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Julia Mayer
Coffee Dance
September 1, October 6, November 3, & December 1, 2006
Fridays at 9:30am
Free, BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer will open 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.
Performances 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
Benjamin Barnes
Dark Secrets (the prelude)
September 1 - 3, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sundayat 7:30 pm
$15
Dark Secrets (the prelude) is at once a magic concert and a history
lesson. Incorporating movement, storytelling, and jazz and hip-hop
music with performance magic, it tells the story of a magician who,
after years of study, learns of a secret that was meant to be forgotten.
It is a secret so shocking that the magician, against all the rules,
is compelled to reveal it. Dark Secrets (the prelude) will include
a guest performance by Darryl: The Mindreader, whose ability to
simulate psychic phenomena has to be seen to be believed.
Benjamin Barnes delights audiences with his refined magical artistry.
As a founding member of Magic Chicago! (the city’s first and
only magic revue show) he presents the very best in live magic to
the theatergoing public. Benjamin’s other credits include:
Nothing Up My Sleeve, The Vaudeville Underground and The Heart &
Soul of Magic. With his new show Dark Secrets: (the prelude), Benjamin
welcomes you inside his studio and into the mysterious world of
magic.
The Josh Weckesser Dance Spectacular
September 7-10, 2006
Thursday-Sunday at 8:00 pm
Special Industry Matinee on Saturday, September 9 at 3:00 pm
$15 ($10 with a hard luck story. Best hard luck story gets their
money back and a prize)
The Josh Weckesser Dance Spectacular promises to be, in a word,
Spectacular. A low-minded evening of high art with something enjoyable
for the cynic, the stoic, the comic and the layman. Dealing with
such topics as drinking, death and crickets. All held together by
a shoe shine and a smile. Come see what is sure to become the Lollapalooza
of the dance world. Choreographers include Matthew Hollis, Rachel
Damon, Mary Sue Miller, Katie Mattieson, Masha Balovlenkov, Brandy
Cherello, Sarah Winkler, Shelley Dzenkowski, and Jennifer Gugliemi.
Josh Weckesser is a lighting designer by trade as well as the founder
and artistic director of the now defunct Stick & Co. Productions.
Forces of Nature
Just Be
September 15 - 17, 2006
Friday- Sunday at 8:00 pm
Sunday Matinee at 4:00 pm
$15
With its in-your-face attitude and "girl power" undertones,
Just Be celebrates all people on their walk through life. Collaborations
between spoken word, visual artists, and dancers result in a raw,
original performance with explosive movements and intense messages
of self-acceptance. Just Be is sponsored by Smokin Woody's. Forcesofnatureworks.com
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AquaMoon
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses:
Volume II-Brothas…Wassup sun?
September 22 - 24, 2006
Friday & Saturday, Open mic/Band 7:00 pm
Performance 8:00 pm
Sunday, Open mic/Band 6:00 pm
Performance 7:00 pm
$12
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses: Volume II-Brothas…Wassup sun?
combines choreography, poetry, singing, and recorded and live music.
Through the loving and critical eyes of Black womyn, AquaMoon’s
compelling new stage production asks: ‘Who and what are Black
men?’ Volume II addresses multi-layered issues including relationships,
family, abuse, power and image, and encourages men to take part
in this complex dialogue. AquaMoon (camil.williams and veronica
precious bohanan) is a Chicago-based, youth and womyn-centered writing,
performance, and artistic team. AquaMoon upholds its motto ‘Dismantling
the Culture of Silence’, by helping to bridge the gaps between
the streets, hip hop feminism, performance activism, and academia.
Reading / Discussion / Signing
Dan Beachy-Quick and Nathalie Stephens
September 23, 2006
Saturday at 4:00 pm
free
Dan Beachy-Quick teaches in The School of The Art Institute's MFA
Writing Program. He is the author of three books: North True South
Bright (Alice James), Spell (Ahsahta) and the newly published Mulberry
(Tupelo). His essays and criticism appear in a variety of journals.
He is the recent recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency. Mulberry
is Dan Beachy-Quick's dazzling third collection of poetry, and in
it he further solidifies his place as one of our most important
experimental—yet entirely lyrical—poets. The work of
a still-rising star, here the experiment is almost otherworldly:
see and hear the poet as silkworm, weaving meditations on nature,
art, history, philosophy, and the self. Here is a layered, intricately
voiced and utterly assured poet who, with magnifying glass in one
hand and telescope in the other, shows us the way to something new
and delightful with every reading.
"For anyone who thinks that Postmodern poetry represents a
complete break from that of the Romantics, Dan Beachy-Quick's Mulberry
will come as a revelation... This is a wondrous book." —
Lyn Hejinian
Nathalie Stephens writes l’entre-genre in English
and French. Her most recent works include L’Injure, Paper
City and Je Nathanael, which was just released in English self-translation.
L’Injure was a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois
and le Prix Trillium; the fiction Underground was a finalist in
2000 for the Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto. Stephens is
the recipient of a 2002 Chalmers Arts Fellowship. She currently
teaches in the MFA in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago. Nathalie Stephens' new book Touch to Affliction is published
by Coach House Books (Toronto),
"Understanding is almost antithetical to the project Stephens
seems to have assigned herself, that of unraveling or radically
altering our sense of logic, of language, of narrative, of body,
of desire, of words on paper. She wants the book to burn in our
hands and, indeed, it does." – NewPages, about Paper
City
Jeff Marlin is an artist and graphic designer currently
living in Chicago. A prolific painter, his work explores the relationship
between the body and the machine through various forms of translation
that involve human interference.
Stephen Motika is the coordinator of public programs
and exhibitions at Poets House in New York and an editor at Nightboat
Books. He has written for The National Post of Canada, Another Chicago
Magazine, The Common Review, among other publications. "The
Field," his collaborative exhibition with Dianna Frid, was
on view at Gallery 400 at the Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago, in
December 2003.
Irreverence Dance + Theatre
The Cycle of Creation and Destruction
September 29 - October 1, 2006
Friday & Saturdayat 8:00 pm
Sundayat 7:00 pm
$15
In The Cycle of Creation and Destruction, Irreverence Dance + Theatre
compares and
contrasts creation and destruction through the lens of dance and
performance. The examination of destruction includes themes of political
corruption, ranging from a world-wide scale down to intimate relations.
Explorations of creation will include the emotions that inspire
creation, combining the concept of the creator, the process of creation
and the final product. Movement emotion, athletic agility and lyric
flow, executed by highly distinctive and fascinating performers,
form the aesthetic of Irreverence Dance + Theatre.
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