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Erica
Mott
Haunted
November 2-4, 2006
Thursday-Saturdayat 8:00 pm
$15 ($10 students and the financially challenged)
Chicago-based artist Erica Mott presents a double-bill of movement-based
performances, exploring lingering images, stories, and memories
which haunt us. Imprint, a group movement collage, incorporates
live voice, projected image, and dance to explore the disposability
of the female body in the human trafficking industry - a dark tale
examining what we as a society throw away. Digging, a new solo work,
tells the story of the dissection of one’s self image, bones
and all. Central to both works is the exploration of materials,
the storytelling power of images and the awkward juxtaposition of
material and environment.
Erica Mott is a performer, director, and deviser
whose work is particularly inspired by observation of her immediate
environment. Through mask, clown, butoh-inspired movement and site-specific
performance, she attempts to capture and heighten the magic, mystery
and tragedy in everyday activities and interactions. She endeavors
to find universality in these actions and her performance that may
be communicated across social, economic, and cultural boundaries.
www.ericamott.com
Julia Mayer
Coffee Dance
November 3, 2006
Friday at 9:30am
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
Poonie's Cabaret
November 5, 2006
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$5
Curated and hosted by Jyl Fehrenkamp, Poonie's Cabaret is a venue
for improvisation and works-in-progress, featuring an ever-changing
roster of artists and performers working in dance, music, contact
improv, puppetry, performance art, theatre, voguing, freestyle rapping,
drag, burlesque, cheerleading, stand-up comedy and beyond.
The Autumn installment of Poonie's features Darrell
Jones, Jessica Hudson, Peter Carpenter, About Face Youth Theatre,
A Sordid Collective, and a special appearance by Harold & the
Chickenshacks.
Poonie's Cabaret was created by Selene Carter and is named in memory
of Poonie Dodson, a much-loved Chicago dancer/choreographer who
died of AIDS in the early 90s. Proceeds from the Cabaret go to the
Links Hall Duncan Erley Coming Out of the Closet Fund, which is
periodically awarded to artists whose work explores the realms of
healing, gay activism, and spiritual and sexual transformation.
blushing poppy productions
presents
MOON SPECTRE
November 10-12, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm,
Sunday at 7:00 pm
$15 ($10 students)
Chicago-based butoh performer and curator Nicole LeGette presents
MOON SPECTRE: Phase I. The silvery mirror of the Moon, as silent
observer, becomes a focused lens that confronts our shifting sense
of identity, penetrates unspeakable mysteries and exposes stark
beauty in shadow. blushing poppy productions is also pleased to
present NYC-based butoh performer and scholar Tanya Calamoneri in
the Chicago premiere of HATCH. Register by November 10 for a 10-hour
butoh/action-theatre workshop with Tanya: details at www.blushingpoppy.org.
Nicole LeGette is among the vanguard of Chicago's
dance and performance art scene, dedicated to performing, presenting,
and teaching butoh, a provocative, expressionistic dance form originating
in 1960's Japan. blushing poppy productions was created to encompass
these endeavors. Through her dance work, Ms. LeGette is striving
to reveal the essential, the intimate, and the exquisite. She has
trained with master butoh artists in Japan, Mexico, Canada, and
across the US; and has brought several of these artists to Chicago
for their debut. As a Links Hall Artistic Associate in March 2006,
Ms. LeGette curated The Body Breaks: Butoh, Breakdancing, and Beyond,
which featured national/international artists and scholars in several
venues across Chicago. Other curatorial efforts include Groping
Towards Dance: Butoh and the Origins of Movement (2005) and Rubbed
Raw: Recent Investigations in Butoh (2004), featuring emerging American
butoh artists.
Claire Jones, exploredance.com: "Butoh artist
and curator Nicole LeGette displays impish playfulness while intriguing
us with her mysterious presence. Irreverent and grotesque, she transforms
throughout the piece from an ageless woman into a petulant child."
Tanya Calamoneri is a performer, choreographer and
teacher, working in the areas of contemporary dance, Japanese butoh,
contact improvisation and yoga. In New York, she is a primary collaborator
in Fifth Floor, SO.GO.NO., and CavEnsemble. Tanya is a co-director
at the arts service organization, The Field.
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Beverly
Nelson
The Time It Takes
Saturday, November 11, 3pm
Free
Performance artist and writer Beverly Nelson used Chantal Akerman’s
film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels as a starting
point for multiple layers of research. Combining and relating philosophical
enquiry with everyday life, Nelson weaves personal and historical
trauma, geography and language, into her multi-layered spoken word
performance. In Brussels, Jeanne Dielman washes dishes, makes beds,
fixes meals. How long does it take her to burn the potatoes? How
does the Commerce in her street address relate to Brussels' current
and historical position in the world of commerce? Dielman's routines
fracture during the film, and Nelson takes the opportunity to extrapolate
the film's concerns into her own personal narratives.
Born in Pomona, California, Beverly Nelson was a
homemaker for over 30 years and is the mother of four children.
By enrolling at Oregon State University’s BA in Art History
program at the age of 49 some might say she got a “late start”
- she would say it was right on time. Nelson went on to receive
her MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. Her work is text based and involves various forms of
reading and writing (on and off the page), performance, and installation.
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.
Sabrina Cavins and Margaret Morris
November 20, 2006
Monday at 7:00 pm
at the Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Free
Sabrina Cavins: Embody
A modern dance work that reflects the role of nature's cycles within
our lives. With the use of projections, Embody explores the freezing
grip of winter, the peaceful growing green and the storm that sweeps
everything clean. This piece follows nature's journey of renewal
and tracks its constant change.
Margaret Morris: Morris uses dance as a vehicle to
transmit a deep feeling of invigoration and affirmation to her audiences.
She uses improvisation to get in touch with transcendent energies,
and performance to circulate them through other people.
Ayako Kato and Thick Routes Performance
Collage
November 27, 2006
Monday at 7:00 pm
at the Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Free
Ayako Kato: Land the Land - 9, A Peace of Idea
Examining the root causes of war and peace, and their impact on
humanity, Kato's work was provoked by the current proposal to revise
the Japanese war-renouncing constitution.
Thick Routes Performance Collage: Househedz
Househedz (2006) explores the house music scene in the Chicagoland
area, unpacking house's movement vocabulary and style; its exploration
and fusion of spirituality and sexuality; its changing contexts
from club, to basement, to radio station, to mix tape and CD; and
its current revitalization on the local club and music scene. TRPC
aims to bring voice to this under-researched and less visible aspect
of black American culture, placing Chicago house on a continuum
with other American music/dance idioms noting the significance these
African American-derived cultural productions have had on the overall
development of America's national culture.
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