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Jessica Sanjurjo, Shawn Renee Lent & Sharon Greene
Twisted Branches
May 5 & 6, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
$10 general, $7 students
Our history tells us who we are, and provides insights into what
we will become. By climbing the twisted branches of her family tree,
a girl learns forgiveness. Written and performed by Sanjurjo, one
of the city’s most promising young theatre artists and LGBT
activists, with direction by Neo-Futurist Greene and choreography
by Lent. This performance was selected by Matthew Hollis following
a Call for Proposals, soliciting artists to make new work dealing
with queerness, spirituality, and gender issues. Supported by the
Duncan Erley Memorial Coming Out of the Closet Fund and Poonie’s
Cabaret.
Rehearsing the Body Politic
Peter Carpenter and Kristen Smiarowski
May 12-14, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$10
Choreographers Carpenter (Chicago) and Smiarowski (Los Angeles)
demonstrate that dance making is not merely a reflection of the
larger world but also a tool for political activism. Engaging with
the Palestine-Israeli conflict, the ongoing AIDS pandemic, and the
current state of democracy in the United States, these dance-theater
works (all Chicago premiers) utilize a skillful integration of text
and movement, a dance vocabulary that oscillates between voluptuousness
and minimalism, and a rigorous approach to choreographic research.
 Photo:
Carol Petersen
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Fieldtrips
May 19-21, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$15 general, $12 students/seniors
Sponsored by The Field Chicago, Fieldtrips is an interdisciplinary
performance festival open to performing artists of all disciplines
and stages of development. Applying artists present a performance
lasting up to 20 minutes. Slots are reserved on a first come, first
served basis for a $35 fee. Application deadline is March 31, 2006.
For information and application call Judith Harding (773) 338-2516
or artbusters@sbcglobal.net.
Wookey Works
Love’s Geography: Revisited
and Walking LA
May 26-28, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$15 general, $10 students/seniors
The American choreographer Sara Wookey recently established a bi-continental
career between Amsterdam and Los Angeles. This unique position ‘in-between’
cities and cultures is also the subject of the love letter Love’s
Geography by American theater scholar Peggy Phelan; using this text
within Love’s Geography: Revisited, Wookey montages movement,
sound, image and writing to reveal how a place becomes a person.
Also on this double bill, Walking LA is a performance that looks
at the city from the vantage point of the pedestrian. In a city
that refuses the one who walks, Wookey retaliates by projecting
images of absence found in the city that, in her performance, become
surfaces and containers for the body. This presentation has been
made possible with funding from the National Performance Network
(sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
and the National Endowment for the Arts), The Cliff Dwellers Arts
Foundation, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Chicago
(www.cgchicago.org).
Wookey Works
“Suspended Spaces: In between Performer and Public, City and
Self”
Symposium
May 27, 2006
Saturday, 2-5pm,
Free event
This Symposium event complements Wookey Works’ performances,
and includes a diversity of voices (artistic and academic; local
and visiting). Participants will respond in multiple ways to the
themes, concepts and strategies that Sara Wookey has explored in
her performance process. Various forms of presentation have been
invited, with the panel comprising: Jeff Abell (facilitator; Columbia
College Chicago); Maaike Bleeker (Theatre Studies of the University
of Amsterdam); Lucky Pierre (performance group; Chicago); Jeanne
Gang (Studio Gang Architects; Chicago); and Nathalie Stephens (experimental
writer; Chicago).
Sara Wookey has developed a series of Artistic Notes
which engage with performance themes and concepts that have been
central to her artistic practice in recent years; these notes address
issues of Identity, Repetition and Transformation, Suspended Space,
and Urban Consciousness. The notes have been offered as a starting
point for panellists to plan their Symposium presentations. We are
not intending that the event be “about” Sara Wookey’s
work, and familiarity with her performance work is not required
for Symposium participants or those attending the event –
rather, we are striving to reveal where and how the content of Sara
Wookey's notes might intersect with other artistic and theoretical
practices. Audience response and discussion will form part of the
event.
This Symposium has been made possible with support
from the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance.
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