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About the Curators
New York Trio
Chicago trio
tri-coastal-trio
April 12-14
Thurs - Sat at 8pm
Buy Tickets $15 at the Door / $12 Online / $10 Students & Seniors
The Wrecking Project
Co-Curated by Links Hall Artistic Associates Julie Mayo and Kate Corby
The Wrecking Project is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival celebrating works from other Midwest choreographers including The Purple State in November 2011 and Generation Bitch: Gender Identity and Expectations of 21st Century American Women.
The Wrecking Project brings together nine choreographers (three trios) to work with wrecking as a creative methodology and present original works next to their wrecked versions illuminating the fluid nature of authorship and the provisional nature of meaning-making. There will be one trio per evening over three nights of performance.
In the mid- 1990’s choreographer Susan Rethorst began working with ‘wrecking’ as a choreographic methodology. For Rethorst this method involved inviting another choreographer midway through her process to take it over. Inspired by Rethorst’s concept, but altering it slightly, Julie Mayo and Kate Corby have invited a group of rigorous dance-makers with distinctive sensibilities to wreck, or re-imagine, another choreographer’s finished work.
Julie Mayo met Susan Rethorst when the latter was teaching a choreographic intensive in Pennsylvania. Julie Mayo and Kate Corby came together to curate The Wrecking Project after discovering a mutual interest in each other’s work and sharing a previous evening of performance in Madison, Wisconsin.
The "wrecking process" parameters sitipulate that the original work’s performer(s) must remain the same.
About the Curators
Julie Mayo is director of the experimental dance/performances of Dim Sum Dance. Her work values the refining of perception, risk-taking in performance and probing the form of dance. Her dances have been shown throughout the U.S. and her 2009 body of work was awarded a Time Out Chicago Best Of Pick. Through guest teaching residencies at several universities Julie has had the opportunity to create new works with students and she has received commissions from the University of Wisconsin/Madison, the University of Virginia, Wilson College, and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Julie is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique ™ and completed her MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside in 2011. Julie is a 2012 recipient of a creative residency at the U Cross Foundation and is delighted to be teaching as part of SUPA (PA), a festival for choreographers, at Wilson College this June. She recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY.
Kate Corby has shown her work nationally in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Santa Barbara, and Madison and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil and Hungary, where she carried out choreographic research as a Fulbright fellow. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine’s April 2011 issue in the article “Taking Off” highlighting six emerging choreographers. From 2007-08 Ms. Corby presented work in Chicago as a co-founder of the LIVE ANIMALS Performance Collective. She completed her MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 2007, receiving the Nettl Award for outstanding choreography. In addition to master classes and residencies across the globe, Ms. Corby has served on the faculties of Beloit College, Columbia College Chicago and the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy and joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in 2008. Ms. Corby is the director of Kate Corby & Dancers based in Chicago and Madison, WI. Their recent projects include: the Live Art, Live Rio! Festival in Rio de Janeiro, the SB-ADaPT Festival in Santa Barbara, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago, the World Dance Alliance Global Dance Event at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and their Chicago season, Catch, at Links Hall in May of 2011.
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photo credit: Ian Douglas
photo credit: John W.
Sisson Jr.
photo credit: Julie Mayo |
April 12
Thurs at 8pm
The New York Trio
Studious, Believer
Choreographed by Laurel Atwell
This piece is the outcome of a shared practice in compositional extrasensory perception unified with personal zeitgeist; explored in the afternoons.
Legendary Children
Choreographed by Tess Dworman
This piece is an experiment in amplifying the ever-shifting tone of performative presence. Choreographer Tess Dworman embodies character that is detached from narrative. Various personalities are explored for their sculptural qualities on the body. Her face is a group of muscles that articulates tension and has a wavering relationship to what she is doing and feeling.
Realismythisreal
Created by Caitlin Marz
This piece is a new age myth about darkness and light that supports the glacial unfolding of exhausting physicality in an amplified landscape.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Laurel Atwell (New York) has been dancing and making work in New York City since 2008 and has had the pleasure to do so in wide variety. She is currently a member and the Associate Artistic Director of SINecdoche Dance; and a director of ClassClassClass with Tess Dworman. Laurel is pleased to make her touring debut in Chicago, Illinois.
Tess Dworman (New York) is originally from Oak Park, IL and is currently a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2008/09, Tess was a LinkUP artist-in-residence. While in Chicago, she also co-founded and performed in the LIVE ANIMALS Performance Collective with Kate Corby and Caitlin Marz. In New York, her work has been presented by many venues including Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Tank, and Roulette Intermedium. Tess is currently co-organizing the 2012 season of ClassClassClass with Laurel Atwell.
Caitlin Marz (New York) hails from the Midwest and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Performance credits include: Jen Rosenblit, Enrico Wey, Jessica Ray, Chamecki/Lerner and Karen O's "Stop the Virgens." She has collaborated and performed with Tess Dworman, Kyli Kleven and Steve May at Danspace Project, Roulette Intermedium and RoofTop Dance. Her own work has been shown at AUNTS, Arts in Bushwick’s BETA Spaces and RoofTop Dance where she also serves as a co-producer.
