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APRIL 2008 PERFORMANCE |
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Julia Mayer - Coffee Dance
LinkUp Residency Artists
SPECIAL EVENT: Thaw 2008 - Links Hall’s
annual benefit
SAIC Writing Program - Down in the New
Chair
Nicole Garneau - UPRISING #4
Lori Nicole Velazquez - Days Left, or Climbing
the Ladder
Breaking Ground - An exhibition of budding
choreographers...Come help us plant ourselves!
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Julia Mayer - Coffee Dance
Friday, April 4, 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. The
performance will last approximately 20 minutes. Julia Mayer is a 2007/08
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist.
[her] movement is refreshingly off the map - Chicago
Reader
a delicately luminous, inquisitive stage presence - TimeOut
Chicago
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LinkUp Residency Artists
Friday & Saturday, April 4 & 5, 8pm
Sunday, April 6, 7pm
$15
LinkUp is Links Hall’s 6-month residency
program that annually gives six emerging artists free weekly studio
time and a fully produced showcase to perform their work; a stipend
to support their endeavors; and peer support/feedback with work-in-progress
events. On this program, three artists present the results of their
residencies:
The startling movement of Caitlin Marz’s
untitled work creates a collection of images as beautiful as they
are grotesque. Both disheveled and meticulous, the work agitates
conventions of the concert dance experience. Performers: Emily Braun,
Tess Dworman, Caitlin Marz. Costumes: Anne Novotny. www.liveanimals.org;
www.myspace.com/liveanimalsorg
In A Woman of
Words, Meghan Strell explores
the expression of the inexpressible by examining descriptions of
physical pain from an embodied perspective. Inspired by this quote
by M. de Arblay: No language could convey what I felt in the deadly
course of these seven hours. Nevertheless, every one of you my dearest,
dearest, friends can guess, must even know it. www.localinfinities.com
Renata Sheppard
constructs a world of dance inspired by The
Importance of Being Earnest. Extrapolating
the strong performance abilities of improv theatre actors, two medical
students’ anatomical understanding of movement, and the curiosity
of a female business executive interested in movement analysis,
she offers a glimpse into the creative and performance process of
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SPECIAL EVENT
Thaw 2008 - Links Hall’s annual benefit
April 10, 2008 from 7pm-2am
At Sonotheque, 1444 W. Chicago Avenue
DJ Chris Widman from WLUW
spins tunes all night.
Episodic and installation performances
by Chicago
Brickheadz, Dara
Brady, Joseph
Ravens, Julia Mayer, Nina
Tatarowicz/Tango Elixir, Synapse
Arts Collective, Tif Bullard, The Legendary House of Avant-Garde
and Video Work by Tanya Doody, Daniel Laskarin,
Beth
Frey, Split
Pillow.
Live performance by Mucca
Pazza at 10:30pm.
$30: 7-10pm
Ticket price includes free beer and wine, hors d'oeuvres, a gift bag,
and access to performances all night long.
$10: 10pm-2am
Ticket price includes Mucca Pazza performance and late-night dancing.
Cash Bar.
Ten upscale Raffle
packages to be awarded, including Grand Prize Raffle valued at $700.
Pre-sale Grand Prize Raffle tickets available for $10.
Pay cash at the door, or by credit
card through PayPal.
Generously sponsored by:
The
Boeing Company, Goose
Island Beer Company, Salad
Spinners, and WLUW
FM 88.7
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SAIC Writing Program
Down in the New Chair
Friday & Saturday, April 11 & 12, 8pm
Sunday, April 13, 7pm
Free
Now in its fifth season, Down in the New
Chair features new plays and scenes from the Playwriting
II Class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, taught by
Beau O’Reilly of The Curious Theatre Branch. Featuring new
work written and performed by: Josh Amadon, Amy Stein, Rory Jobst,
Ira Murfin, Marrisa Plumb, Connor Madigan, Heidi McKey, Justin Hannifir,
Ted Tremper, and Erin Hellwig.
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Nicole Garneau
UPRISING #4
part of VERSION>08 Festival,
April 17 - April 27, 960 W 31st St.
This is a series of monthly, site-specific performances broadly exploring
the practice of revolution. Performances will be directed by Nicole
Garneau and co-created by Nicole and performers. Events will be purposely
live, public, temporal, and participatory. They will be stagings of
possibilities for a humane world. They will be attempts at making
the world in which we want to live, and then inviting people directly
and immediately inside it. Performances will be marked by a commitment
to flexible structure, ambitious intentions, and sense of humor. EVIDENCE
postcards throughout 2008 will document performances in the UPRISING
series www.nicolegarneau.com
More information on
UPRISING and its partner project EVIDENCE, by Nicole Garneau.
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Lori
Nicole Velazquez
Days Left, or Climbing the Ladder
Friday & Saturday, April 18 & 19, 8pm
Sunday, April 20, 7pm
$15 ($10 students, seniors, low-income)
This program includes seven Graham-based dance solos with interludes
of recited poetry, all involving statements about women and the dynamics
of the balance of power. The movement deals with the restrictions
placed upon women both by themselves and by others, and will include
audience movement interaction. Collaborator: Stephanie Foster. |
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Breaking Ground - An exhibition of budding choreographers...Come
help us plant ourselves!
Friday & Saturday, April 25 & 26, 8pm
Sunday, April 27, 7pm
$12 ($10 students, seniors)
Angelica Palomo, Blanca Aviles, Emily Haines, & Olivia Bustos
Rodriguez are collaborating dance artists who recently graduated from
Columbia College Chicago. Revising works that originally began as
school projects, they explore personal experiences and relationships
with family, gender in our society, and the influences of being Latina
in the US. www.myspace.com/4womenbreathing
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