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Join Links Hall for our November
events.
RSVP by calling
(773) 281-0824.
Give us your cash at the door!
LINKS HALL studio theater seats 65.
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Sling
Dance Company
The Jung and the Westless
November 4 & 5, 2005
Friday and Saturday, 8pm
Admission: $10
Sling Dance Company combines movement, video, and text to explore
the American Frontier and the psychological journey of the mind
in this work in progress performance. With the Western genre as
a backdrop, a journey into the delusional mind unfolds and distorts
boundaries of time and space. Characters in "real time"
merge to become trapped in a loop between past and future. Sling’s
work questions how the creative process is a "collective"
experience between performer and audience.
Silverspace Dance presents
Gesel Mason
NO BOUNDARIES: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers
November 11 & 12, 2005
Friday and Saturday, 8pm
Admission: $10
Gesel Mason (Washington DC) is a marvelously fluent and commanding
dancer, and her solo program illustrates how the aesthetic, cultural
and spiritual concerns of today’s Black choreographers transcend
stereotypes about American Black dance. Mason performs Jumping the
Broom by David Rousseve, Bent by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Rain by
Bebe Miller, and a new work she has choreographed herself. The audience
will also view video documentation of conversations between Mason
and the choreographers: relaxed, candid talks giving insight into
the worldviews expressed in the work.
“Thought-provoking dancer-choreographer Gesel Mason…raises
questions about the filtering of culture and identity through art,
the changing nature and meaning of identity, and whether identity
is important in appreciating a work of art. What is African American
dance? What are African American stories?… strong, lucid and
concise”-Washington Post
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Connor Kalista
Terminal Marine
Ongoing, to November 28, 2005:
Mondays, 1-5pm; Fridays, 10am-1pm;
& by appointment (excluding holidays)
Free
details
Drive-By Performance Series
November 5, 12, 19, 2005
Saturday afternoons,
various times between 2-5pm
Admission varies: free, $5, or $10
Centered around the car as a place and an idea, Drive By includes
a series of performances located in or around moving vehicles. Links
Hall serves as a taxi stand from which you can catch rides to experience
each piece. Several other satellite pieces will take place throughout
the city.
Beatriz Albuquerque (Portugal), Bridget Kies, David
Jude Greene, and Liz Wuerffel Chicago), Erik Fabian (Chicago), Janet
Schmid (Chicago), Mary Walling Blackburn (Chicago), Matt Roberts
(Florida), Theda Techopichetwongsa (Los Angeles), X-wing (Chicago),
and Karolina Sobecka (Los Angeles).
Curated by Seep (Deva Eveland and Katrina Horne).
Prebooking advised; program varies each week; full
schedule, call 773 281 0824.
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Chicago
Dancemakers Forum presents
Dance, Culture and Artistic Authenticity
November 12, 2005
Saturday 4pm-6pm
Admission: Free
Three distinct dance artists -- Gesel Mason, Asimina Chremos and
James Morrow -– hold a community discussion about the interweaving
of artistic authenticity and cultural appropriation in their own
work and in the field of contemporary performance. This forum will
engage artists and community members around the political implications
of cultural identity and how performance also allows the fortunate
space for boundary crossings and intercultural exchange to take
place. Patrick Johnson, Ph.D. will lead the conversation; he is
an artist/scholar who has performed nationally and internationally,
and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality
and performance, including his book Appropriating Blackness: Performance
and the Politics of Authenticity. RSVP to 773.281.0824 or info@linkshall.org
Double Bill
Subtext Dance Project -
Roses Aren’t Red
Second Floor – echo
November 18-20, 2005
Friday and Saturday, 8pm Sunday, 7:30pm
Post show receptions Friday and Saturday
Admission: $10 or pay what you can
Subtext Dance Project explores the illusion of euphoric romanticism
and the potential imprisonment it brings. Awkward and off balanced
movement is connected with eerie renditions of classic love songs
and original electronic music by Charlie Williams.
Second Floor merges elements of multimedia design and physical invention
in echo. Chicago choreographers Jena Asta and Brandy Cherello present
a challenging and unconventional new performance where movement
and emotion are suffused with surrealism.
PUBLICATION EVENTS
Bob Eisen’s Booklet Release
Party
November 13, 2005
Sunday, 6pm
Admission: Free
Long time Chicago-based dance artist and Links Hall co-founder Bob
Eisen returns to Chicago for a booklet release party. The publication
("a booklet as opposed to a book", says Eisen) celebrates
and chronicles the year Eisen took out of his life to travel and
dance his way across Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan, New Zealand,
Australia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Borneo. Join Eisen at this
event, a party, a gathering together, and an opportunity to buy
this account of a unique journey by an artist who manages to keep
going and will always consider Chicago home.
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