April 13
Fri at 8pm
The Chicago Trio
Without Consideration
Choreographed by Paige Calderella
This piece pays tribute to radical dance artists Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, both whom the dance world recently lost with their passing away. Caldarella's new work explores these artist's methodologies in multiple ways. For example, utilizing chance procedures employed by Cunningham to determine the sequence of events. Cunningham’s work with chance involved rolling dice to determine which dancer would perform, where the action would take place and what direction the dancer would face among other things. Caldarella is also interested in the way Bausch disrupted the actual stage space through the use of various sets and props. Collaborating with Columbia College students from Art and Design to imagine a set that physically interferes with the dancers pathways, forcing them to imagine new movement possibilities. Finally, Without Consideration also employs the use of dance radical William Forsythe’s Improvisational Technologies program to generate movement material. Forsythe revolutionized the world of classical ballet by deconstructing its vernacular and bringing it into the 21st century. All three of these artists were (and in Forsythe’s case still are) deeply engaged in collaboration with visual arts, fashion and multimedia.
People Power
Choreographed by Hope Goldman
This piece is unintentionally influenced by the Occupy movement that is presently happening across the globe. Amidst late capitalism's corporate success and inevitable failure, the three dancers negotiate their roles within that paradigm.
Less
Choreographed and directed by Kate Corby
In collaboration with performer Michelle Scurlock
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Paige Caldarella (Chicago) studied at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. She received her B.F.A. from the Juilliard School and went on to dance for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, touring throughout Europe, Australia and the U.S. Mrs. Caldarella holds an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an Assistant Professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago currently serving as the Associate Chair. She has performed with among others The Seldoms, Colleen Halloran Performance Group, Linda Lehovec, Darrell Jones and Sara Hook. Her choreography has been seen at Chicago's Cultural Center as a recipient of the DanceBridge program, the Krannert Center, Links Hall, the Aronoff Center and Summer Stages Dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Additionally, Mrs. Caldarella has guest taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Florida, Gainesville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Beloit College and Boston Ballet's summer program.
Hope Goldman (Chicago) is a choreographer, performing/video artist and teacher. She has been on faculty at Olive Harvey College and a guest artist at Washington and Lee University and Iowa State University. Her work has been presented throughout the Midwest, as well as along the East coast including the The Tank and Chez Bushwick in New York. Hope recently received her MFA in dance from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign where she held a teaching assistantship. She has danced in the work of artists such as Christine Betsill and Johannah Wininisky of Thread Meddle Outfit, Jan Erkert, Michael Foley, Robert Moses, John Parks, Renée Wadleigh, and Lynne Wimmer. Hope's current research lies in collaboration with partner and computer programmer, Andrew Moffat, creating works that combine dance with real-time interactive technology. The video of their first collaboration, Form Constant, has now received 60,000 views on youtube.
Kate Corby (Madison, WI and Chicago)
April 14
Sat at 8pm
The Tri-Coastal Trio
HammerHorse
Choreographed by Christy Funsch
Hammer Horse, the latest solo created and performed by Christy Funsch, pairs work and play in equal amounts. The piece's phrasing is impossible to perform, revealing a real, futile struggle. This struggle is released in the work's coda which propels the performer into the welcome, albeit projected fantasy of birthday celebrations and adolescent idealization of all things horse/princess. HammerHorse's score combines Patti Smith's raw, regret-steeped version of U2's Until the End of the World with a Portuguese lullaby.
Spending Time Mending Things
Choreographed by Colleen Leonardi
This is a meditation on the sensation of weaving and the concept of closing integrity gaps. STMT is the first in a series of solo meditations centered around phrases from the present day and how they yield choreographic concepts rooted in movement. For STMT phrases like - surviving well, making due, DIY, networking vs. cultivating, connecting with the people who matter in your life - are considered, mashed together and thrown about.
Man in the City
Directed by Julie Mayo
This piece is a new work for two women directed by Julie Mayo. Created in collaboration with and performed by Samantha Allen and Jessie Young, the work straddles the performers’ relationship as playful partners and autonomous soloists. Negotiating their way through quick shifts of dramatic exaggeration and internal sensation, the performers move, and get stuck in, a bricolage of movement and sound embodying the paradoxical nature of performance that relies on the union of the hard to define ‘authenticity’ and artifice.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Christy Funsch (San Francisco) is a dance maker, performer, and teacher. She formed Funsch Dance Experience in 2002, and has had her work presented in New York, Phoenix, Toronto, and throughout California. Christy holds an MFA in Performance and Choreography from Arizona State University where she studied with Daniel Nagrin, and a Laban Movement Analysis certification from LIMS New York. She teaches on the faculty of City College San Francisco and volunteers on the front lines as a clinic escort for Planned Parenthood. Christy has received four nominations for Performance from San Francisco's Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, and she has been awarded residencies at ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, Djerassi, and the U Cross Foundation. Visit www.funschdance.org
Colleen Leonardi (Columbus, OH) is a writer, editor, and choreographer with a passion for cooking and teaching yoga. As an artist, she aims to build a body of work authentically rooted in how she sees the world. Currently, she is editor of Edible Columbus, a member of Edible Communities, winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for Publication of the Year. She is the founder of Yoga for the Creative Class, and teaches yoga at Yoga on High and Wild Goose Creative in Columbus, Ohio. She is a member of Skoveworks, directed by Lily Skove. And she make dances from time to time under the umbrella Colleen Leonardi & Co.
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