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LINKUP
RESIDENCY ARTISTS
The LinkUp Residency program at Links Hall annually supports six
local-based dance and performance artists/companies for an intensive
six-month period. The objective is to foster the development of
new creative work in the performing arts, which is carried out through
the provision of rehearsal space, an on-call mentor list, work-in-progress
showings, and a fully produced production at the end of the residency.
These three evenings at the Cultural Center will showcase the work
of Links Hall's 2005/06 Residency artists. The performances range
from solo to group work, contemporary dance to experimental performance,
and include collaborations in movement, text, music, and video.
Carleen Healy and Brian Torrey Scott & Mary
Walling Blackburn
December 4, 2006
Monday at 7:00 pm
at the Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Free
Carleen Healy: where you end and I begin
An exploration of movement that includes the cross fading of bodies,
bleeding colors that lead to something new, blurring of lines, and
dancing in the borders.
Brian Torrey Scott & Mary Walling Blackburn:
Left Handed Saw Right Handed
An abbreviated history of listening, which includes apache dances,
pro war songs, and live orchestration.
Julia Mayer
Coffee Dance
December 1, 2006
Friday at 9:30 am
Free
BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer opens her weekly Friday morning solo movement
practice to the public. This series of engaged, informal performances
will occur on the First Friday of every month at 9:30am. The performance
will last approximately 20 minutes.
As a mother and full-time worker in her forties,
Julia is seeking new paradigms for performance—places, processes,
practices—so she can stay active and challenge herself as
a dancer, and activate and challenge audiences to join her in creating
and experiencing unique moments of the body moving.
Julia has been dancing in Chicago for nearly 20 years.
Her current movement practice is influenced by her studies with
Deborah Hay and her years dancing with Chicago-based improvisation
collective FUSE.
“[her] movement is refreshingly off the map”
- Chicago Reader
“a delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence”
- TimeOut Chicago
Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser
Dwell
December 1-3, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$15 ($10 students)
"I am because I dwell; I dwell because I build."
- Heidegger
As dancemakers and performers, Chris Aiken and Angie
Hauser are interested in the experience and creation of place through
art and design. Their new performance, commissioned by Links Hall,
connects to Links Hall itself: its history, its neighbors, its inhabitants,
its unique situation. Dwell is an improvisational performance of
dance, lighting and live music, reflecting the process of making
a place special, and creating a place to be alive. Improvisation
lends itself to this act of location and the reconfiguration of
narrative. In this context, both the performers and the audience
create and discover new and ongoing stories that are at once real
and imaginary. Chris and Angie will be joined in performance by
cellist virtuoso Stephen Katz, who performs regularly with the Paul
Winter Consort.
Photo: William Frederking
Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser have extensive experience in dance
improvisation and performance. Chris has performed and collaborated
with Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, and Nancy Stark Smith, and been
presented at the Walker Art Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival,
DTW and Bates Dance Festival. Angie’s interests and background
reflect the influence of contact improvisation, post modern choreography,
ballet and Butoh. As an improviser, she collaborates with many gifted
artists including Lisa Gonzales, Kathleen Hermesdorf, K.J. Holmes,
and Darrell Jones. She is a member of the Bebe Miller Company, where
she contributes to the creation of award winning dance works that
are performed throughout the country.
Related event:
Dwell: a discussion of aesthetics, place and imagination
November 28, 2006
Tuesday at 7:00 pm
at Silverspace, 1474 N Milwaukee Ave #3R
Free
Dance artists Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser will lead a roundtable
discussion about the imaginative act of creating and living in places
which nurture and inspire us as individuals, families and communities.
They are interested in dialoguing with those who see the aesthetic
imagination as central to how each of us creates a world to live
in, how we make a place a home, and the imaginative act of locating
oneself in a place or in a community. They are interested in reclaiming
the idea that the development of an aesthetic sensibility is not
about the cultivation of taste, but rather the activation of one’s
creative powers of perception and imagination. Their discussion
begins with the premise that whether or not one is making art, one
is engaged in the process of composition—through the ways
in which we make choices in our lives. This roundtable discussion
is co-sponsored by Links Hall, the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, and
Silverspace.
