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JUNE 2007 PERFORMANCE |
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Julia
Mayer - Coffee Dance
Art Union Humanscape - Eve
Erica Mott - The inPrint Project:
Performance as Activism
Debra Levasseur-Lottman - OPF:
Obsessive Project Fixation
Poonie's Cabaret
Ecotone Physical Theater -
Voodoo Cabaret
YAWP! (Young Asians With Power!) World's
Longest Silent Dance Celebration
CANCELLED Hide Yoshihashi
For Public Consumption, April
11-June 3 at Hyde Park Art Center
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Julia Mayer - Coffee Dance
Friday June 1, 9:30am
Free
BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Once a month, Julia Mayer opens her weekly Friday morning solo movement
practice to the public. In this ongoing series of engaged, informal
performances, her idiosyncratic movement adventures are an invitation
to watch, feel, and find creative impulse in unexpected places.
Mayer's current movement practice is influenced by her studies with
Deborah Hay, her years dancing with Chicago-based improvisation
collective FUSE, and qi gong. The performance will last approximately
20 minutes.
"[her] movement is refreshingly off the map" - Chicago Reader "a
delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence" - TimeOut Chicago
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Art Union Humanscape - Eve
Friday & Saturday, June 1 & 2, 8pm
Sunday, June 3, 7pm
$15 ($10 students, seniors)
"Wait for me... a hundred years… without fail, I'll come again to
see you." In Ten Nights Dream
(1908) written by Soseki Natsume, a woman passes away after making
a promise to her lover. In preparation for the centennial anniversary
of the novel in 2008, Kato presents the performance Sound
and Movement Ten Nights Dream III ; interpreting
dreams from the novel, performed with live music on koto and double
bass. Kato also presents her solo, Land
the land - a standing point, premiered
in 2005 at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks in NYC.
Dancers: Angela Gronroos, Nance Klehm, Alycia Scott, Sara Thompson,
Sarah Gottlieb, Ayako Kato
Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer active in Tokyo and Chicago.
In 2006, she created Land the land
-9, a peace of idea as an artist in residence
at Links Hall, and presented the piece in Chicago and Tokyo. In summer
2006, she completed the DanceBridge residency program funded by the
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Her works has been presented
at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks,
Joyce Soho in New York City, Percussive Arts Society International
Convention 2003, and other venues. She presented Sound
and Movement: Ten Nights Dream I & II,
based on a short story by Soseki Natsume, as series in 2004 and 2005
in Tokyo. www.artunionhumanscape.net
"compelling to behold" - Jack Anderson, New York Times |
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Erica Mott
The inPrint Project: Performance as Activism
Friday-Sunday, June 8-10, 8pm
$12 ($10 for students, unemployed)
inPrint incorporates live voice,
projected image, and dance to explore the disposability of the female
body-a dark tale examining what we as a society throw away. Developed
during a Dance Bridge Residency at the Chicago Cultural Center,
inPrint was conceived by Chicago-based artist Erica Mott and includes
movement by Mott, Rachel Damon, Elisa Foshay, Anida Yoeu Esguerra,
and Cristal Sabbagh. Each evening, guest artists will share performance
work; including Nicole Garneau and Clare Dolan.
Symposium: Contextualizing
Art and Community Saturday, June 9, 2pm-5pm Free In conjuction with
inprint, this symposium will be a lively, interactive discussion
with artists and activists pushing the boundaries of traditional
definitions of 'art' and 'community' and re-envisoning the potential
of their intersections, while debating questions like How can we
recontextualize an artistic act as a social act? How do we walk
the line between didacticism and asthetics? These burning questions
and more will be debated by provocateurs from Amnesty International,
Insight Arts, Bread and Puppet and more. For details and related
workshops visit www.ericamott.com
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Debra Levasseur-Lottman
OPF: Obsessive Project Fixation
Friday & Saturday June 15 & 16, 8pm
Sunday June 17, 7pm
$15 and ($12 students, teachers, senior citizens)
OPF is an interdisciplinary concert
which explores the process of creativity within the individuals
and groups involved in the artistic mediums of movement, the written
word, sound, and the visual arts. This research based concert project
takes a close-up and personal look at the ritualized patterns, archetypes,
concepts, and situations that are basic to the human creative condition,
reflecting upon the deeper issues and struggles that impinge upon
those that create.
Collaborators include: Happendance, Greg O'Drobinak, PhoenixWorm
Multi-Arts Group, Randy Susick, Daniel Godston, and Christine Pfeiffer.
Debra Levasseur-Lottman has trained with Gus Giordano,
The Ruth Page Foundation, a brief period with Stone Cameron School
of Ballet and Ellis Doubolay, Joel Hall Dance Studio. At Columbia
College Chicago, influential instructors were Amy Osgood, Shirley
Mordine, Natalie Rast, Anna Paskevska, and visiting artists Joe
Goode, Margaret Jenkins, and Ralph Lemon. She received a BA in 1994
from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, and a MFA in
Performance in 2005 from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Poonie's Cabaret
Monday, June 18, 8:00 pm
$5
Featuring performances by:
Eddie Edge & Magic Madge
Suzy Grant & Kamila Brodowinska
Matrix Dance Improv
Lucy Vurusic-Riner & Martha Mulligan
ecnDanceworks
Awilda Rodriguez-Lora
Big Gold Hoops & Kosher Dill Spears
The Waters Project.
