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9, 16, 23
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20-22
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Generation Bitch
Planetary Defense Force: the Conquest of the Moon
Flight Patterns
Arte no es Fácil
after that, later, then
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January 6-8
Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 3:30pm
Buy Tickets $15 at the Door / $12 Online / $10 Students & Seniors
Curated byArtistic Associate April Sellers
Generation Bitch is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival celebrating works from other Midwest choreographers including The Purple State in November 2011, and Julie Mayo of Dim Sum Dance and Kate Corby of Kate Corby & Dancers in April, 2012. Collectively, these choreographers represent Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Click here to learn more about the festival.
A dynamic group of Minneapolis choreographers will explore the constraints of traditional gender roles as they relate to women striving to find a balance between societal norms and their independent ambitions. Is harmony possible in a world that demands conformity?
April Sellers curates this weekend of dance and discussions. Each featured artist brings a distinctive style and method to their art including text, film, and dance. |
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January 9, 16, 23
Mon at 8pm
Buy Tickets: $10 at the door / $8 online
The Planetary Defense Force in: The Conquest of the Moon
Presented by
Andy North
Someone's trying to steal the moon. Once again Earth's only hope is The Planetary Defense Force... and YOU. Inspired by the irresistible itch to influence or actively take part in games, sporting events, or even a cool car-chase scene, Andy North has created an epic show in which the audience is the primary catalyst. Chicago's finest improvised action-adventure game show is back with more spaceship-building, alien-battling, robot-blasting combat than ever before!
The Planetary Defense Force: Conquest of the Moon, harnesses the innate energy and competitive atmosphere that comes from any skill-based game show or sporting event – it is impossible to avoid rooting for one side to win!!! With the fate of the moon hanging in the balance, the audience interaction directly correlates to the outcome.
The audience acts as a team and cooperates to battle the evil things that go bump in space!"
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January 13-15
Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Buy Tickets $15 General Admission / $12 Students & Seniors
Flight Patterns
Presented by
RE|Dance Group
RE Dance returns to Links Hall after a successful run at the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival. RE Dance will present the Chicago premier of The Attic Room and the premier of Inhabitants of Tall Grass.
The Attic Room: An intimate dance story of escape and desire reveals the thin line between resignation and hope. Images unfold through sharp dancing and poetic text in a space filled with the forgotten memories of the past
When it's at its best, The Attic Room, has a delightful feeling of whimsy about it. The situation, though strange, is also strangely simple…Best to just let the spoken text wash over you as well (by Estanich, Larry D. Thomas, and the company) - Twin Cities Daily Planet from 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival
Inhabitants of Tall Grass: Inspired by the serene landscape of tall reed grasses, Inhabitants of Tall Grass is a meditation on the simplicity, grandeur, and overwhelming beauty of nature. The work reflects images of birds as well as the sophisticated relationships between lines, curves and patterns through space. The dance flows between the privacy of solo explorations, brisk duet unisons and weaving, articulate, precise trios.
Inhabitants of Tall Grass exists among an installation of the tall reed grass phragmities, providing an environment for the dancers to explore. Taking on the characteristics of elegant long-limbed birds like egrets and herons, the dancers reveal the essence of their dancing selves. The purity of the body moving through space provides the opportunity for the mind to summon images, experiences and personal memories.
Inhabitants of Tall Grass is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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January 20-22
Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Buy Tickets $15 at the Door / $12 Online / $10 Students & Seniors
Co-created by
Danielle Paz & Marilyn Volkman, in collaboration with Amor Pirata
Arte No Es Fácil (Art Is Not Easy) is part of a Links Hall Artistic Associates festival. To learn more about this three month festival, click here.
Arte No Es Fácil is a project based in creating relationships beyond pictures between Cuba and the U.S. through the manifestation of art. The current phase of the project is a three –week interdisciplinary festival of performance and installation art, January – March 2012 at Links Hall. This series features collaborative works produced by pairings of emerging artists from Havana and Chicago, and explores public presentation as a means of creating a more expansive discussion about art and political realities. Artists from Havana and Chicago with similarities based in art-form, content or strategy collaborate on new works including performance art, video, social interventions, performed and written text, dance, photography and experimental music and sound works.
The co-creators plan on remounting the festival in Havana later in 2012. For more information about the project, please visit www.artenoesfacil.com
This program is generously supported by:
Links Hall, Art Chicago, NEXT, Claire Kantor Foundation,FOTA, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Practice Committee, University of Chicago: Department of Visual Art, The Artistic Associate Collective and many generous individuals.
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January 30
Mon at 7:30pm
Buy Tickets $5
after that, later, then
Presented by
Tif Bullard
after that, later, then is a solo piece constructed from dance, text, song, costume and image that revolves around sudden interruptions, emotional swells, and gnostic shifts that force a change in context of identity. The piece abstracts and epitomizes a year of medical and spiritual turbulence. Tif Bullard's work is known for highly-detailed physicality, hypnotic musicality, theatrical flair, dark humor, raw vulnerability, and contemporary relevance.
after that, later, then marks Tif’s eighth appearance at Links Hall since 2007.
Tif develops her work in a two-directional poetic process - one of expression and one of impression. Her expressive process is a deep personal exploration of life history, body awareness, and artistic questions of identity that lead her to explore through dance
improvisation, self-generated text, created clothing, and metaphoric theatrical images. Her impressive process revolves around "sampling" actions, words and identities found in popular culture – she samples movement, text and imagery from a wide range of contemporary sources, especially online, and performs them through her own body, creating new identities for herself and new contexts for the sampled work.
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