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NOVEMBER 2007 PERFORMANCE |
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November 2 Julia Mayer, Coffee Dance
November 2-4 SAIC Student Performance Festival
New Blood
November 9-11 Matter of Reaction Movement
Project, Inward Mobility
November 10 Beverly Nelson, The Time it
Takes
November 16-18 POETRY Presents Frank Bidart’s
The Third Hour of the Night
November 30-December 2 OPENPORT
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Julia
Mayer - Coffee Dance
Friday, November 2, 9:30am
Free
BYOC (bring your own coffee)
Since July 2006, Julia Mayer has opened her weekly Friday morning
solo movement practice to the public once a month. This successful
series of engaged, informal performances continues on the First
Friday of every month at 9:30am. Each performance will last approximately
20 minutes, with the opportunity for discussion afterward.
As a mother and full-time worker in her forties, Julia Mayer
is exploring new paradigms for performance—places,
processes, practices—to stay active and to activate audiences
to join her in experiencing unique moments of the body moving. In
sharing her highly personal movement adventures, Julia invites audience
members to contemplate their own creative impulses.
In its first year, CoffeeDance attracted curious, insightful
audiences who valued the opportunity to start their day investigating
dance and the act of performance in an intimate setting, flooded
by daylight. Thanks in part to the rigor and success of this inquiry,
Julia has received a prestigious Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist
grant for 2007.
[her] movement is refreshingly off the map - Chicago Reader
a delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence - TimeOut
Chicago
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 Artists:
Dara Brady and Tom Brady
Title: Hands and Face 1975 and 2007
Medium: 1975: Super 8 and 2007: Digital Video
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New Blood: SAIC Student
Performance Festival
Friday & Saturday, November 2 & 3, 8pm
Sunday, November 4, 7pm
Free
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate and Undergraduate
students perform in a weekend festival of recent works. Presented
in three distinct programs focusing on sound, durational work, and
live performances, these artists blur the boundaries between theater,
movement, and the visual arts, and collectively present a vision
of the next wave of performance art. For additional information
on this program and a full line-up, visit www.saic.edu/bettyrymer
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Matter of Reaction Movement Project
Inward Mobility
Friday-Sunday, November 9 -11, 8pm
$10
Inward Mobility explores the physical and emotional limits
of movement while creating work within a collaborative and improvisational
environment. Showcasing the varied repertory of co-artistic directors
Kathleen Hickey, Renee Murray,
and Kristin Pavelka, there is an emphasis on interpersonal
connections as well as pushing the boundaries within those relationships.
Live music and sound design created and performed by Mark Jamerson.
Matter of Reaction Movement Project formed in August of 2006, and
premiered their inaugural modern dance concert iN fLUX
in March 2007. www.myspace.com/mrmpchicago
Kathleen Hickey is a 24-year-old graduate of Purdue
University in West Lafayette, IN. Majoring in Political Science,
Hickey grew in the Purdue Repertory Dance Company family and met
her fellow artistic directors there. She emphasizes performance
as well as emotional availability in her pieces, while pulling from
the vast knowledge she received from the dance faculty of Purdue.
Within that knowledge, Kathleen has recently developed a better
appreciation of and interest in contact improvisation.
Renee Murray graduated from Purdue University majoring
in Communication and a minor in Dance. At Purdue, she danced and
choreographed for the Purdue Repertory Dance Company, where she
gained a greater understanding of modern movement as well as her
own capabilities. She has also performed with RTG Dance and T J
& Company Dance Theater. Renee has recently found a new interest
in contact improvisation. She is currently working with Jeff Wallace
in a new work created by Sally Wallace, renowned faculty member
of Purdue University.
Kristin Pavelka recently received her Masters of
Arts in Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling at Columbia College
Chicago, and she is currently working as a clinical therapist at
Maryville Academy with adolescents who have mental illness and developmental
delay. She graduated from Purdue University majoring in Psychology
and minoring in Dance. Kristin performed and choreographed for the
Purdue Repertory Dance Company and the University of Michigan Department
of Dance. In her choreography, she focuses on exploring relational,
psychological, and emotional concepts.
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Photo by Mark Jamerson
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Beverly Nelson |
Beverly Nelson
The Time it Takes
Saturday November 10, 3pm
Free
Nelson uses historical research, sound, and language to perform
metaphorical representations of women, rituals, and war. This project
is also developed from an ongoing fascination with The Last Post,
which is performed every day by buglers in Ieper, Belgium at the
World War I memorial Menin Gate.
http://timetakes.blogspot.com
Beverly Nelson left a life of abuse and poverty to go to school
at age 47. Her performances, installations, and photography have
consistently exposed the injustices and indifference towards women
caught in violent situations. By telling her own story and pointing
to the lives of women worldwide, she offers hope and encouragement
to those all who are struggling to survive, and evokes compassion
from those who have been more fortunate. In 2006 she received her
MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
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POETRY Presents
Frank Bidart’s The Third Hour of the Night
Friday-Sunday, November 16-18, 7:30pm
Free
Sponsored by POETRY Magazine, Frank Bidart’s complex
and beautiful poetic exploration of the Egyptian myth of The
Third Hour of the Night is interpreted for the stage, conceived
and directed by Valerie Jean Johnson. Devised and performed by the
ensemble: Cara Clifford, Katie Hartsock, Joshua McGrane, Jessica
Mondres, and Theresa Neef. Bidart’s poem was first published
by POETRY magazine in 2004. poetrymagazine.org
Valerie Jean Johnson is a Chicago-based playwright,
director, and performer. She is the Editorial Assistant for POETRY
Magazine.
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Photo of Nathan and Lori by Mark Jeffery
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OPENPORT
A Weekend of Realtime Performance, Sound, & Language
Friday-Sunday, November 30-December 2, 7:30pm
$12 ($10 Students, Seniors, Unemployed)
OPENPORT is a convergence of artists from a set of distinct contemporary
practices including movement-based live art, experimental sound,
performance writing, and electronic poetry. Through the use of the
live body and an engagement with realtime composition and machine-processes,
artists complicate and re-map notions of language, physicality,
space, and time, navigating the hidden terrains of our networked
culture. OPENPORT was originally conceived as part of Links Hall’s
Artistic Associates program in February 2007 as a month-long international
festival. This weekend event includes performances from the festival
creators and OPENPORT artists currently based in Chicago. www.openportchicago.com
Friday November 30
Fiona Wright (UK)
On Lying
Last seen as the “early version” in Chicago at OPENPORT
festival at Links Hall in February and now returning again via Battersea
Arts Centre, London and the Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle earlier
this year – catch this before the European tour in 2008…Supported
by the Arts Council of England
Judd Morrissey (US)
Books that Write Me, Books I Write
Part I: from The Error Engine
A meditation on memory, accident, and the book, a continuity made
of discontinuity, a text that, as it emerges, has already been interrupted
and re-composed by real-time processes. The error is not in what
comes from the endless machine-driven re-combinations and intrusions,
but is what cannot be retrieved from the lost experience of narrative
cognition.
Nathan Butler US and Lori Talley
(US)
double-pole, double-throw
This duo creates a whistling performance with the aid of tea kettles,
heat sensors and amplifiers. The performance explores Lori's inability
to whistle with pitch and the desire to overcome this limitation
through the use of simple electronics and sonic experiments.
Saturday December 1
Sunday December 2
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