Poonie’s Cabaret is Links Hall’s venue for improvisation
and works in progress. Featuring artists working in many different
creative realms - dance, music, contact improvisation, puppetry, performance
art, theatre, voguing, freestyle rapping, drag, burlesque, cheerleading,
stand-up comedy, etc.
Poonie’s Cabaret was created by Selene Carter and is named
in memory for 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.
Jyl Fehrenkamp is the current host/curator of Poonie’s Cabaret.
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Eddie Edge & Magic Madge
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Photo by Pat Berrett |
Ecotone
Physical Theatre
Voodoo Cabaret
Friday & Saturday, June 22 & 23, 8pm
$10
Ecotone Physical Theater investigates the boundaries of live theater,
using contemporary dance technique and theatrical elements blended
with a live electronic and acoustic soundscape. Voodoo Cabaret is
the result: a fusion of spontaneity through movement, sound, live
camera feed, props, video projection, spoken word, and audience
participation. Ecotone is the creation of Donna Jewell and Kevin
Paul, a multimedia artist, performer, writer, and member of music
group INCUS. Funded in part by the College of Fine Arts, University
of New Mexico. www.ecotonephysicaltheatre.com
Donna Jewell is the artistic director of Jewell
& Company Dance Theatre and is the Head of Dance at the University
of New Mexico, where she teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation
and choreography. She is an actress with Cabula6 Theater based in
Vienna, guest choreographer and rehearsal director for Lawine Torren
Company, which creates outdoor theater dance pieces for large machinery
in the Alps of Austria, and a dance critic for ATTITUDE magazine.
Kevin Paul
is multimedia artist, performer and writer. He has been a sound
designer, playwright and actor in numerous theatre productions.
His sound art has been featured at SoundWalk in Long Beach, CA and
at the High Mayhem Festival in Santa Fe, NM. He has a BFA in Sculpture
from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI and an MFA
in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico.
Dancers: Rufus Cohen, Kelly Ferguson, Andrea Muehl, Lisa Nevada,
Jessica Searer, Donna Jewell, and Kevin Paul.
Open discussion with the artists following each show.
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YAWP! (Young Asians With Power!)
World's Longest Silent Dance Celebration
Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30, 8pm
$10, $5 (students, seniors)
YAWP! (Young Asians With Power!) present two nights
of exploring how technological innovations impact the way we experience
text, movement, and music. Recent innovations in mobile music players
like iPods and MP3 players have changed the way people listen to
music both individually and collectively as a group. Join YAWP!
as it attempts to understand how the presence/absence of sound/music
affects our experience of not only our own bodies, but the silent
rhythms of those around us. Audience participation is strongly encouraged.
Audience members are also encouraged to bring some form of personal
music player with headphones; a few may be available on a first
come, first serve basis. Old skool Walkmans and Discmans will be
viewed at with reverence.
The events will also feature YAWP!'s own Polaroid Poets and the
attempt at the Longest Exquisite Corpse. www.thecollectivechicago.org/yawp
CANCELLED
Hide Yoshihashi
Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30, 8pm
$12
Asian Improv aRts Midwest, the region's leader in presenting the
Asian American cultural arts, proudly presents The
Taiko - A Performance by Hide Yoshihashi. The
Taiko will feature Hide Yoshihashi, the leading taiko (Japanese
drumming) artist in Chicago and Founder and Head Instructor of JASC
Tsukasa Taiko. Yoshihashi will perform both original compositions
and original arrangements of traditional music for the taiko. The
Toyoaki Shamisen Ensemble will appear as special guests, performing
on the 3-stringed Japanese lute. Asian Improv aRts Midwest is supported
in part by the Illinois Arts Council and the Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation. www.taikolegacy.com;
www.tsukasataiko.com
Hide Yoshihashi, JASC Tsukasa Taiko Founder and
Head Instructor, was born in Glen Ellyn in 1978. At age eleven,
he moved to Japan and joined the school marching band, soon after
which he was drawn into the world of taiko. Yoshihashi studied the
northern taiko style of Hokkaido (the northern island of Japan).
Returning to Illinois, he became a member of Chicago's Waka Daiko,
led by John Sagami. In 1996 Yoshihashi left the group to form Tsukasa
Daiko, later to become JASC Tsukasa Taiko in partnership with Asian
Improv aRts Midwest and the Japanese American Service Committee.
Asian Improv aRts Midwest is supported in part by the Illinois Arts
Council and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
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Links Hall
presents
For Public Consumption, April
11-June 3 at Hyde Park Art Center |
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