March 2012 PERFORMANCE

March 4-25

Dance Films Kino

Co-Presented by

Links Hall and Hyde Park Center

Please Note: All screenings, events, and performances will be happening at Hyde Park Art Center, please check their website for specific schedules and performance times. 

ki·no : [kee-noh] noun. Underground, private avant garde art and film clubs popular in Europe, particularly Russia in the 1920′s and 1930′s. Kinos often featured work that was too political, experimental, or artistically challenging for general distribution.

Chicago-based artist and film curator Sarah Best opens the studio doors as an artist in residence at Hyde Park Art Center to create a salon-style environment evoking the kinos or private avant garde art clubs of the 1920s in Soviet Russia. Her residency project titled “Dance Films Kino” takes the form of a three-week free festival celebrating innovative collaborations between movement artists and filmmakers. Live performance compliments the screenings. Best strives to make these works accessible to audiences, through music, food and drink, and the contributions of diverse artistic collaborators. The film program relates to the themes Revolutions and Revelations, Women and Men, and Utopias and Dystopias and the environment provides a platform to expand discussions around innovative films to include radical and taboo artistic and social practices. Through this festival, Best activates the studio space, cultivating an experience of movie-watching and art-viewing that emphasizes community and celebration.

Dance Films Kino is a Touring Partner of the Dance Films Association. Dance Films Association’s annual Dance On Camera Festival is co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

March 9-11

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm

BUY TICKETS $12 / $8 Students & Seniors

Interlocking Parameters

Presented by

Brittany Whitmoyer

Interlocking Parameters takes a look at dance and it’s full body domino effect on the dancer and audience. New to Chicago bnw:dance uses their relocation to bridge creative and physical gaps with live video chat connecting to other dancers in cities across the United States. This company uses improvisation as tool for discovery and the generation of new work.

bnw:dance, entering into its 4th year as a non-profit company, has recently made Chicago its permanent home. Before coming to the Windy City, the company was formed by Brittany Whitmoyer in New York (2008). After a successful first season, bnw:dance transitioned to Richmond, Virginia for their second season. The third season began with a prestigious offer to complete a summer residency in London, England at Clarence Mews. Before returning to Virginia the company created and presented “Interrogation”, the newst addition to their “EnLight” series. To find out more about their current season visit their News & Events page!

March 16-18

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
BUY TICKETS $15 at the Door / $12 Online / $10 Students & Seniors

Arte No Es Fácil /

Art Is Not Easy

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.

March 24-25

Sat at 8pm / Sun at 6am
BUY TICKETS $15 General / $10 Students & Seniors

Gong Lab:

Vernal Equinox Celebration

Shu Shubat and Oliver Seay (Directors of Jellyeye Drum Theatre), with Carl Brahms

Welcome spring with a  Shadow Puppet Show / Gongbath / Dream In. Bring your own mat, pillow and blanket and immerse yourself in a storytelling journey that is at once sonic, visual and visceral; a celebration of the return of Spring. You'll be bathed in the reverberations of a 38" Earth Gong as it unites the waves of shadow, light, and Earth, taking you on a journey of discovery and rebirth. Featuring unique and fantastic puppets, poetry, ritual, and masterful gong performance, this event is guaranteed to be unlike any performance you have ever experienced.

Photo: Josh Kent

Photo: Aurora Tabar and Sara Zalek

March 30 - April 1

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm

BUY TICKETS $15 at the Door / $12 Online / $10 Students & Seniors

Spring 2012 LinkUp Showcase

Mystical Bootcamp presented by Aurora Tabar an Sara Zalek in collaboration with Charlie Malave and Bryan Saner and

Under the Roses by Joshua Kent

Mystical Bootcamp is a ritual performance journey into the vortex. Inspired by shamanism, Mary Wigman, magic, animals, the Occupy movement, Kazuo Ohno, calisthenics of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Yvonne Rainer, and biodynamic agriculture, we investigate how creating a performance can be an act of healing. We invite the audience into a shamanistic complex in which audience, performers, and performance space together create a field of magic. Sara will lecture on biodynamic preparations. Aurora will conduct a dance of American nationalism. Bryan will become a crow and Charlie will create sonic vibrations. With dance, masks, and ritual drama as our tools, we invoke a transformation.

Under the Roses is an image-based performance, which seeks to exist in a place unknown to itself, while simultaneously laying itself bare. Drawing upon the stylized movement vocabularies of ballet, yoga, and professional athletics, the piece is performed by a body unformed by the rigorous training these disciplines require. Thus the work becomes weighted by desire, without release of sublimation. It is a hand outstretched. Though layered with text, both original and appropriated, the work strives to exist without previously mediated notions of language and experience. These contradictions, or perhaps impossibilities are where the work resides. Seeking to encounter something outside itself, moving with an aching slowness and an urgency which borders on terrifying, Under the Roses reaches for transcendence, lifting its heft with delicacy and force.

The LinkUP Residency program supports independent artists and collaborations in the research of ideas and development of new innovative work in their movement based practices. The six-month residency program annually gives four emerging artists free weekly studio time and a fully produced showcase to perform their work; a stipend to support their endeavors; a paid mentor and peer support/feedback with work-in-progress events.