Dwell was commissioned by Links Hall and Denison
University, with a Creation Fund Award from the National Performance
Network. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the
National Performance Network’s Performance Residency Program.
Major contributors of the National Performance Network include the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria and the Nathan
Cummings Foundation.
The National Performance Network is a group
of cultural organizers and artists facilitating the practice and
public experience of the performing arts in the United States. NPN
serves artists, arts organizers, and a broad range of audiences
and communities across the country through commissions, residencies,
culture-centered community projects and other artistic activities.
For more information: www.npnweb.org.
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Adler Danztheatre
Project
The Human Voice
December 8-10, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$15 ($10 for students, seniors, and industry people with headshot
& resume)
Adler Danztheatre Project’s new series, The Voices Project,
promotes the creation of socially conscious works that both illuminate
important sociopolitical issues and help raise money for organizations
that work in areas touched by those issues. The initial Voices Project
entitled The Human Voice centers on the individual voice and the
struggle of being heard in relationships where there is sexual assault
and trauma. One story featured is Unraveling Bill, about Sergeant
William Blake, who in 2005 committed suicide after returning from
Iraq; Danztheatre’s season has been dedicated to Blake, who
was a great humanitarian. A portion of box office sales will go
to a child abuse prevention agency.
Adler Danztheatre Project, founded in 2001
by Ellyzabeth Adler, is a multidisciplinary arts ensemble based
in modern dance and theatre that strives for innovative stage performances.
Founded on the belief that dancers, actors, artists and musicians
create collectively, the company develops original works and literary
adaptations into a unique simulating performance experiences. www.danztheatre.org
Asimina Chremos/Silverspace Dance
CutUp (premiere)
December 15-17, 2006
Friday-Sunday at 8:00 pm
$10
Danced by Asimina Chremos, with vocal and tape loop accompaniment
by Carol Genetti, CutUp cut ups and reorganizes time, space, sound,
memory, the body, and clothing. Embroidered tales and random spontaneous
dances will be sewn together with tape loops and sewing machines.
Special guest appearance by members of the punk rock marching band,
Mucca Pazza.
Photo: Douglas Grew
Asimina Chremos is a dancer, choreographer,
teacher and writer, based in Chicago since 1997. She engages in
an array of dance-related projects, drawing on her training in ballet,
postmodern dance, performance art and improvisation. Silverspace
is the name associated with Chremos’ projects. Silverspace
connects with solo performances, collaborations with musicians,
visiting artists, workshops, rehearsals and discussions. www.asiminachremosdance.net
Carol Genetti is an experimental vocalist whose
work is grounded in an almost inhuman extended technique that creates
a distinct non-verbal sound palette with provocative depth. Based
in Chicago, Carol has appeared on recordings published by Spring
Garden Music, Last Visble Dog, Dead CEO, Balance Point Acoustics,
and Recorded, among others. www.carolgenetti.com
Mucca Pazza is a whimsically charming Chicago-based
band of dancing musicians, led by composer/performer Mark Messing.
The group plays regularly at the Hideout, and recently appeared
at Lollapalooza. www.mucca-pazza.org.
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang
Sixteenth Annual Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts
December 21-23, 2006
Thursday-Saturday, 6:00 am
$15 Advance tickets from BOOKWORKS, 3444 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL
60657 (773) 871-5318
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang present the Sixteenth Annual Winter
Solstice Percussion Concerts, an hour-long ritual performance that
utilizes a wide array of percussion instruments from North Africa,
the Middle East, and East India, as well as western orchestral instruments.
Drake and Zerang also use the Frame Drum that has its origin in
ancient Mesopotamia, and a variety of hand drums, including the
dumbek, tabla, rukk, conga, djimbe, and tambourine, concentrating
on long rhythmic cycles and structured improvisations. Both are
veterans of Chicago’s world music, new music, and jazz scenes
and have performed together nationally and internationally for the
past 16 years. The Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts have grown
in popularity over the years, from a single show in 1990 to three
annual shows for the last several years.
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