race in digital culture. From break-up blogs to exorcisms, each of these characters desperately attempt to hold onto their fractured identities in the face of alienation.
		November 8 Mon at 7:30pm Tickets $15 /$12 online/$10 Students the dialogues #7 Curated by Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard A series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other - and the audience uses headphones to listen in... Nine Monday nights this fall, a new set of two award-winning performers are put "on the line" with someone they don't know and cannot see. What ensues is a live and lively conversation lead only by voice and meaning - dreams, stories, humor, controversy, and communion in 50-minutes of totally unplanned dialogue. A guest sonic artist live mixes a hypnotic underbed to the tones of the conversation. After every performance, the entire audience is welcome to come out for a drink and a chance to "continue the conversation."
		November 11 Thu at 8pm Free open to the public Tour Guides Open Rehearsal Watch poets/performers giving birth! The Guild Complex’s new stage production “Tour Guides” is holding an open rehearsal. Get an inside look at the project’s collaborative writing and performance process before the full production this December. “Tour Guides” asks the question, “What is Chicago?” Its performed poetry will take you places like the CTA and neighborhood streets, from weather so cold it'll make you wanna slap your mama to summers that bring out viejas in leopard print pants, through the tastes and smells of Chicago food and ultimately into the heart of how we live with - and grate against - each other. Tour Guides’ performer/poets have developed this exploration of life in Chicago through monologues and ensemble pieces written in a collaborative approach. “Tour Guides” is performed by Jon Cofield, Kimberly Dixon, Steven Evans, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez, Carron Little, Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard and Sandra Posadas. They’ve been guided by award-winning director Coya Paz, co-founder of Teatro Luna and a poet herself. We promise, after Tour Guides you'll see Chicago in ways you didn’t before – even if you’re a local. November 12 - 14 Fri & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 7pm Tickets Fri $12 online/ $15 at the door Sat $15 online-$20 at the door $10 Students and Seniors $7 Sunday SLAM Calisthenics for Shrapnel: CRUSH Curated by Artistic Associate Marty McConnell Headlined by Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of Carolina and poet and Tristan Silverman (Saturday Night Only). Hosted by Avery R. Young CALISTHENICS FOR SHRAPNEL is a two-weekend festival offering audiences and performers the opportunity to "work it out" over two of the most volatile issues in our lives and our world. Through poetry/spoken word, humor, movement and sound, CRUSH (November 12-14) confronts topics relating to gender and sexuality, while SMASH (December 10-12) brings to stage the realms of race and class and their many intersections and points of impact. Flight: Variety, a sampling of performance celebrating and exploring aspects of gender and sexuality. In wine tasting, a "flight" is an array of variations for the purpose of sampling and comparison. In our festival's Talent Flight, performers will line up to form a "tasting night" of exciting performance exploring the topics at hand. hosted by Avery R. Young featuring: burlesque by Girlie-Q, Chicago's longest-running burlesque and variety troupe comedy by the hilarious Brendan McGowan Marty McConnell with band John Condron and the Benefit: poetry and music spoken word by poet/storyteller Jeanne Theresa Newman performance by drag king superstar poet K. Bradford
		November 15 Mon at 7:30pm Tickets $15/$12 online/ $10 Students DIALogues #8 Curated by Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard A series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other - and the audience uses headphones to listen in... Nine Monday nights this fall, a new set of two award-winning performers are put "on the line" with someone they don't know and cannot see. What ensues is a live and lively conversation lead only by voice and meaning - dreams, stories, humor, controversy, and communion in 50-minutes of totally unplanned dialogue. A guest sonic artist live mixes a hypnotic underbed to the tones of the conversation. After every performance, the entire audience is welcome to come out for a drink and a chance to "continue the conversation." November 20 -21 Sat at 8pm & Sun at 7pm Tickets $5 Suggested Donation House Brew Presented by Chicago's Emerging Dance Artists Featuring performers/collaborators Samantha Allen, Emily Braun, David Gerber, Hope Goldman Katie Jean Dahlaw, Nichole Johnson, Chris Knowlton, Kaitlin Lang, Anna Normann, Becky O'Connell, Hannah Verrill, Lesley Werle, Vienna Willems This band of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dance alum bring us a two-night performance connecting the brain’s functions and the bodies movements to challenge the notions of how we define dance. House Brew tells many different stories including the break down of a performers habitual manner of movement, exploring the intimate effects of dementia and peering into the world of “divadom” with hot chicks and bad dance and extension of Samantha Allen's Bedroom Diva Dance Pop Odyssey solo series.	an
		November 22 Mon at 7:30pm Tickets $15 /$12 online/$10 Students the dialogues #9 Curated by Artistic Associate Dexter Bullard A series of improvised intimate phone calls between two well-known Chicago performers who are unknown to each other - and the audience uses headphones to listen in... Nine Monday nights this fall, a new set of two award-winning performers are put "on the line" with someone they don't know and cannot see. What ensues is a live and lively conversation lead only by voice and meaning - dreams, stories, humor, controversy, and communion in 50-minutes of totally unplanned dialogue. A guest sonic artist live mixes a hypnotic underbed to the tones of the conversation. After every performance, the entire audience is welcome to come out for a drink and a chance to "continue the conversation."